Ahhhh, Work!

[kantayra]

Work will be horrible this week. And next week. Either that will mean that I don't have the mental energy to write anything, or else I'll be so stressed out that I'll write loads as a form of escapism. Not sure which yet, whee! 🫤

In any case, I knew this was coming and am in a decent spot to weather the storm either way. (Although it would've been nice if I'd gotten a bit more done this last week.)

Here's where I am with everything:

• Exchanges due in May/June (hurtcomfortex, pickmeupexchange, idproquo, seasonsofdrabbles, diegetic_exchange, fandom5k + mystery pinch-hits and treats): Still done at 12/12. I'm debating moving fandom5k to the next batch, since that doesn't reveal until late July and everything else here is already revealed. We'll see. But, yes, pickmeupexchange & hurtcomfortex both are in the anon period right now, and I got a couple of lovely gifts:
  
  
  • Butterfly, my gift for hurtcomfortex: A delightful Hannibal/Will fic taking place post-series, cool take on the fall, and lots of nice tension and Hannibal and Will being dark, fucked-up weirdos just the way I love. ❤️
  
  
  • Leave the Bow Tie On my gift for pickmeupexchange: A fun Garak/Bashir romp for Star Trek DS9, with undercover dating, public sex, and hot xeno galore! Such a great, breezy read, I really lucked out here! ❤️
  
  
• Exchanges due in July/August (caseficexchange, nonconex, justmarriedexchange, Terrible Temperature Troubles flash + mystery pinch-hits and treats + future stuff): I am now at 3/6. Yes, that means I foolishly picked something up that I am not yet finished with. But it was so SHINY! I could not resist! 😭 I'm currently halfway through that, and trying to avoid grabbing something ELSE shiny. My goal this week is to finish the current shiny thing and finish one other thing, so that I would be at 5/6. I'll also need to do a final editing pass for Temperature Flash since that goes live this week. And I'm not going to pick up my next shiny thing until I have a draft complete this time, dammit self!


• Potentials for July/August: I skipped littleblackdressex - nothing caught my eye. I'm pretty sure I'll be skipping raremaleslashex for the same reason. enemiestoloversex is starting up, and given how much I love that trope, I really REALLY hope that there are some compatible requests in it! I will do seasonsofdrabbles in early August. rarepairexchange & iddyiddybangbang are debatable. Also, scaldinghotcibingo looks really tempting, but given how faily I've been with Femslash Salad Bar, I'm hesitant to pick up another prompt list. But...it's also only just 3 fills, so I should be able to do that, right? I will noodle on it.


• Nothing new with Femslash Salad Bar, take 100. 😝


• I didn't get any further in BNHA last week, because I was doing canon review for something else. This week I will try to get back at it!


• I finished Noblesse! It was good! The final battles were actually refreshing and involved, like, strategy across multiple locations and stuff. I was pleased with that, since the last couple had just been werewolves punching each other in the face a lot. Very enjoyable series, and I've already been requesting/offering it.


• I don't have anything I'm currently reading right now, but I think I'm going to take a little break, just to see how the next few weeks fall out with work and then my skating competition. I have several items on my wait list at the library that might come through in not too long, so maybe I'll just wait on those. (Unless, of course, I randomly change my mind entirely. Always a possibility!

Goals for this week: 1) Survive work. 2) Finish The Shiny Thing That Ate My Brain. 3) Finish 1 other assignment. 4) Edits for Temperature Flash. 5) Watch some BNHA.