Last seen at graycardinal's: post the first lines of your last ten fics.

In reverse order, most recent first:

1. Outside the Snake Tribe leader's house, Ya Qing sits at a table with three hypocrites.
   
   (Unwritten, Guardian, Ya Qing/Zhu Hong)


2. They were waiting for him at the spaceport.
   
   (Zhentari's Choice, Original Sci-Fi, King/Knight)


3. The Black-Cloaked Envoy slammed down into the nondescript little flat like a thunderbolt from the heavens, not a moment too soon.
   
   (Close the Distance, Lock Us In, Guardian, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan)


4. Not for the first time, Zhao Yunlan woke to the smell of citrus, sweet and strong in the air.
   
   (in the darkness with you, Guardian, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan)


5. Da Qing glared at the Guardian Lantern.
   
   (Dragon of Flowers, Dragon of the City, Crossover: Guardian/Thermos "Flower Series" Commercials, team gen)


6. Between all the worlds, there lay an ocean.
   
   (Heart-Seed, Heart-Flower, Thermos "Flower Series" Commercials, Thermos Dragon/White Cat)


7. Nick wasn't the only one; they all kept looking at the door for long moments after Bélem Hoyos had left with her husband's body.
   
   (Farewell to the Monsters, Grimm, Nick/Renard/Juliette)


8. Turmoil. Disruption. Zhao Yunlan.
   
   (To Make a Dream, Guardian, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan)


9. The banging on the gate was loud - far louder than it should be, echoing through the Valley.
   
   (forgetting any other tie but this, Word of Honor, Luo Fumeng/Liu Qianqiao)


10. Ya Qing, half-transformed, had feathers down the side and back of her neck.
    
    (scale to feather, skin to skin, Guardian, Ya Qing/Zhu Hong)

Ha, I was determined not to cheat, to strictly quote only the first sentence (well, except for the one that's just a single word), but some of these really are much stronger if you take the following bit into account! Especially these two:

• Not for the first time, Zhao Yunlan woke to the smell of citrus, sweet and strong in the air. Ack, did I fall asleep on my orange peel again?


• Da Qing glared at the Guardian Lantern. Bad Hallow! How dare it be missing its wick?

*waves at everyone* I've been ill and haven't been around much, but I'm feeling distinctly better today, so I'm posting while it lasts. (I really hope it lasts longer than the posting, LOL.) Have some randomness!

1. Cnovels: Faraway Wanderers, one of my favourite danmei novels (aka the source for Word of Honor), is apparently finally open for licensing!


2. Trek: Captain Janeway says RPF is good for morale, hee!


3. Writing: I woke up today with words in my head and scribbled them down before falling back asleep! It's been a while since that happened, and it's such a good feeling. :D
   
   (I'm currently editing/rewriting my fandom5k fic, and also playing with a sequel idea for my original space opera Zhentari's Choice, which is very slowly coming together. Still having so much fun playing with this 'verse!)


4. Enshittification: after reading Google Search as you know it is over (in May) I switched all my default search engines (personal and work) to Startpage, and it's honestly such a relief. (Though of course sometimes I cycle through a bunch of search engines and still don't find what I know Google would have turned up in 10 seconds a few years ago, and that's only partially due to there being so much more crap on the web. *grumbles*)


5. Guardian: Our slo-mo rewatch (1/2 episode per week) is still so much fun! I can't always manage to comment right away, but thanks to the magic of DW, the discussion is just as good no matter when I get there. ♥ ♥ ♥
   
   (Seriously, this is one of my top reasons for preferring DW-style fandom over any other kind.)


6. Trope meme: Give me a fanfiction trope and I'll grade it:

   A: Love it. Spend my time combing AO3 for it.
   B: Like it. Not one of my bigger cravings, but it can scratch a certain itch if I’m in the right mood.
   C: Neutral. A good author might be able to sell it, but a bad one will kill it deader than dead.
   D: Not my favorite. I avoid it if I can, but it won't necessarily put me off reading something.
   F: Hate it. Will immediately make me nope out of a fic.

Hope everyone else is doing well!

