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ratbonesUm...I'm back? I guess? When I say I'm going to be gone, I post again within a week, and then other times I spontaneously vanish for a month. I don't know why I bother with the concept of planning.
-There is one chapter left to go in All-Consuming. I plan (*weeps*) to post a little followup-y treat a week or two after the last chapter goes up. There will be a post here about the science stuff in the fic, as several people have said that would be interesting or useful, and I've always wanted to write a research paper with dirty jokes and swears in. I might also post something later on about writing process stuff, if I can figure out what would be interesting to people? I know that I like reading others' writing meta but I'm such a baby writer and it feels slightly presumptuous? I probably have something interesting to say though, if I edit my rambling down.
-I started watching The Untamed and I'm up to episode 8. (Please no major spoilers!) So far I'm enjoying myself. There are so many talented actors! Pretty fight scenes! Gorgeous sets! Gorgeous people! And the shippy stuff has made me make squeaky noises a few times. I have no idea what degree of fannishness this thing is going to inspire in me, if any. I'm obviously a slow starter. I do already have a big hearteyes crush on Wen Qing, though. Shh. Don't tell me anything. Just let me suffer at my own pace.
-I don't like to kill spiders. The fast ones kind of yeek me out, but they eat pests and don't actually do anything bad except for looking creepy. I tell myself they're just really small eight-legged cats. So I don't kill them, but there's this one in my bathroom, and I've seen it three or four times now, and it's one of those fast-running ones, and last night when I got out of the shower it was sitting on my glasses. Don't. Don't do that. Please no.
-This would be a good time for me to start deciding what to write next. I think it's sort of happening? I'm inclined to write some short (or shorter, anyway) stuff, because I have some ideas sitting around, but in my limited experience I am more comfortable in the middle of a major project. I have a loose concept for a longish original piece, and maybe I'll tinker with that while writing shorter fics, but I'm not sure that will actually help, because it's only going to fragment my attention further. Maybe I'm worrying too much about it; probably, when I've finally put the cork in All-Consuming and its peripheral material, I'll have the impulse to write something.
-Since I started writing fic, I've stopped regretting every single thing I post on the internet. I just regret everything that's in my own voice. I can't look at my own old entries here, they distress me.
-@sylleblahsome has posted an excerpt of one of our conversations about Zhu Yilong. Please enjoy our adorable banter.
-There is one chapter left to go in All-Consuming. I plan (*weeps*) to post a little followup-y treat a week or two after the last chapter goes up. There will be a post here about the science stuff in the fic, as several people have said that would be interesting or useful, and I've always wanted to write a research paper with dirty jokes and swears in. I might also post something later on about writing process stuff, if I can figure out what would be interesting to people? I know that I like reading others' writing meta but I'm such a baby writer and it feels slightly presumptuous? I probably have something interesting to say though, if I edit my rambling down.
-I started watching The Untamed and I'm up to episode 8. (Please no major spoilers!) So far I'm enjoying myself. There are so many talented actors! Pretty fight scenes! Gorgeous sets! Gorgeous people! And the shippy stuff has made me make squeaky noises a few times. I have no idea what degree of fannishness this thing is going to inspire in me, if any. I'm obviously a slow starter. I do already have a big hearteyes crush on Wen Qing, though. Shh. Don't tell me anything. Just let me suffer at my own pace.
-I don't like to kill spiders. The fast ones kind of yeek me out, but they eat pests and don't actually do anything bad except for looking creepy. I tell myself they're just really small eight-legged cats. So I don't kill them, but there's this one in my bathroom, and I've seen it three or four times now, and it's one of those fast-running ones, and last night when I got out of the shower it was sitting on my glasses. Don't. Don't do that. Please no.
-This would be a good time for me to start deciding what to write next. I think it's sort of happening? I'm inclined to write some short (or shorter, anyway) stuff, because I have some ideas sitting around, but in my limited experience I am more comfortable in the middle of a major project. I have a loose concept for a longish original piece, and maybe I'll tinker with that while writing shorter fics, but I'm not sure that will actually help, because it's only going to fragment my attention further. Maybe I'm worrying too much about it; probably, when I've finally put the cork in All-Consuming and its peripheral material, I'll have the impulse to write something.
-Since I started writing fic, I've stopped regretting every single thing I post on the internet. I just regret everything that's in my own voice. I can't look at my own old entries here, they distress me.
-@sylleblahsome has posted an excerpt of one of our conversations about Zhu Yilong. Please enjoy our adorable banter.
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Date: 2020-02-13 08:56 am (UTC)I also love spiders. Living semi-rurally, we always had big house spiders (we'd always call the biggest one Boris, for some reason). Sadly, now that I have cats, the spiders don't tend to live long.
Thinking of them as small eight-legged cats is brilliant!
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Date: 2020-02-14 02:07 am (UTC)My kitty kills mice regularly enough to have a designated mouse corpse drop-off location (right next to my desk. Thanks, cat.) but when she finds an arthropod, she just...watches it. Sometimes she'll kill it by accident through too much curious poking, but mostly I have to deal with them myself. I do try to leave the little eight-legged cats alone to do their thing!
CUTE. When I was a kid, we called the largest toad in the garden (different toads on different days, I'm sure) Prince Henry. :P
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Date: 2020-02-14 07:11 am (UTC)My kitty's mouse-corpse-drop-off location is 'anywhere in the dining room... or the hall where innocent humans can step on them on their way to the loo'.
Did anyone ever attempt to kiss it? ;p
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Date: 2020-02-14 09:26 pm (UTC)I'm going to have to apologize to mine for the snark. Her choice of location isn't that bad after all.
Certainly not me, I didn't want to risk being stuck with a handsome prince!