I’m writing this entry at 1:40 a.m. in the morning (so please excuse my incomprehensible ramblings) after I’ve just finished reading Belen’s fantastic “Obstacles to overcome” and after realising how incredibly boring I’ve become. First of all I should compliment Belen on her fantastic story, which is a modern adaption of P&P with the protagonists having a background from the equestrian world – Darcy is, as we will get to know while the story progresses – England’s hottest horseman (great line!). An absolutely terrifc read, which is why I’m still up at such a relatively late hour.
I read the whole story in a rush – I found it quite by accident via the JAFF index – and I didn’t realise how engrossed I had become in reading that I simply forgot the time. And my next thought was how often this had happend when I was still at school and how this had ceased to happen now that I’m off working and studying at the same time (which, as I’ve probably mentioned before, is sucking my life right out of me). One could argue that now that I’ve read so many stories, there are less long finished stories available I could read in a rush, but I think, that’s just one side of the coin.
To tell the truth, I’d suddenly came to my mind how exhausted I’ve become. This has probably been the first time in months that I’ve stayed up after 1 a.m., even yesterday I went to bed at 9 p.m., because I was so wiped out from work and studying (BTW, I’m 20 years old, for God’s sake – I’m not supposed to go to bed so early on a Friday night!). When I come home from work, I mostly almost check the board for any updates on the current WIPs/PIPs, however, in the last few weeks there have been occurences, where I saw, that there was e.g. a new chapter of “Moonlightning” or “Their share of vexations”, but I simply lacked the energy to read them.
Fanfiction is a thing a adore, one could easily say, a thing I worship and in the past I didn’t have a problem following all the boards, even to such an extent that I became restless when stories where not as numerous as I was used, but now I’m less and less able to follow this hobby of mine, part of it due to the time constraints and part of it, because I willingly choose it, because I want to give all the fantastic stories the time they deserve. A new chapter of one of your favourite FFs is a thing you have to devour and nothing you can just squeeze into your scedule after working overtime and before starting to read another chapter in “Prospects for worker board-level participation in the enlarged EU”. I still haven’t found a balance between work, studies and free time and I guess it will still take some time and this stupid entry is probably something I will regret tomorrow, because it sounds so childish and immature and more or less like the complaints of a stupid teenager, but anyway… It’s something I had to get off my chest.
And now it came to my mind that with reading Belen’s story, I lost a few hours for working on the paper, which is due in two weeks time – so RL comes back with full force now. But I’d say, losing this few hours was very worthwile, because I spend these hours with Darcy and Lizzy and Georgiana and Richard and all the other charactars I have come to love and now it’s 2 a.m. and I’m heading of to bed.
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This story is so unique, because Darcy and Elizabeth have never met before, but at the Assembly fate interfers, they get to know that they are ment for each other much sonner and so things won’t follow canon afterwards, but it’s in canon nevertheless – it’s difficult to describe. Just wait until the spot where some of Jane Austen’s most famous P&P-quotes are mentioned and you’ll know. 