Ren the Ghost

inbox

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:28:24 GMT

i deleted everything in my inbox. i had over 1800 things in there and it was stressing me out. i tried to get the energy to sort through them, but i never got further than that. so if there was anything in there i intended to reply to, it has now been lost :( hopefully this will make me feel better, though.

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:(

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:31:00 GMT

(some links go to PF, because i wrote this post there and am cross-posting)

well, i'm bummed.

so you know how last year i participated in a publishing challenge and actually published (!) my first book (!!) thanks to it? well, it's a yearly event and i was really, really exciting to give it a go again. i had the signup date marked on my calendar and everything!

and now the mods have announced that they'll be using generative AI art covers this year.

like, good on them for announcing this a few months before the event. i'm glad they're transparent about this. but i am also bitterly disappointed, and i get more and more disappointed the more i think about. i guess i shouldn't be surprised: the mod responsible for making the covers is fully onboard with using AI art for book covers.
they're still also going to do the full roster of book covers using stock art so people can choose not to get the AI art, they've said. that's like 100 covers, or possibly 120? i'm a bit confused.

for clarity, the event works like this:

100 people signup, and once signups close, a ranking spreadsheet is sent out and a site goes up with all the covers (at least 100, so everyone gets one) available. you rank the covers (ideally up to like 30 of them) and you'll be assigned one of the covers by the mods. you then must create a story based on that cover and publish it before the event deadline, or the cover rights revert to the organizers. it's an anon event, too, so you must use the pen name already on the cover (though you can change between a masc, fem name or initials) and you can not reveal who you really are until the event is fully over. it's also a no-spend event, so you're not allowed to spend money on anything. paid marketing graphics, paid beta readers, paid services etc is off the table. this is to give everyone in the challenge the same starting point.

up until this year, they used only stock art for the covers. mainly grandfailure, who is of course an amazing artist.

they've stated the reason for this shift as being because they're running out of grandfailure's stock art (120 covers a year (erring on the side of caution) * 5 years? 6 years? (the event has been running for a while) = 720 stock arts. grandfailure has like 2k images on shutterstock, though, so i think they're overreacting a bit too this.) and they don't trust other stock art because there's so much AI art on all those sites now anyway. so they might as well make the AI art themselves and they'll be sure which is AI!

which like. yeah. that's a stance you can take, i guess.

they also reuse a lot of the covers, though. like, last year only 38 or something of the 100 participants finished the challenge, and consequently i assume that like 70 of those covers should have gone back into the pool? that's how i understood it, and i know some of the covers have been in that pool for years. idk, maybe it's just me, but i think they're being a little bit pessimistic here about how quickly they'll go through grandfailure's art. idk, maybe they're combining images more than i thought? maybe they're discarding some covers? i truly don't know.

they keep saying in the discord server that they're open to alternatives, but every alternative presented gets rejected. like, it's very clear it's not open for debate this year. which, they can do that! it's their event! freedom and all that. but the tone is very defensive to me, and they definitly feel like they're trying to die on this hill.

they're going to make 100 stock art covers for this year, plus presumably 100 AI art covers. that's a lot of work if they're not a-okay with AI art.

so. i'm bummed.

i won't participate this year. i'm not okay with my writing being associated with AI art and more than that, an AI art positive event. even if i personally got a stock art cover, it'd still feel like i'm getting poisoned by association. i don't want to have my name connected to something like that. i don't want to support the authors that get the AI art covers, i don't want to hype an event that uses it, and i don't want to contribute to the prolification of AI art used for book covers in general.

i'll stick around in the discord server because i'm really, really curious how this will play out. last year, they got 100 signups within a single day. there's been quite a lot of people in the server announcing they won't participate due to the pro AI-policy being enacted, so i'm incredibly curious to see how many signups they get this year, and how quickly they'll hit 100. it seems like they don't think this will majorly effect the event, even if a lot of people leave. and it seems like they think there's quite a lot of people in server that are pro AI, more than there are people who are anti.

it's very 'well, they don't say they support generative AI-useage, but that's just because it's so frowned upon right now. i'm sure they're still here!'

while some people have left, and told the mods they're disappointed and won't support this etc, quite a few people have also stated their support. and that they'll still participate. some of them said they'll just only rank the stock art and veto AI art (which the mods have said they'll consider that being an option), but imo that's weak fence-sitting.

i'm very bummed, and very bitter. and just honestly kind of sad.

