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Ok, so the bad news is, this week felt kinda weak, writing-wse. The good news is, the Hell Bug I devoted my life to has been solved, so I can stop working after 8 hours and not dream of timestamp issues. (Epoch is cool epoch can stay but I still need to cry a little when actually converting something to datetime in Python why are you hard sometimes.)

Writing-wise:

A quick note here: I owe SO MANY REPLIES. To fics. To Facebook messages. To my one friend who we agreed to write physical letters to each other. To both of my parents. I am so sorry, everyone. It has not been a great no-procrastinating week, tbh.

Weirdo Strike Gold Multiverse Fic ok so this one is a deep dive, but I wrote an AU of my Strike Gold universe where Bucky meets Steve and Peggy much later, and anyway like a million years ago I wrote a fic where the two Buckys meet and never finished it. So now I am working on finishing it. I sort of feel like no one likes this but me, but it’ll probably get posted anyways.

Another Threesome Universe in this one Peggy gets the serum and goes through the decades the long way, rescues Bucky in 1972, and the two of them are there when Steve wakes up in ugh, what was it? 2012 or whatever? anyway, THAT.

This is barely started, but I think it’ll be good when I feel like writing threesome stuff again.

Pajama Party! written and posted!

Unnamed comics!verse in spaaaace thing Added another chunk to it, think it’ll be done soon.

Tomte Added like a paragraph today, but I promise I’ll work harder on this!

Unnamed Tropes Fic Finally feeling this again, and added a good chunk

Huh, ok, that was better than I’d feared.

Reading:

Ugh, nothing finished again. I’m close to the end of my one book, at least!

hello i ate something very bad and learned this fact while on a bike ride this morning. it was bad. So we get this while I see if the applesauce I had for lunch works its way through my digestive system in the expected manner!

Writing:

I thought this would be depressing, then yesterday happened! It’s been a weird, exhausting week, but I did get a few sentences knocked out over time, and yesterday I got some chunks done on a lot.

A Winter Spirit: Ugh, I’m sorry I don’t have an update to publish this week but I promise they are in the middle of a kind of sex scene (?) and it will be worth it.

Yet Needed Most chapter: Noodled around some more. We’ll see how this goes.

Unnamed trope-o-rama: I wrote a loooong conversation and don’t know how much I like it, but so far so good. These two can’t keep their hands off of each other, it appears. I have some source material for themes that I want to go back to, and then I think I’ll return to this.

Reading: I finished Chaos, a collection of stories by Edmund White. He’s a grande dame of gay lit of a certain era, and when he’s good, he’s very, very good. (The first story is very, very good.) When he’s bad, he’s dull as hell. By the end of the collection the endless repetition of the archetype of self-loathing gay man of a certain age had gotten quite old. I do want to look up some of his other work, though.

In which I learned that I actually really don’t thrive when I don’t have some kind of structure. Blargh.

A Winter Spirit, A Winter’s Tale: After a quick, extensive rewrite to actually create some actual plot and drama, posted chapter 5. I’m well into chapter 6, and should post that this week unless something really weird happens.

Still-unnamed trope fic: Off to a good start! I’ve got some personal tropes in it as well as fandom-wide ones, and it’s a lot of fun to write. I’m giving more attention to Winter Spirit right now, but this is definitely on a front burner.