Welp, I've signed up to ficinabox. I'm not sure how that's gonna go with school starting but I figure if all I manage to write is 2k and I default on the rest, that's good enough for me! :D In addition, I've also updated my Generic Exchange Letter with some optional prompts. These are freeform tags I've requested in various exchange <3
And I present my longest completed fanfic yet: like phantom wings, a Meet You at the Blossom fic, Jin Xiaobao/Zongzheng Huai'en, for a total wordcount of 13289!
For justmarriedexchange, I wrote that which soars in the night sky for
SweetSorcery, an Attic - A. M. Burrage fic for the prompt 'Fake Marriage - Amnesia Makes Characters (Erroneously) Assume They’re Married' which I think is just delightful XD
And I received Moon Over Mayfair by SweetSorcery, a Biggles - W.E. Johns fic for the prompt 'Proposal - Love at First Sight; Proposes Immediately', an absolutely phenomenal fic that went right to my heart :DDD
For raremaleslashex I received I Gave it My Best but this Halo Don't Fit by
PyroAo which sadly I have not read yet but it's a Kon-El | Conner Kent/Jason Todd fic and I'm very excited!
I also wrote shoot your shot for infinity for palebluestings, a Wind Breaker fic, Sakura Haruka/Togame Jo.
an assortment of things
Aug. 10th, 2024 11:18 pmI signed up to fffx for the first time and this morning I got an email from modzilla (the event mod). The Fear(TM). It was fine! Just somebody with questions regarding one of my requests but still. I was not prepared, lol.
Anyway, I wasn't originally going to sign up, but I finished all my exchange fics back in June, which was very nice in July, but now I'm just kind of going 'but... but... fic... deadline... where?' all the time. Like, I've done (counting the ones I've finished but which are technically not over yet) like 12 exchanges so far this year and the break was nice, but now I'm bored.
A reminder to myself, fandomgiftbasket is still going, so do that too!
On that note, I have a mystery gift from fandomgiftbasket! I'm very excited, I requested like 8 different fandoms so no idea what it's gonna be. I also got a delightful All for the Game, Jean/Andrew/Neil fic for
rarepairexchange. I do feel bad because I've still not read either of my gifts from
fandom5k, but they're Long, and I just don't have the emotional wherewithal right now, sigh.
I started watching Meet You at the Blossom on Viki, a BL cdrama which I really like so far! But every other episode Stuff Happens and I have to write a fluffy fic to heal my heart before I can keep watching, so I've written two fics today and am working on the third while I work up the courage to watch episode six. (Stuff has Happened. Things have been done. Shit Is About To Go Down, I'm pretty sure.)
- Fic 1: leave with the memories
- Fic 2: carve the root from the tree branch
(Like, regarding fffx, I'm dubious about my ability to write a 10k fic, but I'm fairly sure I can do two 5k fics, so I plunged in headfirst, lmao.)
Anyway, I still need to write (check's notes) 8.6k words by midnight tomorrow to hit this week's writing goal, so please excuse me while I panic. (This post was definitely not a moment of procrastination, why would you... I mean... why-why-why... ehem, why would you think that?)
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Aug. 2nd, 2024 09:23 pm
The 10,000-word big bang for small fandoms is coming soon!
Author Sign-Ups Open Sept 1 | Artist Sign-Ups Open Nov 1
In other news, I posted an interest check for a Review-athon over on
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Hopefully, I'll get a sign-up post going in a week or so! :D
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Sentinel/Guide | Pygmalion | Law Enforcement |
Christmas/Winter Holiday | WILD CARD | Characters as Celebrities |
Ocean | Superhero | High School/College |
nice things :D
Jul. 21st, 2024 07:22 pma random list of nice things:
- I have a new nail-polish! I don't think I've ever had nails this pink before, and it is fabulous, I love it, would die for this color :D
- We went to the beach and I took two (2) dips in the water. It was very, very brown for some reason, but it was cool. I don't think I've been to a beach in years.
- I got into the university course I applied for this fall! It's at 50% speed, so I'll take two semesters what others could do in one, but I'm very excited. This is mostly a test to see if I can study at all at this level and it's fine if I fail or have to quit; I'm really not sure if I can :( But I do wanna try! :D
- That said, the course books are so expensive :((( It's gonna be like 400 bucks just for the first semester.