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Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:32:04 GMT

and now i have defaulted on yuletide too, ugh

in terms of exchanges... this hasn't been the best year for me (fulfilling my part, not the gifts. the gifts have been awesome)

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Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:49:17 GMT

Somebody gave 6 months paid account time to booknook. I'm not really sure why, maybe they want to do polls on it? Regardless, thanks! <3

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quillpunk's Holiday Wishlist 2026

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:51:22 GMT

Okay! Holiday wishlist time! (Somehow, it is already that time of the year again, OTL.)

Fandom Tree gifts. Find my Fandom Tree here. I'm asking for fics, icons, art and podfic. The fandoms I've requested are f:9-1-1/9-1-1 lone star, f:abo desire, f:all for the game, f:black adam, f:collector movies, f:dc comics, f:devil wears prada, f:dune, f:even if i fall into a ghost story i st, f:eye candy, f:meet you at the blossom, f:outlast, f:strangers from hell, f:the attic. Honestly, any of my requested mediums would be so fun! :D

Comments on my fics. I write a lot of rare pairs/small fandoms, so the comments are usually pretty slim pickings. Any and all comments would be deeply appreciated! <3

Dreamwidth Points/Paid Account Time. My Paid Account expires at the end of January, and not gonna lie, I've been over budget pretty much every month this year. I love my icons (some of which are fabulous gifts that I adore) and don't want to lose access to them. So even the minimum amount of points/months would be absolutely amazing!

Bookbinding material. As you might be aware, I've been getting into bookbinding this year! (I'm actually writing this post while taking a break from working on my fanbinding of The Gold-gilt Path by khthonicEcho, which is my first fanbind that isn't a simple single-signature pamphlet.)

Problem, there is so much stuff to acquire.

I've gotten the bare basics (this is part of the reason I broke my budget so much, ngl), but things like cool endpapers, pretty paper for the exterior of the book, and of course, bookbinding cloth, are all on the wishlist. (Fair warning, as I'm very new to this, I can't attest to the quality of any of them, or that it is precisely what I need. Especially with the papers, I'm not certain the ideal thickness for the different uses. So I'm just kind of muddling ahead.)

I've been having so much fun with bookbinding. I have a whole spreadsheet of fics I wanna bind! So you can find my bookbinding material wishlist here on Throne. Material for bookbinding would be so delightful! (Throne is basically an amazon wishlist, but more private so it doesn't give away my address. I'm very Internet Stranger Danger paranoid, which is the big reason I'm not posting this to holiday_wishes.)

Books. Obviously, there's books on the wishlist. This list is also on Throne! I think if there weren't any books on it, I'd be dead. Or in a coma. I'm always going to want books 😅

There are a couple of different books on the list, but they're all gay. They're also all books that are on my 'to buy' list (which is going to take forever to make my way down, lmao), so I'm very interested in all of them. I've read all the authors before, so I'm reasonably certain I'll enjoy them :D

The other reason my budget took a nosedive this year is because, when Amazon messed with the ability to download ebooks, I made the decision to no longer buy anything on kindle. However, I read a lot of indie MM romances from authors that only publish on Amazon. (KU isn't available in my region.)

I get why they do this, but it does mean I'm forced to shell out potentially significantly more money for a paperback, as opposed to if I just got the ebook. I don't necessarily regret this, though I did also have to buy a new bookcase this year. ...That's probably not related.

