O Frabjous Day!

[kantayra]

Last week was a very good week! I got tons accomplished, and also this week there's a three-day weekend coming up. Unfortunately, a Huge Busy Thing will be starting at work the week after that, but I will continue to enjoy the (comparatively relaxing) moment for now.

Here we go:

• Exchanges due in May/June (hurtcomfortex, pickmeupexchange, idproquo, seasonsofdrabbles, diegetic_exchange, fandom5k + mystery pinch-hits and treats): Still done at 12/12. It looks like Hurt/Comfort and Pick-Me-Up might reveal this week, so I need to do my final real-through/edits for those.


• idproquo is done and complete!
  
  
  • My fantastic gift was tainted bliss by MoonGoddex, who wrote me the Phoenix/Edgeworth ritual fucking over the prosecution bench porn AU of my dreams! I have seriously wanted this fic since I first played AA1, and my brain just could not write it because it wanted to read it so badly, and this fic is just perfect! Exactly what I've wanted for YEARS now! ❤️❤️❤️
  
  
  • For my assignment, I wrote Cuckoo for Zeus cuckolding Hera with Ganymede from Greek mythology. I had a lot of fun getting inside Hera's head and making her relatable, and also of course writing filthy Zeus/Ganymede porn. I was a HUGE mythology nerd as a kid, and it started with the Greek myths, and my BA is actually in Classics, so I've enjoyed getting to revisit that in fic form recently. (Porn fic is a lot more fun to write than my BA thesis was, lol.)
  
  
  • I also picked up a pinch hit: Easement, House/Wilson hurt/comfort (for House M.D.). These two were an OTP of mine years and years ago, although I dropped off when House started dating Cuddy, and then I heard about Wilson's cancer and kind of just didn't want to go back after learning that. But for whatever reason, YouTube in all its wisdom decided to drop House/Wilson compilation clips on me, so I ended up watching a bajillion of those (including the ending scene) plus rereading my old House fics. And then this prompt came up, and I got plot-bunnied, and there it is! House and Wilson were always fun to write, so I enjoyed getting to do so again.
  
  
• Exchanges due in July/August (caseficexchange, nonconex, justmarriedexchange, Terrible Temperature Troubles flash + mystery pinch-hits and treats + future stuff): I am at 2/5, and one of the two completed is the long-fic! *\o/* I feel very accomplished by this, and I like the way it turned out, too. So I'm well ahead of my goal there. The other part of my goal was to plot out one of my other assignments, and I've sort of started that: one of my assignments is a fairly narrow and specific prompt (which is unusual for me!) so I know generally what I'll be writing, but I have to come up with the right angle to make the fic more interesting than just generic trope. One of my goals this (short) week is to review some parts of canon to try to come up with my "hook". A second goal is that I signed up for the Temperature flash, and I'll need to write that this week. No clue why suddenly flash exchanges seem so appealing to me, but I'm going with the flow. I need to wait until I get my assignment for that one, though. My third goal is that I want to complete one of my remaining assignments (ideally the one that needs canon-review, but if not the other which is for a canon current in my mind). And, if I have even more time, then I'll just have to grab up a pinch-hit. We'll see if that works out on top of everything else. 😝 So, by next week, I want to be at 4/5 and maybe even 5/6.


• Potentials for July/August: I threw in some nominations for littleblackdressex just in case, since some other people made some interesting nominations too. It's currently in sign-ups, but there's nothing tempting yet. I'll keep my eye on it, though. I didn't end up nominating anything for raremaleslashex. Unless someone posts a truly AMAZING sign-up, I'm pretty sure I'm sitting this one out. I'm waiting on seasonsofdrabbles for early August for sure. rarepairexchange & iddyiddybangbang remain vague possibilities on a distant horizon. I suspect most of what I'll be doing in July/August is pinch-hitting and treating.


• Or, if not, I could always finish Femslash Salad Bar. Hey, it could happen! 🤣


• Nearing the end of BNHA S2. Still enjoyable. Looking forward to seeing Deku and Bakugo having to work together on the final exam. I will need popcorn for that one! 🤣🍿


• Oops, I miscounted and Noblesse is actually 100 chapters longer than I thought it was! So, no, I definitely did not finish last week. And probably won't this week either (but maybe the week after?). I continue to enjoy the interactions around the core characters and especially around the school, but: Whoa boy! My days of finding werewolves boring sure are coming to a middle. 🫤 This last arc and a half has been rough! Too many battles, too many werewolves. More scenes of Rai getting thwarted by doors, plz!


• I have a huge-normous skating competition at the end of July, which intersects terribly with my incredibly busy schedule at work. So, yeah, I anticipate feeling very tired and over-stretched throughout July, not even counting exchanges and fandom. That's part of the reason I want all my assignments complete ASAP, so I don't have to factor in those on my schedule as well.


• I do, indeed, have pinchhitbingo. However, I want to go through the whole year and see how much more of my board I can fill out before claiming it.

Goals for this week: 1) Finish plotting/canon-review for my 1 assignment. 2) Get & complete my Temperature Flash assignment. 3) Complete one additional assignment. 4) Edits for fics being revealed this week. 5) Keep watching BNHA. 6) Keep reading Noblesse.

End of June totals: I am at 152k word-count for the year, and have apparently written 61 fics?! 😲 And the 61 fics are only the ones that have had author-reveals so far, too. I...frankly am astounded by this. It doesn't feel like I'm writing that much. But I guess a little bit every day, every week, adds up!