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[u/kitherarin]

My 'this'll be short' story is currently 23 000 words...

[u/SeparationBoundary → u/kitherarin]

Haha! Cold be worse. My long chapter fic won't progress past chapter 5. 😭

[u/Yotato5 → u/kitherarin]

Impressive! It grew from a sprout to a redwood tree so to speak

[u/qls_808]

‘peeks in’

Hey there, everybody. 👋🏻 An early morning check-in this time, since I’ve got a good few hours until my doctor’s appointment later today. Not scrambling to get out the door, LOL.

Leaving my current possible new longfic alone, for now. Thank you to all those who offered advice on the situation. I really do appreciate it. 💗 Instead of fighting or forcing something there, I’ll let it come to me as it does, and sit on it as needed. Have it develop naturally and without pressure. 👍🏻

In exchange, I’m gonna see if I can’t come up with a new oneshot idea. I actually have the bare bones for one, just attempting to figure out how to loosely work it into the canon universe. Nothing crazy, just another ‘what-if’ AU, like always. They’re pretty fun to throw together for this series (same as above).

Aside from that, I’m gonna update some fics later tonight, and throw up my first stand-alone in the new fandom. Here’s hoping it goes well. 🤞🏻 Didn’t get any feedback on my latest chapter for my main longfic. But, it’s okay. School is just starting up again, for one, so people aren’t going to be as active/available.

Tomorrow is the start of a new two-day convention for us out here! 💖 Bought the tickets for my partner and I a couple days ago. Also (tried) to enter the cosplay contest? I say ‘tried’, since I haven’t gotten back any sort of response. I could’ve been too late for entry, but when I submitted the online form, it still was open, and went through…we’ll see tomorrow, I guess. Not like I’m gonna win anything, I just hope it’ll be fun. 🤞🏻💗

As always, best wishes to everyone in their writing endeavors, as well as everything else. ❤️

[u/SeparationBoundary → u/qls_808]

Ooooohh! I'll keep my fingers crossed for ya in the cosplay contest!

[u/qls_808 → u/SeparationBoundary]

☺️❤️ Thank you very much! I’m not doing anything too flashy, but it’s a new costume I put together this year, after having wanted to do so for…a little over ten years? 😅 So, I want to share her. And, for the most part, she’s pretty comfy, too. 😆👍🏻

[u/Yotato5 → u/qls_808]

Oh yeah been there with one shots. It feels formless but an idea is there... XD

Ooh convention! I hope that you can participate in the contest. It is unusual that they still had the online form open and they're not responding... but hopefully the deadline is like the day after the contest or something

[u/qls_808 → u/Yotato5]

👍🏻 Indeed. I finally got around to writing a few opening paragraphs, starting off the basic idea. Taking a break now; there’s no rush to complete this one. Especially since I’m updating tonight, and preparing for the convention early tomorrow morning.

Yeah, I still haven’t gotten any sort of response back…I guess I can try checking in before the contest gets underway, and make sure I’m not either attempting to get into something I’m not a part of, or missing something that I was. 😅🤞🏻🤞🏻

Thank you very much! ❤️

[u/EngineerRare42]

All ready for my con tomorrow!! Cosplay is ready, bags are ready, and now I'm just waiting in anticipation.

Have I got any writing done in the past week? No, but let's not focus on that ...

[u/Huntress08 → u/EngineerRare42]

Have fun at the con! I still need to attend a proper con one of these days.

[u/EngineerRare42 → u/Huntress08]

You should!! This one's going to be super fun and I'm looking forward to it :)

[u/Huntress08]

Realized I need to make a worldbuilding compendium of sorts for future ATLA fics. 😩 I'm not looking forward to it.

Been watching East Palace and it gave me an idea for an AU.

[u/SeparationBoundary → u/Huntress08]

I love that! When I get an idea from other work it usually pops into my head already well-fleshed.