Via tv_talk, two interesting new Sherlock Holmes-related shows in the making:

• Moriarty: "When a rival criminal begins an assault on his underground empire, Moriarty will have only one choice: to join the police as a consultant, using the law as a weapon to dismantle his foe while keeping his true identity hidden from the police." (source)


• The Death of Sherlock Holmes: "a six-part series starring Rafe Spall as an amnesiac Holmes forced to deduce his own identity high in the Swiss Alps" (source)

No matter how many there are, I can never get enough of Sherlock Holmes adaptations! I've read and watched a lot of them, and there are so many more I still want to try, but every time I see something new announced I'm still all, YAY! *g*

(No, seriously, I love the sheer variety of different things inspired by ACD's Holmes, no matter how close or how tenuously connected. Inspiration! Fannishness! It's all brilliant. :D)

Still reading the 520 Day collection, but I'm also writing!

Among other things (which I can't talk about because exchanges), I'm currently working on an original thing, and I'm having trouble with a character that won't quite come together. I know rather a lot about them, but I don't have a real feel for them as a character yet.

Now, part of the reason is no doubt that I haven't fully settled on a name - characters never entirely come together for me until I've found the "right" name for them - but maybe some outside inspiration would help, too. Sometimes it does help to think about similar characters/archetypes, and where the differences lie!

To that end: if you know any good mentor characters who remain in the story after their "student" surpassed them or no longer needs them, please tell me about them! I'd really appreciate it. ♥

Happy belated 520 Day, everyone!

Our annual Guardian Reverse Exchange revealed two days ago, and our collection is full of gorgeous works! We have a whole bounty of drama and novel works, fanfic, fanart, podfic and vids this year. So happy-making! :D

My own exchange experience this year is all Ya Qing-centric, yay! I received a delightful Ya Qing vid from amedia:

These Boots [General]
Characters/Relationships: Ya Qing & Zhu Jiu, Ya Qing & Wang Xiangyang, Ya Qing & Ye Zun, Ya Qing & Ying Chun
Content Tags: Celebrating BAMF!Ya Qing, 520 Day Guardian Reverse Exchange 2026, Prompt Fill, Gift vid, Fanvids, Short vid (just over a minute)

Summary: Ya Qing is SO DONE with all her co-conspirators.

And I wrote a Ya Qing/Zhu Hong fic myself, for plingo_kat:

Unwritten (3,017 words) [Teen]
Relationship: Ya Qing/Zhu Hong
Characters: Ya Qing, Zhu Hong, Ying Chun, Snake Tribe's Fourth Uncle
Content Tags: Post-Canon, Post-Fix-It, Guardian Treaty, Yashou Worldbuilding, Yashou History, Fu You's Legacy, High Chief Zhu Hong, Pre-ship, First Kiss

Summary: It's foolish to have a quarrel with a dead woman, but Ya Qing does. She's had it for years, ever since she began to realise how much the Guardian Treaty and Yashou neutrality were holding her people back. Fu You's legacy looms large among all the Yashou tribes, and everything Ya Qing did was to try and escape it.

highadrenalineexchange (HA) author reveals happened, and I can finally talk about this! *deep breath*

I wrote a whole sci-fi novella! And I had so much fun with this, and I'm really proud of the result. :D

The requested relationship was "Young King Warring With Rival/Famed Older Knight Who Was Betrayed By Rival", and my recipient was open to a variety of different genres and settings. But they said "space opera" in their request, and I went, "YES, THAT, I'M DOING THAT," and then spent the next week or so in a haze of worldbuilding and note-taking and snippet-writing.

HA has a very short creation period - only two weeks for a 10k story - so after that I pulled together a first complete draft. But I couldn't stop writing more, and worldbuilding more. Happily, there were several delays, so I was able to extend the story to double the word count, which IMO also improved it considerably. *g*

One of the most fun things about worldbuilding, for me, is hinting at all the things that aren't on screen, to make it look like a proper lived-in world - and to show how the world they live in shapes and impacts the characters, beyond the immediate plot. And I had SUCH a blast with all of that here! I'm definitely going to talk more about this in another post, but for now, here is the story - if it sounds at all like your kind of thing, I'd really love it if you gave it a chance:

**

Title: Zhentari's Choice
Rating: Explicit
Word count: 21,458
Relationship: Young King Warring With Rival/Famed Older Knight Who Was Betrayed By Rival
Characters: Younger King, Older Knight, Rival Would-be King
Content Tags: Science Fiction, Space Opera, Space Royalty, Space Politics, Political Manoeuvring, Betrayed to the Enemy, Code of Ethics, Sci-Fi Philosophies, Age Difference, Enemies to Lovers, Loyalty Issues, Power Dynamics, Consensual Sex, Refractory Period Manipulation, Multiple Orgasms
A/N: Many thanks to china_shop for beta-reading!

