#lolabee's weekly wrapup

[thelightsandtheroses]

Weekly Wrap Up

This Week’s Fic Recs

These are just a few of the fics I’ve enjoyed this week. As always. please be mindful of any content warnings and I believe all fics/ blogs are 18+. I haven’t read as much this week again (sorry!) but I'm hoping to catch up more next week as I'm off work on Friday!

Frankie Morales I Like The Way You- @undercoverpena posted the penultimate chapter of her fwb!Frankie fic and I am dying to see how it will all end. It's a great series and what will I read on a Wednesday now after work?

Marcus Pike

I'll Crawl Home to Her - @thetriumphantpanda wrote a brilliant Marcus oneshot set at a wedding. I'm behind on reblogging this yet but I loved it and between this and some other gifs going around, I think I may be becoming a Marcus Pike girl

Javier Peña

I'm still slowly catching up on Paranoid Hearts and really enjoying it so far. @goodwithcheese writes such engaging characters and romance.

Multiple Pedro Characters/Challenges

The lovely @trulybetty is posting a December 500 challenge and I'm so looking forward to reading more of this over the month.

My Writing This Week

I posted the first chapter of Let's Get Lost this week and I was a little nervous about it (thank you @undercoverpena for encouraging me to just press post when I got in my head) but I'm so pleased with the feedback so far and that people appear to be enjoying it!

Current state of the WIPs:

Your Hand In Mine - I am working on chapter 5 we'll only die of lonely secrets which is a bit of a change for the fic so ...

Let's Get Lost - working on chapter two

Secret Smile - remains on temporary hiatus but I hope to be writing for it again very soon.

Call it What You Want -rewrite in very early stages, some significant changes to the original fic including it's now an ofc but I'm excited about the opportunities with this

I Can See You In Your Suit and Your Necktie - still in early drafts

If you want snippets or to ask something about any of the above, feel free to send in an ask!

What I've Been Up To This Week

I've been listening to some more podcasts, including one called Ghost Story which has been very compelling - think ghost story meets true crime meets family drama.

I went to a Christmas event over the weekend which was nice though I remain woefully disorganised for the festive season. I'm hoping all the festive fics will help me get into the spirit of things?

I'm finally reading more again, this week I read Hopeless by Elsie Silver, Penance by Eliza Clark and am currently reading Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldere.

I've continued playing BG3 in news I am sure will surprise no-one. I am super stuck on my first playthrough because my current quests are Orin's battle and Shadowheart's quest conclusion and they are super, super difficult. So we're playing a durge runthrough instead because it's my game, so why not?

How was your week?

[thelightsandtheroses]

This Week’s Fic Recs

These are just a few of the fics I’ve enjoyed this week. As always. please be mindful of any content warnings and I believe all fics/ blogs are 18+. I haven’t read as much this week as I would have liked but I’m hoping to catch up over the next week or so as hopefully next week won't be quite as hectic as the last few have been.

Joel Miller

Honey stained hands - @undercoverpena writes Joel so well and I am loving this fic so far (chapter 2)

Frankie Morales

In the beat of the night - @perotovar - fantastic concept and start to this Frankie x nb!oc fic

My Writing This Week

After eighty years - okay just under a month, I’ve finally broken through some writing block and anxiety and have published a little Joel introspective drabble for Your Hand in Mine today.

You can read it here: and my soul has changed, and my heart

What I've Been Up To This Week

I finished two books this week: A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid and Girl Goddess Queen by Bea Fitzgerald. I loved both books but for me Girl Goddess Queen wins favourite of the week. It’s a retelling of the Persephone - Hades myth and was incredibly engaging, well written and had brilliant characterisation. I read it in one day and it’s a definite 5 star read for me.

I’ve been finishing a few horror movies after spooky season, but this week I continued to watch Lessons In Chemistry and I’ve decided to try a mubi 7 day trial so I can finally watch Strange Way of Life (and Aftersun which has been on my watchlist for ages)

I'm still playing and loving Baldur’s Gate 3. I’m on Act 3 in my original playthrough (half-elf bard romancing Astarion, obviously 😂) and I’ve just started a durge playthrough too. I’ve had so much fun playing this game so far. Thanks @perotovar for listening to all my BG3 thoughts and discussions so far and also I’m so excited @pastelnap has bought the game now too!

How was your week?