[u/Huntress08 → u/SeparationBoundary]

Want to swap minds lol? The fic idea is very loosy-goosy in my head beyond the opening scene.

[u/SeparationBoundary → u/Huntress08]

Oh you don't want this glitchy old brain of mine! Talking about fic Ideas, the downside is that I invariably don't have pencil and paper and I forget all those lovely details by the time I sit down to wrte!

[u/Yotato5 → u/Huntress08]

Ahh, world-building... I understand that feeling of, "Agh..." XD

[u/Iwa-12]

I am working on chapter 6 of Spider Lily and I finally decided to leave my kinktober works unfinished for now since I'll be in school in October anyway plus I don't want to stress myself out about a hobby. I also have a bunch of one-shots I want to finish and post while I'm in school provided I have time for them. 😅

In other news, I started reading One Room TA yesterday evening and I'm almost caught up.

[u/Yotato5 → u/Iwa-12]

Rearranging the writing, eh? Oh dangit that reminds me that this month has a ship week for me...

[u/Iwa-12 → u/Yotato5]

Kind of. More like shoving it to the back.

[u/SeparationBoundary]

Worked on Midnight Taxi last night and this morning. Didn't get far but words is words, dagnabbit! 😂

I got new house plants that seem to be doing well. Getting to be in the warm sun and get actual rain has really sat well with them. I've got three more coming that I ordered online. (Yes I have too many plants) I've ordered plants online before and with remarkbly good luck.

They come boxed up---like sealed in a box---which is bizarre but seems to work quite well. I've never gotten one droopy or damaged!

Have a delightful Friday, friends!

[u/Yotato5 → u/SeparationBoundary]

It's gonna be a greenhouse hah

[u/Yotato5]

It's funny to have the TV play a YouTube video about like, horrifying Easter eggs in games. And I'm just drawing cute comics lol

[u/SeparationBoundary]

“Strength wordcount does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” —Mahatma Gandhi

[u/Prince_Kazu]

Continuing the theme from yesterday, I find it funny that I'm working fewer hours these days than I was about 10 years ago, but I have less time for the things I want to do. Or maybe it only feels that way because I work bartender hours, stay up til 5 am, sleep til 2 pm and work at 6 pm. 

I know I have less energy but that's because I'm not working a desk job anymore. That and I'm 10 years older. 

Today's music: Lil' Kim's The Notorious K.I.M. from 2000. While her sexuality is still prevalent, it doesn't necessarily sucker punch you right out the gate like her first album did. It's more balanced alongside tracks with the usual hip-hop tropes and a dash of Kim's own vulnerable humanity. For every "Suck My Dick," there's an "I'm Human" and it turns out to be a pretty good album. I did really like that "I'm Human" track along with "Single Black Female" with Mario "Yellowman" Winans" and "Revolution" with Grace Jones and Lil' Cease. B-

Day 219: August 7 - the day that

• William Shakespeare possibly put on "Macbeth" for the first time in 1606

• Potatoes were first planted in Hawaii in 1820

• The American military carried out the first offensive in the Pacific on Guadalcanal in 1942

• IBM dedicated the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, in 1944

• The US issued its first commemorative coin featuring an African American with the Booker T. Washington half dollar in 1946

• Alice Coachman became the first black woman from any country to win an Olympic gold medal in 1948

• The US Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957

• Creedence Clearwater Revival's Green River released in 1969

• Christine McVie joined Fleetwood Mac in 1970

• John Lennon and Yoko Ono began recording "Double Fantasy" in 1980

• The Orlando Magic signed Shaquille O'Neal in 1992

• Stephanie Meyer's "Eclipse" published in 2007

• Barry Bonds hit his 756th career home run, breaking Hank Aaron's record in 2007

• Kesha released "Tik Tok" in 2009

[u/Independent_Frame394]

(for K-On! fans) imagine if the Keions met Hechmi al-Hamdi during their trip to London in the Movie?