Y'Know...Stuff!

[kantayra]

Yay, competition is over, now I never have to think about it again! I'm back to writing things, so here we go!

• the_mane_event, kinkluckydip, smut4smut, wickedloveex, worldbuilding_exchange, unsent_letters_exchange, hurtcomfortex + unnamed things I am pinch-hitting or treating for: I actually got something done last week! So now I'm at 11/13. Reveals for the_mane_event & kinkluckydip got pushed back due to lingering PHs, so I didn't do my final editing pass on those - probably this week. I'd also like to finish off my 2 outstanding assignments this week, in which case I would pick up an additional pinch hit (assuming no one else snatches it up before me).


• New assignments: I ended up signing up for pickmeupexchange last minute because I liked a bunch of the prompts! So I'm expecting to see what I got for that today. I've signed up for idproquo and may tweak slightly today as sign-ups close.


• Upcoming exchanges: I got my nominations in for caseficexchange and am very excited to sign up for that one, especially since other people had already nominated several of my fandoms! Also sign-ups for everythingisfemslashex open soon - I'm less sure how that one will go; I had to nominate most of my own fandoms, so that leads me to believe that I might have a hard time finding matches. But you never know!


• Femslash Salad Bar: All right, let's put one of these on my docket, too. It's getting ridiculous how I can't get things done without a deadline. (Watch: I'll finish one of the new assignments instead of this. That is my prediction!)


• Now through Episode 28 of The Untamed and super obsessed and hunting down fanfic like mad. Fantastic, pretty show whose only flaw is that the actors are obviously not playing their instruments. 😝


• Spring ephemeral season is about to start here, so Friday I'm taking the day off work and going to the Arboretum. It's still very early in the season here, so I'd be surprised if anything but the snow trilliums are up. The skunk cabbages are blooming at my local park, but the Arboretum doesn't have particularly good habitat for them (running streams) so they only have 1 that I know of and it blooms much later. I did see some false rue anemone just starting to pop up yesterday (still in dark-brown/red stage), so we're getting there, but it will be a while before that blooms. Possibly some early heads of bloodroot too (it is really hard to see without getting off the path and potentially hurting the plants, lol, so yeah: not risking that!). The virginia waterleaf has the biggest leaves so far (other than a few skunk cabbages) but of course that won't bloom until late May - it just likes an early start. Still: spring! My plant friends are back! ❤️

I really miss the days you could go into a library or book store, and they had a gazillion books on the shelves, and you could just browse. Online browsing does nothing for me, and I cannot count the number of times I picked up a book that looked initially promising, but reading two pages saved me from wasting my time, or I found something wonderful that I never knew existed or would've thought of. I'm finding the process of throwing something in my library queue and then having to wait 4+ weeks to see if it's even a contender, really frustrating. But oh well! It just means I'm not reading much of anything at the moment.

Goals for this week: 1) Finish my 2 outstanding assignments. 2) 1 fic for Femslash Salad Bar. 3) Finish up Unit One and watch more of The Untamed. 4) Start thinking about the new assignments that are about to come in.