Summary:

"Do what is necessary. Only the gods know what is truly necessary, but you must choose.
Do what suits the purpose. You have not the hindsight of the gods, but you must choose.
Do what is appropriate. You have not the measuring-stick of the gods, but you must choose.
Do what you must, Zhentari, and know your choice."

(The "Three Choices", according to the Zhentar Code)

Jolim Niall, famous Zhentar Knight (or infamous, depending on your position), has been in service to Tevin Appen of Trella for most of his life. When he falls into the hands of the King of Tarn, he's not sure which is worse: what Ayrom Gaudren no doubt has in store for him - or that it's Appen's betrayal that landed him there.

But Gaudren's plans aren't what he expects - and Jolim Niall must make a choice ...

Via china_shop:

This week I'm reading: the new Murderbot book (came out today)! I'm also rereading Memory (from Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga).

My favorite book of all time is: I'm with china_shop here: "Completely impossible! I can't even name a favourite author."

My current favorite book (read or re-read in the last 3 months) is: I just yesterday finished rereading Mirror Dance (from Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga) and remembered how much I love that one!

The last book I bought was: volume 3 of the German translation of Guardian by priest, in a gorgeous hardcover edition.

The first book I bought with my own money was: I'm sure I bought some book or other as soon as I had enough pocket money. How am I supposed to remember that?!

The first book I received as a gift was: I must have been a toddler, how should I know?!

The last book I received as a gift was: I can't even answer this one, LOL. I don't get a lot of gifts, and even if I did, I wouldn't really want books. Book recommendations, definitely! But - how do I explain this? I love books; I read a lot. And I have a long, long list of things I want to read at some point - but what I don't have is enough time or energy to get to most of it any time soon. I can't even manage to consistently keep up with my favourite series these days, and am many, many instalments behind. So I prioritise pretty ruthlessly. I read new things when I have energy for them; I pick out exactly what appeals in that moment. And I'd feel pretty bad leaving a gift book just lying around indefinitely until I eventually get to it.

The last book I borrowed from the library was: IIRC the Judge Dee books by Robert van Gulik, a while ago, for a binge-reread. I used to carry huge stacks of books to and fro all the time, and now (see above) I can't find enough time to get to much any more.

The book physically closest to me right now is: the fifth volume of the Perry Rhodan hardcover edition.

This or that:
Physical book, e-book, or audio: physical book for comfortable rereading, ebook for trying new things or for fanfic canon revision. Never audio; I can't do audio, my attention will drift immediately. (I'm not sure if that's because it's audio, or simply because the speed is so much lower than my reading speed, it's like reading in slow motion. Also, I don't have the spare time!)
Used, new, or fell off the back of the internet: any way I can get my hands on what I want to read
Fiction or non-fiction: mainly fiction
Read at a coffee shop or at the park: neither; I do read when out and about, but that's generally just rereads of things I've read many times before, where I don't mind reading it in snatches. Otherwise, I want to comfortably settle down at home for a proper reading session. (I usually don't like reading things bit by bit! All in one go if at all possible is my preferred method for most fiction.)
Paperback or hardcover: paperbacks are so much easier to handle! I really only get hardcovers for collecting reasons, and that exceedingly rarely.
Romance or Crime: Crime! I like romance in combination with other things, but on its own it doesn't often work for me. Whereas crime fiction is fun in its own right.

Yes or no:
Literary fiction? yes
Sci-fi/fantasy? my one true love! (sci-fi more than fantasy)
Poetry? yes!
Memoirs? hardly ever
Philosophy? yes
Thrillers? absolutely
Chronicles? not sure what that means here
Travel logs? not really
Dialogue heavy? sure, why not

135 years ago today, on 4 May 1891, Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty met their end at the Reichenbach Falls.

Until ACD changed his mind, of course. But it starts here, at the end: the very first we ever hear of Moriarty is the story in which he dies, which is also the story meant to kill off Holmes.

All those years later, the story is still alive, and keeps on going. :D

Happy Reichenbach Day! ♥

Btw, did I mention that I watched the new Young Sherlock show in March? I quite enjoyed it, though it didn't really hit me in the Sherlockian place. Neither its Sherlock nor its Moriarty quite gave me what I want from those characters, though I find it hard to explain how. At any rate, they're very fun characters to follow as they are, so I'm glad I watched!

