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Yuletide writings
Jan. 1st, 2026 08:08 pmSo the fic I wrote for Yuletide was Yami no Matsuei (Descendants of Darkness), The Christmas Cake File.
( Behind the scenes, for anyone interested. )
( Behind the scenes, for anyone interested. )
I feel Accomplished
Dec. 13th, 2025 06:07 pmI have finished the first draft of my Yuletide pinch-hit (which is, yet again, in a fandom I have never written before, or at least one I've never posted to AO3 - go me?). I'm sure the feeling will fade once the beta-readers have gone over it, and I go back to put in all the bits I thought were in there to begin with but didn't actually make it out of my brain, but for now, I'll enjoy the feeling.
Also we have our Christmas tree up and decorated. Other Christmas decorations, not so much, but then our celebration of Christmas isn't so much Actual Holiday as it is Oh Thank Fuck The Semester's Over And We Have Time Off, with a side of movies and Chinese food.
Next up: finishing my Secret Santa gift. Maybe put on some nice seasonal murder while I embroider. :-D
Also we have our Christmas tree up and decorated. Other Christmas decorations, not so much, but then our celebration of Christmas isn't so much Actual Holiday as it is Oh Thank Fuck The Semester's Over And We Have Time Off, with a side of movies and Chinese food.
Next up: finishing my Secret Santa gift. Maybe put on some nice seasonal murder while I embroider. :-D
Working on it
Nov. 9th, 2025 02:20 pmAccomplished over the last, er... :checks the last time she updated: two months!
* Made a long skirt! Discovered that I'd made the waist too loose. Still working on fixing that part.
* Helped make Renaissance-style pantalons for wife (and cut out same for myself).
* Redyed a sad brown shirt to green. ...it came out kinda olive, but still, better than the sad brown it was before. (The reason for all the sewing: we've an SCA camping event coming up in a week or two, and need enough garb for it. Whee!)
Currently 12K into my Novel November, which is a good 3K behind where I 'should' be, but oh well. I'll do the best I can, and either way, it's more than I had before. (Original fic, cosy fantasy romance, taking the prompts 'shapeshifters' and 'protector/protected' and running with them.)
* Made a long skirt! Discovered that I'd made the waist too loose. Still working on fixing that part.
* Helped make Renaissance-style pantalons for wife (and cut out same for myself).
* Redyed a sad brown shirt to green. ...it came out kinda olive, but still, better than the sad brown it was before. (The reason for all the sewing: we've an SCA camping event coming up in a week or two, and need enough garb for it. Whee!)
Currently 12K into my Novel November, which is a good 3K behind where I 'should' be, but oh well. I'll do the best I can, and either way, it's more than I had before. (Original fic, cosy fantasy romance, taking the prompts 'shapeshifters' and 'protector/protected' and running with them.)
Um. Still not dead!
I wrote Witch Hunter Robin fic for a Yuletide pinch-hit - a somewhat angsty Amon character study, because canon is mostly from Robin's POV and doesn't bother to explain why Amon does much of anything. Also, fun re-watching something I hadn't watched in, mmm, at least fifteen years!
Speaking of things I hadn't watched/read in forever, my current shiny thing is Batman. ( Isn't it fun coming back to an old fandom? For values of 'fun' that sometimes mean 'wow, did I miss that subtext liek whoa.' Also includes minor spoilers for HUSH. )
Have picked back up with my Nibble Resolution, which is to do at least five stitches of counted cross stitch and one sentence of writing per day. It isn't a lot, but it's more than zero, which is what I was doing before. Yay me.
Now to go try to catch up with my reading page. Eeep.
I wrote Witch Hunter Robin fic for a Yuletide pinch-hit - a somewhat angsty Amon character study, because canon is mostly from Robin's POV and doesn't bother to explain why Amon does much of anything. Also, fun re-watching something I hadn't watched in, mmm, at least fifteen years!
