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Belated Sunday Six

2020-08-17T10:55:20Z

Six lines or so each from a handful of WIPs. Been a while!

From the faaar future of Just Won't Quit:

“No one else I’d rather spend an evening out with.”

“I’m sure that’s not true.”

“Well…” Peter shrugs. “Might have a hundred and twenty-seven names in my little black book back home… but I wouldn’t ask any of them to back me up with a gun.”

“I don’t mind being one hundred and twenty-eight.”

“Number one, Sir. Any day of the week.”

From something untitled:

“It’s good to see you, Ben.”

That was when the realization hit him, that they weren’t on the same page, that Ed had mistaken his coolness for caution. And that perhaps he had depths Ben had not imagined, feelings Ben had imagined they were incapable of developing for each other. Feelings he’s assumed Ed didn’t want, for a man in general or maybe just for Ben in particular. They’d never been… they’d never been like that about each other. They could be tender, just as two human beings, but never romantic.

From the next chapter of Eclipse:

“You sure you won’t go get some rest?” Mac asks, staring down at the back of a People magazine with a frown, uncomfortable with their horrible newfound camaraderie.

“After I’ve seen him.”

“We don’t know how long it’s gonna be, kid.”

“I know.” Jack looks down at his coffee. “But I have to see him.”

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catdetective @ 2020-08-07T16:06:00

2020-08-07T23:06:46Z

Ask me any of the following and I will answer:

1: A song you like with a color in the title
2: A song you like with a number in the title
3: A song that reminds you of summertime
4: A song that reminds you of something you like
5: A song that needs to be played LOUD
6: A song that makes you want to dance
7: A song to drive to
8: A song about drugs or alcohol
9: A song that makes you happy
10: A song that makes you sad
11: A song that you never rarely get tired of
12: A song from your preteen years
13: One of your favorite 80's songs
14: A song that you would love played at your wedding/was played at your wedding
15: A song that is a cover by another artist
16: One of your favorite classical songs
17: A song that would sing a duet with on karaoke
18: A song from the year that you were born
19: A song that makes you think about life
20: A song that has many meanings to you
21: A song with a person's name in the title
22: A song that moves you forward
23: A song that you think everybody should listen to
24: A song by a band you wish were still together
25: A song by an artist no longer living
26: A song that is about love
27: A song that breaks your heart
28: A song by an artist with a voice that you love
29: A song that you remember from your childhood
30: A song that reminds you of yourself

Meme provided by journalmemes via leesa_perrie.

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D&D- Adventures in Adventuring

2019-12-10T08:59:17Z

(finally got signed back in after computer repair got me signed out of everything, and hoping to get back to doing more w/ DW, figured talking about Dungeons and Dragons was as good a start as anything)

My BOY. My plan was to retire him at some point to roll up a new character, but I love him so much. I mean, I'm going to retire him because I want him to have a happy ending, but I'm going to hold onto him a little longer than I could do.

Backstory-wise, Jack's from a very working class background, in the capitol city of one of the three nations sharing a continent. When war broke out between the three, he was working as a courier, and went from delivering messages from one end of the city to the other and to neighboring villages on occasion, to traveling to and from various encampments and nearby fronts. He was then hired by an information broker as a spy, based on his ability to get in and out of dangerous places unnoticed, his attention to detail, and his memory. He pretty much immediately fell in love with his employer's son-- after a lifetime of working hard to shape himself to everyone else's expectations and desires, for the first time he found himself with someone who really only wanted to see the real him, and who gave him the space to figure out just who that was. In return, he looked at someone who had always been deemed the disappointment and saw his strengths-- and found a few of his weaknesses oddly endearing (but then, he's always had a hard time saying no to someone who needed him).

The two eloped, only for his new husband to be kidnapped from their campsite, leaving Jack in the position of being on the hook for his disappearance (along with the disappearance of all of his personal wealth, and his horse, when that was also taken). While Jack was away from their home city searching for his husband, the entire capitol vanished off the face of the continent, leaving a gaping crater, and bringing the war to an awkward standstill.