Anyway! So books. I love books, I love gay books, and I have a deeply profound urge to Own All the Self-Indulgent Gay Romance Books(TM). That's probably not very realistic unless I suddenly become immortal, but one can always hope! So anything from my book wishlist would be so lovely. <333

And... I think that might be everything. Is that everything? DW Points, fandomtrees, books, bookbinding material, comments...

Oooooh, okay, I thought of one more! (It's low-key funny I almost forgot this, it's been slipping my mind so much, lmao.)

Buy/gift my book to somebody. You might be aware that I wrote and published a book this summer. It's only available as an ebook on Amazon/in KU, which is like the exact same thing I just complained about. In my defense... I didn't have the energy to publish it wide, so I just stuck it in KDP Select, and now that it's there I don't have the energy to mess with that. I'll try to put up a paperback at some point --- I've honestly just been forgetting it, lol. (Also in my defense, I've just been forgetting a lot of things this year.)

And that really is everything! I'm pretty sure, anyway. I'm gonna return to my bookbinding now. I'm trying to cut a cardboard for the cover, and oh boy, it is so hard with just a cutting knife. But I shall prevail!

Happy Holidays, everyone! <3

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Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:19:35 GMT

well, i defaulted on fffx. i've just been unsure about my assignment from the very beginning. like i got it and was like, oops. maybe i should have actually checked the requests in the fandom before i offered it. orz. i totally missed the whole swap thing too, my brain was just full of fog. and with the check-in, yeah. i defualted. i feel bad about it, but it is what it is. at least i did manage to turn in something for ficinabox.

also, i'm working on putting together my holiday wishlist. i still don't have the courage to post it on holiday_wishes, so i guess this is a tradition at this point. it'll be much the same as usual, but also! i'm planning to add some bookbinding stuff to my throne wishlist (it's basically just an amazon wishlist, but more private so it doesn't give away my address). i've been getting really into it: i just finished a notebook in my bookbinding workshop class (separate post coming about that at... some point. orz.) and i definitely want to keep going with this. i'm gonna bind so many fanfics, just watch me.

but alas, i've also spent like 400 bucks on bookbinding tools and such this year (tbf, like a third of that was the laser printer) and i don't think i can afford to keep throwing so much money at it. but the pretty cloth...... temptation, i tell you. so much temptation.

anyway, more proper posts about the aforementioned hopefully coming soon(ish) <3

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fandomtrees!

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:37:47 GMT

i signed up to fandomtrees <3 here's my tree!

fandoms: f:9-1-1/9-1-1 lone star, f:abo desire, f:all for the game, f:black adam, f:collector movies, f:dc comics, f:devil wears prada, f:dune, f:even if i fall into a ghost story i st, f:eye candy, f:meet you at the blossom, f:outlast, f:strangers from hell, f:the attic

mediums: m:art, m:fic, m:icons, m:podfic

(yes, i just copypasted the tags. i requested so many fandoms it's just easier. lol.)

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general updates

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 15:47:35 GMT

this year has just been health issue after health issue and it's been exhausting. i genuinely don't know how i managed to publish a book in the midst of it all, lol.

in the midst of the other issues, at some point over the last few months, i fell out of the habit of taking my vit D supplement, and it built and built and built until i was so exhausted i could barely get out of bed, much less focus, or be social, or remember that DW exists, etc. but i'm taking it daily again, and things are (slowly, mind you) improving.

i managed to get in part of my assignment for ficinabox, and defaulted on the rest. i'm super pleased with it: i feel like all i've done concerning exchanges this year is just default on them. and i still haven't read any of the gifts i've gotten since before battleshipex. so if you're waiting on a comment from me, rest assured: i have simply not read/listened to it yet. i sure do hope i can get to that at... some point in a reasonable time frame, but honestly i can't promise anything. (i should really double-check which exchanges are comment mandatory, so i don't mess things up even more for myself orz)

i am signed up for fffx and yuletide_admin, too. not sure how that's gonna go, but so far i haven't thrown in the towel.

