Last Monday of the Week - 2022-1-3
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natsinator And first monday of the year! whoo?
Posting Update
I posted two things this week (plus yuletide reveals went live but I'm tired of talking about yuletide lol. that's linked in my year end wrapup.)
"To Love That Well Which Thou Must Leave Ere Long" - LoGH - 6.5k words - Reinhard/Kircheis.
Serpent's Mouth, Serpent's Teeth - Chapter One - Auld Acquaintance - 5.8k words
General Writing Update
At this moment in time, everything i've written has been posted (with a few rando exceptions that are always lurking, like the secret horny EHI chapter that I wrote idek when and that won't be posted for ages). since last monday, i wrote 10,881 words. not too shabby :)
Art Update
Drew a picture of the terrible trio. It's not the greatest sketch but it was fun to draw. The polycule is planning to spend the next year getting significantly Worse. Also i put them all in admiral uniforms even though none of them are full admirals yet lol. it's a future piece i guess.
Media Update
I watched my/the traditional NYE film: The Irony of Fate (1976) [link to my 1 sentence letterboxd log]. it's a soviet made for TV romcom and it's... an experience lol. mostly the experience is "why the fuck is this movie three hours long. this is an hour and a half of story, at best" but like it's more about the vibes than anything else lol. anyway i've seen this so many times, since I watch it pretty much every year and have since idk. 2011?
Also, I forgot to mention last week (so i'll mention it here) i went to a livestream of a bootleg of the POTO UK restaged tour from like 2012 with Earl Carpenter as the Phantom. honestly i'd forgotten how much i like POTO, and it's been on my mind since then.. i should reread the very silly published fanfic novel that i haven't read since hs. i have it in my other room. but like, i don't actually /need/ phantom brainrot rn so. lmao. god this all feels so very nostalgic.
Life Update
Literally what did I even do last week? Nothing. I was trapped in my house b/c I thought I was exposed to rona. My family (who I saw at christmas) all came down with it, but I tested negative yesterday so I guess I was somehow spared? Idk how but I'll count my blessings.
Oh I remember where all my time went. I had to spend many hours reading through all of my own fanfic to remember what was going on lmao. THAT'S where my week went haha. honestly: it held up. though there are a bunch of truly cringe typos lurking all over the place, and I wish that i was capable of maintaining and sticking to a styleguide. i don't think i could ever self publish for this reason (inability to get manuscript not littered with jank) but i would love to have a copy editor scrub my stuff for trad pub. get it so clean and shiny. i feel like going through the process once with a professional would probably help me learn how to do it alright on my own.
Anyway, most of my time during which I could get my shit together I spent writing (admittedly, less time than one would hope, but). I also drank a bottle of the package store's eight dollar-est wine (over several days lmao). I don't usually drink at all but I'm trying to broaden my horizons and also celebrate the holiday lol. I also bought wine glasses in which to drink it at savers. god i love thrift shopping so much. i was this close to buying a weird looking set of plates but I decided against it b/c they'd probably make my food look unappealing. but i feel like i'm in the market for new sets of plates (the ones i have are very boring) and bowls (the ones i have are extremely mismatched), and buying them from the thrift store is like good for the environment so I'm allowed to go there and look at objects and even buy stupid nonsense as long as I have an actual use for it in my house.
Oh and I remade my pinned post on tumblr, which was kinda a lot of work. And did my year end wrapup.
And I listened in on my dnd group even though I wasn't playing to see if they would die without me, but they didn't b/c they decided to pacifism their way out of an encounter lol. this is probably for the best.
What's on the Docket?
Posting Update
I posted two things this week (plus yuletide reveals went live but I'm tired of talking about yuletide lol. that's linked in my year end wrapup.)
"To Love That Well Which Thou Must Leave Ere Long" - LoGH - 6.5k words - Reinhard/Kircheis.
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verilyrosen for galacticsantas , and I was a little later with it than I wanted to be, but such is life. for some reason, I struggled with this one a bit, but I think I mostly pulled it together in the end. I think maybe the problem is that I am running out of things to say about reinhard and kircheis in the context of canon lol. for a ship i don't even particularly care about i have written a ton about them. anyway i think this fic had some interesting core concepts but it might read as rushed (which it was a little bit-- sorry kat ;0;). at the end of the day, i'm not a perfectionist and i'm never going to be one lol, so things get written and then they get posted. this has made the shortlist of "fics that could probably use a second draft" but that's a shortlist far far away from my actual to-do list lol. anyway i hope it's an enjoyable read anyway.
