High Adrenaline Exchange

Look at me, awake in the evening. It's almost my bedtime since I woke up at 4am for skating this morning, but oh well! I was not as accomplished as my ambitions last week, but I got enough done. Here's where everything stands at the moment:

• Exchanges due in May/June (hurtcomfortex, pickmeupexchange, idproquo, caseficexchange, seasonsofdrabbles, diegetic_exchange, fandom5k + mystery pinch-hits and treats): I've now finished 10/12 fics in this batch. I was going to snag 2 pinch hits last week, but I only got around to one, and someone else grabbed the other one, which I am okay with. I did get all the editing done I needed to, so that's good. Of the two remaining long fics, I wanted to get at least 4 scenes complete in the first, and 3 in second. I got a little over 3 in the first, and made no progress in the second, so that's still at 1.5. I'm feeling like I need to slow down and rest a little, so my goal for this week is to write as much on the first as I can. I don't think I'll get it 100% done, but I want to feel like I'm close. And depending how remaining PHs go in several exchanges that currently have delays, I might have some other fics that need final editing for reveals. But that's all I'm going for this week!


• Upcoming exchanges: No new assignments - I did pass on narumitsuday; I just didn't vibe with the way sign-ups work for single-fandom exchanges. I'm considering justmarriedexchange, nonconex, raremaleslashex, littleblackdressex, and rarepairexchange. The first two maybe I would sign up for if a request caught my eye. For the two rare ones, in order for me to get rare pairings, I'd have to nominate rare fandoms and then pick what would be the juggernauts in those essentially, which doesn't seem in keeping with the spirit of the thing - I'll think about it, though. I have absolutely no LBD characters, so I won't sign up for that one I'm almost positive; however, that does seem like something with interesting pinch-hit potential, so I'll think about that. There's also iddyiddybangbang starting in July, and I have to think about whether I want to dust off an old drawer-fic I have that's maybe 75% done for that - I'm noodling on it. I do know that seasonsofdrabbles is going to be back in late July-August, so I know for sure I'll do that. My guess is, though, that I'm going to be focusing on pinch hits more for a bit. New sign-ups aren't particularly calling to me at the moment.


• Did you think that I'd finish Femslash Salad Bar since maybe I have a bit of downtime? Ha, you fool! You have learned NOTHING about me from my posts! :P


• I got cut off from my source from My Hero Academia, presumably because S7 is about to come out so it's monetizing time. So I arranged for a back-up source instead, but that meant that I didn't have a chance to watch anything for a week. I'm back at it as of today, though. Still midway through S2.


• I finished Guardian by priest! I enjoyed it! Although I did like the more mundane every-day cases and weirdness at SID than the huge earth-shattering apocalyptic stuff. The ending was fine and satisfying, though, and I enjoyed the bonus stories. I can't tell, though... Did the original not have porn in it, or did that get cut for the English translation? I'm guessing it wasn't in the original, but was a little surprised by that, given how aggressively horny the writing was. Oh well, that's what fanfic is for!


• I've started reading Noblesse, the manhwa, because it popped up as a long-standing pinch-hit, and I thought, "Maybe that's short, and I can swing it!" LOL, it is not short, and I will miss that PH (sorry, requester!), but I'm REALLY loving the story and characters so far! It's a lot of fun and doesn't take itself too seriously, which I approve of. It's funny, the site I'm reading it on has comments from people who are presumably teenage kids complaining that it's too slow and there's not enough battle scenes, and I'm just like "seen every battle scene ever written, SO FUCKING BORING, oh hey, here's a whole arc where this character misses the entire battle because he doesn't understand how doors work, OMG, BEST THING EVAH! 🤩" So, yes, I hope it doesn't change its vibe too much, because the way it is now is definitely where my mind's at.

Goals for this week: 1) Make some good progress on 1 of the my 2 long fics, to the point where the end is in sight. 2) If anything comes up for reveals this week, do the final editing pass for that. 3) More BNHA. 4) More Noblesse.

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!