also, in a fit of procrastination, i made a Compendium of Big Bangs on 10001 Nightmares Party. then i had the brilliant idea of browsing the collection page on AO3, filtering for 'big bang', and i got another 100+ bangs to add to the list, lol. so that's something to look forward to! (genuinely, it's fun!)

i've been really, really wanting to do a big bang. the only one i've ever done is smallfandombang, which was delightful but limited to small fandoms and had a minimum of 10k words. (i was seriously considering signing back up this year but then i blinked and two months had gone by and i'm still kind of sad about that.) and i want to do a BIG bang. like MEGA big. i'm talking like 50k+ words minimum word requirement. or at the very least, a 30k words requirement. i want to be pushed to write and actually complete a longfic.

also, i think it says something about my state of mind and health that i've only recently realized that i at some point fully forgot about tinyfandomflash. the last prompt was almost a year ago. sigh. i do feel bad about that. the fact that booknook is managing to keep up the RIP Wednesday posts without me is a blessing, and i'm so grateful people are comfortable stepping up. i wouldn't want that to fall to the wayside <3

in the vein of 'i'm slowly, slowly, oh so slowly starting to feel like a Real Person again', i've dropped a bunch of new prompts on smallfandomfest. prompting is open for like another week, if you've got something for it. there are 7k+ total prompts in the bag to pick from now! i am both in awe and delighted by that.

when it comes to DW, i have 2k+ unread items in my inbox. i think i need to stop tracking comments on booknook—i do so for moderation purposes, but honestly i'm not able to handle the deluge right now. like, i'm super happy it's so active and the comments are thriving! but i can't keep up, and then it just keeps building...

so if there are any problems with booknook, anything that requires mod/admin action, (harassment, rule breaking, etc.) you'll need to PM me, or i will likely not spot it.

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promo: small fandom fest

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 18:41:21 GMT

Prompting is open for smallfandomfest round 38! :D SFFest is for fandoms with <2000 fics on AO3, and you can find the rules here.

Fest Schedule/Important Dates

Nov 1 - Nov 21: Prompt Submission Period
Nov 23: Prompts Available for Claiming & Posting Period Opens
Nov 23 - Jan 31: Posting Period
Jan 31: Final Day of Posting Period

Complete List of Prompts

Related, smallfandomfest is also hosting a Pimp Your Small Fandom event!

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Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:47:59 GMT

Happy Halloween! 🎃🎃🎃

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presenting: my first book!

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 23:22:10 GMT

(the anon period is over and so i, with pride and befuddlement, present my first published book!)

Desiccated Empire

Once, there was a vast Empire, capable of controlling nature itself.

Josvarh’s first cargo run goes catastrophically wrong when giant tentacles tear their airship right out of the sky, sending it crashing into the desert. He and Captain are forced aground, where they’re found by a mysterious stranger speaking an unknown language. ‘Chad’ is from no place Jos knows, but inordinately pleased to meet them—even with the language barrier.

Now, there is only sand.

The town at the edge of the desert lies abandoned, with no clues as to its fate. Their ship is lost, dragged into the desert by the mysterious tentacles. And in the night comes another monster: a spear-wielder of great skill and relentless attacks. Driven into the sands, they’re forced to fight for their lives as they seek shelter underground, dogged by unnatural monsters.

And what once was lost shall be found.

no romance
111 page novella
ebook on amazon/available in kindle unlimited
part of a multi-author writing/publishing challenge

😍 purchase link 😘 storygraph 🥰 goodreads

_{(please note that it was automatically attributed to another Devin Moore on goodreads)}_{Edit: i forgot! i scheduled Desiccated Empire as a kindle countdown deal between nov 1-8 (i think)
fully slipped my mind, i was very sleepy when i did that orz}

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bookbinding adventures contiunes

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:12:31 GMT

Second meetup of the bookbinding for beginners workshop is over. Only four left *cries*

I had a great time. This week I've been plagued by a migraine which honestly haunted me today too, so I was really worried I wouldn't be able to go. I popped painkillers right before I ran out, lol. Anyway, I made it! Last time (which has already been a month, how) we folded A4 papers into signatures, two sheets into quarto size. I did 12 signatures this way.

