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I was going to post something more interesting, but my brain is mush, so uhhh....

+ FTH signups are closed now. Turns out they've had a record number of signups this year! I'm glad that I decided to stick to my decision to sit it out re: throwing my hat into it, but damn, am I ever looking forward to browsing the offers.

+ kinkluckydip will be running again this year. Schedule here; noms and signups open next week. I had a good time with this last year, and I'm thinking about signing up again. I love the premise of "I want some porn with this pairing, and I'm open to almost anything, surprise me!" Anybody else thinking of doing KLD this year?

+ ...However ahhhh I just remembered that I have something for Crack the WIP due in April. Maybe I should work on it over the next two weeks and make sure my ducks are in a row before I consider signing up for something else! (50/50 chance on whether this will actually happen. ;p )

Signups are open for crackthewip!

This is a multifandom challenge to finish WIPs/in-progress works. Due date is April 1-7.

Man, I really enjoy fests like this. Writing for myself, and with the extra incentive of a deadline? Nice. And unlike IIBB, this one doesn't have a minimum wordcount, so I can post one of my short works for it.

I have a short TMA fic that I want to post for this. Hoping to complete some other things too, but... let's just commit to one fic at a time, shall we? ;p

Dear Chocolatier -

I've jotted down a few ideas to help you get started. If you have ideas of your own that aren't on here, I'd love to see them. My tastes are pretty broad, so I'll genuinely be happy with anything that doesn't hit the do not wants. All ratings are welcome; I love both G and R-18 works, and the entire range in between.

For some canons, I only had ideas for one medium, so I limited my requests to that medium. Works in a different medium are welcome if you have inspiration for that!

For reference, my Ao3 username is yuuago.

( Likes and Dislikes )
( Hetalia )
( The Magnus Archives )
( Promare )
( The Witch Door )

Possibly of interest to some of you:

rarefemslashexchange is a new exchange currently in the nomination stages. The focus is on F/F ships with fewer than 250 works on Ao3 (with filters).

I won't be joining this one, but I really like the premise. Definitely going to be keeping an eye out for treating.

+ Had Thanksgiving supper yesterday. Did not murder anyone. Everyone liked the fancy green beans that I cooked. Got very drunk because apparently my alcohol tolerance has gone way down since I moved out and don't usually have wine with supper any more. Mom sent me home with a ton of leftover turkey that I'm going to use to make a totally boss curry. Not bad!

+ Spent about an hour this weekend with gloves and a garbage bag, picking up trash in the park. Hooray, there is a noticeable improvement! (But fuck all those assholes who just throw their litter everywhere.)

+ Finished the draft for my second FTH fic! Hooray! ...Now I have to type the damn thing up. Eew. But we're clipping along according to schedule, so I'm pretty pleased. It's going to take some work to get it to turn out the way I want, but I think it'll be all right! It's Hetalia SE/DE, which I haven't written at length before, but there's some interesting possibilities with that pairing, I will admit. (TBH usually I prefer it as like, very late 19th century SE/DE/NO, but that did not fit the request.)

+ Had a conversation about Hetalia with Tik today, and we realized that it's been published as Hetalia World Stars since 2014. Both of us boggled - we thought it had been... not as long as that. How does time pass so fast? How is it 2021? How have I been in this fandom for 12 years, still actively writing fic for it? It is a mystery.

+ I went for an hour-long walk twice today, and I feel GREAT. I really wish I could do this every day.

+ The Yuletide 2021 tagset is up. I wasn't planning to participate in this exchange, but not going to lie, looking through the options make it rather tempting, because a lot of fandoms that I like were added to it - and I didn't even add any myself! Poldark AND Anno 1790 are both in the tagset, and while I've never written either, the latter is a quick canon review and I've certainly seen enough of the former to give it a go... Ah, well, I'll resist the signup temptation and just wait to see what the requests are like. ;) Do any of you see anything that excites you? Any feelings about Worldbuilding being added as a requestable option?

seasonsofdrabbles is a new drabble exchange. Noms open August 22; signups open August 29.

