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yuuagoI keep thinking of things that I want to post, but having no energy to post about them.
Adjusted my workout routine recently. Reduced the walking, added 20 min of yoga on weekdays and a bit of gentle upper body stuff. A large part of this is because it's icy out and a large part of my walking route has too much ice for me to do it safely. The rest is... well, I do need to do upper body stuff. Even though I'm taking it very gently, I'm seeing some progress. Yesterday I increased the amount of sets that I'm doing, and today I found it tough but still doable. Good.
The yoga, admittedly, is because work has been killer lately. Stress + spending a lot of time in a chair. Ugh. It isn't really my favourite way of working out, but right now my body needs this, so I'm stuck with it. Still, I'm seeing improvement there too, which is satisfying, so... not a bad thing at all, I would say.
Really feeling unsure about my KLD fic. Got down a good amount the other day, but I don't feel confident about it. It isn't typical for me to have this specific kind of jitters. I think part of the problem is that I received some really awesome prompts, so I want to write my recip something just as awesome as the prompts they gave me. They have excellent taste in pairings, and we like a lot of the same things. Don't really know why this is making me psych myself out, but it really is annoying.
[Edit: I just re-read what I wrote and actually, you know, it's pretty okay. Though I slapped down some words tonight and I only just got to getting the clothes off, which means I might run into trouble. I guess if I don't have this thing finished and typed by the due date, I can do a triple drabble of blindfolds 'n blowjobs or something and use that as the main assignment while I finish this one in the week before fic reveals.]
Actually, I feel like almost everything I write is extremely Blah lately. But maybe I'm just stressed?
Also need to do some brainstorming for FTH fics... actually writing them can wait until after KLD is over, though. That'll just be in a couple of weeks, so it's no problem. Both people that I'm writing for have asked for pairings I've never written before, and one is going to be more difficult than the other, but both are very doable. Just need to sit down and think about it for a while, and then decide what to write, and just... write it. (And hopefully it will turn out okay.) Probably should also canon review, too. It wouldn't hurt.
I have a TMA fic drafted, but I don't think I want to type it up yet. I'd rather wait to edit it until after I've gone through the whole series. It's some gen with Michael Shelley and Gertrude, and I want to make sure I have every scrap of information (and I'm not about to go poking through anything other than transcripts, because spoilers). That's fine, though - it can wait. I have some other ideas vaguely floating around, maybe some Jon/Michael, maybe some Michael/Sasha, but those can also wait until I feel in the right place to write them.
Feeling so awkward and shy in this fandom, and I'm not entirely sure why. I've been through the trenches of Hetalia fandom, so you'd think I'd know how to handle something massive and wanky, but this has a different feel. I don't know. Maybe it's because I don't want to get too far into the fandom side, because I don't want to get spoiled, so that means that right now I don't really have anybody to talk to about it. It would be nice to make friends with people who like the canon, but... spoilers... and then also, I keep hearing so many things about people being just plain mean, and I want to avoid that. As far as wank goes though, upside is, all of my interests are either Spiral-centric or canon-typical gen, so the likelihood of me actually having direct encounters with anything nasty seems to be smaller than if I was into some of the more popular stuff. But that might just be me being optimistic.
I did read a Jon/Michael fic yesterday (Archivist's Ears Only by Cher) and that was nice. It had exactly what I wanted, and it brought up some details that I'd never thought about before, so I'd say that's a pretty good experience. Definitely need to seek out more with this pairing. And the fic itself made me wonder if the fandom at large makes use of the tape transcript format, like that one does, since the audio is such a thing in canon. I love weird formats, so I hope so.
I feel like I rarely have time to read fic any more. Most of my spare moments are kind of rushed, and usually they happen when I'm supposed to be doing something else, and I don't want to read stuff at times like that, because I'd rather wait until I have a quiet moment to sit down and enjoy it properly. (And then that moment never comes.)
Also: I bought some cute spiral earrings the other day. At this point I guess it's safe to say that the Distortion has lured me into its hallways and I am Never Coming Out (and that's okay).