With the continent no longer at war, traveling it is a little safer, but not so safe that he could make it from one end to the other alone, and with no home city (and an employer who would have been out for his blood if he had), Jack found himself unemployed, homeless, his family vanished from this plane of existence, his husband missing... and so his best plan of action has been to take up odd work as an adventurer, using those jobs to travel and ask after any signs of his missing husband.

Current story wise, Jack is traveling with a cleric with a military background who also comes from the capitol and understands what losing your city is like, an impulsive and sometimes-clumsy tiefling swordmage with dreams of honorable knighthood, and a Mysterious Stranger (previously, he and the cleric had been traveling with a wizard, putting the cleric of all people in the position of being best able to absorb damage). The small jobs the party has been going on, clearing out bandits and getting information and taking messages for some wizards, is all sort of coming together to paint a much bigger picture about strange and ancient magic-- but also puts Jack in the position of dealing with a lot of zombies, which is his least favorite thing.

At present, his fellow party members know that he's looking for his employer's son-- not that he's searching for his husband. Having faced the thing he's most afraid of with these guys, though, and as they may begin to question why he's on a quest that puts him in danger and causes him great personal expense when there is no one waiting for him to come back triumphant, he's likely going to open up a bit more soon.

He's a pretty sociable rogue. His personal happy place is in a library-- his mental stats are fairly average at present, but he enjoys new information and he feels safe/comfortable there in large part because of he hours he spent in his employer's private library, using 'helping reorganize all these books' as something of a pretext for his courtship, and just hanging around his beloved there, both before and after the romance.

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Word Count/Belated Sunday Six

2019-04-08T11:37:57Z

I had a weekend out at a little local tabletop gaming convention, and nearly forgot to do my weekly word count!

Word count for the year: 252,904
Daily average: 2,607

And a snippet from the next chapter of 'The Same Three Chords':

Crowley catches him in an empty bit of garden, hand closing around his arm.

“Aziraphale, wait!”

“What do you want? What do you have to say for yourself?” He jerks away, voice trembling. “Near to a century, Crowley! We haven’t seen each other in near to a century! I couldn’t even tell you what awful deed I last did on your behalf now!”

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Word Count and Sunday Six

2019-04-01T07:46:43Z

Well, I haven't turned in for the night, so I'm calling it Sunday, anyway...
Word count for the year: 227,943
Which gives me a daily word count average of 2,533!

Most of what I've written this week is posted-- except of course for what I wrote up for my D&D game, since this week was 'bring your backstory' week. But I've got a little bit of 'Pictures of You' below:
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Word Count/Belated Sunday Six

2019-03-25T14:56:01Z

Time got away from me a bit but

Word Count: 206,294
Daily average: 2,485

And some bits-- though much of what I've written this week is already posted-- below the cut:
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I guess a meme?

2019-03-23T11:58:31Z

Because I will be listening to the same 90 song playlist on constant repeat over the coming couple-few months...

Send me a number between 1-90 and hear about why a random song is Important.

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Scent Things!

2019-03-23T11:30:10Z

My BPAL package arrived, bearing the precious. I treated myself... to this beautiful, beautiful little bottle of their 'Aziraphale'.

This is the first bottle I've bought of a masc scent-- technically my previous bottles were both gifts but I mean they're both on the femme end, and then I've had a handful of imps which work for me to varying degrees that I need to properly catalogue and write up notes on because I've been lazy about it. Full review as well as a look at the others below the cut!

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Word Count

2019-03-18T07:24:30Z

I'm very behind on all things DW, apologies to everyone in my inbox, but...

The word count of the year so far: 182,311
Making my daily average: 2,412

Feels good. Feels organic.

I've worked on NOTHING but Good Omens fic (Good Omens is all I'll be talking about for the next three months), and most of what I've done has been posted at this point. I haven't got a good Sunday Six to pull from what's not yet posted.

