Yuletide Assignment Complete!

I have just finished a complete draft of my Yuletide assignment, a mere 4 hours and 38 minutes before it was due. It's the longest Yuletide story I've ever written, clocking in at just over 8K words, and at the moment it's the only story for it's canon on AO3. Cool.

In other news, it was also my birthday today. Given the year, and the fact that I needed to finish my Yuletide story, it was a low key celebration. The Sweetie's work had scheduled online cooking and mixology classes for today in lieu of a Christmas party. So we made Peruvian potato salad and ceviche, and mixed up a couple of Kentucky Mules. I haven't had any alcohol for over two years on account of it was giving me migraines 100% of the time I had a drink, but I risked it today. And so far, so good.

The family was very good to me, present-wise. I got two comics trade collections (Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, which has ended up on a number of year end best of lists, and 80 Years of the Bat Family, because I may read a lot of Marvel now, but my first mainstream comic love was Batman) and two comic-related movies (Birds of Prey, because how much do I love Margot Robbie's Harley, and Batman: Death in the Family, because it gives you a way to save Jason Todd.)

( Pictorial evidence of me with booze and books beneath the cut )