Whispers

Yeah, so this year, I’m doing something new with the annual goals:

1. Health: do daily supplements, get the breathing exercises done and a year later pick up my appliance (let’s just say sheltering-in-place threw last year’s plan for a number on me), and get healthier


2. Writing: write stuff daily and don’t care if it’s poetry or nonfiction or fanfic or original fiction, just write completed stuff on an average of daily


3. Publishing: get online sites and subscription/commission sites off the ground and stop trying to put books in stores before I have the time/energy bandwidth to do it

Me. I have plans.

Best wishes for yours!

So I’m writing a story again, go me. I’m actually writing stories all the time and there’s of course, the commission and the Big One hiding out in my Big Fear timeline that I don’t even know when it’s supposedly due. Ahem, anyway.

Then there’s this thing. I brainstormed it over the last two days basically and lo and behold! a story! I know how it’s supposed to end and I know all the big emotional stuff going on through the two big mains and absolutely no clue how much of the backstory’s going in or how to organize any of it.

Yeah, so thoughts about structure. I’ve never been big on the idea of this straightforward plot nonsense. It just really doesn’t quite work for me. I’m far more into the business of structuring an emotional journey. And right now, I know absolutely the emotional journey I’m going to throw these characters through, but how that’s going to play out for the reader is a whole different ballgame.

There’s backstory, the first. There’s backstory, the second. There’s present time over a longer period of time where the two mains meet and one gets over her natural skepticism and one gets over (or at least finds more peace with) his overwhelming longstanding grief and then there’s the wrap-up for those two.

I’m absolutely not going to write three stories and marry them, so good luck to me figuring out how much of this stuff is needed.

Plus main storyline invites some meta and in-world nonstandard texts, but that doesn’t mean it’s a great idea for me to get sidetracked by that.

In short, I’m gonna do the thing I do when I’m writing about a universe I know too much about: I’m going to write the main story as if the reader knows everything I do. Then good luck to future me editing in all the pieces necessary to understand.

What kind of structure does one plan for a three in one story? In my case, as little as possible.

Fandom for Oz is live! I’m offering fanfic in return for donations to support Australia. A link to the bidding guide for the auction.

Wrote:

1. 12 poems and 70 lines, crossposted nothing


2. 6 unrevealed ficlets and 1 just not crossposted


3. a scene list sort of thingy on my WIP

Not what I was hoping but not half bad. I was hoping to get more down on WIP. I know where I’m heading with it, just haven’t had time/energy/headspace to get it down yet.

I’ve also finished getting a PDF file ready of What Lies Before, a collection of original short stories, which I will get into download access and possibly a gumroad before I try and figure out how to actually publish it properly, because that last sounds more tiring than it ought.

Still, that’s prepped, which is great.

I also pulled 5 pieces out of first access into freely available, so I’ll get there on posting links to those soon too.

On the health front, I went to a new doctor yesterday for insurance reasons to establish care, who is willing to keep my other doctor in the loop, which is awesome. And lo! There is hope for me yet. I have a structural issue apparently that’s preventing my getting enough oxygen or draining stuff the way I should, which technically I always kind of knew. From childhood, my breathing options were constrained, I just didn’t realize they meant I’m literally never getting enough oxygen, and I’ve always been so stuffed up, I can barely smell.

Shocker. These things have health consequences, so my doctor gave me a potential nonsurgical option to check out, which I will do as soon as we wrap up all this car and post-vacation business. Because quality of life! Not dragging around tired and depressed all the time! This would be good!

About that, CAR! I loved our beautiful, old faithful, 2005 sedan but it was… time to retire it. We got a new car on Friday, which has eaten a chunk into budget and time bank, but so worth it. A beautiful Hyundai Santa Fe Sport and I will eventually get used to how her responsiveness differs greatly from the sedan. Mostly, I will eventually stop turning on the windshield wipers when I’m trying to reverse because our gear shaft is now in between the seats instead of on the steering wheel. I drove like an amateur yesterday on my first time out in her. Oh well.

Hope you’re all doing well! Lots of love!

For those things without prompts you feel like posting here.

So along with writing more, typing up my backlog, etc., I’m also trying to do better at crossposting. One of these got mentioned before but is now also on my website and not just AO3.