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catdetective @ 2019-03-12T23:56:00

2019-03-13T06:58:43Z

The twelfth is almost over, and apparently, I am finishing it out with quite a bit of emotions. So it goes, so it goes.

(but on the whole, it was a very nice day)

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Slightly late Sunday Six/Weekly Wordcount

2019-03-11T10:06:21Z

Wordcount for the year thus far: 160,462
Bringing my average daily wordcount to about 2,326.

Because there's only one thing I'm going to be talking about for the next three months... I only really worked on two stories this week that were not my fandomweekly entries (plus a scrap of dialogue that's homeless for now), as I've not yet put words on the page for a short play idea (it's somewhere at the intersection between sci-fi and spy-fi? I'm not sure what's going on with it but the kernel is there).

But, snippets from those two things ahoy;
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AO3 meme

2019-03-10T00:56:48Z

Picked up this fun thing from minoanmiss and wanted to give it a go!
You go into your AO3 works page and expand all filters to answer the questions.

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Word Count and Sunday Six

2019-03-04T06:55:08Z

My word count for the year so far: 136,434
Which brings my daily average up to 2,201 words a day.

I only made significant gains in three longer-term projects, everything else I worked on this week I either got stumped after a couple lines, or it was a short thing that's been posted.
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Hurt/Comfort Exchange Letter

2019-03-02T06:49:22Z

Okay, a lot is covered in the thing itself, and I'm not used to writing a whole letter, but I am very excited about this exchange, like... I really love H/C, you guys. All my Wants and Do Not Wants below the cut.
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WELP Another active fandom...

2019-02-27T19:07:10Z

Started a new fic for an old fandom...

The Same Three Chords is going to be the slowest slow burn I have ever attempted. And when I say slow burn, I mean... like...

Six thousand years.

So if you're into romantic frustration, religious horror, comedy, and-- dare we say it-- long-awaited sex, then this might possibly be the fic for you.

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Word Count and Sunday Six

2019-02-25T10:15:46Z

Word count for the year: 115,709
Bringing my daily average to: 2,104, which is not too shabby.

I had a good bit else going on this week, but mostly it was on the weekend so it didn't really affect me, and it's nice to know that I can take that time off to read and draw and spend a big weekend off doing Things, and like... still be on track. I had a very pleasant con experience! I won things, based on both luck and merit, I brought home little things for my sisters, I made a crafty thing, and I found a birthday present for my mom, which was less expected. She's got until April to forget that I'd sent her pictures of it, but it's a flamingo print apron, and she loves fun aprons and also flamingos. I managed to get out of the weekend having only bought myself three enamel pins... and it was difficult because there were so many, and so many of them were related to other areas of interest. But also, my pins were the number one thing people talked to me about (I got to enthuse about Buckaroo Banzai of all things!). So now I can re-curate my bag for the next con (plus I won a little set of those cute dollar-spot-at-Target-clearanced-after-Valentine's ones so also that'll be nice next February, as I like doing seasonal changes...)

Anyway, below the cut is the bits of writing!
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catdetective @ 2019-02-20T09:16:00

2019-02-20T17:35:27Z

The rules are as follows: Go to page 7 of your WIP, go to the seventh line, and share seven sentences. Then tag 7 people who you know will see this to do the same.

(Okay, I'm not tagging people because I've no idea who I'd even tag, I'm more the 'do it if you like' type, but... I have enough WIPs that I can do seven of them, so that's what's going on below the cut!
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Meme provided by journalmemes.

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Playlist Feels pt. 3

2019-02-20T13:17:35Z

I might as well throw this shortest one up, having shared the other two reading-more-than-writing playlists...
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Playlist Feels pt. 2

2019-02-20T13:01:03Z

Because I was reminded of this one recently, and I ought to have put it on when I was writing earlier, but I've tinkered with it recently.
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catdetective @ 2019-02-19T01:56:00

2019-02-19T10:08:28Z

The library's got two of my holds, so I'm hoping the important one arrives in line with my mom's car getting fixed, before such time as they shelve them...

