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Well. It sure was nice having four days off - even though I feel like I did absolutely nothing with that time. (Which is ridiculous, because I did do things! Lots of things! Oh, well.)

I've had plenty of things that I want to write about, but as soon as I sit down to do it, my brain goes "Hell no". So... Suppose that'll have to wait for another time. (Mostly consists of: music blathering, cosmetics gushing, more DDADDS game progress, and some stuff about OCs that I've been meaning to jot down.)

Oh, an update on my driving woes: the lesson did not go badly. I'm pretty relieved. The instructor didn't think I was awful at it, either; just in need of a bit more practice. I suggested that I might consider taking the test some time in October, and she agreed that it sounded doable. So... that's something to aim for, I guess. (Ugh fuck that's two months away crap goddamnit sonova -)

I finished a SSSS OC fic that I've been working on for months*. It's 6k or so, which isn't all that long, but it's pretty long for me, and it reminds me of why I rarely write anything in that range. It's just more work than I want to deal with. Still, I'm happy with it. (And so, so glad to be done with this thing, ugh.)

It's nice to work on self-indulgent nonsense like this. Started another very self-indulgent thing yesterday, aaand... I'm just having a blast working on it. It's so dumb, but Iiii don't caaaaaare.

Oh, and one DDADDS thing before I wrap this up - I stumbled over this ficlet and oh man, things I never knew I wanted: Damien and Mary parting rude fools from their cash. It's too bad anon probably won't come back to that (considering it's a 100-word thread) so we won't get more details/the full story. Also, apparently Mat making mixtapes for Damien is a thing I need in my life. (It's cute. They're both cute. Too cute. Okay, apparently I ship it.)

I did absolutely nothing this weekend, aside from cleaning, and playing more of that dating game. So.

( Robert & Damien's routes - spoilers, obviously )

Driving practice was super crappy today. Upside: I got through it, did not kill anyone, and did not damage the vehicle. ...That's about the only upside, though.

Decided to go ahead and download that dad dating sim. MIGHT AS WELL. I'm going to be playing it in bits and pieces, using game time as a reward for doing stuff that aggravates my anxiety; I'm trying to reward-train my brain into submission. Can't say whether it's working, but stuff has been getting done, so that's something. ...This means I'll have to take my time with it, but that's all right.

I wasn't sure whether it would run on my tiny netbook, but if I turn the graphics quality down, it's okay (so far). Which is a relief.

( Brief initial thoughts - I didn't get very far tonight )

☆ I'm thinking about trying to write something to submit to NorthWord. It's a fiction/poetry magazine (well, they call it a "literary journal") published bianually here in Fort Mac. The theme for the next round of submissions was announced earlier this week, and I think it's something that I can work with. Normally, the idea of being published gives me the willies - and in fact, even the idea of submitting to this publication makes me a little bit uncomfortable. But it's an obscure magazine with a very limited circulation, and if I use an alias to submit, then there is roughly 0% chance that anyone I know would ever read it or hear about it, if my work is accepted. So, it's just a matter of slapping together some publishable poems - easier said than done, of course, but it wouldn't hurt to try. And of course I need to decide whether to submit under my name but request it be published under alias, or... submit completely under alias (both options have advantages/disadvantages). Well, I can worry about that detail later.

☆ So, I hear that the Dream Daddy dating sim has finally been released. Not gonna' lie, the more I hear about this game, the more I want to play it. Coziness and m/m romance and terrible puns? Yes! My experience with the genre is limited to Hatoful Boyfriend and, uh... Angelique (and in that case, it was an incomplete fantranslation, heh) so it isn't something I'm terribly familiar with, but it sounds fun. It unfortunately won't run on my main computer, but I can work around that. I've stumbled over some spoilers about one of the characters already, and while the particular detail I saw is very minor and doesn't really have anything to do with the story, it makes me even more interested than I was before. The only thing that bugs me is that apparently the game is 18+, which I hadn't realized at first. That bit is kind of a turnoff. But, oh well, everything else about it sounds great.

