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Look at me, posting before the weekly tide of Shit I Have To Do(TM) kicks in! I am so proactive. Here we go with my weekly stuff, which continues to go quite well, and I met all my goals for last week (and exceeded them) despite making them quite late in the week:

Exchanges due in May/June (hurtcomfortex, pickmeupexchange, idproquo, caseficexchange, seasonsofdrabbles, diegetic_exchange, fandom5k + mystery pinch-hits and treats): As mentioned last week, I finally have time to pick up Pinch Hits and treats, which I have been doing. I had a nice little spurt of productivity Thursday/Friday and got a good amount of stuff written. Right now, I've completed 9/11 fics, and the 2 remaining are the 2 long fics that I've been plugging away on. I did make progress on both of these, too! I've completed 1.5 scenes in each, and both of them will at least be 5 scenes total when done. There are 2 new (short) fics I'd like to pick up and finish this week (due to exchange deadlines) to get to 11/13, and then I'd like to make more progress on the 2 WIPs. The goal for those is to be through Scene 4 in the first (which is as far as I have a clear outline - I have a line that says '??? Profit!' in the middle of my outline right now, and then the final scene 🤣) and then through Scene 3 of the other one (which does have a complete outline, and so I don't feel as much need to press on it). I also have a couple things that will probably (unless there are reveals delays) need editing this week, so I need to get that done too.

Upcoming exchanges: I need to sign up for narumitsuday this week. Also, I've already put in my nominations for justmarriedexchange and nonconex, at least the first of which I'm hoping to sign up for. I will keep an eye on rarepairexchange, although I'm not sure I'll be able to swing that one.

Femslash Salad Bar - Still nothing new, moving on...

No more progress on My Hero Academia since last post, since I don't get time to watch things on the weekend. I'll watch some more this week, though, no doubt.

I now have all 3 volumes of Guardian by priest! I've finished the 2nd volume and am 2 chapters into the 3rd (which is the final arc). I will say that I found the first 2 arcs better than the 3rd, which didn't seem to have as tight writing and meandered a bit. Also, I enjoyed Zhao Yunlan not knowing Shen Wei was the Soul-Executing Emissary more than their relationship post-reveal: Zhao Yunlan's persistent horniness now is interspersed by moments of doubt, plus they've gone domestic but without the profound levels of fucking needed? Ah well, I'm still enjoying it, just the first 2 arcs are my favorites so far, for sure. I'm hoping to finish this week!

Goals for this week: 1) Pick up 2 PHs/treats for things due this week and complete them. 2) Make progress on my 2 WIP long fics: 1 through Scene 4, and the other through Scene 3. 3) Complete any editing needed for reveals this week. 4) Sign up for

narumitsuday. 5) Finish Guardian.

May Stats: I'm now at 128k for the year, posted, which is not bad. With the WIPs I have, I'm definitely over 130k unofficially. At the rate I'm going, I might actually made 200k this year, maybe? I have been tracking at over 10k/month, so that should work out, although I suspect I'll be slower in the summer. We'll see!

The holiday weekend was far too frenetic for my tastes -- medical incident with both my mom and dad :/ -- plus I also managed to injure my eye while gardening, although thankfully not too bad: just a nasty scrape from a branch. So, not as relaxing as I'd hoped, although I did at least get enough sleep that my brain no longer feels like it's about to explode from too much information from work. Spring allergy season is also coming to an end, which I suspect is the cause of my increasing amounts of energy.

Without further ado:

Exchanges due in May/June (hurtcomfortex, pickmeupexchange, idproquo, caseficexchange, seasonsofdrabbles, diegetic_exchange, fandom5k + mystery pinch-hits and treats): I'm now at 6/9 (I've picked some things up!) and I got through everything with the most pressing deadlines, woo-hoo! I have at least a start on the remaining 3, and I want to get at least one of those done before next week (so, like, tonight lol) and make some continued progress on the other two, which will both be longer fics. And also I have some spare time to grab pinch hits and write treats? What's up with that? :P (It does make me sad, though, that seasonsofdrabbles is over because if that were in creation period right now, I'd write a million treats for it. Oh well, I'm sure at some point it will align with my schedule!)