We cut off the end with guillotines (which was terrifying!) and then we strapped it together into a block and sawed the holes. Which I find delightful. Like, I've been wondering how you get the holes into the same place, and you saw. That's awesome. I ended up a bit behind last time, because I'm a detail-oriented perfectionist, so I was the only one that didn't manage to file down the three middle holes for the thicker yarn. But I caught up today!

So today I finished filing the holes. Then we strung up three course threads in a big frame, and we fitted the three threads into the the three center holes. We sowed them into the signature as we sowed it all together. (I don't know the terms for any of this stuff in English, this workshop is not in English, lol.)

Anyway, we sowed it at all together, then we glued down the ends of the big thread onto the front ends, I guess they might be called? And now they're in blocks to dry until the next appointment. Which is a while yet *cries again*

I think we might be gluing the spine or something next time? Really don't know. I've done the mature thing and not looked up anything about bookbinding for the workshop. You know, so I can go into it with no preconceptions, and just enjoy the process :)

Like, I don't know, it's really fun? I've been wanting to get into it properly for a long time (shout-out to Renegade Bookbinding Guild) but there's so many moving pieces to get... And to be honest, it's been really fun learning in a group, even though I'm too socially anxious to speak to anyone. But also, this is a Guild that's holding these, and they've got all these cool old equipment! Very cool! Scary! But cool!

I'm super excited for the rest of the workshop.

One day, I'll have my favorite fanfics on the shelf! <3

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i did it!!!! i published a book!!!!!

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 23:29:24 GMT

i've spent the summer participating in a writing challenge: the Inkfort Press Publishing Derby. the gist: fully write, edit and publish a book in <4 months. it's a anon challenge, so you can't share anything on main; you're assigned a premade cover and pen name, and then you just go go go! (limited to 100 participants)

(i'm fairly sure i mentioned this at some point, but that's the gist of it)

and i did it!!!!

my book, along with dozens of others, are live! it's still in the anon period (i believe till the end of October) so i can't tell you which one's mine. but! here's a list of all of them!! (lots of fantasy, scifi, adventures, etc.)

https://2025pubderby.carrd.co/

so cool!!! i have a book in there somewhere!!!! :blobcatblush:

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bookbinding <3

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 18:00:06 GMT

Bookbinding is such a cool thing, and fanbinding especially so! I've been wanting to get into it for a long time, but there are so many moving parts and I've just been procrastinating... so much. But I finally went to a bookbinding for beginner's workshop! It was awesome! XD

It was only the first of several occasions, so we only got partway through. We got to the part of making the holes in the signatures (we SAWED them. I've been wondering you you do that, and it's a SAW, lol, that's fabulous) but the next one isn't for like a month (cry). I've also gotten OurHands' bookbinding kit, which I've not used yet, but it includes a instruction book with 3 different sewing methods.

And I finally got my grubby paws on a laser printer, so baby, we're in business.

I've got a little booklet now of a fic I adore :) The first attempt, I folded it wrong (quarto) and the middle sheet got all out of order. That could probably have been avoided if I used page numbers, lol. But it was only a first attempt, and I was using normal sewing thread to practice the technique, so I'm not fussed.

For the second attempt, I think I got the fold right and I used waxed thread, which looks very cool. Also darker cream paper, because I can't read on bright white paper without getting a headache. (A depressing amount of self-published prose fiction books use white paper instead of cream, which always gets me down. Especially now that I've moved away from Kindle and am only getting paperbacks of such books on Amazon.)

I'm really pleased! <3 So far I can only do booklets, but there are lots of short fics I'd love to have in my hands, and I'm excited to explore options for formatting. There's a few things I want to adjust for the next try, but I'm having lots of fun! I sort of get how to use bookbinder.js, too!