Adjusted my workout routine recently. Reduced the walking, added 20 min of yoga on weekdays and a bit of gentle upper body stuff. A large part of this is because it's icy out and a large part of my walking route has too much ice for me to do it safely. The rest is... well, I do need to do upper body stuff. Even though I'm taking it very gently, I'm seeing some progress. Yesterday I increased the amount of sets that I'm doing, and today I found it tough but still doable. Good.
The yoga, admittedly, is because work has been killer lately. Stress + spending a lot of time in a chair. Ugh. It isn't really my favourite way of working out, but right now my body needs this, so I'm stuck with it. Still, I'm seeing improvement there too, which is satisfying, so... not a bad thing at all, I would say.
Really feeling unsure about my KLD fic. Got down a good amount the other day, but I don't feel confident about it. It isn't typical for me to have this specific kind of jitters. I think part of the problem is that I received some really awesome prompts, so I want to write my recip something just as awesome as the prompts they gave me. They have excellent taste in pairings, and we like a lot of the same things. Don't really know why this is making me psych myself out, but it really is annoying.
[Edit: I just re-read what I wrote and actually, you know, it's pretty okay. Though I slapped down some words tonight and I only just got to getting the clothes off, which means I might run into trouble. I guess if I don't have this thing finished and typed by the due date, I can do a triple drabble of blindfolds 'n blowjobs or something and use that as the main assignment while I finish this one in the week before fic reveals.]
Actually, I feel like almost everything I write is extremely Blah lately. But maybe I'm just stressed?
Also need to do some brainstorming for FTH fics... actually writing them can wait until after KLD is over, though. That'll just be in a couple of weeks, so it's no problem. Both people that I'm writing for have asked for pairings I've never written before, and one is going to be more difficult than the other, but both are very doable. Just need to sit down and think about it for a while, and then decide what to write, and just... write it. (And hopefully it will turn out okay.) Probably should also canon review, too. It wouldn't hurt.
I have a TMA fic drafted, but I don't think I want to type it up yet. I'd rather wait to edit it until after I've gone through the whole series. It's some gen with Michael Shelley and Gertrude, and I want to make sure I have every scrap of information (and I'm not about to go poking through anything other than transcripts, because spoilers). That's fine, though - it can wait. I have some other ideas vaguely floating around, maybe some Jon/Michael, maybe some Michael/Sasha, but those can also wait until I feel in the right place to write them.
Feeling so awkward and shy in this fandom, and I'm not entirely sure why. I've been through the trenches of Hetalia fandom, so you'd think I'd know how to handle something massive and wanky, but this has a different feel. I don't know. Maybe it's because I don't want to get too far into the fandom side, because I don't want to get spoiled, so that means that right now I don't really have anybody to talk to about it. It would be nice to make friends with people who like the canon, but... spoilers... and then also, I keep hearing so many things about people being just plain mean, and I want to avoid that. As far as wank goes though, upside is, all of my interests are either Spiral-centric or canon-typical gen, so the likelihood of me actually having direct encounters with anything nasty seems to be smaller than if I was into some of the more popular stuff. But that might just be me being optimistic.
I did read a Jon/Michael fic yesterday (Archivist's Ears Only by Cher) and that was nice. It had exactly what I wanted, and it brought up some details that I'd never thought about before, so I'd say that's a pretty good experience. Definitely need to seek out more with this pairing. And the fic itself made me wonder if the fandom at large makes use of the tape transcript format, like that one does, since the audio is such a thing in canon. I love weird formats, so I hope so.
I feel like I rarely have time to read fic any more. Most of my spare moments are kind of rushed, and usually they happen when I'm supposed to be doing something else, and I don't want to read stuff at times like that, because I'd rather wait until I have a quiet moment to sit down and enjoy it properly. (And then that moment never comes.)
Also: I bought some cute spiral earrings the other day. At this point I guess it's safe to say that the Distortion has lured me into its hallways and I am Never Coming Out (and that's okay).
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.