- I think I didn't read a page (but fanfiction) for the first two weeks of July, but lately I've been managing to read some. I read Guards! Guards by Terry Pratchett on the flight out, and had a delightful time! :D
- I got two (2!!!) gifts for
fandom5k, an OW fic (Male Iron Age Warrior/Male Stranded Space Traveller) and a DCU fic (Jason Todd/Slade Wilson) and I'm so thrilled. I haven't read them yet, but my excitement levels are Up™
- I had a good time sorting out my Multifandom Exchanges Sorted by Minimum Number of Mandatory Distinct Fandom Requests list :D
- Guess who has an invite code to cfaarchive.org free for a good home? That's right; this guy! :D "The CFAA is a fan-created, fan-run, noncommercial archive for fanworks based around comicbooks or comic-adjacent animation." It runs on AO3's code, so there shouldn't be too steep a learning curve (but the tagging rules are very much not the same as AO3's, so check those out before you post.) The invite code is first come, first served, so let me know if you want it :D Steff (the owner) is looking for both readers and writers to join, so there's no pressure that you have to create something and post stuff just because you got in :DDD
- Likewise, I think I do have an invite code to Ad Astra, Steff's Star Trek fanfiction archive that also runs on AO3's code.
- CFAA has opened the registration queue now, and are sending out 1 invitation a day, if you'd rather go that way :D
Apparently, when I'm not writing, I get up to stuff like this instead 🧐 This is based on my Big List of Gift Exchanges, but is, as you can see, actually sorted somewhat sensibly. This list also only includes multifandom exchanges, not single-fandom exchanges.
Keys:
- * = I feel like I remember seeing somewhere that this exchange won't run this year, but don't know where so it's still listed in order. Hopefully I'm wrong! :D
- NF = not found (i.e. I did not find the information I was looking for)
- Aprox Dates = equal the last known dates listed on the exchange's official sites and may not be accurate. Some of them are from 2023, and some from 2024. In addition, the end dates are based on when works/assignments are due (the deadlines), not when the exchange officially is meant to end, i.e. before works/creators are revealed. It's also not uncommon for the end of exchanges to be delayed due to waiting for pinch hits to come in.
- Exchanges After Dark Discord Server.
flashexchanges is a comm where anybody can host or advertise a flash exchange (exchanges with really short creation periods, like only a week or so, and with low minimum requirements.)
deusexchange is a comm for flash exchanges run by deusexmod.
fandomcalendar is a comm for advertising any kind of fandom event.
pinchhits is a comm where fandom event organizers can advertise pinch hits.
Here's a brief list of flash exchanges that have been run previously on flashexchanges; Mind the Gap Flash Ex, Grief/Mourning Flash, Art Heist Flash Ex, Ficlet Flash Ex, Egghunt Flash, Mommy Kink Flash Ex, Transformative Works Flash, Whump Flash, Tit for Tat Flash Ex, Misinterpreted Tropes Flash, etc.
Here's a brief list of flash exchanges that have been run previously on deusexchange; Murder Mayhem Flash Ex, Money Bags Flash Ex
i'm calling it
Jul. 19th, 2024 09:42 pmExecutive decision made; this week is 'Let's take a break' week. Meaning no writing at all. I mean, it's Friday (eve) and I've written like 100 words this week; the writing is on the wall, so let's read it and move on.
This week has been a lot.
The travel, the meeting with relatives, the outings—and it's only going to be more. We're going to the beach and then somebody (read: me) mentioned mini-golf so maybe we're gonna do that too, and then it's gonna be more travel back... My social battery is out. I think all my writing battery went there instead. And now that's out, too.
I'm designating this an Official Break Week™, because there is a really different feel to trying to write and failing vs not being allowed to write at all. The second one is a lot more fun! So I'm doing that instead. And now I'm going to relax, and read some books, and maybe comment on some fics I've not had the spoons for so far.