☆ I've been an absolute ball of nerves lately. It's so annoying! I feel like getting anything done is taking 50% more effort than it should. :| Go away, anxiety monster, go awayyyyy.

☆ Note to self: Bring those paintings down to the framing place tomorrow. There just really is no point in half-assing this.

This weekend has been awful mental-health-wise, but great in all other ways, so I guess I'll consider it even. (Thanks to everyone who replied on my last entry by the way... I hate feeling like that, but I got it under control eventually.)

Took my mum out for lunch today. That went nicely. I was kind of worried that she'd be her usual irritable self, but she must've been in a good mood or something. Regardless, it was good.

Even though my chances of going to a con any time in the near future are pretty much nil, I keep thinking about cosplay, haha. Then again this does tend to happen when warm weather comes around, because people start talking about cons... The more I think about it the more I think that Nanaki Kazuaki from Hatoful Boyfriend would be a lot of fun to dress up as, either as his human self or the bird version. I guess I just think his clothes are really cute (er, he's the first design, for those not familiar with the game). They look like something that I would actually wear on a regular day, I guess. It's kind of weird, because Kazuaki isn't really one of my top favourites (the top three space would be reserved for Anghel, Nageki and Sakuya, heh). But at the same time I'm really stuck on the idea of dressing up as him. Maybe I could just knit his little shawl, I bet that'd be easy - though potentially challenging because I've never knitted anything like that before. Could be interesting.

I've been reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Going in, I had no idea about it beyond "It's a classic, it's by a Latin American author, and a lot of people consider it really good". So starting was an interesting experience. It kind of has some qualities that I associate with medieval and classic writing, in which lots of stuff is happening all at once and sometimes names are hard to keep track of and sometimes weird stuff happens and you're left going "????" but in the text nothing much is thought of it so you just kind of have to go along with it. I like that. Good thing too, because on Friday evening when I was coming home from work the traffic was so bad that I was stuck on the bus for two hours with nothing to do but read that novel, heh.

My submissions for the Whale Brothers fest are... not going so hot. I've got one about halfway drafted, but that's about it. It's kind of discouraging, but oh well. I'm sure I'll find the time for it somewhere. I do have ideas, and none of them are overly complicated, so it's manageable. I think. Though not even gonna lie, half the time I have no fucking clue what I'm doing when I write this pairing. Like, I can't figure out how I want to portray it, or something. Maybe that's why I hardly ever write it, I dunno.

I was going to write more but then I fell asleep and now I'm just sitting here staring at the screen trying to fugre out what I was going to say. Argh.

Well, my sinus augmentation surgery went well. I've mentioned having to get it done before, but basically, it's done to correct some issues related to getting a tooth replaced. They're prepping the area for the fake, basically.

I was kind of nervous, but it went well. Over and done with in an hour, and I was asleep the whole time, didn't feel a thing. And so far, I still feel pretty good! But I have no idea what it'll be like tomorrow. Hopefully not too bad.

If I am tomorrow the way that I am today, I'll probably just say "You know what, fuck it" and go downtown to enjoy myself. I need to pick up a card for mum anyway. And it'd be nice to run some errands and have lunch at the Japanese place. I'm sure they have plenty of things that are nice and soft and won't give me trouble when I eat them.

... Either that or I'll stay home doing laundry and playing Holiday Star all day. Reaaallly looking forward to playing that, because I want to poke around for Hatoful Boyfriend fic, but I'm not going to let myself do that until finishing the second game. I've been writing ficlets though... just short little things to try to test out character voices and see if I can find something that really, really sticks. So far I haven't had very much luck, but I'm going to keep trying.

It was actually a "prescription" given to me by a friend as a cure for my "bird flu". ;) 1 ficlet per day for a week. Well... I have an idea for today, but my medication is probably going to knock me out any minute now, so uhhh looks like I'll have to put that one off until tomorrow. But anyway, they're posted under the bird flu challenge tag in my fic archive.

Whoa, gettin' sleepy. Looks like it's bed time for me! ... Half an hour earlier than usual, ugh.

