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May. 10th, 2037 10:57 am
wallwalker: Painting of an orange sun setting behind hills, a tree and a flock of birds. (orange sunset)
About Me: Middle-aged, she/her, married, working full-time and often tired. Writing, both original fiction and fanfiction, is a hobby for me and I don't really have any plans to make a career out of it; I just enjoy writing things. I also like doodling and learning to draw but am not good at doing it, or making a habit of it. I'm not much of a programmer anymore but want to re-learn, so might post a bit about that (yes, I'm in IT but mostly on the ops side, which has its own challenges.)

Subscribing: Feel free. A fair number of my posts are locked for various reasons. Don't be offended if I don't add you back, it's often just my memory being what it is.

Where I Am:
For original fiction I mostly post on [community profile] rainbowfic here on DW. I might create a personal home page to archive some of them later, or at least a second journal. Link to my author tag is here.
For fandom and fanworks info, check here: Fan Profile/Transformative Works Policy

updated 2024 )
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I'm super-behind on GYWO, even on the lowest word count. I blame work.

If I had a project this November it would make me on target, but I don't. Even if I had the energy I wouldn't try it officially, anyway. Smarter people than I have spoken about NaNoWriMo and its new sponsor. All I have are some vague thoughts about how it's kind of pointless to have an "effort-saving" tool* being pushed by an event where the effort is the point.

Anyway, I'm determined to write SOMETHING for Five Figure Fic Exchange, and I still have Fic-In-A-Box to finish. So it's not like I'll have nothing by the end of November.

*I put that in quotes because anyone who's read a long piece of fiction written by Gen AI knows that the editing will not be fun. Honestly, if NaEdWriMo was an actual event and not a joke offshoot, THAT would make sense to be sponsored by a Gen AI company. I still wouldn't like it, but it would make sense. Editing fifty thousand words of that sounds like a nightmare to me.
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It's been a few months, my attempt at monthly updates hasn't gone well. Currently sitting at home and not working, thanks to the dreaded virus (yes, that one,) which has finally caught up to me.

It sucks. mild tmi, very mild, but still )

Anyway I'm doing okay other than that, still sketching random things, posting most of them on my Pillowfort (which is very slow, even more so than here, but has image hosting that's useful.) Seems like a good idea to step clear of Tumblr a bit. Gaming-wise I finally finished Endwalker base game in FFXIV and am slowly working through post-EW so that I can actually play the new stuff, hoping to get through DW before the next expac comes out. Also replaying Yakuza: Like a Dragon in Legend NG+, which is much harder than I anticipated with me at lv 91.

They keep giving me more and more responsibility at work and I keep getting sick and having trouble with it. It's a hell of a stress test. I've been doing. Ok. Just tired.
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A bit more worldbuilding, this one about job interviews. (Yes, what the employers were doing was illegal.)

Job Interview Woes )
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Prompt: Misunderstanding.

More Sedoretu worldbuilding. Shirya tries to get out of the house and find more friends at a mingle for people in her moiety, but finds her intentions misconstrued in a very offensive way.

Misunderstood )
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(From these.)

(I did not get sick last/this month. However, I do mention someone who did.)

Read more... )
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Somehow I'm not vibing with the prompts, but I still have other ideas for these folks. More of the Sedoretu worldbuilding idea, this time about one of those shows where people argue with each other a lot, like Crossfire.
(Kris is NB but legally is Shirya's wife. The debate on the show is about another consequence of the same law, which said that people don't have to be legally or biologically a particular gender to register as "wife" or "husband." )

Interview )
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Part 3 of the Sedoretu original story. Mention of character death and also mention of dealing with immigration officials.

Bureaucracy )

MM 2: Hope

Mar. 2nd, 2024 10:32 am
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Prompt 2 for the Sedoretu story: Hope. (What is a Sedoretu?)

I didn't mean for these parts to be continuous, and the next few parts probably won't be. I just wanted to write exposition to set up the main issue of the story. This one refers to character death and sacrilegious relationships (in-universe.)

Hopes For the Future )

MM 1: Kiss

Mar. 1st, 2024 08:20 am
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For Multiamory March 2024 I'm writing original fiction. It's about... how do I put this... how I feel Sedoretu would work in a society like the one we live in in 2024. I haven't decided if this is our world or a more generic world that follows the rules that Ursula le Guin put forth in her stories about the planet O; maybe that'll come to me while I write. The main storyline will be about three people who lost one of their spouses in the recent past, and how they go about finding a fourth.

More information about what a Sedoretu is here.

(This particular one is set during the group's wedding, so it's before their loss.)

March 1st: Kiss.

Wedding Ceremony )
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Prompting for [community profile] threesentenceficathon wrapped up today so I'm going to take a break and probably write for some other challenges for a while, and also work on some rainbowfic posts that I have half-finished.

Roundups of things I did for it:
Fanwork roundup
Original work roundup

Jan roundup

Feb. 5th, 2024 09:30 pm
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Progress for January wasn't great, but that's largely because I didn't have any real goals until February.

