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New Wind Breaker fic: open invitation (Sakura & Momijikawa)
open invitation | Wind Breaker | Sakura & Momijikawa | 615 words
Summary: Momijikawa cooks for Sakura.
Read it on Dreamwidth or AO3.
K-9 fanart \o/ For me!!!
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(Also there are three K-9 prompts on the
Writing status/check-in/where am I at?
Reached a couple of milestones yesterday, and I'm mentally basically ready to shift back into working on my original projects. Just trying to remember where I'm at with everything. Also cool milestone alert!
Milestone alert: GYWO monthly goal for January, reached! ;)
With my pledge, I should write 12.5k words a month, and now I'll have reached it at least once this year!! It feels really good to start the year being on track. As much as Time Is A Construct, I think I should be careful not to set myself up for big editing projects in January in the future, in general.
I'm so surprised that over 5k of that was for a Spring Thunder fic. Like. I do write freely for tiny fandoms! But usually it's more like coughing out a vignette or a missing scene, or a tiny fix-it to deal with canon stress. Not a full hurt/comfort rescue mission. In the end though, I wrote it for the same reasons I wrote those shorter vignettes in the past: it feels good :D It feels right. It was fun. AND I get to reread and enjoy something tailored to my id in the future :D I was delighted with myself by the end of the first draft, hopefully that'll hold when I return to it for edits :D
Time-sensitive fics
I'll likely just let most of the unposted stuff I wrote rest for a while. Couple of exceptions I have in mind:
- Well I do need to proofread and post my Candy Hearts assignment. That would be good to do on time XD
- For my last 600 words to reach the milestone yesterday, I wrote something for Wind Breaker that will probably be invalidated by a new manga chapter next week. I'd like to clean that up and post it so there's a chance it can be enjoyed as-is for a few days before becoming canon divergent XD
- Not really time-sensitive, but I want to post a couple of BNHA fics to get them out of my mind. One was written 3y ago for a collaborative project that never quite completed its landing and I think it's long enough. I need to free my mind of it before I forget it even exists.
Original stuff
( Soul Thief edit preps Take Two )
This was supposed to help me figure out what to do this morning, but it didn't really help in the end! Maybe I'll see if there's a fic in an editable state. I know there's a couple of finished drafts in there, but for some of those I wanted to do a canon review first... Gah!! So many fun things to do, so little time :D
A Reckoning of Swords 19-20
I'm trying to get better at picking at things when I have a few spare minutes, instead of feeling like I need a block of time to code/write/whatever.
The Lemonade Cafe's twenty-third (whut?!) anniversary is somewhere in the next couple of weeks. Looking back, it's traditionally been celebrated between the 30th of January and the 7th of February, so it's very much an anniversary week and not a firm date. This is basically because the original site was coded for a class project for a one-credit web-dev class I took my last semester of university. Once the class was over and the site (a fairly general KH site, tbh) graded, I promptly swapped it over to hosting the fanfiction I'd been writing for an entire month at that point.
I don't actually have any anniversary plans so um, help me make some?
Current gunpla/plamo kit is [redacted] for a contest so mostly all I can yell about is glitter and rhinestones, lol.
FF.1-9
2. If so, how do you support it? I wish I were dead.
3. Have you been an active member of an organization (attending meetings, volunteering, etc)? I don't know what is wrong with everyone, I only know what is wrong with me.
4. Have you ever led any group? I am seriously feccing tired, go get your chest sliced open.
5. If so, how was your experience with it? OR: 5. If not, why, is it a conscious choice, of lack of opportunity? Medical slavery is a reality, and I can't wait to die.
Joined the club today.
January Manga TBR 2
I finished 5/5 on my last board and had a good time.
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Conan
Skill: Beat trap tile once
Roll #1:
An 11, prompt: gender bender. Oh, more Basara then!
Roll #2:
A 12. Man, first I get an excellent skill now I get 2 excellent rolls. Why can't these happen on the boards I want them to?? orz Prompt: cafe/bakery/restaurant. Hmm let's see what I've got. Okay, Amai Jouken it is.
Roll #3:
An 8, prompt: game element. Let's how much I remember in My S-Class Hunters. Honestly about time;;
Roll #4:
Another 8, prompt: started in the month you were born. That took a while, there's no way to filter by 'only stuff on my list'. Anyway, I picked 3-manen no Kareshi.
Roll #5:
A 6 and 'generate from TBR pile'! Exciting and scary. #564 which is...huh. I was just thinking I didn't want to read another Nitta Youka yet but here we are at Haru o Daiteita. Since it's so long I might read it like am with Junjou Romantica, post by post.
Roll #6:
Alriight, a 10 and the end. The physical BL this time is NightS by Yoneda Kou.
Most looking forward to: Basara and My S-Class Hunters
Least looking forward to: Everything else lmao
~Manga TBR List~
[Shoujo/Fantasy] Basara
[BL/Romance] Amai Jouken
[Fantasy/Action] My S-Class Hunters
[BL/Romance] 3-manen no Kareshi
[BL/Drama] Haru o Daiteita
[BL] NightS
x1 shoujo, x1 shounen, x4 BL
January Manga Wrap-Up

Read the BL oneshot Peeping Tom and rated it 4.5! 
I read the BL Staining the White Pine with Crimson Frosted Snow and rated it 7.5/10. 
Read vol. 24 of Dr. Stone!! 
(Re)read v21ch 184-185 of Mairimashita! Iruma-kun, excited to get going reading new content now! 
(Re)read the BL Lover's→Flat, the rating went from 9->7 and I'm reading to pass it along. 