WOW so, I played the final story in Hatoful Boyfriend, and holy crap that was INTENSE. I'm glad that I left it until the weekend, because getting through everything took literally all day, and wow. It was very emotional. I cried a couple of times. I still feel as if I need to decompress from that experience.

Definitely going to be downloading and playing Holiday Star. That might be exactly what I need in order to relax next week.

... And after playing Hatoful, I pulled out my sketchbook for the first time in over a year and drew some fanart of my adorable nonsensical OTP. It was nice to do that, though I don't expect that I'll be doing it again any time soon. I actually really dislike drawing; it's colouring that I enjoy. So I don't do it often.

Though... birds are a lot less frustrating to draw than humans are, even if it can be hard to get the wings right, so maybe I'll try drawing cartoony birdies again. Maybe. If I get any ideas for anything that I want to draw RIGHT NOW.

I can't really figure out if the stuff that happens in route 11 is considered a spoiler or not. It's part of the "regular mode" game, but this route isn't available in the demo, and it only unlocks after a certain time. Well, I'll put my fic-related talk under a cut anyway, since it deals with that character.

( Not that it's a major thing anyway )

Anyway. Good times, good times. Highly unlikely to be writing fic in that fandom any time soon - not until I finish the second game and go through some of the supplementary material - but that doesn't matter. It's allllll good. Ah, it gives me so many happy feelings, though!

Prompts for the Whale Brothers fest go out soon, I think. Looking forward to receiving those, definitely. Hopefully I'll get something that will be easy to work with. The minimums are really short, so there's a good chance that I'll be able to get everything done just fine, but I won't know for sure until I get them and start working, I guess!

Recently started playing Hatoful Boyfriend again. Did part of it several months ago, but never really got around to playing more. Basically, it's a game were you date pigeons (No, seriously) and it's the very definition of "better than it sounds". This is partly because it's pretty clever, partly because it has great replay value, and partly because it does have a plot beyond the whole "let's date birds" gimmick (but I won't get into details because I wouldn't want to spoil anything). I really do recommend it; it might well be the best five bucks I've ever spent, and I'm definitely going to be getting the sequel game Holiday Star when I'm finished this one.

I've finished the main routes, but I haven't gotten around to starting the Big Final Route yet. From the sound of it, it's a lot longer than the regular routes, so I decided I'm definitely better off leaving it to the weekend. I might get up early on Saturday and try to complete it then, because I would love to do it all in one go.
Kind of itching to take a look at fanart and whatnot, but I'm definitely going to sit on my hands with this one until I'm finished both this game and the sequel, because I know that if I go looking for fannish things then I'll probably end up spoiled, and it's so much better when you go into it blind. OH WELL.

I kind of think that this might be a series that I wouldn't mind writing fic for, but we'll have to see. Sure, it's a little bit weird, but then again personified countries are weird too. If I did write something, it'd probably involve Nageki somehow - he's my favourite. And it'd probably be gen (with or without plot) because even though part of the premise is dating pigeons, I don't really have any pairings that really strike me much. (Well, there is one, but -- it would never work. ... Why do I always end up shipping crack?!)

Anyway. I hope that this weekend will be nice and relaxing. That talk I had with Aino last week (was it last week?) made me realize that I really do worry too much about constantly being occupied, like - if I'm not constantly doing something, then that is a problem that needs to be fixed. I understand where this issue comes from; there was a period of time back when I was sick that I had a tendency to spend hours and hours doing nothing but staring at the wall if I did not have anything that I absolutely needed to do. I think this excessive focus on doing all the things all the time might be a result of going overboard in an effort to correct that behaviour. Or at least partly. So this weekend I'm going to try not to push myself too much and not put so much effort into having fun. As long as the chores gets done, it's all good.

Next Friday I'll be heading down to Edmonton to get that sinus augmentation surgery. I know it'll be fine, but I'm a little nervous. (Though... more nervous about whether or not the insurance coverage will go through okay, I suppose. The procedure'll leave me feeling sore, but my wallet will be even more sore, even with part of it covered.)

Current Music: Hatoful Boyfriend - Nageki's ending theme

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