1. Take Care (K): AO3, Website
   
   

   Yata seriously considered grabbing Saruhiko’s knife and stabbing him. Except that would defeat the entire purpose of carefully wrapping every injury in antiseptic and gauze, regardless of how much it stung. [Fushimi Saruhiko/Yata Misaki]

   
   

   Written for Happy Belated Treatmas 2019 for my dear friend in fandom, geckoholic. Who prompted some of my favorites for the Hurt Comfort Exchange when I really wasn’t up to adding another exchange to the docket. Months later, behold! Fushimi/Yata hurt/comfort with some how does one have sex around the bruises and also lots and lots of unspoken feelings because that’s how they roll.

   
   


2. In Small Moments (Bourne): AO3, Website
   
   

   “Are you comfortable with this assignment?” her supervisor asked, and she was not unintelligent.

   
   

   She looked thoughtful for a moment, processing all the implications—it would do no good to have them assume her an airhead or even blindly devoted to the cause; it was a delicate balance to strike—then nodded. “Yes.” [Nicky Parsons/Jason Bourne]

   
   


3. Movement (BSD): AO3, Website
   
   


4. Untouchable (Toaru/X-Men Movieverse): AO3, Website
   
   

So I was horrible at running Patreon and crossposting last year and here’s hoping to be slightly better. I intend to take everything posted on first access in 2019 and make it free by the end of the month.

Posted for first access ($1/mo.) today are three poems, all written today:

1. labels – I could be bold / like the colors of ancient crayons / unlikely adjectives sprawled / over the yellow labels…


2. a name – call me something, anything, / I used to say, / as though just having a name / was good, though it wasn’t…


3. lamp on the wood – bright lamp on the wood beside my window / keeping watch with steady eye and yellow…

Available for free on website and AO3, fanfic:

1. In Small Moments (Bourne Movies): Nicky Parsons/Jason Bourne – The asset wasn’t known for tender compassion or warmth. If he was, Nicky assumed, he wouldn’t be an asset. But there was a certain amount of liability in being an obvious plant that disappeared at irregular intervals, always when someone of import within the country died, and there was something to be said for the traditional old standbys for covers. [on AO3], [on website]

The last was written for Happy Belated Treatmas 2019 for Ashling, who prompted arranged marriage and tenderness and hurt/comfort and upon discovering Bourne was an option, this AU just sprang into my head, basically because arranged marriage fit so well with the whole undercover asset thing and having a relationship that was both professional and intensely personal. I really loved stepping back into Nicky’s head for a minute and was really happy the recipient liked it.

I’ll get my other Treatmas fics crossposted soonish.

Work has been intense, but I’m heading in for a weeklong holiday, so just trying to make it through to tonight.

I’ve been formulating goals for the year, and stuff I want to deal with, but more on that in the days ahead when I’ve thought it through better.

And while I’m thinking of it, because I am.

Conlanging

So I was a flat failure at Lexember, which is new for me, but I’ve decided I’d like to actually see if I can bring Akachenti to a usable/finished ish state, even without building a proto-language because guys, I just want to write fiction, so I’m gonna try to stop worrying about perfection. (More like, unfinished things are starting to feel heavy.)

That said, I’ve started rereading my notes and realized something I should have all along. The unmarked stem is indicative and the marked stem I started with is inchoative. Simple as that.

So if you say abaga:, you’re saying, “I love,” with an indication that this is true in the past and the present. Aka, it’s true, factual, already happened. If you say, abaga:sha, you’re saying, “I love now,” or basically it’s true in the present but not the past.

I’ve looked at all kinds of aspects and tenses to explain why the unmarked is past/present without thinking about basic aspect. It’s indicative. It doesn’t really have tense at all. It can be used for past or present, even if you’re referring to something you did and completed before now, so long as you haven’t undone it since. They have a past discontinuous for that, which is actually just a specific negative or discontinuous prefix, e.g. vibaga:, or “I no longer love”. I’m guessing this originated from some word meaning “to stop or cease.”

I could totally do goals! I could. I had a good 2019 for writing goals, bad on some fronts, but better than if I hadn’t had the goals.

2019’s Writing Goals:

1. Finish 1000 poems


2. Finish 365 ficlets (fanfic one-shots count here even if longer)


3. Finish 52 original short stories

2019’s Accomplishments: Well, to start off with, I haven’t properly run all the numbers, but I’ll take a stab at the poetry despite not having finished typing things up.