I joined the club.
A day in the life of an HSR.
Like everyone, I want to understand things. I ask people on the internet about their experience with the meds I'm on... Someone claimed that my heart med made them "slow", but feel better. So myself, wanting to take peoples' criticism seriously, am thinking about this. And I am currently noticing way more mistakes in my typing than usual.... but, I just made 3 basically perfect origami pieces, and the crochet piece, I will probably show off here later.. it looks perfect, truly perfect. I did not make any mistakes as best I can see, and this was honestly pretty much my first time crocheting in 15 yrs. I am truly blown away.
"Stupid at the rink"
I was stupid not to wear a helmet the first time I went, but I told myself today: "I do not need to be stupid." So I chose not to go with the ankle injury. The thing about being an HSR: I am sure that people assume that I am stupid because I had heart surgery... and I have no idea how much truth there is to that, but that is sort of a part of what disability is, why the disability program exists, to help people who are struggling. But these are veeeeery difficult lines, because, well for my perspective, there is what I can and can't do. And for another person's perspective.. if it is someone more capable than me, this becomes a freedom issue, right? To actually tell someone: you CAN'T do something... everyone's worst fear. The doctors have never told me I can't do anything. I have never had limits placed on me, I look for them, practically begging for them, you have seen it. Running is one of the hugest... and the doctors have encouraged trying to run... but now, I don't really feel comfortable trying. I have had serious cardiac stress while trying sometimes. I have techniques I can try if I really want to do it, but I am sooooo scared of hurting myself, right now, it does not really feel worth it, and I do call it a limit.
So anyway, I keep feeling like others are supposed to be helping me, but I... feel like there are limits about that too, and probably supposed to be also, it turns into those freedom lines again. I am trying this program that the hospital recommended me.. I checked it out, and I feel very mixed about it, there are some shady doings happening.. but since most people in society are a bunch of fascist asshats that want nothing to do with heart surgery recipients, I am backing myself into the caste system corner, they call it castling I guess, I just hope it has an ok outcome. I hate how hated I am.
K-9: Volume 2 extras, with translation
Lots of bonus sketches in this volume! In order of appearance:
( Bonus sketch - Mother and child )
( Bonus sketch - Oboro and Kagari )
( Bonus sketch - Teasing Fujimaru )
( Bonus sketch - Eden heights )
( Bonus sketch - Kagari in boyhood )
( Kagari's profile )
( Sasakura and Domon short profiles )
( Oboro's clothing )
A Reckoning of Swords 11-18
I did finish RG Justice, who is very detailed and very handsome! He's with his gaming buddies on my tray table right now, but I need a slightly better place to set him/that group up since they'll be an evolving display for a bit. Perhaps it's time to repurpose the mangar for a bit, or at least that space...
Justice is, for now, not sporting his backpack because it is Very Heavy and also just kind of all-around awkward. There's one piece I may need to put a dot of glue on through no fault of anyone. I also think it might be time to change out my main panel line markers.
First, I should clean off my desk...
AoT strategies
Another issue is, what size to fold of what. I'm not super amazing at everything... I sort of want to fold the first 50 on standard size origami paper. I already did most of 2022 on 10" square papers. I sort of want to do all 100 on the 10" paper... but the 16x projects should mostly be veeeeery simple on that size paper, so it sort of seems like a waste, except they actually are a little difficult on standard size paper, so I'm not sure what to do there.
Having all these decisions that look like where to start, is holding me back from getting any of them done at all. I sort of want to just have a large supply of grids available so I can just go through them one after another, that is how I generally approach it when I start taking them on. I currently have a bunch of standard paper 16x grids, and 10" 24x grids, but not a lot of the 24x currently. So... We'll see. I decided not to prioritize finishing the first 75 as soon as I found them, it felt like.. there is more to origami than just this set, so I spent a lot of last year doing many different projects by different artists. I did do many tessellations, and I also did some animals, amoung a few other things like containers etc.
I'm not definitely going to finish all of them this year, but it does seem quite likely. Another goal I have set out... well I got a bunch more gift wrap which is something like 2 feet that I can make in squares, but I am focused on cutting those into as large as possible hexagons, and then folding grids that large, just because. I already did one that is a 64x grid, so my idea is to keep practicing making 64x grids until maybe I feel comfortable enough to try to make a 128x grid. I anticipate that I am going to make my first 128x grid this year, but it is not definite yet. I am currently not folding on grids this large yet, I am just preparing them to work on for when I am ready. Have done 32x projects, but usually squares. I have some fun projects to look forward to.
Ankle is feeling semi ok, it is possible that I will go ice skating tomorrow. It is snowing outside!!! Today was a nice day.
๐ Links of interest
Booktuber: Literature Science Alliance - She reads a lot of fantasy and sci-fi. Chaos vs Calm, she's on the Calm end and I like how she asks you to leave an emoji to let her know you're there if you don't want to leave a comment.
AO3 Social Media AU Work Skins - "Useful work skins for a specific genre of fan fictions that contains Social Media AU or just for socmed fics in general [...]"
Dreamwidth banning & Tumblr blocking + a resource for hiding people etc
"Wut-In-Tarnation is really What-In-The-Entire-Nation with southern accent"
Kyou Kara MA no Tsuku Jiyuugyou! translations - A listing of MaruMa translations for the novels, short stories, doujinshi and drama CDs.
What Happened to Book of the Month? - I had no idea BotM had such a long history and these specific origins, I've never used BotM but some of the booktubers I follow do or have it as a sponsor.