Career:
Well, I've gotten better at bash shell scripting and finished a DevOps course. No luck yet on finding a good Java project. My current Big Project is... progressing... but I have no idea how to quantify it.
I've managed 3 days a week for going to the office. Which, honestly, should be enough.

Hobbies:
I haven't managed a sketch on the easel yet. I really should get some of my black and white charcoal and try.
On GIMP... not much, really. raccoon pope )
I'm on target for GYWO and can largely thank [community profile] threesentenceficathon for that. As for games... nope, haven't started anything new yet. A lot of my video game time was spent on WoW, unexpectedly enough.

Fitness/Health: (Starting small on this.)
I've been able to manage the bike for the last week. The rest... I'm working on it.
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I'm trying to do some original fiction fills for [community profile] threesentenceficathon, and this is the post for them, as fanworks are on the other journal. (Trying to make sure I have a record of them for GYWO. Not quite meeting my goal yet for this month, but I'm pretty close.) Some of these are probably getting crossposted to [community profile] rainbowfic sooner or later.

Read more... )
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Ok. Goals for 2024 for [community profile] snowflake_challenge. I'm keeping these modest this year because work really is taking up so much of my time.

Read more... )

updating

Jan. 2nd, 2024 08:40 pm
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Managed to update a few things (including making my welcome post sticky for a change) for the [community profile] snowflake_challenge for day one. We'll see if I stick with this longer than I normally do. (A lot of it might be on the other journal.)

I'll make some goals later. I technically should be working right now.
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I am still struggling with creating scheduled posts for this site, which is something I need if I'm going to remember to update something more than a few times a month. This is just how my brain works.

Honestly I don't expect Tumblr to disappear anytime soon. It'll just kind of fade away, much like ff.net has.

(I don't realistically expect to see a big surge in DW activity because of this. It would be nice to see more people here but if there was going to be a jump in activity it would've been on the NSFW ban, IMO. Still, considering that this site has BEEN here as long as it has and not had any major upheavals, you'd really think that someone would look at it and be like, "Oh, hey, this place is stable, let's hang out here sometimes.")
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More Endwalker reactions. I'm at Travelers at the Crossroads now (lv. 87.)

spoilers )
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Thoughts on Endwalker so far - I've finished the first trial (lv. 83) and have met the "pilots," who are adorable.

spoilers up to the point mentioned above )

We'll see what I think once the shit really hits the fan, which I understand is about now.
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I've watched a fair number of art conversation videos, just because it's satisfying to me how to the paintings look after they're cleaned and retouched. The guy I usually watch tells a lot of Dad jokes, talks a lot about the process, and is very vocal about how much he dislikes when people try to cover up small mistakes with tons of paint.

Example: This one,  which is just titled Art Restoration Fail, because the previous attempts at "fixing" the picture had turned into overpainting the entire thing. (This post title is related to the painting, trust me.) Painting over someone else's work and presenting it as an original is really weird to see in traditional media.

(To be clear, if I had seen the original painting on its own and not as an overpaint of someone else's work, it would've looked fine. It's the "paint over this to 'fix' it and pass it off as the original work" part that isn't great.) 

Still, whenever he talks about how natural resins are fallible and synthetic ones aren't, I can't help but think that eventually we're going to find some drawback to them, in a few hundred years, and if there are still art conservators then they'll be just as annoyed with some of those materials that he's used, as he gets about some of the older ones.

My husband actually suggested I might try oil painting, if I want a creative outlet, but I don't see how it could work. About the only place that we COULD do it is on the balcony, because we live in a small apartment and I am fairly sure that you have to have a lot of ventilation for those.
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[community profile] thefridayfive: Sept. 8th 2023

1. What song do you live for at the moment?
Dead Man Walking by David Bowie right now.

2. Is there a band or artist that you attach to a particular memory? What memory is it?
A couple come to mind:
- "Another Day in Paradise" by Phil Collins, driving home from ice skating with a church group when I was young. I don't know why - probably the line about blisters.
- "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel - dancing with a boyfriend after making a drive up to Philadelphia to see him.

3. What's the most beautiful song lyric you've ever heard?
I don't know - this one's been sticking out in my mind lately:

Don't ask me why I'm doing this
You wouldn't understand
You're asking the wrong questions
You couldn't understand
A bridge is not a high place
The fifty-second floor
Icarus would know
A mountain isn't far to fall
When you've fallen
When you've fallen from the moon


Marillion - The Great Escape

4. If you could choose any band/artist to cover any song, which combination would you pick?
I really don't know - I'm not a huge fan of covers, so it's kind of hard for me to make that call. I've heard quite a bit of Boyce Avenue (who got their start doing covers) through my husband and I wonder if they could do a good cover of "Thirty" or "1979" by Smashing Pumpkins.

5. What's the best concert you've ever attended?
I haven't attended very many so I have a small pool to draw from. Shinedown put on a pretty good show the first time I saw them, though.

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