1. Finished more than 1000 poems (980ish typed and we won’t discuss the backlog of in notebook, not typed)


2. Finished 213 fanfic or original ficlets


3. Finished 9 original short stories

Boy, do I want to move that #3 needle, but that wasn’t a bad 3rd run at writing prose daily. Not what I wanted, but not bad.

So next year: I want to do all the things, to be honest. I want to finish writing books, compiling anthologies, finish those gift stories I never did because the guilt hangs over my head all the time, and I want to finish short stories too. I want to crosspost things to patreon and publish every week, so people have a reason to subscribe, and collect the month’s haul of writing into something publishable, and the truth is I haven’t compiled reasonable goals yet. I could keep up with the average 3 poems/day and that wouldn’t be hard, but I truly want to focus in on producing and making available fiction.

Ah, we’ll see what happens.

Here be prompts! Leave a prompt in the comments! Fill a prompt! Leave as many as you like, fill as many as you like, even if someone’s already filled one.

You can prompt original, any fandom, or a specific fandom I know. Format examples are:

• any, any, alone again


• Bungou Stray Dogs, Kyouka+/Atsushi, falling asleep on each other


• original, any/any, we were happy, right?

You can also throw in image, lyric, other format type prompts. Whatever works.

Post stays open until it slows down. If I don’t fill any right away, I’m working on an exchange fic due, but I’ll be in and out I promise.

You can also prompt poetry.

New stickers arrived! They’re so pretty. Except what’s with this custom stickers getting less and less space for letters. I don’t care for this new font. Ah well, still overall pretty and functional and I needed that.

Reading Clean Coder for work. My devs don’t do the whole tweak code every time, because yeah, code is already rigid and risky in the biggest areas of opportunity and the oldest code is affected by changes to new code. We keep breaking stuff when touching supposedly low scope stuff. So aspirational.

Listening to Dynasty by MIIA on repeat. I love this song, despite the everything lost vibe of it. Very evocative for fiction.

There are so many stories tumbling through my head all the time, all the lost, unforgotten, unfinished stories; all the new, bright and complicated new ones—I can’t write them all. It’s hard because I could write any. It freezes me up a lot. I owe so much fiction though everyone’s been nice enough to treat me as having gone bankrupt and expect nothing. I feel that. I feel the want to finish all these stories. They’re still there, this mighty shadow of the iceberg beneath stories written, “complete”. They aren’t all complete. So many need more. I’m going to expand “The Legendary”, but the truth is, most of Kingdoms and Thorn still demands the linchpin stories or more on any of the ficlets. And that’s the best developed of all my worlds.

I haven’t lost interest. I don’t lose interest when I write something short and move on. I’m so full up and I contain each bit as fast and tight as I can so I don’t lose it.

To say nothing of fanfic. Will I ever finish all these half-written pieces, some of which I love sooooo much? History says no. I don’t like that answer. I don’t know how to change it.

I’ve been watching so much anime, so much, an odd change of pace for me in a way, but seriously, it’s many flaws don’t bother me as much as the flaws in my old live action western tv/movie stomping grounds, and there’s this thing called arcs that are definitely used in western tv, but they’re kind of a lot clearer to me as I’m watching anime. I’m thinking I’m going to try writing down the arcs of all my different storyworlds and maybe I can get bigger pieces moving on a more regular basis. Which would require cutting back exchanges dramatically.

Gift exchanges keep me writing fiction when little else does, but they take a particular production schedule mindset which interferes with the way I write longer fiction. I only write in a focused drilled down way on one piece of longer fiction at a time, and right now I have the working novel I started so long ago to relearn how to write long and a book my family can read (they would not approve of my SFF / “what terrible things I have done” backstory proclivities) and a major exchange fic. I like writing longer works for exchanges. It has helped me relearn how to write long(er) despite my lack of finishing working title: canaf. Even so. There are a lot of original pieces I want done more than the exchange ones that aren’t going to happen if I don’t curtail my love of exchange fandom quite a bit.

I don’t like that answer either. But I really cannot change it.