Speaking of things I hadn't watched/read in forever, my current shiny thing is Batman. ( Isn't it fun coming back to an old fandom? For values of 'fun' that sometimes mean 'wow, did I miss that subtext liek whoa.' Also includes minor spoilers for HUSH. )
Have picked back up with my Nibble Resolution, which is to do at least five stitches of counted cross stitch and one sentence of writing per day. It isn't a lot, but it's more than zero, which is what I was doing before. Yay me.
Now to go try to catch up with my reading page. Eeep.
As the year too dies
Dec. 30th, 2021 11:29 am(It has been a good twenty-odd years since I read Susan Cooper's THE DARK IS RISING series, and I can still recite some of the poetry from it. Memory is weird.)
Before the year ends: I have ( watched some movies - SINGLE ALL THE WAY and JUNGLE CRUISE! )
I have ( embroidered (and Wife then turned those projects into Things)! Lots of pictures under the cut! )
As previously posted, got through about 35K words, and also fell off my 'work on writing every day' wagon. Oh, well. Will have to try again next year - it's reassuring to my anxious little brain to be able to point and say, look, I accomplished this, even it's just a mostly full notebook rather than a published novel.
Before the year ends: I have ( watched some movies - SINGLE ALL THE WAY and JUNGLE CRUISE! )
I have ( embroidered (and Wife then turned those projects into Things)! Lots of pictures under the cut! )
As previously posted, got through about 35K words, and also fell off my 'work on writing every day' wagon. Oh, well. Will have to try again next year - it's reassuring to my anxious little brain to be able to point and say, look, I accomplished this, even it's just a mostly full notebook rather than a published novel.
Missed a month, but I assure y'all...
Nov. 30th, 2021 09:15 pm...still here. Decided to try NaNoWriMo. Unless the writing muse decides to descend upon me, and how, in the next...:checks time: three hours, I am not going to win it. On the bright side, I've got nearly 35K more words on my original fic than I started.
Watched SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS. Enjoyed it more than I expected, so that was nice. (I am a wee bit cynical about Marvel movies. When they're enjoyable, they're enjoyable, formula and all! But sometimes, they're just not, and formula will not excuse them.)
Watched SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS. Enjoyed it more than I expected, so that was nice. (I am a wee bit cynical about Marvel movies. When they're enjoyable, they're enjoyable, formula and all! But sometimes, they're just not, and formula will not excuse them.)
Perhaps I should make an embroidery icon
Feb. 2nd, 2021 03:53 pmStill not dead.
I've been keeping up with my 2021 self-challenge! Behold, proof:
Also I have written about six pages of Actual Writing (albeit by hand), and lots more pages of backgrounds and world-building and character thoughts. Possibly I should come up with a title before it gets stuck with Statue Story forever. Also possibly I need to talk more worldbuilding with someone not Wife, who is less likely to fall down the rabbit-hole of 'but if supernatural beings exist, how does world history change?'
I've been keeping up with my 2021 self-challenge! Behold, proof:
Also I have written about six pages of Actual Writing (albeit by hand), and lots more pages of backgrounds and world-building and character thoughts. Possibly I should come up with a title before it gets stuck with Statue Story forever. Also possibly I need to talk more worldbuilding with someone not Wife, who is less likely to fall down the rabbit-hole of 'but if supernatural beings exist, how does world history change?'
On the other hand, I am so not sure where the heck I'm going for Day 3.
...on the third hand, the point here is not to know where I'm going, it's just to get words on the page. Even if they're silly words.
:crosses fingers:
...on the third hand, the point here is not to know where I'm going, it's just to get words on the page. Even if they're silly words.
:crosses fingers:
While the Wife's away...
May. 3rd, 2018 11:29 am...I'm not actually likely to do much of anything different from when she's here, but that's beside the point. (Different food? Not feel guilty about spending time on Tumblr? :shrug:)
It does mean that I can plot to spend a Saturday trying out new anime. (Wife has been Not Interested In Anything With Subtitles, while dealing with end-of-semester madness. Legit.) I've made...okay, I've made negative progress on my Crunchyroll queue, in the sense that it's even longer than when I posted last year, which means I should take advantage and try new things, and decide if it's worth keeping them in my queue. Possibly I will even wander over to Hulu or Netflix.