Next month, I'm definitively going to burn more money on tools, lol. (My poor budget.)

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Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:10:43 GMT

i've signed up to ficinabox and fffx. also, smallfandombang round 15 is open for author sign ups, and i'm certainly tempted.

right now though i'm buried in (REDACTED) for my derby book. the publishing deadline is sep 22, which i need to hit in order to keep rights to my assigned cover. and i am... not done, lol. can't say more for mandatory anon reasons XD

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Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:46:48 GMT

battleshipex has revealed creators! i wrote 14 fics and did my first ever podfic (which was very exciting!) you can find all my battleship creations here:

https://archiveofourown.org/users/TisStrangerEerierAndPreposterousUsername/works/collected?commit=Sort+and+Filter&work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=revised_at&work_search%5Bcollection_ids%5D%5B%5D=2064850&user_id=TisStrangerEerierAndPreposterousUsername

also you should definitely check out my gifts page: https://archiveofourown.org/users/TisStrangerEerierAndPreposterousUsername/gifts

i haven't had a chance to go through my battleship gifts yet, but i'm super hyped <333 a lot of podfics, too, which is super cool! XD

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booknook October Review-a-Thon 2025

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 12:53:55 GMT

i might be sick but i can at least copy paste last years sign up post. it was super fun last year, so let's do this again! <3

sign up and details here: https://booknook.dreamwidth.org/40770.html

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Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:09:38 GMT

i have a cold and a fever, but i'm signed up to this years battleshipex so i'm focusing on the hype for that. also i still haven't started my justmarriedexchange fic but i'm not very worried about that. i feel okay with it.

i just finished a rewrite of a story, too, that i'm bonkers pleased with. the level of disatisfaction i had wtih the old version just rose and rose and rose, and now it's pretty functional! not perfect! definitely need polishing! i sacrificed artistry a bit in lieu of finishing it faster. but i'm pleased with it, and i'll take a little break and then edit it! :D

i'm currently reading Hero of the Imperium by Sandy Mitchell, which is the first Ciaphas Cain ominubus, and am greatly enjoying it. it's got tropes i just adore: accidentally accidenting your way into more and more power and respect, people mistaking your very selfish actions for selfless heroism, and trying to navigate a sitation your way out of your league with without letting anybody else (who has total faith in you!) finding out how your just bumbling ahead... yeah, it's great. and the prose is easy to read, and unlike Horus Rising, despite knowing nothing about Warhammer lore, i'm finding it easy to follow <3 cain is just a really fun character!

also! i've joined librarything! i've made multiple attempts with storygraph because it's like the most popular alternative to goodreads (at least in my internet sphere) but there's something about the visual designs that bother me. somehow it's all very off-putting to me. my main reading log is on bookwyrm which technically is a part of the fediverse, but i just ignore that and log my reads) and i'm not really looking for a replacement. but it does get a bit... isolated? so librarything. anyway, so far i really like it!

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Sun, 15 Jun 2025 12:14:55 GMT

so i defaulted on fandom5k. there were a couple of requests i was like 65% enthused about, but as i am now i don't want to commit to something i'm less then 90% enthused about. especially for a 5k fic! so yeah. i think it was the right call. (i still owe comments on my fandom5k gifts from the last round OTL)

battleshipex is staring up again soon, and i've definitely got my eye on it :D

i have a barebones sign-up to justmarriedexchange rn.

on friday, i streamed Cult of the Lamb for a few hours on my new twitch channel bogwyrm. i haven't streamed nor played COTL in like a year, and i forgot how much i love it. depression blinders, you know?

but i like streaming bc i like even the illusion of company (even if nobody's actually watching), it just makes gaming more fun to me, you know. and COTL is one of my favorite games. i started a new playthrough bc it's been so long and just... so much fun! i'm gonna try to stream again tomorrow (monday) bc then i'm going to my mom's place and i can't stream there. i would love it if you felt like stopping by! <3

anyway, i hope y'all are having/had a fun weekend! <3

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Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:03:12 GMT

i have 1300+ undread things in my inbox, if you were curious about how far behind i am

OTL

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some updates!