Like, I've already written 28k words this month. I'll write more next week; the game will (hopefully) be on again, I'm just hitting pause right now. And I'm thinking I should probably start doing that regularly, on schedule; every couple of months there'll be an Official Break Week™, planned for and known in advance so it doesn't hit me without warning. Because I really like having a known number of words I'm gonna write every week; the routine and certainty works really well for my brain, and I don't wanna give that up.
Anyway. So yeah. That what's it looks like right now. We'll see how next week goes, and if I need to reevaluate something.
(Also, thing that occurred to me. I overshot my weekly goal last week by a lot more than usual. Normally I don't go more than like 100 words over the limit, but last week I wrote 14.4k (very nearly 14.5k) words, and like... hmmm... I wonder... if that was too big a swing.)
more exchanges i've found since i made my big (very obviously while not procrastinating anything at all, obviously) list of exchanges:
storkswap (Mar - May),
the_mane_event (Feb - Apr),
the_librarians_exchange (Feb - Apr),
kinkluckydip,
saturdaymorningex (Apr - Jul),
kitchensinkbingo (May - Jun),
summerlovingex (Apr - Sep),
book_club_exchange,
bitesizedfandomsex,
let_me_introduce_you,
epidemfic (Jun - Aug),
classicfilmex (Jul - Sep)
these are added in the between the two tables, but i thought i would make a proper note of it here too :D
...turns out there are a lot of exchanges out there in the big, wide world.
fandom gift basket
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Fandoms:
- Leverage (US TV)
- The Attic - A.M. Burrage
- The Expanse (TV)
- Modao Zushi - Moxiang Tongxiu
- All for the Game - Nora Sakavic
- Black Adam (Movie 2022)
- Batman
- Psychopath Diary (TV)
- Strangers from Hell (TV)
- Malevolent (Podcast)
- Hello From The Hallowoods (Podcast)
signal boosting
Jul. 3rd, 2024 10:20 pm- squidge.org (squidgeworld.org) is doing a fundraiser again, to cover costs for the next year. They are currently at 62% of their goal.
- Duck Prints Press' Pride Bundle sale to raise money for Rainbow Railroad ends on Jul 8! They also have a Kickstarter up for Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica.
- 4thewords (gamified writing brower game) is changing their pricing structure starting Aug 1. Here's the announcement and here's the FAQ about the changes. Not sure if anyone here's using it, but just in case. (I've done a 4TW promo post before, if you're curious. It's not accurate to the new subscription changes.)
Thank you to axolotls for pointing out the 4thewords links requires login. Here's the graphic they're using for the subscription changes:
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it turns out that june did, in fact, exist
Jul. 1st, 2024 08:57 pmAnyway, writing stats!
I wrote, in total, 59k words in Jun! That's a record. (It's only that high because there were five complete weeks in Jun, so I did in fact write 13k every week for five weeks in a row, instead of four. I expect I'll write less in July; maybe 55k or something like that?)
In June I also set a new 'most words written in a single day' record and that record is now at 6.4k words. That sure was a Sunday, whew. Overall, my yearly word-count is now at 277k words, meaning it is like 20k words above what
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I did, as you might have guessed, hit my weekly goal in June. This means moving onward; in July my goal will be 14k words every week. Not gonna lie, this worries me. Not just because that is *a lot of words* but because I'm going away visiting family in July and I don't know how the writing will go. At this point, I've embedded this schedule deep enough into my neurodivergent brain that the idea of purposefully missing/lowering my goal is anathema and kind of nauseating, so I don't really know what I'm going to do.
The only strategy I've come up with so far is; try to write the whole goal in like the first four day of the week so it's out of the way and I don't have to worry about it. That's like... well, I'm not going to do the math because I never do, it's less stressful when I don't have to know what daily average or whatever I need to hit. I just write how I feel like and panic on Sundays when I realize I should have written a lot more.
Anyway, I think 14k by the like, Thursday that week *should* be doable.
This ties into interesting data I am keeping an eye on; in June, I once more only wrote 23 days. That number is really stubborn. I'm still not writing on more days, I'm only writing more *on the days I'm writing.* 23 out of 30 days should mean that I could potentially do 14k words in 4 days...