Most interesting to me is my inability to fully prioritize publishing any of this stuff right now, though I have Patreoned up (for original fiction, fanfic will ever remain free) to at least attempt to maximize my efforts. Because publishing takes a lot of effort. I’ve been cleaning up the typesetting, adding optional hyphens and tweaking kerning as necessary, on a collection for several weeks now. And my efforts tend to go to creating. It’s more important to me to create than to package something to sell. My budget disagrees, the hours I’m capable of working to increase said budget disagrees, but my health comes first and if I stop creating, publishing hardly matters.

So I wasn’t expecting to start talking about all this stuff, but yeah, thoughts there. And bandwidth. Bandwidth is the thing I really want more of—that confluence of time, opportunity, energy, and memory. I’m grateful for what I have. I’m trying to be a good steward of it. Maybe I’m not there yet.

I’m not too fond of that answer, but at least that, I might be able to change.

I actually emailed people! Been a while since I’ve been out there at all with anything other than an exchange due fic. True, writing has happened, and I’m still throwing things in the Notebook Archive, both original and fannish, and hoping to get back up on the poetry train like a good girl.

I have been writing poems, which is kind of great. I’m well on track to beat my goal of 1K poems this year, which is exciting, though now I want to slow down and write a long one or two again as well. Narrative poetry has fallen off my plate, but it’d be fun.

Work has been crazy. I was sick with a touch of strep then working through my recovery while still being sick and exhausted, so suffice to say, been swamped and lurking and barely getting through my days before crashing. But par for the course. I’ll live and I’m grateful that I can feel that way at this point. Maybe it means my ability to manage my chronic health issues better and my feelings about them is getting better. (Don’t tell my doctors I’ve skipped every single exercise or special thing I’m supposed to do while dealing with strep/recovery. At least I’ve been taking the ghastly number of pills I’m supposed to.)

That said, I am also enjoying writing again and trying to write something family-safe for the family, though I’ve been still ploughing through exchanges, so that’s slow going. Only so many writing hours in a week. Alas! I’m the master of overextending.

Been watching anime when I’m mentally out of it or physically not up to stuff, or on the weekends because I got hooked on a few.

So thoughts.

Starting with, why anime? In short, because I really, really love superhumans and living weapons and overpowered characters and my favorite settings sticking around with my favorite characters in it with domestic fluffy moments and established relationships with history that see on-screen development.

Aka, MCU broke all kinds of trust with me and I am bitter and all my attempts to try the Marvel shows (Marvel was my home, my fandom, and it’s all broken and I am bitter) only led to hating them and noping out partway through. Anime delivers on these things without utterly destroying everything I love about a canon. It builds on them and also superhumans who aren’t always playing vigilante as the core and almost sole conceit. Yay.

Violet Evergarden — Made for me. I always knew that even by osmosis, because living weapon learning to human is my trope. Well, that and soulmates, but seriously, they’d have to botch this bad for me to not like it. I loved it. I binged the anime in less than 2 days and loved it.

Afterward, I went looking for the LN translation because she didn’t get any reconciliation with the Major and I was hopeful, and discovered that LN lovers pretty much hated the anime. So I’ll read the LN when the bad taste gets out of my mouth and carry on loving both if possible.

It’s also super pretty, I don’t care what anyone says. I could get fannish about this but I don’t know if I’d feel confident about writing a lot of the characters, especially considering I haven’t read any LNs yet. Eh, might not fic this one too hard unless some flist joins me in my pain.

Boku No Hero Academia — Did I mention I really, really hated the art for this and thought I would never even try it? I hated the art through two and a half episodes but the characters hooked me and now it’s fine, I’ve adjusted. I tried this because gecko. I stayed for all my faves. I like what Midoriya does to the narrative, but he is not one of my faves at all. My favorites are Tsu and Ochako and Shouto and Katsuki and a leetle bit of Momo and Toshinori when he’s deflated and a leetle bit of Aizawa. But I like most of them and I really like the learning elements and the quirk training is fantastic and Katsuki’s breakdown was kind of wonderful and every single thing about Shouto protecting his mom and Ochako just deserves all the love but her and Tsu both don’t give me nearly as much fanficcable space where there’s iceberg material to go play with.

So… Crossovers maybe? I don’t know. I want something meaty and BNHA keeps its meat on the big three and their emotional growth and issues and that’s part of why I’m a serious multishipper and here it’s almost all passive shipping. I like reading quality stuff for some of the big ships or the obvious ships but I don’t actually actively ship anything. It’s weird. I’d like to.

