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thedeadparrot) wrote2019-12-25 09:42 pm
thedeadparrot) wrote2019-12-25 09:42 pm
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1. I have been sick with a cold for the last week and a half and while I'm doing a lot better this week, the long tail of cold recovery (BODY. STOP. COUGHING.) is causing me a lot of low-grade misery. It has just made me whiny and a little needy, so of course I've resorted to shitposting on Twitter.
2. Saw my parents for Christmas. My mom is doing much better. She's fussing like normal again and recruited me to set up a million electronics for them, most of them bought post-Thanksgiving. I watched Triad Princess -- a Taiwanese Netflix series that's a mafia rom com that works way better than it should -- with my dad, who was delighted by it. He explained how the divination and spirit asking thing worked and also talked to me about the linguistic drift that's happened since he and my mom left.
3. I was reminded that I usually do an end-of-year fic retrospective (and I'm going to!), but part of me is a little bit sad about my fic output this year. I dunno if I should save my too-many-feelings about it for my retrospective post or what, but while I understand that there are plenty of good reasons for my fic writing falling by the wayside -- not having much of a fandom! other creative hobbies that I find fulfilling! lots and lots of work stress this year! -- it still makes me sad to feel like this chapter of my life is closing/changing. But such is life, I guess. Change is the only constant. And I do keep poking at things, even if I will never finish them. Who knows, maybe I'll even squeeze out this Good Omens PWP before the end of 2019.
4. Cross-stitch is one of my latest crafting things that I've gotten into. It's soothingly repetitive in the way knitting is soothingly repetitive, and it's new! It's a new thing! My brain is pleased.
2. Saw my parents for Christmas. My mom is doing much better. She's fussing like normal again and recruited me to set up a million electronics for them, most of them bought post-Thanksgiving. I watched Triad Princess -- a Taiwanese Netflix series that's a mafia rom com that works way better than it should -- with my dad, who was delighted by it. He explained how the divination and spirit asking thing worked and also talked to me about the linguistic drift that's happened since he and my mom left.
3. I was reminded that I usually do an end-of-year fic retrospective (and I'm going to!), but part of me is a little bit sad about my fic output this year. I dunno if I should save my too-many-feelings about it for my retrospective post or what, but while I understand that there are plenty of good reasons for my fic writing falling by the wayside -- not having much of a fandom! other creative hobbies that I find fulfilling! lots and lots of work stress this year! -- it still makes me sad to feel like this chapter of my life is closing/changing. But such is life, I guess. Change is the only constant. And I do keep poking at things, even if I will never finish them. Who knows, maybe I'll even squeeze out this Good Omens PWP before the end of 2019.
4. Cross-stitch is one of my latest crafting things that I've gotten into. It's soothingly repetitive in the way knitting is soothingly repetitive, and it's new! It's a new thing! My brain is pleased.
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A down you on fic production doesn't mean the writing/fannish part of your life is closed. Lots of people rebound.
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I'm glad your mom is feeling better! And that sounds like a really nice moment with your dad :)
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And I get that it's not a forever thing, but I've just been writing so much fic for so long that even having a dry spell feels like A Big Thing, even if it's not really one and I didn't even really notice that it happened until the end of the year. Feelings are weird.
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And yeah! My dad is also fond of Jane the Virgin, so ridic rom-coms are apparently his jam. :p