Potentially.
exchange fics
Jun. 25th, 2024 08:32 amFor bitesizedfandomsex I wrote to hurl oneself up a mountain
for
Tarlan, a 阴阳师 | Yīn Yáng Shī | The Yin-yang Master (Movies - Guo Jingming) Boya/Qingming fic.
And I received domestic sourcing by ropememory, a Devil Wears Prada (2006) Andrea/Emily fic.
And for hurtcomfortex I wrote like ashes float away
for
psychomachia, a CBS Mystery Radio Theater (The Deadly Hour - Eric) George/Martin fic.
I received The Fiend and The Flame
by SweetSorcery, an Attic (A.M. Burrage) Derek/Stanley fic.
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Jun. 12th, 2024 08:50 pmYeah, so I accidentally managed to mark all the stuff in my inbox as read, and accidentally deleted some of it. Again. I have lost track of everything I intended to reply to :(
Anyway, my reading roundup for May is up on booknook; I read 13 books in May. Wild. I slowed down significantly in the end of May and still haven't picked up speed in my reading again, though, so I doubt I'll get anywhere near that number in June. There were some books I really liked in May; I don't remember which, because my memory sucks, but presumably I say so in the reviews, LOL.
I also ended up signing up for justmarriedexchange again. It was my first ever exchange and I only have bad memories from it, but I overcame it thanks to
sweetsorcery getting me hyped about it. There are some very fun free-form tags in the exchange, is all I'm saying.
And I probably approached it all wrong on my last go-around, so I'm willing to give it another shot! (I really should have just defaulted, instead of carrying onward. Sigh.)
So at some point, mostly because the idea was funny, I submitted the prompt Biggles Bachelor(ette) AU on smallfandomfest (and I stand by that it's funny) and so let me babble for a moment because I'm never writing this but maybe I can get it out of my head.
So I wouldn't want it to be a modern AU, but consider; some random (queer, just for the hell of it) dude in the Biggles'verse inherits, as a surprise, a shit-ton of money, and also wins a shit-ton of money at the lottery at the same time. Double score! What to do with the money? Get a whole Bachelor(ette) production going, of course. Maybe over the radio, maybe over early TV, whatever fits.
For one reason or another (maybe somebody thinks it's a scheme of some sort, or Enemy Action) Biggles (or somebody else!) must infiltrate this whole production. Maybe it is elaborate Enemy Action, a most daring scheme, and Erich is for some reason the Bachelor. So of course Biggles has gotta go in as a contestant. You know. For the mission.
Obviously.
Cue shenanigans. Maybe crossdressing shenanigans. Maybe Biggles isn't even trying to look like a woman, but nobody's got the guts to ask him what he's doing there and so it just keeps escalating. Maybe there's some gay chicken in there. Some identity shenanigans; maybe Biggles thinks he is fooling Erich and is having a crisis of conscience (but Erich totally knows.)
And... I don't really know the rest, LOL. I imagine some cracky fun times, perhaps some crack treated seriously; maybe there's a date and Biggles and Erich keep trying to get the other to reveal something and it just keeps getting more ridiculous. And some angst, perhaps? Maybe Biggles goes quietly mad watching all these women tossing themselves at Erich and gets like. Jealous, LOL. Maybe some hurt/comfort, too, because that's fun.
Anyway, yeah, there it is. Now let's see if tossing this out like this will free up some brain-space \o/
here there be fics
Jun. 5th, 2024 05:25 pmidproquo has revealed! I wrote an SGA (John/Todd) fic for
shetiger and received a MDZS fic (Qiren/Ruohan) by
humancorn that I adore. I've also written two fics so far for
smallfandomfest; one Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun fic and one for Wellington Paranormal (TV). I only need to write one more fic for
smallfandomfest to get a badge :D (And I want one! I haven't managed in the previous two rounds I've participated in, but maybe third time's the charm?)
I also managed to get in my assignments for both hurtcomfortex and
bitesizedfandomsex on time, whew. And I've finally gotten around to checking in for
fandom5k, so that's cleared (now to actually write the fic though, LOL.)
I think in June I only have deadlines for fandom5k and
unconventionalcourtship. ...I still haven't picked a summary for UC, OTL.