I also really appreciate that the show has a prominent Chinese character and a whole bunch of scenes with Mandarin dialogue, much of which I could actually follow reasonably well. Xiao Wei and her sidekick Liu Meiyi are an absolute delight, I'd watch a whole show just about them. *g*

And all the Holmes family dynamics were really great; every single person got their chance to properly shine. Such a good ensemble cast! I'm definitely looking forward to season 2, even without the Chinese characters, who seem unlikely to return.

I've been commenting a bit over at polyamships's NSFW 3 weeks 4 dreamwidth posts, and I thought I'd bring some of that over here, because I had more to talk about that wasn't about poly, but more about writing in general.

On the "current favorite poly ship" question I mentioned a ship that's been on my mind all through April - an original trio from an old origfic WIP I last worked on in 2018, and that took over significant parts of my brainspace again this April.

I'd been reading through my old origfic WIPs because March was the month when I suddenly had a lot of inspiration again for the sort of thing I used to write a lot of, back when I regularly wrote origfic - and then this one really hit me hard again.

The basic concept is a clan feud coming to an end when one side is brought down by a third party, and what happens between the survivors and their former enemies. The ship is a V, with siblings from one side and the third from the other. (Side question: am I the only one around here who likes V-shaped ships? They seem to be pretty unpopular in fandom.)

I wrote a significant chunk of this in 2017 and early 2018, and then didn't touch it again until 1st April this year, for reasons I'm not entirely clear on, though falling into Guardian and cdramas in general probably played a part. *g* I have almost 60k now - but I guess if I ever do finish it in any meaningful way, it'll probably be at least 200k. What I have at the moment is basically the minidrama version: all the dramatic interpersonal moments; everything else more or less sketched in. To pull it off to full effect would take a lot of work! And maybe one day I'll manage that work - I do want to; I just don't have the time or energy I'd need. But in the meantime I've been having a lot of fun just adding more to that world and those characters' arcs.

I mean, really, a LOT of fun. My writing in April looked like this:



It's a very rare month when my writing is so concentrated on so few stories! But I had two unrevealed exchange stories to work on, where extensions gave me a lot more time to expand, rewrite, edit and improve - that got a lot of my focus. And then the rest of my brainspace got taken over by that WIP.

And then I was wondering how often that sort of thing happens to other people. So here's a poll for you:

Where has the month gone?! All right, a lot of it has gone into writing, but that surely can't be all ... *looks around, waves at everyone* Hi! I'm still here. *g*

Anyway! I wrote longer stories for fffx and highadrenalineexchange, both of which revealed this month, and fffx has already had author reveals. So now that I'm actually posting, of course this is the first thing to post about!

It took me a while to actually settle on what I wanted to write for this exchange. I had another idea that I hope to tackle some day, but I think I picked the right thing in the end! It came together pretty well once I actually decided.

It's Guardian again, canon divergence during the early episodes - set right after the face-stealer case (episode 4) and before the water kidnapping/Butler Wu case (episode 5). Zhao Yunlan gets to interact more closely with the Black-Cloaked Envoy, rather than Professor Shen, and gains some insights. There is coughing up blood and wound-tending and tea and conversation, and all of it takes place in a very constrained space, because I trapped them together. *g*

If you want, there's even a visual reference for the space they're stuck in, because my beta noted that things weren't completely clear, so I made myself a reference for editing purposes. Have a floor plan!

(And many thanks to china_shop for beta-reading, as usual! ♥)

**

Title: Close the Distance, Lock Us In
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV 2018)
Relationship: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Zhao Yunlan & Black-Cloaked Envoy
Characters: Shen Wei, Zhao Yunlan, mini-cameos by SID members
Content tags: Episode Related, Post-Episode 4, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Zhao Yunlan & the Black-Cloaked Envoy, Protective Shen Wei, Hurt Shen Wei, Protective Zhao Yunlan, Trapped Together, Black and White Energy, a bit of Hurt/Comfort, Identity Porn

Summary:

The Black-Cloaked Envoy slammed down into the nondescript little flat like a thunderbolt from the heavens, not a moment too soon.

Zhao Yunlan and the Black-Cloaked Envoy, trapped together early on: how much of a difference can it really make? Turns out, a surprising amount.

