Dun-Dun-Dun...

Big competition is this week, and already my brain cells are atrophying into a state of panic! I landed all my jumps at my exhibition Sunday and practice this morning, though, so 🤞. Fortunately, my last event is on Wednesday, so I get a bit of time to devolve into a jellyfish at the end of the week. I eagerly await being able to starfish on my floor and not have to do any more jumps. But! The one good thing is that all the schedules are wonky this week due to this competition, so I don't have to wake up at 4:45 in the goddamn morning (4:45 is always "goddamn" morning!) at all this week! I can sleep in until work starts at 8 every day! (This is unholy amounts of luxury for me.)

So, yes. My goals this week will be the absolute bare minimum, along the lines of "try not to die or let my brains all dribble out my ears." This is a lofty ambition for competition week! 😝

Here's what I did last week:

• the_mane_event, kinkluckydip, smut4smut, wickedloveex, worldbuilding_exchange, unsent_letters_exchange, hurtcomfortex + unnamed things I am pinch-hitting or treating for: Last week I left off at 8/12, with a goal of reaching 9/12. And I did get one of those original 12 done! But then a treat sprung fully-formed into my brain, so I wrote that too. So it's technically now 10/13. For one of those remaining 3, I had the goal to come up with my idea, which I did! And it is a lot of fun, and I'm about halfway through writing it. Not sure if I'll get it (or anything) written this week, but that's okay. The one thing I have to do this week is recheck my undisclosed-number-of-fics-that-is-greater-than-zero for kinkluckydip, since those go live Friday. So that's the only goal I'm giving myself this week.


• Things of mine that have revealed recently:
  
  
  • au5k: I didn't sign-up or pinch-hit for this, but I did see that someone requested "Everything's exactly the same except Hannibal is a tentacle monster" which is one of the greatest prompts I have ever seen, so I treated. My fic is Tentacular and is exactly what it says on the label. Seriously, this is another one where I rushed to AO3 as soon as I saw the prompt, because 1) I wanted to read it and 2) I figured it must exist because eldritch!abomination Hannibal is so obvious in retrospect, but, alas, there was none, and I simply could not let that stand! 😞 Also, I just realized that I posted this back on Valentines Day, so that answers the question of what I did on Valentines Day: posted Hannigram tentacle porn on AO3. LOL, this tracks. 🤣
  
  
  • goreswap: For this one, I wrote what was technically my first Killing Eve fic (although not the first attached to my name, due to the anon period)! Super Fun! I wrote Eve/Villanelle Squeamish. I really enjoy writing these two; they are just absolute batshit.
  
  
• Upcoming things: idproquo is in sign-ups this week, and I intend to do so! I got my weirdo nominations in. everythingisfemslashex, I am watching to see if anyone else nominates things relevant to my interests - I will throw in any remaining nominations I need to make then. caseficexchange is not doing anything yet this week; I'm just super excited about it. It will surprise no one whatsoever that I'm hyped to see if the Ace Attorney fandom goes big for this one, right? I usually widely offer but don't actively game for AA in exchanges, since it's one of my solid staples at this point, but for case fic I might have to make an exception and game if there are some amazing requests. 🤩


• Femflash Salad Bar: I didn't have time for this at all last week, oh well. After this week, I'll put it back on my docket. This just proves, though, how bad I am at getting things done with self-imposed deadlines. When I had an external deadline, I got 7 fics in 1 month. Last month, with only my own drive, I put all the hard deadlines for other things first, and got 0 fics done for this. I will definitely have a lull at the end of April, though, and hopefully these will take top priority.


• Still addicted to The Untamed! I'm through episode 18 now, so closing in on halfway. We seem to be getting closer to the "16 years ago" part, which is cool because I really want to know what happens in present day. Not that I'm not enjoying the past scenes! But I already know how those turn out, roughly, and the present day left off on the cliffhanger where Lan Wangji - I think - realized that the masked flute-playing zombie-controlling dude is actually Wei Wuxian come back from the dead, and that is a mean mean place to leave me hanging for, like, 20 episodes! 😝 Also, I know the cnovel was a huge success and everything, but part of me wishes that the real reason that the show was made was because someone asked the wig-maker "How many pretty wigs do you want to make?" and the wig-maker's answer was "All. ALL THE WIGS!" 🤣 Because, seriously yo, that is a lot - A LOT - of stupidly pretty wigs!


• I also read "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison because it's a short story and online for free and kept cropping up in exchanges. I went in with reservations, though, because I'm not big on post-apocalypse or AI stuff. And, yeah, still not big on that stuff. It's definitely well-written but not particularly my jam. Still worth the read, though, just so that I know what's the what!


• I've got the last season on Unit One out of the library again. This was the one that I was watching when I got interrupted by The Events, and I think I've got, like, six episodes left, so I figured I'd finish it off. Plus, Mads Mikkelsen PRETTY!

Goals: 1) Final proofread/edits for kinkluckydip. 2) Sign up for idproquo. 3) Nominate for everythingisfemslashex. 4) Watch pretty TV shows, as much as I can with my insane competition schedule. 5) Do not let my brains dribble out my ears!