Disorganized Things

Actual letter forthcoming soon, hopefully by end of day (EST) on 1/9/24 at the latest!

This is getting written very behind schedule so I'M STILL DOING THIS WRITE-UP, it'll just be as basic as I can make it. Here we go.
( Onward with cooking! )

So, we've just about hit the NBA basketball pre-season -- the first pre-season Warriors game is tomorrow!

I wasn't really planning to blog about basketball. I've been lurking on the Warriors subreddit and listening to the Dubs Talk podcast for my Warriors news, so I've been pretty well abreast of training camp updates and roster/trade murmurings, but I don't generally have a lot to say about basketball. I'm actually not a huge strategy person with this; I understand when other people talk about strategic choices with lineups, positions, minutes, tactics, what have you, but I don't really speculate on my own.

But I'm on the east coast and like half the games start at 10pm and finish up around 1am. That's not tenable with an 8-4 work schedule. Not to mention, I pay for the NBA pass because I don't pay for cable (and couldn't watch the many local broadcast games without annoying pirating acrobatics otherwise), which means I can't watch games on national TV until the blackout period is over. Last year, I fell behind watching games but I'm hoping this year I won't watch anything later than next day (or three days later, if some games still have the long blackout...).

And basically, because I'm not using twitter, I might do a little blog entry after each game just so I can see that I'm catching them, lol. And cry unhappily if anything especially egregious happens. So stay tuned for basketball updates, I suppose!!

Welcome to the inaugural entry of my foray into being a half-assed cooking blogger! Hopefully it'll be fun. I genuinely really like batch cooking with Yrin every weekend, the "playing Chopped at home" experience is genuinely a delight.

( So without further ado... )

It's the time of year where all my artist friends do the twelve-slot summary showcasing art they've made each month and I decided this year, I did want to do it for writing, since I actually have something to offer from every month this year.

( So this is my 2022 writing year in review )
Annnnnnd that's the round-up! This year, I posted more than 60k words to AO3 (that may actually become "more than 70k" upon final count), which is more work than I've finished in any year since 2016. That's really exciting to me! This was a rough year in sooooo many ways but I am really glad that I made some things I'm really proud of in spite of that.

Hello, mystery creator!

Thank you for writing for me! (And, potentially, for being patient while I finalized this letter, haha.) Nonconathon is one of my all-time favorite exchanges and, no matter which fandom or pairing we matched on, I am very excited to see what you choose to create from my requests.

( General Information )
( Table of Contents )
( Pokemon: Marnie & Piers )
( Pokemon: Leon & Hop )
( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Kira & Dukat )
( Original Other/Multi: College Student & Professor )
( Original M/F: Siblings & Catfishing )
( Original M/F: Hands-On Sex Education )
( Original F/M: Young Ladies & Their Handlers )
( Original F/F: Mermaid & Aquarist )
( Original F/F: Body Horror, Sleep Paralysis Demon Edition )
( Original Other/Multi: Body Horror, Monster Doppelganger Edition )

Hello, mystery creator!

Thank you so much for writing for me! Nonconathon is one of my all-time favorite exchanges and I always wind up with a wide variety of ship requests and prompt ideas. I'm very excited to see what you will choose to make for me off these ships and tags!

( General Information )
( Table of Contents )
( Original Other/Multi: Multi-Layered Identity Porn )
( Original M/M: Realistic Settings )
( Original M/M: Selfcest & Identity Porn )
( Original M/F: Alien & Actress )
( Original F/M: Young Women Turning Tables )
( Original F/M: Gold-Digger & Step-Son )
( Original F/M: Older Women, Underage Boys )
( Original F/F: Murder Dirty-Talk )
( Original F/F: Realistic Settings )
( Original F/F: Fantasy & Sci-Fi Settings )

As previously mentioned, I bought Fire Emblem: Three Houses! Between work and moving I haven't had a lot of time to play (so there shouldn't be very many spoilers here by virtue of, I don't know them) but ahhhhhh I am enjoying the game a lot. This is the most fun I've had with a Fire Emblem game in a really long time and I feel super stoked about it.

I still don't want anyone to talk to me because I don't want spoilers or bias when I've only played through six chapters but I also! Want to talk about Fire Emblem!! So I'm going to yell into the dreamwidth void a little.

( Responses are welcome just pls be careful with plot spoilers )

I wrote part of an entry back on June 12th and it has just been sitting in my drafts ever since then, unfinished, because by the time I planned to finish it enough time had passed to make it kind of obsolete. And by now WAY MORE TIME has passed and it's even MORE obsolete but I don't want to delete it so I'm just gonna... Shove it up in here.

I wrote bits about driving, commissions, writing, and part of Yrin's visit following memorial day weekend.

( Those bits are under here )

As a follow-up on those bits, I've driven a lot more (and well more on highways) and I'm feeling pretty good about driving at this point. I'm still a new driver and I'm still working on doing things Better and More Smoothly but I'm like... Passably competent! I drove Psiten somewhere and didn't freak them out! It's good.

I am postponing commissions until after I move. I didn't communicate this very well to any of my friends, but I also didn't get past initial inquiries so probably that's okay. I'm gonna shoot everyone I asked a "hey will you still be taking comms in October?" kind of message and hopefully once the move is done and I'm not living in fear of unexpected extra moving expenses, I can buy anthropomorphized car art.

I never did finish my nonconathon fic to my satisfaction. My original plan was very ambitious and like a dozen scenes and probably would have been between 12k and 15k words. That proved to be too much for me. I am happy with what I wrote and it does read as a complete fic, I'm just sad anyway that I cut off the slow Stockholm slide and the actual wedding of my MC to his deity.

I want to get back to writing more original stuff but I haven't figured out what to work on. I have various projects I have bits of planning for, but nothing where I finished the outline and am still happy with the shape of what I planned out. I probably won't work on anything until after I move, although maybe I will have some downtime in the chunk between my last day of work and my actual move.

And that's it for old updates!

Hello dreamwidth friends! I had a very exciting and social weekend, so I want to talk about that. I'm trying to cram in as much DC-area socializing as possible before I move to Boston at the end of August and that sure is going.

( Sooooo here's my weekend report )