The Tyranny of Socks

On Sunday I went to my first ever baseball game. (It was also A and Spartacus' first ever baseball game, but that is perhaps less surprising with the whole living in England thing.) We sat up in the nosebleed seats and it was great! Our team even won, which given their record this season was not the most likely outcome.

You may wonder how I have lived so long without ever attending a baseball game, so I will tell you: both of my parents are from Brooklyn, and my father was a Dodgers fan. He never forgave them for moving to LA, and in fact never watched a baseball game after they did so. My dad was a champion grudge holder. Baseball was never on TV when I was growing up, never on the radio, and almost never acknowledged as a real sport that existed in the real world, except to be polite to some of our friends who were big fans. (Does the intense relationship of Brooklynites from the 30s and 40s to the Dodgers show up in Steve/Bucky fic? I know that if someone had suggested to my dad that he could support one of the remaining New York teams he would not have taken it kindly, but see just above about his grudges.)

In other news, we have some free Apple+ and are working our way through For All Mankind, which I like so far (we're most of the way through S2 -- the marines on the moon have, in a development no one could possibly have foreseen, shot two cosmonauts.) And we have renewed our Disney+ subscription, so we have a lot of catching up to do. We're starting with the Obi-Wan Kenobi show, and I guess then might go on to some of the Marvel shows that started after we let the subscription lapse last time.

Also, I had a very happy and successful crossworks exchange! I received something I had been sure I would never get -- a 12 Monkeys/HL crossover! History Unfolded, by Tarlan mixes the two fandoms together perfectly, and I really loved the Methos characterisation in it.

I also wrote something, The Shining Air, a crossover between Mansfield Park and the Master and Commander movie. It was a lot of fun to write, and I basically convinced myself as I wrote it that Fanny/Tom Pullings is a great ship, but it also meant that I have not been able to mention anything I've been reading for the last month or so, since that has basically been (a) Mansfield Park and (b) pretty much the entire Aubrey-Maturin series, and I didn't want to tip my hand! I tried not to root it too firmly in the book universe but I needed at least some background detail, especially because the movie is so visually strong, but I was writing a story and needed some words.