So. Plan for Saturday: anime! And typing up what I think, because lord knows I won't remember otherwise.
Sunday writing, and maybe finally getting the last two damn chapters done on the YoI fairy tale!
(Ha. Ha. Haaaaa.)
It does mean that I can plot to spend a Saturday trying out new anime. (Wife has been Not Interested In Anything With Subtitles, while dealing with end-of-semester madness. Legit.) I've made...okay, I've made negative progress on my Crunchyroll queue, in the sense that it's even longer than when I posted last year, which means I should take advantage and try new things, and decide if it's worth keeping them in my queue. Possibly I will even wander over to Hulu or Netflix.
So. Plan for Saturday: anime! And typing up what I think, because lord knows I won't remember otherwise.
Sunday writing, and maybe finally getting the last two damn chapters done on the YoI fairy tale!
(Ha. Ha. Haaaaa.)
In addition to doing all the weekend chores that I didn't do yesterday:
1) Finished up the hand-written draft of Chapter Five.
2) Procured Things To Be Turned Into X-Men Cosplay from Goodwill (maroon dress that will be turned into Magneto's ridiculously overdramatic long tunic thing, and a suit for Professor X which is going to be cut up all over the place because (a) Wife will be in a wheelchair and visible only from the front anyway, and (b) who are we kidding, we're going for Will Be Vaguely Recognizable, not Hall Costume Craftsmanship Award. We're making the helmets, that should be enough of a tip-off.
3) ...there is no three. Sorry, three is a lie.
1) Finished up the hand-written draft of Chapter Five.
2) Procured Things To Be Turned Into X-Men Cosplay from Goodwill (maroon dress that will be turned into Magneto's ridiculously overdramatic long tunic thing, and a suit for Professor X which is going to be cut up all over the place because (a) Wife will be in a wheelchair and visible only from the front anyway, and (b) who are we kidding, we're going for Will Be Vaguely Recognizable, not Hall Costume Craftsmanship Award. We're making the helmets, that should be enough of a tip-off.
3) ...there is no three. Sorry, three is a lie.
A week outside of time
Jan. 1st, 2018 09:19 amFirst things first: Yuletide reveal! I wrote The Secrets of Jessica Fletcher, thus continuing my trend of writing fic for Yuletide in fandoms I've never written before (Murder, She Wrote this time). ( A little bit of behind-the-scenes, if you're curious. )
Other things this week: ( This got a little long, so I'm cutting it. Short version: writing! embroidery! shopping! and bitching about the weather! )
Other things this week: ( This got a little long, so I'm cutting it. Short version: writing! embroidery! shopping! and bitching about the weather! )
21: What is the first anime you ever saw?
I've actually already answered that (and apparently I should get in the habit of reading ahead and not tangenting, whoops).
My second (third?) anime was DRAGONBALL. Dubbed, as I recall. My then-girlfriend's boyfriend was way into it, and I was into FROM EROICA WITH LOVE (which has not, to my knowledge, been turned into an anime, not even an OVA), so Girlfriend thought it might be a good match. I didn't hate it, but I wasn't fannish about it.
In writing news: as kind of expected, letting it sit for a week or so meant that I discovered that my writing did not, in fact, suck forever, and I did not have to re-write from scratch. So chapter two of the Yuri on Ice fairytale (now, with Viktor/Yuuri smut!) has been posted.
I've actually already answered that (and apparently I should get in the habit of reading ahead and not tangenting, whoops).
My second (third?) anime was DRAGONBALL. Dubbed, as I recall. My then-girlfriend's boyfriend was way into it, and I was into FROM EROICA WITH LOVE (which has not, to my knowledge, been turned into an anime, not even an OVA), so Girlfriend thought it might be a good match. I didn't hate it, but I wasn't fannish about it.
