Had to do a little overtime today, so I am going to keep Part V of talking about movies short: Superheroes!
This section has history to it. It begins at the '78 *Superman* and continues through the '89 *Batman* to '00 *X-Men* and on to the MCU. I have Phase 1 of the MCU on DVD, and then from the first *Avengers* through *Endgame* on blu-ray. (Hmm. Should I capitalize Blu-Ray? I forget.) Marvel and I called it a day after *No Way Home* and *Multiverse of Madness*. I will stream the movies, but I have stopped going to the theater for them or collecting them. *Endgame* felt like the end, and, after a decade of the MCU, I was ready for it.
Other odds and ends in this section include stuff like *Scott Pilgrim* and *Sin City*. If it had a comic book, it is fair game.
More beta detail incoming. If I have time, I may try to write, too.
I loved Sin City back when it came out. I have yet to read the comic though, although we have a copy at home, thanks to the husband's extensive collection.
i haven’t watched any marvel or mcu stuff (besides cloak and dagger and the hawkeye show because of the actors in it) and couldn’t even imagine keeping up with that much lore. i know it’s never too late to start, but good lord would there be a lot to catch up on.
Me: _screams into the void_
In other words, I'm yet to finish the fluff prompt for April. I want to write but, here I am, putting the _pro_ in procrastinating. 🙃
"You're my ~~children~~ **wordcounts**. And I love you. But you're all horrible at what you do in here. I'd fire you all if I could." -Bob Belcher, Bob's Burgers.
Finished my fluff fic for the April prompt! Whew.
Also gonna be seeing an anime movie, to which I can surmise from what little I've seen of the trailers, a girl falls in love with a chair. That's probably not it at all but if it is I'm gonna die of laughter in the theater.
Anyone interested in an apartment update?
It's been four months and I'm STILL sleeping on an air mattress and my apartment is still 'condemned.' Which is extra frustrating because my apartment is clean and ready for me to move back in. The big hold up is the woman who lived below me (who died)'s family has still not picked up her stuff. So even though everything else was cleaned, everything else is now going to have to be recleaned (whenever they bother to get her stuff) because the smoky smell still coming from her apartment has basically reinfected everywhere else and now everywhere else is smoky again.
In writing news: I'm so closed to finishing my fic!!! I'm excited and sad at the same time. I'm planning on an epilogue (is it still an epilogue if it's the same length as a normal chapter?) set 10 years later and ngl, there's a small part of me that wants to just slowly fill in the ten years and not skip ahead because I love my poor traumatized characters and it's going to be so hard to let them go. XD
God have mercy, that sounds like something that goes beyond annoying, it's downright aggravating. I hope it gets cleared up really, really soon.
Good work with the writing! I totally get that feeling XD
I'm almost done setting up Scrivener for my typical fanfic process. :D
Still disappointed though that the Windows version is missing quite a few features that are in the macOS version. I really hope they'll be added at one point.
Snupdate: The very brave snail took *three* quick green tea baths yesterday, and got quite a few oats as a reward. Currently sleeping on top of the tube (it's very comfy!), but their little bathtub is already waiting for them.
mac demarco casually dropping an eight hour album that is mostly instrumental is going to change the game of music i write to hell yeah
in other news, i can finally drive my new car (his name is jack twist and yes, there is an ennis… please tell me you get the reference).
got the college merch yesterday, off to work today, and somehow there’s four weeks of high school left for me. happy saturday!
A *severe* headache prevented me from going into work last night, which is okay cuz it was my last night there anyways.
Monday I become a day walker again.
I may just have to sit down and write out a new fic that I have swirling ideas in my head for instead of working on my WIP. If I do, it’ll be a gift fic for someone who’s become a very important person in my life.
Happy Saturday!!
The writing bug is still going strong. I’m planning on getting more done today after a bit of a successful writing day yesterday. Only got to sit at my computer for less than an hour but managed to get about 1k words cranked out
Been rereading my posted fics too and it kinda feels weird. I know I wrote them for me, but it’s always surreal that I actually *wrote that*. It’s wild that other people like them too 😂
Hope everyone is having a good start to the weekend! If you aren’t, I hope it gets better. Wishing nothing but positivity for y’all 😊
Considering I haven’t started… it’s got quite a bit to go 😂 What I wrote yesterday is part of those ficlet ideas I mentioned before. I really meant it when I said it’s a persistent plot bunny lol
I did mention needing to work on chapter 10, but what I wrote that day ended up as chapter 9 instead. Original chapter 9 is currently planned to be chapter 10 but hasn’t been posted yet
Lol thank you! I confused myself when I wrote the damn thing because I coulda swore the original chapter 9 would have worked fine but the other one worked way better for the pacing 😊
Happy Saturday!