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 16:52:02 GMT

so! some things! i'm super out of the loop on DW (haven't even checked my noticifactions in a A While, so my apologies if i've missed something. i hope you all have been doing good! <3

I hit 2 of my deadlines! And I had enough brain power to remember to request an extension a third, and managed to get that in on time, too! Still open is the fandom5k one, I really don't know what I'm going to do with that...
I've been watching a lot of Josh Johnson's standup comedy on YouTube, and it's very fun and cozy. Highly recommend!
I've updated my wishlist with a bunch of things, because I was feeling daring. I'm most excited about finally managing to add an amazon gift card. I have no idea if it will actually work, though!
In regards to the various writing challenges I'm doing, it's going. One of them is total anon required, so I can't talk about that at all, but for the others: on the Hot Wet Queer Summer challenge, I've got a decent start, I think. I'm going kind of vintage gothic vibes? So it's faux-historical, and hopefully some cosmic horror will make it's way in there. For the Sexy Werewolf challenge, I think I need to start over. I'm A) not happy with my current version adn B) the current version should be a full-length novel, which is a bit ambitious in a single summer. I'm thinking of changing gears entirely and doing something way, way shorter. Choices, choices...
I highly recommend the Solo Leveling fic Dragon Ascending by Aeraneth, even if you've never consumed Solo Leveling. There's so much world building! So much character development! It's a beautiful thing and I adore it, and it's making want to write SL fics, too. I haven't been around the SL corner in so long, it's kind of funny LOL. But I just really love this fic! <3
I've been feeling a bit tapped out lately writing-wise (which makes sense: I finished writing a 70k novel not that long ago and have tossed myself into More Writing for all the challenges and exchanges and whatnot) and so right now I'm writing a self-indulgent Teen Wolf (pre-steter) fic just for me. It's very soothing XD and I mean, sure, deadlines are looming closer and I'm just ignoring those things... but it's fine. Sometimes you need to write something silly without pressure to recharge the creative juices, and oh boy, is my brain delivering. Deadlines be damned.
I've barely read 10 books this year (my mental health was and contiune to be meh) but I recently read The Husband Hoax by Saxon James, which was a fun and relaxing read.
A writing challenge I've been doing on Discord for literal years now is Bookdun: it's a six month challenge where you get split into three teams, and at the end of the season, the team with the most points win. 10k words = 1 point. (I have 15 points right now, which is my highest ever!) You can join at any time, but a new season starts in July (technically I thinks like Jun 29 or 30) and runs through December, if you want to try going in when the battle's just starting. I'm quillpunk on discord, if you want to poke me about it, and I'm happy to talk it up more here, too. And it's perfectly fine to be lurker that literally just updates point for the challenge, that's basically what I've been doing the whole time. There's no need to participate in the server beyond that :)
2 of the challenges I'm doing now are on itchio, and require itch accounts. To that purpose, I now have one. Better yet, I've been exploring, and found some cool authors writing some very cool things on there. On my profile, I've collected links to them, fun porjects and collections! Becuase itchio has collection functionality, which I never knew. And I found some extra cool ones! XD
I can't remember if I've mentioned WritingHabit.app on here, but it's a writing browser app. And aomng other fun stuff, it has a leaderboard (daily, monthly, yearly) and it's very fun climbing it :D My username is roboticalshark on there <3

Okay, I can't think of anything more right now. But hopefully I'll see you soon! <333

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Tue, 20 May 2025 16:37:39 GMT

SO MANY ASSIGNMENTS DUE SOON™!

