egads, the dust

[a_flyleaf]

It’s been 5,000 years, it’s the old song and dance, w/e, okay. Rather than make any ambitious promises or speculation about activity henceforth, I am simply going to drop things on my mind as they come, and if this happens more frequently, cool! If it doesn’t, then this is certainly a post that exists.

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• Dreamwidth for off-the-cuff and/or fannish thoughts, main site/blog for… idk, non-ephemera?? It’s always been fairly ephemeral no matter which way you slice it, but I don’t tend to fanpost on “main,” so to speak. I make big overwrought personal showoff sites about it instead.
• At some point I ought to revisit (and actually finish reading) When I Win the World Ends. Read part of a chapter while wildly distracted, decided I should try again from the start to actually comprehend it before moving on, have not Done That. At this point I feel vaguely obligated to just try again from the beginning.
• The RP fugue is finally broken and I have since been drifting around various projects and sub-sites and fixations, letting my brain chew on whatever it feels like day-to-day. Feels good! Feels organic.
• Media brainrot du jour is Arcane. My personal notedump Discord is an absolute trainwreck, and at some point I’d like to share, metastasize, whatever, Do Something with all those thoughts and snippets. (I’ve had similar lofty thoughts about Omori, except that’s been fragmented from the getgo since I started saving different notes in different places. Archivist’s nightmare…!) Maybe tumblr era 2? Maybe here. I want the Discussion without the Bad Takes, but unfortunately the Bad Takes(TM) are an incorrigible aspect of interacting with strangers.*
• Twice within this past week I have been possessed by the fic bug and churned out [my iPad notes app does not have a word count and so I remain blissfully unaware of such numbers]… uh, words. An Amount Of Them, in more or less one sitting, and I don’t feel like I have these characters’ voices down but I’m having fun and ✨that’s what matters✨.
• *To be clear, I’m being tongue-in-cheek wrt Bad Takes(TM). It’s fiction, it’s 2025, there are more substantial fish to get fried about, [staring in a mirror and gritting my teeth] I can get along with people who have Wrong Opinions On The Internet. Really…!!
• Caitlyn Kiramman could have been Worse, Actually. Should is too strong a word for the story they were trying to tell (which was ultimately not, as I understand it, a class conflict—despite, uh… doubling down on the class conflict in promotional material.... idk I felt like the story they ended up telling was more focused, and focused ultimately on Not That), but also, should as in I personally enjoy an unwell female character (god I hate the term “female character” but I mean it in the most apolitical way possible here), and essentially what I’m saying is, you are all cowards. Let grief and rage and righteousness metastasize into something unrecognizably feral. As a treat.
  • A couple years ago I had the idea of a “characters who have taken over my brain” fanart wall. The WIP was never finished. I should dig it up some time. It has only gotten longer and my tastes feel deeply predictable. In other words, have you tried the Narcissus pool water? The Narcissus pool water is lovely.
• I share my writing, in general, less in an effort to be heard (though of course this is inevitably a factor, we are social creatures etc.), but rather more because if I don’t put my thoughts from head to paper (or screen, as it were) I will simply implode. Hit post.