Dear fandom5k writer,

thank you so much for writing a story for me! I've requested and received all of these fandoms before - some for many, many years, and often with the same prompts, because when I really enjoy something, I immediately want fifty more takes on the same thing. *g* So if that's what we matched on, don't worry about repeating things! I'll be absolutely thrilled about anything you can create about the relationships I requested.

Everything important is in the requests themselves, but if you'd like even more info, general likes etc., here you go.

My AO3 account is Trobadora, and it's set to welcome treats.

General Preferences

( Likes & Dislikes/DNWs )

Fandoms and relationships

In somewhat alphabetical order - note that some sections are expanded compared to the sign-up form:

Jump directly to:

• Grimm: Nick/Renard/Juliette
• 镇魂 | Guardian (TV): Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Ya Qing/Zhu Hong, Shen Wei & Ya Qing
• Grimm/镇魂 | Guardian (TV) crossovers: Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan & Sean Renard & Nick Burkhardt, Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan & Sean Renard, Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan & Juliette Silverton, Shen Wei & Sean Renard, Shen Wei & Juliette Silverton, Sean Renard & Ya Qing, Sean Renard/Ya Qing
• Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling: Kashtiliash & Raupasha
• Sherlock (BBC): Sherlock/Moriarty
• 山河令 | Word of Honor: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu

( Grimm: Nick/Renard/Juliette )

( 镇魂 | Guardian (TV): Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, Ya Qing/Zhu Hong, Shen Wei & Ya Qing )

( Grimm/Guardian crossovers: Nick Burkhardt & Sean Renard & Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan, Sean Renard & Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan, Juliette Silverton & Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan, Juliette Silverton & Shen Wei, Sean Renard & Shen Wei, Sean Renard & Ya Qing, Sean Renard/Ya Qing )

( Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling: Kashtiliash & Raupasha )

( Sherlock (BBC): Jim Moriarty/Sherlock Holmes )

( 山河令 | Word of Honor: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu )

It's 10 minutes to midnight on 31 March, and I just realised I haven't posted here all month!

Currently I'm writing like a fiend, and also, over at sid_guardian, this year's 520 Day Reverse Exchange is under way. So excited to see everyone's requests coming in!

But to have some actual content here this month, let me very quickly share something I've been meaning to.

Every winter, I want lots and lots of hot drinks, and get tired of having the same drinks all the time. So I try out new recipes, and sometimes I even find something that's really good. (Last autumn, that was the peppermint hot chocolate.)

My latest discovery is a sort of low-cal chai latte sweetened with molasses - it comes out something like Indian Pudding in beverage form.

For two glasses:

1 teabag black tea
1 teabag classic yogi tea
some black pepper
some powdered ginger
1-2 cloves
250ml hot water

Pour hot water over the tea/spices. Let steep overnight in the fridge.

Pour half in each glass, add 120ml almond milk and 15ml sugar-free vanilla syrup each. Heat up in the microwave. (Or in a pot on the stove, that works too.)

Sweeten with a teaspoon of molasses each.

Delicious! :D

Dear highadrenalineexchange writer,

thank you so much for writing a story for me! I've requested and received most of these fandoms before - some for many, many years, and often with the same prompts, because when I really enjoy something, I immediately want fifty more takes on the same thing. *g* So if that's what we matched on, don't worry about repeating things! I'll be absolutely thrilled about anything you can create about the relationships I requested.

Everything important is in the requests themselves, but if you'd like even more info, general likes etc., here you go.

My AO3 account is Trobadora, and it's set to welcome treats.

General Preferences

( Likes & Dislikes/DNWs )

Fandoms and relationships

In somewhat alphabetical order - note that some sections are expanded compared to the sign-up form:

Jump directly to:

• Christabel/Grimm crossover: Christabel & Geraldine & Grimm Worldbuilding
• 绅探 | Detective L: Huo Wensi/Luo Fei
• Grimm: Nick/Renard/Juliette
• 镇魂 | Guardian (TV): Ya Qing/Zhu Hong, Shen Wei & Ya Qing
• Grimm/镇魂 | Guardian (TV) crossovers: Nick Burkhardt & Sean Renard & Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan, Sean Renard & Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan, Juliette Silverton & Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan, Juliette Silverton & Shen Wei, Sean Renard & Shen Wei, Sean Renard & Ya Qing, Sean Renard/Ya Qing
• Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling: Kashtiliash & Raupasha
• 长公主在上 | Eldest Princess On Top: Li Yunzhen/Gu Xuanqing