I'm signed up for these:

bitesizedfandomsex May 25 | (My Requests)
pickmeupexchange May 25 | (My Requests)
idproquo June 1 | (My Requests)
fandom5k June 28 | (My Requests)
auctionsasthreatened | (My Requests) (I don't actually have a deadline for this, I just want to shout it out~)

I HAVE WRITTEN NOTHING.

(i've defaulted on hurtcomfortex but am stubbornly holding on to the others for now.)

Boosting:

seasons_of_fandom
epidemfic
problematicfemslash
(Kickstarter) Fannish Safety Signs: 37 Fandom-Themed Warning Stickers

in other news, i've not really been keeping up with anything lately. still trying to figure out how to tune into existence again. i did finish writing a 70k novel recently, though! and i edited a novella! and i'm signed up to 3 writing challenges this summer:

THE DATES OVERLAP SO MUCH, BUT AT LEAST I'LL GET TO DANCE IN THE ASHES <3

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Thu, 10 Apr 2025 23:13:56 GMT

just a quick note that my paid account is expiring soon. i got the little warning email. so i'm just posting this into the ether in hopes that there's an angel out there, because i love all my icons and don't want to lose any of them <3

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Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:24:43 GMT

Time has been slipping through my hands like sand and I'm not gonna lie, it's kind of a funky feeling. Anyway, a general update (which is mostly a health update, because that's what's been up.)

I am going to do the impolite, selfish thing and mention my very cool wishlist now, because otherwise I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to hit publish on this. I have a little bit of stage-fright or something right now.

1) Yeah, so on our longed-for first trip overseas in years, my mom got sick the very first day there, and I got sick (what was supposed to be) our last day there. Stomach's bugs suck, and it completely wiped me out. Like, just, it took me like a weak just to be able to eat normally again and in the meantime I've never known hunger like that before. Holy shit. Yeah, things weren't good.

2) Then once I'd finally started getting better from that, I got a cold! And it always takes me weeks to shake colds because my immune system is a haphazard mess. So mostly I've been sneezing a lot.

3) Because of the aforementioned mess, I've not been able to take my rheumatism meds in nearly a month, because they mess with my immune system. So the general state of my physical body is also a mess. In particular I have a knee that hates my guts right now. I sure do hope the swelling goes down when i start taking meds again.

4) My neck continues to hate me. I got a device thing from hospital that is supposed to help and I think it does but, when it stops working I notice the pain. I have a very high pain tolerance; when I get used to a pain it basically stops existing for me. I can no longer get used to my neck pain because it keeps going up and down, and thusly, when the device's relief runs out, it hurts so much. I've been popping painkillers like candy the last couple of days. I would like that to stop.

5) Mentally I'm actually doing pretty okay! I'm on anti-depressants now, and wow. I kind of don't want to die. That's a wild feeling. I can't believe some people just feel like this by default. Wow. I probably should have looked into getting it way sooner, but better late than never.

Now for a few quick, not health updates:

1) I'm continuing my years long personal crusade of requesting the library purchase in queer books, and some cool stuff was accepted recently. I'm excited!

2) I've actually been writing this month! I'm trying out WritingHabit, and I really like it so far XD

3) I signed up to a few exchanges last minute. I'm honestly not sure how it's gonna go; I might just need to default on them all. But I'm giving it a shot, at least.

4) I'm thrilled folks over on booknook have kept up with the Wednesday RIP posts, because that's just been sliding out of my memory completely. And it's really nice to not have to worry about it <3

Anyway, yeah, I'm still alive.

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Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:08:32 GMT

i wrote turn toward the sun for sweetsorcery, a Lot No. 249 - Arthur Conan Doyle fic.

Smiling, Smith asked, "Would you care to join me for a late eve drink, Lee?"

i received I Call Upon Thee by kvfg, an Outlast (Video Games) fic.

Waylon is about to die at the hands of a summoned demon. A being he is partially responsible for bringing into the world.

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quillpunk's Holiday Wishlist 2026

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(the anon period is over and so i, with pride and befuddlement, present my first published book!)

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