elanya

...I didn't post anything!

Well then - I have been working on a lot of gaming things, prepping for Webercon, etc Doing more job applications, etc.

Have a meme? This is not going to lead to fic, most likely.

If you could have me write a fic specifically for you, what would it be like? Fandom, characters/pairing, genre, plot elements, kinks (if applicable)... what's your ideal fic from me?

The baconpit is particularly bacony this morning, but at least the RH in here is not too terrible.

We have a fancy HVAC system. It does not work properly, and has not ever. We were basically grossly mislead about how it would work for us, and also the actual unit we got is kind of a lemon. This has been ongoing for like...a year now, almost? Anyway, we might maaaaaybe be going to get things settled out here? Maybe? We'll see :p Maybe I'll even be here for it, who knows!

I had a sort of interview on Monday with a local museum about their curator position which either is open or is opening soon. I'm not really sure how it went? I need to email back the woman I met with with some information about visa stuff. She also asked when I could theoretically start, but that's.....complicated? I'm not really sure, I guess. I'd like to stick it out here through March at least? And, like.... I really need to be able to drive to take this job, which would be easier to sort out if, like the driving school here would ever return my calls and emails. But I think I have something worked out with friends, if I can stick to it >.> Of course, then I'll actually need to get a car... If I can get a job though, I should be able to work that out? Maybe? With my, uh, non-existent credit rating? >.>


I woke up this morning early worrying about stuff - I have plenty of my own stuff to worry about, clearly, but apparently my brain would rather I focus on the problems of people who are Not Me, so I woke up worrying about friends instead. Bleh. I don't even know that to do with that, which is probably why it is keeping me up more. At least I have a range of options for my own things. Which reminds me that I need to work on some other applications this weekend... that curator of Anthropology job would be pretty sweet, if it is still open, and up north close to homefolks, as well. So, we'll see. I had some good advice on redoing my CV from forthright, so we'll see how that goes for me, I guess...

In other news, I'm still waiting to hear anything from She Walks in Shadows, and I might have missed my shot to try and get another story into another Lady Writer Lovecraft anthology, but I should double check. And maybe dust off Shadows of a Place and give it a new shot... We'll see. I really want to finish the Diablotin story I'm working on, even if it has a very limited audience. I think I'm pretty close. I also have some staff stuff I need to finish tonight, probably, hmm.

I guess I should do some work and write that email, hmmm?

A. The 'post lines from three WIPs' meme! I'm doing two lines each because context :p
1: Ralf could tell Ander was pissed off, more than he let on, he just wasn’t exactly sure about what. It was in his movements, usually casual and fluid but now carried out with an overly efficient economy of movement. (Diablotin, current active WIP)

2: You might think it silly, but I imagine what disagreements we might have over foolish things like what colour or style of drapes is more suitable, and I try to work though how best we might compromise. I know you told me that as I am living there on my own for the moment I should simply do as I wish, but I would rather at least have the illusion of your presence. (Diablotin, on-hold WIP to be resumed maybe after trope Bingo stories are done?)

3: Attal had never felt betrayed by Kai Leed until she'd found her working with Odos Caan. By now they'd crossed blades many more times, but her feelings were still mixed about her old master – her old friend. (Star Wars, WIP in sort of weird limbo :/)

B: ( I had a weird dream last night. )

I woke up at 7 from this and I miiiiight have taken my acid reflux meds or I might have only dreamed I did. I was uncertain enough on the point after I woke up from dozing again a little while later that I opted not to take them again, so hopefully that was the right choice because I am almost out of backup heartburn stuff :p

C: I really just want to work on writing, because between last night and this morning I have things better sorted out, I think, for my plot progression. However I am also trying to do a job application a week at this point and I haven't done anything in that direction yet, so I need to get a handle on that. If I can find something good. maybe a WW first though.... and a staff meeting later this afternoon. Wheeee!

It is ridiculously nice out today, plus it is a long weekend, so apparently this gives me incentive to do some cleaning, wooh! Plus also my allergies have been going bananas cray and that is always an incentive to try and reduce indoor allergens. The latter combination is a poor one though because it means that I vacuum for 5-10 min, then sit for thirty because my lungs are going "whyyyyyyyyyy ;_;" at me. Or my upper respiratory area, anyway. I really ought to go and have a chat with my doctor about my acid reflux because I suspect it is also contributing more than it should.

Anyway! I got the downstairs and the stairs done, and I had started cleaning the bathroom (I had sprayed down the tub anyway, and was letting the cleaner do its thing) when my roommate came home, and offered to finish the job. I sometimes feel like I am the only person who will clean things without prompting in the entire world. Well other than the kitchen. Current roomie is better than me about that. And tbh he has cleaned the sink a few times and I think he is better about his room, but even so. I don't have super high standards but come on people! Anyway - speaking of my terrible standards and no one else ever cleaning, I dusted the living room for the first time in like.... a very long time. Not completely - I should break out my microfiber thingummy and to the blinds and the fan, but I got the shelves and such! Huzzah! I think it is telling how poor my cleaning standards are because I'm pretty sure I make a self-congratulatory post every time I do it :p

I also cleaned out my wrangling bins this morning, and they were the nicest they had been since before Yuletide. I know naryrising has been doing a good job at not letting it go too ridiculous, but there are always odd crossover things in Night Vale, or equally confusing tumblr OCs, and today I got them all sorted out \o/

I *also* got to work some on my story today, so extra yay! It is abou 6k words now abot will probably wind up in the 8-10 range? Well, naryrising is saying she might give me art for it now, of boys smoking (it's a theme?), so that's all worthwhile even if only 4 people rad it ^-^

Tonight (in like 5 min) I have game and because tomorrow is a holiday I miiiiight even get to go hang out with folks afterward. People have been going out for food after, but I always have work and can't. So we'll see what my luck is like - maybe this will be the one week they don't.

