It's been long enough that a list developed.

[ratbones]

Um...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.

Comments

[sylleblahsome]

(SPIDERS.

In theory, I appreciate spiders for dealing with other pests in the home.

In practice... if they show themselves, they get anywhere from brushed off the surface to squished. :( My heart will be weighed down with a million spider corpses when Thoth and Osiris judge me for the afterlife.)

[starandrea]

-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.

YES. I feel an affinity with every part of this. ♥

[rlyqueer]

I'd def be interested in ur writerly meta! Esp bc you're a newer fic writer and I am too so I'm like very 👀 curious about ur thoughts n things!

Also Wen Qing is the best. Love her.

Just call me whenever you have a spider problem and I'll come on down to relocate the lil fella! Usually I let them be roommates pulling their weight by munching on other pests but yeah sometimes there's the oddball that's gonna be moved out to the great outdoors lol.

Also, this is why public journaling is wild to me? Idk how people do it without self editing the fuck outta themselves. Is there a balance between that and being authentic? Don't know but I try lol.

And lastly...that chat log is. Golden. I loved it. 😂

[xparrot]

I am similar with spiders -- fundamentally creep me out a bit, but I don't want to kill them, and I find them easier to take if I talk to them like a cat and scold them for being silly babies as I put them in a glass and toss them outside.

...But they should not be hanging around things that you are going to pick up or put on your face, N O.

The posted chat excerpt is golden, proper care is very important, you don't want to neglect a Long-ge!

And I am so looking forward to reading All-Consuming, I have heard very good things...!

[solo]

Wen Qing rocks! I shall say no more. Hope you continue to enjoy the show! I love it so much!!!

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!

[clevermanka]

I'm hastily wrapping up my shorter Guardian fics in the Marked For Later pile in preparation for All-Consuming's completion! And I can guarantee I'll be in the camp interested in the DVD commentary. I'm writing one for Ghost Story, too, and I'm very much a baby writer as well!

Also, I am flat terrified of spiders, so well done, you.

[extrapenguin]

Spiders! I'd rec you Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky for spiders in space, but, uh, it's a thick book and you're busy.

I started watching The Untamed and I'm up to episode 8.
So you've seen Lan Yi and Baoshan Sanren? What'd you think of that scene?

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 guess you could try out a medium-sized project (20k?) and see how that makes you feel? Also, please post your writerly meta, I wanna read it.

[umadoshi]

That is not a place for spiders, however one feels about them in general! (Unless someone is an actual spider lover, in which case, okay?)

I'm going to really miss "All-Consuming", but I'm also keenly excited to see how it ends! And I'm looking forward to whatever you write next.

I can't look at my own old entries here, they distress me.

This part makes me sad, so I'm sending extra hugs.

*hugshugshugs*

[nnozomi]

I hope you don't mind a sudden comment from a semi-random passerby. I am bad at fic commenting but I've been enjoying All-Consuming SO MUCH; I kind of resent you getting me this invested in the zombie apocalypse, but your Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei... oh my. I will try to leave a proper AO3 comment on the final chapter!
In the meantime, I happened across a random Zhu Yilong interview (as one does) and immediately thought you needed to see it, if you haven't already. Partly because he is just absurdly adorable, but also because of his comment around 5:03...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1An920ILdo

[tinny]

You don't need to feel presumptuous. Talking about writing process is always interesting! (And we all think we're worse writers than we actually are, I'm convinced of that.)

It's fun that your muse is thinking about the next project already. I'm sure it will take form in time. <3

-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.

a) yay! b) I feel the same. My old entries make me sound like a crazed 13-year-old. Even the ones that are only two weeks old. /o\ I swear I felt completely normal when I wrote them. They apparently just don't keep well. Oops. :D

Please enjoy our adorable banter.

I did! <3

[marycrawford]

Hiii, I am HOARDING All-Consuming - I read the first few chapters I think a while ago, and then realized that no I absolutely needed to wait until the whole thing was done so I could just, well, devour. It's so damn intense and just riveting. <3

And just fyi I would love to read anything you write about your writing process, especially the plotting (my nemesis) or lack thereof.