Firefox arrrgh + fic exchange reveal

[luzula]

Arrgh, Firefox updated and somehow took with it all my open tabs, all my bookmarks and all my add-ons/extensions! Oh well. I had tons of tabs open, perhaps I should just view it as getting a clean slate--but it does mean that I might not reply to something I ought to, just so you know.

Also I lost fics which I was planning to read. I have a backed-up system for fics over 5K, where I mark them as to-read on AO3 and also download them to my ereader and keep those epub files in cloud storage. That's like, two layers of back-up. But for fics shorter than 5K, I just keep them open in tabs in a window...which now was lost. I reconstructed some of them via AO3 history, but not all. Oh well.

Anyway! The Unsent Letters exchange has revealed, showing that (unsurprisingly) sanguinity and I were matched to each other. I received this delightful solution to the difficulties of writing confidential love letters in the open. It is both sweet and funny, with dirty botanical double entendres! \o/

Comfort Me With Apples (1685 words) by sanguinity
Fandom: The Jacobite Trilogy | The Flight of the Heron Series - D. K. Broster
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Codes & Ciphers, Established Relationship, Long-Distance Relationship
Summary: 'Then it must be a cipher that none will suspect as a cipher,' Ewen answered stubbornly. 'Surely if we put our heads together we can manage that.'

On the eve of war, Keith and Ewen devise a code to keep their letters private.

And I wrote the following fic, which was inspired by an idea I'd had for a while, to write Ewen's contribution to The Lyon in Mourning. In the end I didn't do that--I tried, but it just ended up rephrasing/summarizing canon and not being very interesting! So instead, I wrote the letter exchange between Ewen and Robert Forbes (the author/editor of The Lyon in Mourning) leading up to that contribution. I always love writing pastiche of 18th century prose! So much fun.

Preserv'd for Posterity (1668 words) by Luzula
Fandom: The Jacobite Trilogy | The Flight of the Heron Series - D. K. Broster
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Robert Forbes
Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Epistolary, Grief/Mourning, Documentation, Post-Canon
Summary: To Ewen Cameron of Ardroy

Dear Sir, I have not the Honour of being known to you, & you will no doubt wonder at a Stranger writing to you without an Introduction, but I must hope that you will excuse the Liberty when I have explain'd my Purpose.

Comments

[badly_knitted]

One of my LJ friends had a similar problem and someone sent them this link...

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-menu-bar-firefox

Don't know if it will help since I don't use Firefox, but worth taking a look just in case.

[luzula]

Ah, that's a different problem! But thank you for the tip. : )

[badly_knitted]

It was worth a try.

[regshoe]

Argh, what a nightmare! I will keep a close eye on my Firefox in case it tries to do this update :/ I hope you've not lost too many good fics.

And yay for those epistolary fics :D

[luzula]

I'm not sure it was the fault of the actual update, rather than my computer doing some sort of shenanigans (possibly because of something I did?) during the update.

I think I'll start to use "Mark for later" for short fics as well...

[regshoe]

That is a good idea!

[chestnut_pod]

Oh, and all your extensions too! So frustrating.

[luzula]

Not actually sure which ones I had? I have now installed just the basic privacy and adblock ones, anyway.