That said, I’ve started writing some in it for exchanges mostly and don’t know that I’ll get any ideas that aren’t prompted, but it’s a thing.

Lord El Melloi II Case Files: Rail Zeppelin Grace note — So I really enjoyed the first LN and adored Flat and his relationship with Waver Velvet from Fate/strange fake, but this anime is like the best little fantasy mystery series and I have stars in my eyes over the characters, the details, the credits, and I’m loving it utterly. This from someone who has an extremely low tolerance for gore. This series should absolutely not be my cup of tea and somehow it absolutely is.

Gray is a sibyl, so her village (and family) wrote a Servant face/body over her but weren’t able to displace her spirit yet with the Servant, so she’s still her own person saved by Waver, who hates that face as much as she does. I really like the complexity of their relationship and how understated the identity issues are there. Also, her girl day with Reines was adorable and it was nice to see Reines’ nicer side.

Reines is an adorable little sadist and I love her way too much. Mages are an interesting bunch for sure.

Flat and Waver (and now Svin) remain some of my favorite characters ever. Flat Escardos is just a cinnamon roll with a great heart and cheerful disregard for important rules and I love him utterly.

I’d ask somebody to save me, but I don’t want to be saved. I want other people to fall in love with this show so I can squee with them and write fic and all that.

Fate/Grand Order — I watched the movie in time for the preview first episode of Babylonia to come out and that first episode was just like a very long preview with some scenes in it. If you don’t know a lot about the story, including some spoilers, it really sucks as an episode. That said, I’m interested in seeing what they do with it. Hopefully something good.

Dr. Stone — Oddly charming. I don’t think I’ll get fannish about it, but I’ll keep watching and enjoying it. I tried it entirely on a whim and was surprised I ended up liking it after a bit. Senku is fun after a bit, Tsukasa is irritating but not present enough to be a problem yet, and the villagers are mostly delightful. The science stuff is really fun, so I’m sticking with it.

Yuuri on Ice — I’m 2 and a half episodes in and going slowly. Because I don’t care about Victor or Yuuri yet and I ought to. I like Yuri, but we’ll see if it gets better or he’s worth it.

Fruits Basket (2019) — OMG, I’m in love! And I have a new favorite grumpy redhead! And I love Uo-chan sooooo much. And Hana and her family. And Tohru. And so many of the Sohmas being Sohmas. And Kisa trailing after her big sister. And there’s just so much good backstory whump and hugs! and not nearly enough of them doing stuff with their animal totems like in the first episode or two, so great loss there, but soooooo much good stuff, I’m hooked anyway.

I spoiled myself on endgame ships and am less sure I still ship everything I started off shipping, but I do have a little fondness for Arisa/Kyo, Kyo/Yuki/Tohru, besides Kyo/Tohru. Ah well, we’ll see how that pans out.

And here I shall stop going on and on for a bit. How’s everyone doing? What are you getting into?

AO3 – August 2019

1. The Path Marked (Queen’s Thief): https://archiveofourown.org/works/20016385


2. The Legendary (Original): https://archiveofourown.org/works/20097751


3. For This They Serve (Queen’s Thief): https://archiveofourown.org/works/20179432


4. The Queen in Her Castle (Queen’s Thief): https://archiveofourown.org/works/20179474


5. A Steady Flame (ATLA): https://archiveofourown.org/works/20191042


6. The Laws of Propriety (BSD): https://archiveofourown.org/works/20273044


7. Kissing the Boy (K): https://archiveofourown.org/works/20273260


8. So Many Little Dyings (MCU): https://archiveofourown.org/works/20295193


9. Merry Russian Christmas (MCU): https://archiveofourown.org/works/20295262


10. Stranger in the Storm (Original): https://archiveofourown.org/works/20301178


11. Minor Consequences (Lord El Melloi II Case Files): https://archiveofourown.org/works/20301649


12. the sound of frozen dreams (Fruits Basket): https://archiveofourown.org/works/20305003

Website – August 2019

1. You Have Magic (Original): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2019/01/you-have-magic/


2. The Ghosts of White Day (BSD): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2019/01/the-ghosts-of-white-day/


3. Tenderly (MCU): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2018/01/tenderly/


4. The Legend of Rose the Bookish Hero (Original): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2019/07/the-legend-of-rose-the-bookish-hero/