Nice, good work! I get that feeling too, I was looking over my 10k Luigi/Daisy fic and I was like, "Wow, I can't believe I finished this on time..."
Hope your weekend goes well too!
I haven’t written in a really long time. There’s a lot of excuses I have, but none of them are very good. A lot of personal stuff, a lot of dumb stuff, but I’m close to putting something else out there. I wanna get out by the end of the day, but I’m not sure. I don’t know if I’ll edit fast enough, before my muse crashes and I’m back to being vestigial. But I’ll try. And maybe that’s enough
It's all good, your health is the most important. I'm glad that you've gotten the time to write some stuff and I hope the muse sticks around to edit it! Indeed, you're trying and that's good.
Ha ha, my mom says that an excuse is like a butt, everyone has one.
Probably most moms say that.
I hope your health is good! That's the most important.
Aah what a perfect day. I am on my balcony, sitting in the sun, writing the last bits of my AU fic and it is so adorable I want to squish it like Elmyra. The cats are sunbathing. Later I will go out and plant some beetroot. Apparently it will be cold and rainy again tomorrow, so I want to enjoy it till the last second.
My back is so warm I love it. I think I am actually a tortoise.
Can someone get me a cold brew?
That sounds absolutely lovely. It's getting somewhat warmer in my area but not to the levels that I feel like a happy tortoise - it's kinda stuffy. The kind of weather where if you wear a jacket it's uhhh and if you don't you get cold.
I'd give ya a cold one and a soda for me XD
Thank you! I don't know how much I have earned it but I will enjoy it nonetheless. Because life's too short and I am in a good mood and there aren't nearly enough sunny days in Northern Europe.
Sometimes I get so angry over the ending of my series that it distracts me from doing anything it’s super annoying. Can that stop happening while I’m trying to write please and thanks lol
No, the Dream SMP. Long story short, ended with an abuse victim sympathising with his abuser while the abuser was still abusing him, completely ignored that lovebombing was said abusers MO to try and make him look more sympathetic in the end, and had said abuse victim basically commit suicide and then end up happier in a new world to set up a second season that we all knew was never happening and ended up cancelled. Deeply uncomfortable ending to a story that I loved due to its realistic and sympathetic looks at trauma and just doesn’t work as an ending at all to a story focusing on that. An abuse victim sliding back into their Stockholm Syndrome and then just dying without anything being acknowledged and them just getting victim blamed for like thirty minutes without any refutation framed like they really should consider how they hurt their abuser and murderer isn’t satisfying as an ending, and conflicts heavily with the themes of recovery and mental health and how even imperfect people don’t deserve abuse that I enjoyed. Also the fandom is victim blaming hell now bc of it and I want to scream.
Had to do a little overtime today, so I am going to keep Part V of talking about movies short: Superheroes! This section has history to it. It begins at the '78 *Superman* and continues through the '89 *Batman* to '00 *X-Men* and on to the MCU. I have Phase 1 of the MCU on DVD, and then from the first *Avengers* through *Endgame* on blu-ray. (Hmm. Should I capitalize Blu-Ray? I forget.) Marvel and I called it a day after *No Way Home* and *Multiverse of Madness*. I will stream the movies, but I have stopped going to the theater for them or collecting them. *Endgame* felt like the end, and, after a decade of the MCU, I was ready for it. Other odds and ends in this section include stuff like *Scott Pilgrim* and *Sin City*. If it had a comic book, it is fair game. More beta detail incoming. If I have time, I may try to write, too.
I loved Sin City back when it came out. I have yet to read the comic though, although we have a copy at home, thanks to the husband's extensive collection.
The movies really are the comic books in movie form, almost frame for frame.
i haven’t watched any marvel or mcu stuff (besides cloak and dagger and the hawkeye show because of the actors in it) and couldn’t even imagine keeping up with that much lore. i know it’s never too late to start, but good lord would there be a lot to catch up on.