In writing news: as kind of expected, letting it sit for a week or so meant that I discovered that my writing did not, in fact, suck forever, and I did not have to re-write from scratch. So chapter two of the Yuri on Ice fairytale (now, with Viktor/Yuuri smut!) has been posted.
Follow-up to previous posts
Aug. 5th, 2017 08:15 pmI have posted the first installment of this on AO3, here. Whee! (I have an outline, so here's hoping that I can get the remaining three chapters written in, y'know, less than a year. :wince: Not a fast writer, me.)
Also, here is photographic proof that the cats are starting to tolerate each other in close proximity, also featuring my wife's hand and my feet. I repeat: whee!
Also, here is photographic proof that the cats are starting to tolerate each other in close proximity, also featuring my wife's hand and my feet. I repeat: whee!
Fic exchange success!
Jul. 11th, 2017 02:17 pmFor Not Prime Time, I received an adorable BACCANO! fic, Chane LaForet Sorts Out Her Feelings After Breaking a Man's Arm - despite the title, there is considerably less violence than in canon, and considerably more introspection, which makes sense given Chane is the viewpoint character. But there's a gorgeous swelling emotion in the fic, like being on the top of a rising wave, because Claire might be the kind of guy who instantly falls in love (and means it), but Chane needs to think things through. (Also the writing style closely resembles that of a good friend, but she swears she didn't write it, so I eagerly await Friday and finding out who my friend's writing-doppelganger is.)
I wrote for a fandom I've never written before, and a pairing that I hadn't originally offered. Whee? But my recipient loved it, and so did other people, so I can bask in Achievement Unlocked: New Fandom/Pairing. :-D
I wrote for a fandom I've never written before, and a pairing that I hadn't originally offered. Whee? But my recipient loved it, and so did other people, so I can bask in Achievement Unlocked: New Fandom/Pairing. :-D
Small things
Apr. 23rd, 2017 07:15 pm* Spent yesterday spring cleaning. The upside: clean house! The downside: vacuuming should not leave me this sore. Boo.
* Went out with friends to a restaurant not even five minutes from our house, which we have driven past hundreds of times but never gone in. Good food, decent prices, and has excellent onion rings, which is not to be sniffed at. Now we know!
* Signed up for Not Prime Time, in part because I actually have Sufficient Fandoms that (a) I would be happy to get a story in, and (b) I could write a story in. It's sorta sticking my toe back in the fannish waters - the only fanfic I've posted for the past few years has been Yuletide, assignments I've snagged off the pinch-hitter's list.
* Went out with friends to a restaurant not even five minutes from our house, which we have driven past hundreds of times but never gone in. Good food, decent prices, and has excellent onion rings, which is not to be sniffed at. Now we know!
* Signed up for Not Prime Time, in part because I actually have Sufficient Fandoms that (a) I would be happy to get a story in, and (b) I could write a story in. It's sorta sticking my toe back in the fannish waters - the only fanfic I've posted for the past few years has been Yuletide, assignments I've snagged off the pinch-hitter's list.
[writing] Leaving prompts for myself
Jan. 13th, 2017 08:59 amSo one of my goals for this year is to Write More. ( Probably about women. Especially women being awesome. Ramblings beneath the cut. )
Moana, and writing
Dec. 7th, 2016 04:09 pm*Saw MOANA this past weekend. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Soundtrack has been intermittently stuck in my head every since, but at least the songs have been taking turns.
*Snagged something off the Yuletide pinch-hitter's list (again). Got it written in two days! ...just in time for AO3 to crash. Ah, well, that gives me time to get the story looked over and polished, so it's not just HERE IS A THING.
*Snagged something off the Yuletide pinch-hitter's list (again). Got it written in two days! ...just in time for AO3 to crash. Ah, well, that gives me time to get the story looked over and polished, so it's not just HERE IS A THING.