Serpent's Mouth, Serpent's Teeth - Chapter One - Auld Acquaintance - 5.8k words
hoo boy i am so glad that past noodle wrote themself an outline. if i'm in the middle of a project i am generally good at remembering where i need to go, but i haven't touched the actual plot parts of the yang half of WIAW since [cringe cringe ultimate cringe] august 2020. jesus. yang and co i am so so sorry to have abandoned you for so long.
anyway, i wouldn't say that this chapter was necessarily difficult to write, but there was a bit of friction there. that's kinda why i semi-arbitrarily picked hilde to be the POV character-- i think i felt too nervous to step directly back into yang's head. although i really like yang, and i think i am good at writing him, self doubt after being away for so long lol. i think it's going to take a hot second to ease back into this project, and so i'm glad that i'm planning to write a couple of chapters of it before I hop back to EHI (though the longer i move that back the harder it will be to hop back into there so lmfao. i really really should only work on one project at a time but i have so many things that I want to accomplish...)
anyway i'm /very/ glad to be back to this project, and i hope that people like it. i'm so nervous but probably for no reason.
anyway, i wouldn't say that this chapter was necessarily difficult to write, but there was a bit of friction there. that's kinda why i semi-arbitrarily picked hilde to be the POV character-- i think i felt too nervous to step directly back into yang's head. although i really like yang, and i think i am good at writing him, self doubt after being away for so long lol. i think it's going to take a hot second to ease back into this project, and so i'm glad that i'm planning to write a couple of chapters of it before I hop back to EHI (though the longer i move that back the harder it will be to hop back into there so lmfao. i really really should only work on one project at a time but i have so many things that I want to accomplish...)
anyway i'm /very/ glad to be back to this project, and i hope that people like it. i'm so nervous but probably for no reason.
General Writing Update
At this moment in time, everything i've written has been posted (with a few rando exceptions that are always lurking, like the secret horny EHI chapter that I wrote idek when and that won't be posted for ages). since last monday, i wrote 10,881 words. not too shabby :)
Art Update
Drew a picture of the terrible trio. It's not the greatest sketch but it was fun to draw. The polycule is planning to spend the next year getting significantly Worse. Also i put them all in admiral uniforms even though none of them are full admirals yet lol. it's a future piece i guess.
Media Update
I watched my/the traditional NYE film: The Irony of Fate (1976) [link to my 1 sentence letterboxd log]. it's a soviet made for TV romcom and it's... an experience lol. mostly the experience is "why the fuck is this movie three hours long. this is an hour and a half of story, at best" but like it's more about the vibes than anything else lol. anyway i've seen this so many times, since I watch it pretty much every year and have since idk. 2011?
Also, I forgot to mention last week (so i'll mention it here) i went to a livestream of a bootleg of the POTO UK restaged tour from like 2012 with Earl Carpenter as the Phantom. honestly i'd forgotten how much i like POTO, and it's been on my mind since then.. i should reread the very silly published fanfic novel that i haven't read since hs. i have it in my other room. but like, i don't actually /need/ phantom brainrot rn so. lmao. god this all feels so very nostalgic.
Life Update
Literally what did I even do last week? Nothing. I was trapped in my house b/c I thought I was exposed to rona. My family (who I saw at christmas) all came down with it, but I tested negative yesterday so I guess I was somehow spared? Idk how but I'll count my blessings.
Oh I remember where all my time went. I had to spend many hours reading through all of my own fanfic to remember what was going on lmao. THAT'S where my week went haha. honestly: it held up. though there are a bunch of truly cringe typos lurking all over the place, and I wish that i was capable of maintaining and sticking to a styleguide. i don't think i could ever self publish for this reason (inability to get manuscript not littered with jank) but i would love to have a copy editor scrub my stuff for trad pub. get it so clean and shiny. i feel like going through the process once with a professional would probably help me learn how to do it alright on my own.
Anyway, most of my time during which I could get my shit together I spent writing (admittedly, less time than one would hope, but). I also drank a bottle of the package store's eight dollar-est wine (over several days lmao). I don't usually drink at all but I'm trying to broaden my horizons and also celebrate the holiday lol. I also bought wine glasses in which to drink it at savers. god i love thrift shopping so much. i was this close to buying a weird looking set of plates but I decided against it b/c they'd probably make my food look unappealing. but i feel like i'm in the market for new sets of plates (the ones i have are very boring) and bowls (the ones i have are extremely mismatched), and buying them from the thrift store is like good for the environment so I'm allowed to go there and look at objects and even buy stupid nonsense as long as I have an actual use for it in my house.
Oh and I remade my pinned post on tumblr, which was kinda a lot of work. And did my year end wrapup.
And I listened in on my dnd group even though I wasn't playing to see if they would die without me, but they didn't b/c they decided to pacifism their way out of an encounter lol. this is probably for the best.
What's on the Docket?
- Two chapters a week seems like it's been a mostly reasonable posting schedule for me, so I'm going to try to get done SMST ch2 and SMST ch3. If it happens, great, if not, well, I tried.
- I need to go to the YMCA and switch my account payment info -_-
- On sunday i have my first ice skating lesson :0
- i want to try to cook some tofu dishes this week
- I bought some video games so maybe if i have time i will try to play them