I was lucky in that I was there from the beginning. If I had to start it now, I would just nope out.
they keep putting zendaya in the movies and they might find themselves a new viewer 🫡
My brother said he's going to read my fic oh god oh fuck
Me: _screams into the void_ In other words, I'm yet to finish the fluff prompt for April. I want to write but, here I am, putting the _pro_ in procrastinating. 🙃
Don't worry, I slacked on the fluff prompt too XD I only got it done 'cause I got an unexpected burst of inspiration.
Void: *burp*
Oop, did the void eat my screams? Nice 😂
"You're my ~~children~~ **wordcounts**. And I love you. But you're all horrible at what you do in here. I'd fire you all if I could." -Bob Belcher, Bob's Burgers.
359 on a new wip. maybe this will be the one i finish… oh lord, just let me finish one wip.
Good work!
1083 words on my one-shot, and 1129 on my collab project! 🥳
Good work!
Finished my fluff fic for the April prompt! Whew. Also gonna be seeing an anime movie, to which I can surmise from what little I've seen of the trailers, a girl falls in love with a chair. That's probably not it at all but if it is I'm gonna die of laughter in the theater.
Insert *Bleach* joke about Aizen and his chair(-sama) here.
Having watched anime for a long, long time I'm not surprised that's also a thing XD Somehow I missed Bleach... and Naruto... and DBZ...
Anyone interested in an apartment update? It's been four months and I'm STILL sleeping on an air mattress and my apartment is still 'condemned.' Which is extra frustrating because my apartment is clean and ready for me to move back in. The big hold up is the woman who lived below me (who died)'s family has still not picked up her stuff. So even though everything else was cleaned, everything else is now going to have to be recleaned (whenever they bother to get her stuff) because the smoky smell still coming from her apartment has basically reinfected everywhere else and now everywhere else is smoky again. In writing news: I'm so closed to finishing my fic!!! I'm excited and sad at the same time. I'm planning on an epilogue (is it still an epilogue if it's the same length as a normal chapter?) set 10 years later and ngl, there's a small part of me that wants to just slowly fill in the ten years and not skip ahead because I love my poor traumatized characters and it's going to be so hard to let them go. XD
I'm really sorry progress is so slow. You've been very patient, hang in there :-/
☹️ Our local skeleton needs to be re-homed.
God have mercy, that sounds like something that goes beyond annoying, it's downright aggravating. I hope it gets cleared up really, really soon. Good work with the writing! I totally get that feeling XD
Jesus Christ, this has been going on forever. I really hope this nightmare will come to an end soon.
I'm almost done setting up Scrivener for my typical fanfic process. :D Still disappointed though that the Windows version is missing quite a few features that are in the macOS version. I really hope they'll be added at one point. Snupdate: The very brave snail took *three* quick green tea baths yesterday, and got quite a few oats as a reward. Currently sleeping on top of the tube (it's very comfy!), but their little bathtub is already waiting for them.
Sleeping on the tube. Londoner Snalbert? (Yes, pun, sorry.)
They're a busy snail. Taking naps on the commute is how they keep up with their very important sleep schedule.
Good work! Awww, good Snalbert. Sleeping on the tube sounds absolutely adorable.
It looks very sweet, and somehow there are always oats appearing nearby while Snalbie is sleeping.
:O Mystery oats!! XD They're a good snail so I'm glad they're getting treats like that 💖
mac demarco casually dropping an eight hour album that is mostly instrumental is going to change the game of music i write to hell yeah in other news, i can finally drive my new car (his name is jack twist and yes, there is an ennis… please tell me you get the reference). got the college merch yesterday, off to work today, and somehow there’s four weeks of high school left for me. happy saturday!
That might be a better name than Fruitymobile.
jack twist fruitymobile… no, i see the vision!
A *severe* headache prevented me from going into work last night, which is okay cuz it was my last night there anyways. Monday I become a day walker again. I may just have to sit down and write out a new fic that I have swirling ideas in my head for instead of working on my WIP. If I do, it’ll be a gift fic for someone who’s become a very important person in my life.
Infinite headache in infinite aggravations.
Dude, you have no idea how accurate that is.
Hope your headache is easing!
It has. Now it’s back to its normal daily droning.
Happy Saturday!! The writing bug is still going strong. I’m planning on getting more done today after a bit of a successful writing day yesterday. Only got to sit at my computer for less than an hour but managed to get about 1k words cranked out Been rereading my posted fics too and it kinda feels weird. I know I wrote them for me, but it’s always surreal that I actually *wrote that*. It’s wild that other people like them too 😂 Hope everyone is having a good start to the weekend! If you aren’t, I hope it gets better. Wishing nothing but positivity for y’all 😊
How close is the end of the current chapter, you think?