( Christabel/Grimm crossover: Christabel & Geraldine & Grimm Worldbuilding )

( 绅探 | Detective L: Huo Wensi/Luo Fei, )

( Grimm: Nick/Renard/Juliette )

( 镇魂 | Guardian (TV): Ya Qing/Zhu Hong, Shen Wei & Ya Qing )

( Grimm/Guardian crossovers: Nick Burkhardt & Sean Renard & Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan, Sean Renard & Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan, Juliette Silverton & Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan, Juliette Silverton & Shen Wei, Sean Renard & Shen Wei, Sean Renard & Ya Qing, Sean Renard/Ya Qing )

( Nantucket Trilogy - S.M. Stirling: Kashtiliash & Raupasha )

( 长公主在上 | Eldest Princess On Top: Li Yunzhen/Gu Xuanqing )

• Exchanges:
  
  fffx is having a delay, and meanwhile highadrenalineexchange is in sign-ups. As things currently stand, FFFX should reveal right at the HA deadline, which isn't optimal, and if there's another delay, it will be even less optimal. Two 10k exchanges, overlapping - oops?
  
  And yet somehow I'm still signing up for HA! Because I want to be writing, and I know it will reliably make me write. So far this year hasn't gone great writing-wise, and I need it to get better because I always feel better when I'm writing ...
  
  Of course it may turn out that no one else signs up who wants anything I can write, and the whole thing will be moot anyway. *g* Fingers crossed!


• Comments:
  
  Over at the Guardian Slo-Mo Rewatch, things have gone a little more quiet in the comments than I'd like, but I can't exactly complain because I've been so busy I've fallen behind myself a few times. Including right now. And I'm also a bit behind on AO3 comments - on older stuff, that is; I'm caught up on my most recent fic, including the spam comment I got today. (It's so frustrating when there's so few comments to begin with, and then one of them is spam! *grumbles*) I'm going to see if I can catch up at least on some of it tonight.

In conclusion, still in desperate need of a TARDIS. *g*

How's everyone else doing? Anyone else doing HA?

candyheartsex author reveals have happened! And here's the fic I wrote for facethestrange:

**

Title: in the darkness with you
Word count: 4,233
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV)
Pairing: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Rating: Mature
Content tags: Blind Zhao Yunlan, First time, Hand-Feeding, Finger-Sucking, Clothed Sex, Zhao Yunlan's oral fixation, Episode Related, Episode 21, Missing Scene, Blindness Arc
A/N: Many thanks to china_shop for beta-reading.

Summary:

Zhao Yunlan woke to the smell of citrus, sweet and strong in the air. Without fully turning his face out of the pillow, he slitted open a sleep-heavy eye - to complete, unchanged darkness. Reality came crashing down like a landslide. Right: still blind.

Happy Lunar New Year!

Time keeps slipping away from me again, and I keep thinking of things I want to post about, but when I finally sit get to down and open DW, I've forgotten all about it.

But I remembered the New Year, at least! *g*

I expect you've all seen this?

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will soon require age verification to access adult content

Just, UGH.

Thank you all for being here in January! And good luck for February over at sakanawords!

Tally

( Days 1-30 )

Day 31: alightbuthappypen, badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme

How have we already reached the end of the month?! Final check-in for January today! Tomorrow I'll post the final tally, and WED will continue over at sakanawords. :D

Today's writing

A lot of writing - my deadline is in about 7 hours hours, and I've filled in all the gaps in my story by now, but there are still a few things I want to add before I post later tonight. *flails*

Tally

( Days 1-25 )

Day 26: badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme

Day 27: badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme

Day 28: badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, china_shop, chanter1944, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme
carenejeans,
Day 29: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme

Day 30: badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula@sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme

Day 31: china_shop, trobadora

Let me know if I missed anyone! And remember you can drop in or out at any time. :)

Rushing towards the deadline ...

Today's writing

I have once again reached the "should I just scrap all of this and start over?" point. I tell myself to just keep writing for now; I can still start over and write a whole new story after the deadline. For now, I need to finish this draft so I can post it.

So I keep writing. For now.

Tally

( Days 1-25 )

Day 26: badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme

Day 27: badly_knitted, brithistorian, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, ysilme

Day 28: badly_knitted, brithistorian, china_shop, chanter1944, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme

Day 29: badly_knitted, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, goddess47, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sylvanwitch, trobadora, ysilme

Day 30: china_shop, trobadora

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