Regardless, tomorrow is Martin Luther King day, and I don't work! I think that makes it easier for me to make myself do chores, knowing I can have a break day, then a work day, an then another break before actually going back to work. I am looking forward to it in general, and also because I am going over to tethys123's with some people tomorrow to work on crafting stuff :) Maybe tonight I can get my Yshbel sorted out tonight during game and make more progress on it tomorrow!

Hello journal-land! I'm still out here, still trying to stay connected. At least, still shouting into the void (mostly void, partially stars).

I keep having Things I want to Write About - yesterday when I was walking Jola it was about storytelling media and how I feel more engaged by participatory stories, but they are harder to share with non-participants. Shorthand whining, I suppose for "no1 currrrrr about my game-inspired fics". The same old thing. I just wish I could find more effective ways, because I have always felt way more 'fannish' about these kinds of things, but they're so limited in audience. But those are the stories, for the most part, that consume my brain. I was going to rite about this in more detail, but apparently this is all you get. I am dedicating my Trope Bingo line to some gaming characters though - pre-canon (mostly) NPC adventures, so as to limit my audience even further... I suppose I could argue that as they are 'pre-canon' they might be more accessible to outsiders, but I don't know if that is at all true. I've realized that I really am terrible at gauging accessibility in that regard. If I tell you something doesn't require canon knowledge - well, I might be wrong. But try it? It could be good anyway :V be bring so much to the table when we are engaging with fanworks, and we're not always conscious of it all.

What else. I am working on my second story involving those characters, not for trope bingo. I am enjoying treating it as a serious story, thinking about structure and plot and pacing and stuff, and not just 'these are the things that happen and the feels that are felt', but how those things are communicated to my non-existent audience. So that's good practice, I suppose, if nothing else?

I need to be applying for more jobs still. I have two in my sights and I will be screaming into that void tonight. One is in Saint Louis, the other in South Orange, New Jersey. We'll see. I have not heard back about a single other thing I have applied for so yaaay.

I also have some Wrangling Staff work to keep at. I have been doing little chunks in the morning to keep on top of small things, but there are some Big Things that Need Lots of Brain I want to focus on and I've been having trouble with that. balancing with job searching and everything else is a little wearying, honestly. But I'll survive. I need to get back on top of some of my wrangled fandoms too, as far as the freeforms go. Holding on there too, at least!

so, that's me. I'm back home as of Sunday, and Maze has been velcro kitty since then. He is clingy in the colder months already, but this is pretty spectacularly so. I have two knitting projects on the go,. which is not my usual modus operandi - one for home, and one for work. I may have said this already. I already fucked up the lace in my Ishbel >_<

Okay, back to working at the job I have for the moment!

This came to me while I was falling asleep, thinking partly about trope bingo and how I am planning to do a fantasy AU of a fantasy setting...

I wonder if there would be any interest in a Trope Remix? I don't have a tine of time to write this out but I wanted to get something down before I forgot - you would be given a trope or a series of three, maybe, in a week or 10 day period, and you would take a pre-existing fic and write maybe 500 words of a remix of that story reworking that trope into it. What would X story look like in an AU setting? With an accidental baby acquisition instead of whatever maguffin it uses currently? The goal would be to keep things recognizable to some extent. This is more of a writing exercise than a story generation thing though. I dunno. You could remix your own story, anything from someone with a blanket transformative work permission, or anything you had explicit permission for, just to keep things kind, I think? You wouldn't have to complete a whole story, just a snippet that demonstrates the changes.

I don't know who would be interested in such a thing. I don't know that *I* would even be interested enough in it (certainly not enough to run it >.>), but it would be an interesting challenge I think? And it would certainly get me playing more explicitly with tropes than I do now.

Anyway, it was a random falling asleep thought that I thought worth throwing out there. Discuss amongst yourselves?

Whew - not toooo far behind at least! Taking a break from yuletide writing tonight and going to bed early. Had bad drams last night, hopefully will not have any repeats! A drabble prompt today from naryrising ^_^

( Mentor )

Today melanen asked me to talk about a fanfic I wish existed. I knew it was coming up, so I have been thinking about it some... But I don't have a good concrete answer! I don't have a single specific fic-of-my-heart I wish was already extant. I often get "Man I would so read that story" or "There should be fic about X!" - but those are usually fleeting.

I have a few less specific things though: I have a few long abandoned wsip that I wish were finished. I wish they existed in a completed state?
If I had to pick just one, i would probably pick the Star Trek one, Twenty Five Years (here, if you are curious).

Other than that, I will say that I would love to know that fanfic existed that was inspired by some piece of fiction that originated with me - original fic, gaming stuff, OCs I made... That something I made was interesting enough that someone else wanted to play in the world, or with the characters, that I made. That would make me super happy!

So I dunno - I feel like maybe that is the second lame/cop-out answer in a row. But sorceror asked me about pirates for tomorrow, so hopefully I can get back in the game!

And of course, and they next two days I still have a ton of slots open! On DW|On LJ

Another drabble from naryrising today, since no one gave me a topic! The end of the month is pretty open, so feel free to leave me a prompt of some variety: On DW|On LJ.

( Book Club )