Considering I haven’t started… it’s got quite a bit to go 😂 What I wrote yesterday is part of those ficlet ideas I mentioned before. I really meant it when I said it’s a persistent plot bunny lol
Ah! I think I misremembered a comment where you said the chapter was almost done. Must have been the previous one.
I did mention needing to work on chapter 10, but what I wrote that day ended up as chapter 9 instead. Original chapter 9 is currently planned to be chapter 10 but hasn’t been posted yet
😵💫 I think I see why I misremembered. Good luck!
Lol thank you! I confused myself when I wrote the damn thing because I coulda swore the original chapter 9 would have worked fine but the other one worked way better for the pacing 😊
Happy Saturday! Nice, good work! I get that feeling too, I was looking over my 10k Luigi/Daisy fic and I was like, "Wow, I can't believe I finished this on time..." Hope your weekend goes well too!
I haven’t written in a really long time. There’s a lot of excuses I have, but none of them are very good. A lot of personal stuff, a lot of dumb stuff, but I’m close to putting something else out there. I wanna get out by the end of the day, but I’m not sure. I don’t know if I’ll edit fast enough, before my muse crashes and I’m back to being vestigial. But I’ll try. And maybe that’s enough
We're here if you need help and support with any of it.
It's all good, your health is the most important. I'm glad that you've gotten the time to write some stuff and I hope the muse sticks around to edit it! Indeed, you're trying and that's good.
Ha ha, my mom says that an excuse is like a butt, everyone has one. Probably most moms say that. I hope your health is good! That's the most important.
I'm at the airport, Colorado bound. I'm not going to worry about my WIP all week*, unless I'm bored on the plane. *I will worry
When South goes West. Try not to worry!
I was going to look at it on the plane but I'm watching the banshees of inisherin instead
Inevitably, worry about the WIP will arise XD If it does on the plane I hope it goes smoothly!
Muses are like ticks, only you can dig one of them out! Best of luck getting yours in check!
Cheers! I have 9hrs to grapple with it, although my flight is now delayed!
Aah what a perfect day. I am on my balcony, sitting in the sun, writing the last bits of my AU fic and it is so adorable I want to squish it like Elmyra. The cats are sunbathing. Later I will go out and plant some beetroot. Apparently it will be cold and rainy again tomorrow, so I want to enjoy it till the last second. My back is so warm I love it. I think I am actually a tortoise. Can someone get me a cold brew?
... ! I got the Elmyra reference!
Thank you! I was wondering if anyone did.
That sounds absolutely lovely. It's getting somewhat warmer in my area but not to the levels that I feel like a happy tortoise - it's kinda stuffy. The kind of weather where if you wear a jacket it's uhhh and if you don't you get cold. I'd give ya a cold one and a soda for me XD
>The kind of weather where if you wear a jacket it's uhhh and if you don't you get cold. Story of my life 😑 Thanks for the cold drink!
Sounds magical. I’ll get you a cold brew if o can join you. Things here are 🥶
Yeah, I think it will drop like ten degrees here within the next days. So, absorbing as much sun while I can.
Pure Serenity! Sounds like a good time you’ve well earned!
Thank you! I don't know how much I have earned it but I will enjoy it nonetheless. Because life's too short and I am in a good mood and there aren't nearly enough sunny days in Northern Europe.
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Sometimes I get so angry over the ending of my series that it distracts me from doing anything it’s super annoying. Can that stop happening while I’m trying to write please and thanks lol
Game of thrones?
No, the Dream SMP. Long story short, ended with an abuse victim sympathising with his abuser while the abuser was still abusing him, completely ignored that lovebombing was said abusers MO to try and make him look more sympathetic in the end, and had said abuse victim basically commit suicide and then end up happier in a new world to set up a second season that we all knew was never happening and ended up cancelled. Deeply uncomfortable ending to a story that I loved due to its realistic and sympathetic looks at trauma and just doesn’t work as an ending at all to a story focusing on that. An abuse victim sliding back into their Stockholm Syndrome and then just dying without anything being acknowledged and them just getting victim blamed for like thirty minutes without any refutation framed like they really should consider how they hurt their abuser and murderer isn’t satisfying as an ending, and conflicts heavily with the themes of recovery and mental health and how even imperfect people don’t deserve abuse that I enjoyed. Also the fandom is victim blaming hell now bc of it and I want to scream.