Apparently if it's successful, it'll take place quarterly.

Sounds fun! I'm not sure if I'll be able to participate in the first round, but I'm definitely going to give it some thought.

Maybe I'll wait and see if any of the signups have something I can write before I make a decision. Ahh, the curse of having very specific tastes - even The Magnus Archives can't save me most of the time. ;p

Fics for the Multifandom Drabble Exchange have been revealed! Yay! The collection for this round has over 330 fandoms, wow.

I wrote two works:

☆ Borrowing a Door for Fencesit. The Witch Door, Katariina/Tzofiya, 400 words, G/0+. Snapshots in the course of a relationship.

☆ Happenstance for laughs_in_distortion. The Magnus Archives, Gerry Keay & Michael Distortion, 100 words, G/0+. Gerry has a chance encounter after acquiring a Leitner through dubious means.

And I received two Magnus Archives works! Voila:

☆ Wasteland Waiting by LookingForDroids. Adelard Dekker, 100 words, G/0+. A fragmentary audio recording, found among the personal effects of one Gertrude Robinson.

☆ My heart is thrilled by the still of your hand (It's how I know now that you understand) by laughs_in_distortion. Sasha James/Michael Distortion, 200 words, T. Sasha thinks of her encounter with Michael.

There were a lot of TMA fics in the collection for this round, and I enjoyed all of them (except the one that I didn't read due to spoilers).

Of the fics that weren't written for me, my favourite was:

☆ Memento Mori by LookingForDroids. Original statement giver, 300 words, G/0+. Statement of Sarah Chandler, regarding an archaeological text.

This weekend, I just kind of went nope. Get any of my creative projects done? NOPE. Do anything that requires brain power? NOPE. Did get the cleaning done though, so there is that. I think maybe my body was just protesting after I had to drag myself out of bed at 6 AM on Saturday to go to work. And there was more snow today! Which of course didn't help.

Signups are open for multifandomdrabble! (Details). From now until May 01. Already got my signup in! And I might add another fandom or two, though I haven't decided what. (VME? Promare? Something totally random, like Fortitude? Who knows!)

And I made a cake! With rosewater (and I added some cardamom too). This 'Syrian coffee loaf' recipe that was recently posted at cookbook_challenge. It turned out all right; don't know if I'll make this one again, but I do think I'll experiment more with rosewater desserts. It's such a delicate and elegant flavouring, and not one that I've played with much.

The kinkluckydip exchange was a good one for me. Loved the parameters/concept; the bite-sized minimum wordcount and the freedom to write whatever I want as long as it was kinky in some way really worked for me. The only issue that I ran into is that it takes place at the start of the busiest part of the year at my work, but I managed to get everything in on time, so that turned out fine in the end.

Works were revealed over the weekend. 87 fandoms and over 150 works at this time. Yay!

Author reveals aren't for a while, so I can't link to what I wrote. But as for what I received - I made out like a bandit when it came to gifts, holy shit.

+ Art: Frosty Treat. Frozen, Elsa/Honeymaren, oral + clothes on, plus a cute little extra at the end that made me crack up. ;D

+ Art: Impromptu Hairplay. Hetalia, Romania/Norway, bondage and blindfolds and erogenous haircurl teasing... Somebody ("somebody") knows me very, very well. ;)

+ Fic: The Devil You Know (archive-locked). The Magnus Archives, Michael Distortion/Jon Sims, 2.3k, canon divergence from MAG 101 in which the door isn't locked, and Michael decides to... keep Jon around. ;) The author tagged for Spiral-typical mindfuckery and boy is it ever.

10/10, would participate again! If this one runs next year, I'll likely sign up, why the hell not.

kinkluckydip doesn't do letters, so I decided to copy my requests over here to have them on-hand as reference.
Due to the nature of KLD, in which the writer is free to write whichever kink they desire, prompts are to be taken as suggestions.

( Hetalia - Norway/Romania )
( Hetalia - Romania/Anyone )
( The Magnus Archives - Jon/Michael )
( Frozen - Elsa/Honeymaren )