The last of March/April has revealed as has the aforementioned seasonsofdrabbles. Here's what I wrote:
- Letter 126, from ‘The Complete Writings of Edwin Courcey, Volume 6: The Early Letters’, 7th Revised Edition on the 50th Anniversary of Its Original Publication for unsent_letters_exchange, Robin Blyth/Edwin Courcey for The Last Binding Series by Freya Marske: This was my main assignment and SO MUCH FUN! I started off with the "I can't wait to be home" innuendo and then built the whole thing backwards around that. I knew pretty early on that I wanted super srs academic commentary on Edwin's blatant bottoming joke, and spent a whole bunch of time cribbing formatting from various books of published historical letters (all ancient Egyptian since that is every non-fiction book I own, lol) and got the format for 'academic preface' + 'letter content' pretty quickly. I started introducing the footnotes incidentally at first, since that matched the academic style, but I had zero clue what I was doing or even whether I would keep them until I thought up the 'One Pill Makes You Small' insult, and then I knew I HAD to keep them! And I had a fun time building up all the petty academic rivalries in the citations, too. (100% based on real-life academic pettiness. SO MUCH PETTINESS! 🤣) I also figured out early on that the footnotes helped break up the exposition, plus let me fill in the fates of other characters: I got to make Maudie a professor! ❤️ Anyway, I loved these books when I first read them (especially the first book and especially Robin/Edwin) but I'd never had any direction on fic-writing for them, so I was so excited when I got this assignment! I loved revisiting them!
- Now and Forever also for unsent_letters_exchange, Nell/Theo(-ish) for 'The Haunting of Hill House' by Shirley Jackson. I'd read this book back in February off of a recommendation for 'cool haunted-house stuff' and knew I wanted to do something for it, so I offered it for this exchange and then snatched it right up when I saw this come up for pinch hit! I knew I wanted to try my hand at creepy psychological horror, and I loved the letters+journal format for revealing that. This is one of those fics that pretty much wrote themselves (as spookily appropriate as that is in this case :P), and I really liked the way it turned out.
- Dearest Beloved for unsent_letters_exchange, Hannibal/Will. This was the second pinch hit I picked up and one I was afraid I wasn't going to have time to get to, but I did! I think there were several weeks where I was hoping every day that no one would pick this up before I knew whether I could commit to it. I really loved the prompt of Hannibal leaving Will guiding letters at crime scenes, but it is super intimidating trying to write letters in Hannibal's, er...unique voice. Once I solidified the frame story around the letters, though, it all started to flow together, and I really enjoyed getting to write Will with a very dark POV (and yet also strangely murderously sappy). They are both such horrible people, and I love them together so much!
- Until Proven Guilty for seasonsofdrabbles, Columbo & Dog. My assignment and the one drabble I wrote for this round! I'd written Columbo previously in my Columbo & Garak fic a while back and I do love writing Columbo, but I would have a hard time coming up with a whole case fic, so I was delighted to offer this for a short-minimum exchange. And, in a way, I sort of did come up with a whole case fic, although Dog - alas - is not the cleverest of villains! (He is, however, the only one Columbo would let off the hook. :P)
Upcoming exchanges: I am eying narumitsuday aggressively since it is physically impossible for that one not to have any recipients I could write for. :P I'm also keeping a hopeful eye on justmarriedexchange and a tentative one on nonconex: for the latter I don't think I could swing a whole sign-up, but I'll be checking for interesting PHs/requests to treat. I also don't think I have enough rare pairs for rarepairexchange (I have eclectic fandom tastes, but my pairings within those fandoms tend to be bog-standard) but that's another possibly for PHs/treats. Honestly though, I suspect most of the rest of my May/June docket will be taken up grabbing PHs from exchanges currently running. I went through the list the other day, and there were, like, 20 that appealed to me, so...yeah.

Femslash Salad Bar - Nope, nothing to see here! I'm going to leave it on my list, but I suspect I'll do amnesty/make-up for next February to finally finish this one off.

My Hero Academia has improved, although I still wouldn't say I'm a fan/fannish about it. I'm a few episodes into S2 now, and at least the story has gotten more compelling, if not yet the characters. It's now moved up in my esteem to "solid evening TV-watching entertainment" though, and there's nothing else I'm watching, so I am happy with that. Good grief, though, it's been a long time since I watched an anime and the fan-service is so dreadful! Like, there's a character who dresses and acts like a baby and his whole thing is that he cops feels on all the female characters' boobs (which, of course, are huge overflowing water-balloon style in skimpy outfits). And, like...ugh. Why did anyone need to include this? It's not funny, it's not hot, it's stupid and juvenile and alienating. But, y'know...fan-service! 🙄

I finished The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison! And I loved it! It's such a compelling but kind-hearted book, and I love that shit, and I love Maia and also so many of the side characters. I'm going to buy a hard copy of this one, because I need to reread it many times. I know the author has a 3-novella side series set in the same universe, and I've put those in my queue, but it'll be a while before they come in. Really just lovely, though, a real treat!

I'm through the first volume of Guardian by priest and possibly the 2nd and 3rd volumes are ready for me to pick up at the library? (I honestly cannot tell: the library site is having fun issues today. First log-in wasn't working at all, then I got email spam that books I'd already returned were ready for pick-up, then I finally could log in but the only page that would load was the 'in-transit' holds page, and...yeah. I will pop by in person tomorrow to see WTF is actually on my holds shelf. 😝) The first volume was tons of fun, though, and we got the reveal that Shen Wei is the Soul-Executing Emissary (which was pretty obvious from the moment we first met the Soul-Executing Emissary). But the sheer level of horniness between him and Zhao Yunlan is fantastic, and they've obviously known each other for hundreds of years although Zhao Yunlan can't remember it, so looking forward to seeing where that's going, and just the MOTWs are really solid too. Fun series!

I got my schedule for my next big figure-skating competition in July, and it's pretty good! I'll only have to miss a little bit of work. My coach is putting together a new footwork program for me for this, so lots of learning there. I bought some new kneepads because my old ones are worn out, and we've been playing with different knee slides for the new program, and after 10 knee slides in one practice, I'm inevitably going to come down a little too hard at least once and then have unsightly bruises for the next week. 🤣 Knee slides are super fun, though! And once I've narrowed down which one I'm doing, I'll have time to practice that to the point where I don't need pads anymore. (I may still wear them, though, just to be safe, because the footwork competition is before the free-skate competition, and I do NOT want to run my free-skate program with bruised knees, ouch!)

I have vaguely nebulous thoughts about doing a thing where I watch a different, random old movie each week, and write a short response fic to each one. Inspired by the fact that there were a couple of neat prompts for old movies in yuletide/ ficinabox/ candyheartsex where I went "huh, never thought of writing for THAT before!" and then I really enjoyed it. So that got me thinking that it might be fun to rewatch my old faves with a specific eye toward trying to get a fic/ficlet/drabble out it. Of course, this would be something I'd have to make time for on my own, which I'm not quite ready for yet, but I'm noodling on it. I think it would make a nifty community/prompt challenge but, alas, I have zero readers so I'm not the best person to run it. Still thinking, though.

Goals for this week: Finish 1 May/June assignment. Make some progress on the 2 remaining long-fics. Pick up at least 1 more PH.

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