5. Stranger in the Storm (Original): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2019/08/stranger-in-the-storm/


6. The Morning After (K): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2019/08/the-morning-after/


7. Glowing (Original): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2019/08/glowing/

Patreon – August 2019

Patreon

1. First Access ($1/mo.)
   
   
   
   1. my dreams (Original Poetry – Graphic): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2019/08/graphic-my-dreams/
   
   
   2. my dreams (Original Poetry): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2019/08/my-dreams/
   
   
   3. wake (Original Poetry): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2019/08/wake-poem/
   
   

It’s been rough. I knew it would be. I’d hoped it be easier. Got a lot done, nearly wiped myself out doing it. Got things I didn’t get done, but I knew that would happen too.

Here’s hoping you all have a lovely weekend. <3

It happens. I even sometimes remember to tell people.
 

Available This Month

AO3

1. With Our Backs to the Wall (K): https://archiveofourown.org/works/19461238


2. What Must Be Done (Bungou Stray Dogs): https://archiveofourown.org/works/19702498


3. The Fairest (Queen’s Thief): https://archiveofourown.org/works/19702843


4. Find Me Waiting (Tea Dragon Society): https://archiveofourown.org/works/19702978


5. The Legend of Rose the Bookish Hero (Original Fiction): https://archiveofourown.org/works/19706350


6. Taking Measure (Imperial Radch Series): https://archiveofourown.org/works/19713970


7. Chase After me (Boku No Hero Academia): https://archiveofourown.org/works/19714954


8. The Ideal Partner (Bungou Stray Dogs): https://archiveofourown.org/works/19766569


9. No End in Sight (Bungou Stray Dogs): https://archiveofourown.org/works/19769980


10. And Be With Caution Bold (The Golden Bird Fairy Tale): https://archiveofourown.org/works/19770085

Patreon

1. First Access ($1/mo.)
   
   
   
   1. love is the tie (Poetry): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2019/05/love-is-the-tie-poem/
   
   
   2. don’t fly away (Poetry): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2019/05/dont-fly-away-poem/
   
   
   3. Vigilant (Riftspace): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2019/07/vigilant/
   
   
   4. Trying (Riftspace): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2019/07/trying/
   
   
   5. Lying in Wait (Riftspace): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2019/07/lying-in-wait/
   
   
   6. Morning Touch (Kingdoms and Thorn): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2019/07/morning-touch/
   7. bruises (Poetry): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2019/07/bruises-poem/


2. Download Access ($5/mo.)
   
   
   
   1. Collection: Acceptable Cost (Original Fiction): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2015/12/collection-acceptable-cost/
   
   
   2. Collection: Just Saying (Original Poetry): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2016/11/collection-just-saying/
   
   
   3. Collection: Songs from the Dust (Original Poetry): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2014/04/collection-songs-from-the-dust/
   
   
   4. Collection: November 2018: All Poetry: http://notebook.lianamir.com/2019/04/collection-november-2018-all-poetry/
   
   
   5. Collection: When the Clock Chimes (Original Fiction + Poetry): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2015/12/collection-when-the-clock-chimes/
   
   
   6. Publication: Dowse and Bleed (Kingdoms and Thorn): http://notebook.lianamir.com/2014/01/publication-dowse-and-bleed/
   
   

A place I’m going to post everything I’ve ever written and I’ve been working on it a while, so I’ve got a very large headstart.

http://notebook.lianamir.com/

Fanfic is freely available and will include all my socks and psueds over the years. Exchange fic won’t go up until after reveals.

Original fiction + poetry as Liana Mir is some free (old material), most in patreon for a buck (new material).

I have an enormous backlog of other stuff to get onto this, but it’ll be the main repository for my own sanity. Hope anybody likes. 😀

The Kings deserved that win and I’m so proud of them. Everybody was so good, but I’m super super happy the right crew won.

1. A third nonnie likes my original WIP! <3


2. I’m at 410 poems this year out of a goal of 306.


3. I’m at 88 out of a goal of 102 ficlets, which isn’t half bad.


4. The Kings are still the frontrunner for winning World of Dance. Which I’ll miss The Heima so bad, but the Kings deserve it and I’m really happy about it.