(the car on the whole is fine, and there have been no accidents, but one power door is screwy)

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I did a thing!

2019-02-18T14:49:45Z

My pimp-your-small-fandom thing for St. Elsewhere is up over here!

I have... worked so hard over this. And I really, really hope some of you will check it out. I'm really doing everything I can for this fandom and also possibly a couple of things I can't. At least, it feels that way at this hour of the morning, when I have wrestled with DW and html coding and imgur and whatnot...

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Playlist Feels

2019-02-18T09:38:48Z

I make playlists for everything. Writing playlists, sure, but I also have obsessively-curated reading playlists for my top three novels. Anyway, under the cut is the music I'm having Big Emotions over tonight.
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meme thing bc why not

2019-02-18T08:51:55Z

Drop one of these bad boys in a comment and I will respond, without editing:

FIRST — the first two sentences of my current project
LAST — the most recently written two sentences of my current project
NEXT — the next line. meaning i will finish the sentence I’m on and write a new one, which you’ll get.
[insert prompt here] — you post a prompt, and i’ll write three sentences based on that prompt, set in the same time/setting as my current project
THE END — i’ll make up an ending, or post the ending if i’ve written it
BEFORE THE BEGINNING — three sentences (or more) about something that happened before the plot of my current project
POV — something that’s already happened, retold from another character’s perspective

Meme provided by journalmemes.

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Board Game Night and Baking Plans

2019-02-18T08:21:23Z

We might add in a fourth to the regular board game afternoon/evenings, but this week it was just three of us. The game on the docket was Boss Monster, which I had a blast with, but our third wasn't feeling it, so instead of playing another round, he checked out the games that the game place had available to demo, but none of those were speaking to him so we cut the afternoon short.

It's kind of a bummer in that like... two of us will basically play EVERYTHING and be pretty into it, and our third is really into the social aspect of getting together every week, but like, he's got much narrower tastes in terms of games? So like, he does get value out of it, and he's a good sport about trying new things even if they aren't his usual thing, at least trying one new thing a week that's outside the tabletop gaming comfort zone. Like, that is very cool of him to do just to hang out with us board game fiends! But it just narrows the field in terms of wanting to make sure everyone is having fun.

But the good news is, like... we do all enjoy CAH, and at least two of the three of us have a copy, so we can start just making sure to bring that as a backup, and that way if we're halfway through a session and it's just not working out, and there's nothing free on the shelf that we can agree on-- because you never know which games are going to be taken by another group, there are SO many tables at the game store for groups of people to use...

Also good news- even though they do sell some snacks and drinks, it seems like gaming groups are allowed to bring in their own food, when it comes to the kinds of things they don't sell, like, I've seen some D&D groups bring in pizzas. I don't know if our D&D group really wants to have everyone throw in for pizza ever, because our time slot doesn't really argue with any mealtimes, but, like... I really love to bake, and I used to just never really do it, because I live with people who need or want to limit various things and who have very different food needs, and like... there are only four of us in the house, none of whom really want to eat like... a quarter of a cake, or a quarter of a batch of something-- not very often. But if I can bake for the D&D group, my family can sample whatever I make without feeling responsible for finishing everything, and like... gaming dudes appreciate free food, this has always been my experience. I used to bake for my college group, like... one guy might make pizza and someone else would bring drinks and I'd make cookies... so it'll really be nice to like... maybe bake up a bunch of cookies every other Saturday evening, and let the icing set overnight if I ice them, and pack 'em up for Sunday afternoon.

Not this next week, because we're in the process of konmari-ing the place and it's a LONG process when everyone has chronic fatigue, so the kitchen's currently a bit all over the place. We're able to do crock pot meals and simple casseroles, but there's just no room for doing the sugar cookies I want to make until we can finish the job. But I'm excited! I'm going to teach myself to do royal icing this year!

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Word Count and Sunday Six

2019-02-18T08:02:35Z

Day 48- 103,763
For an average of 2,162 words a day!

And below the cut, excerpts from some of the stuff I've worked on over the week!
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