For the first time in years, I'm not doing Yuletide. It's weird. But I don't feel as stressed as I did a couple of months ago when I planned to do it. I'm concentrating on NaNo, doing the last of my research and outlining before Friday right now. Who knew that trying to untangle Frankish family alliances would be so fun? (Lots of people did, ( Read more... )

I'm gearing myself up to do NaNoWriMo. It's still a month and a half away, but I've fallen out of the habit of writing every single day and I'm trying to get myself in that mindset again. And getting excited about it, for me, means talking about it.

( Under a cut, for anyone who doesn't want to read babbling about 6th century Franks and fairy tales. )

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For anyone curious, this year I wrote:

Games of Attrition for eva_roisin.

Rating: General Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: Gen
Fandom: New X-Men: Academy X
Characters: Cessily Kincaid, Santo Vacarro, Julian Keller, Sooraya Qadir, Brian Cruz, Kevin Ford, Emma Frost
Summary: Things may be overwhelming (exhaustive, ( Read more... )

I hope everyone reading this has a great day, or at the bare minimum a non-sucky one.

I know I said I'm planning to use my Dreamwidth for fandom stuff, but because this is where I have my Yuletide sign-up info shared, I wanted to publicly thank my author and recommend the story here:

And The Greatest of These, Mira Grant's Newsflesh Trilogy.

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LJ, why you gotta be changing on me?

I have a Dreamwidth, though I haven't done much with it. I think I've decided to use it for fandom things, keep this for personal things, and I briefly flirted with the idea of making a Tumblr but then remembered that Tumblr frightens me ( Read more... )

Politics politics read my twitter if you want politics. Here is something else kind of sort of presidential related ( Read more... )

( Dear Yuletide author. )

( Cut for pictures. I am not a spinning prodigy. )

Auuuugh fuck Houston forever have I mentioned I goddamn hate roaches and Houston is crawling with them in the summer?

Which is especially unfortunate since I've developed a phobia at some point in the past few years. I see them and I start screaming and crying and having panic attacks and feeling itchy. I'm very proud of myself for not screaming ( Read more... )