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New Chapter!
May. 11th, 2019 04:27 pmSo I guess I lied about this next chapter being up last weekend, but here it is now!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/16354952/chapters/44592079
https://archiveofourown.org/works/16354952/chapters/44592079
New Chapter
May. 3rd, 2019 02:24 pmAnd another new chapter, this one for my Sherlock fic! I was able to be pretty productive this week, so I should be able to have Chapter Seventeen up later this weekend.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/16354952/chapters/44343853
https://archiveofourown.org/works/16354952/chapters/44343853
New Chapter
Apr. 28th, 2019 04:27 pmI have a new chapter of my Victorian horror story up! Check it out here: https://tapas.io/episode/1393003
New Chapter
Mar. 26th, 2019 01:50 pmAnd there's a new chapter of my Victorian boarding school horror story up too! This one has much less frequent updates, but hopefully I can keep pushing on until summer when I'll actually have some spare time.
https://tapas.io/episode/1363274
https://tapas.io/episode/1363274
Draft and tech week
Mar. 5th, 2019 09:06 pmI mentioned in an earlier post that rehearsals have been eating up quite a lot of my time. (At least, I think I did. I'm too tired to remember.) Well, we're about to enter tech week, which means I'll be spending every evening pretending I'm a Frenchman rather than the ancestors-fully-assimilated American that I am. Despite the sarcasm, I really am excited for this, and for the staged reading I'm doing on the days when the theater is dark.
Despite that, I managed to get a working first draft of a short story! I'm only going to change about half of it, and the core can stay just as it is. I'm really excited to edit it next month once things calm down a little in my day-to-day life.
Despite that, I managed to get a working first draft of a short story! I'm only going to change about half of it, and the core can stay just as it is. I'm really excited to edit it next month once things calm down a little in my day-to-day life.
Life update, I guess?
Feb. 23rd, 2019 09:07 amSo it's been a while since I posted on here, in large part because I've been super busy. I haven't had much time for my internet writing, though hopefully I'll be able to get up a new chapter of Go And Set Europe Ablaze soonish. (As for Not a Soul in the World, that might take a while longer, but I'll get to it. If nothing else, I've got spring break coming up next month.) I'm in a production of As You Like It, and even though I've only got a small part, rehearsals and tech work have been taking up a lot of my time.
It also turns out I can completely fail at hemming a dress. That's where my yesterday afternoon went.
But I've got non-internet writing in the works! I'm working on a romance about a werewolf in the 1950s, so if anyone has any recommendations for reading on race relations in that era, I'm all ears. I'm also going to play around with a short story about photography and oppression, so if you like my writing, keep an eye out for both of those. I'll try to give updates where I can.
It also turns out I can completely fail at hemming a dress. That's where my yesterday afternoon went.
But I've got non-internet writing in the works! I'm working on a romance about a werewolf in the 1950s, so if anyone has any recommendations for reading on race relations in that era, I'm all ears. I'm also going to play around with a short story about photography and oppression, so if you like my writing, keep an eye out for both of those. I'll try to give updates where I can.
New Chapter!
Feb. 8th, 2019 12:42 pmI meant to upload this last night, but my internet connection started fizzling. Anyway, here it is now, the latest chapter of Go And Set Europe Ablaze!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/16354952/chapters/41769980
https://archiveofourown.org/works/16354952/chapters/41769980
New Chapter
Jan. 31st, 2019 06:56 pmHere's the latest of my Sherlock AU! https://archiveofourown.org/works/16354952/chapters/41530796
Life Updates
Jan. 26th, 2019 02:23 pmI'm in a performance of As You Like It, had jury duty this week, and have a bunch of books checked out from the library. All of these are keeping me from actually getting writing done but I'm pushing through even so! I just wrote a review for Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri and I've got two more on the way about Theodora Goss's Athena Club novels, all of which I highly recommend. After that, I need to review a thriller that so far is underwhelming, but I guess that's what you get sometimes. There's nothing much I can do about it except try to get through it.
And then, finally, I get to finish my short story about two strangers making a home together!
And then, finally, I get to finish my short story about two strangers making a home together!
New Chapter!
Jan. 21st, 2019 03:04 pmAnd there's another chapter to my Tapas story: Not a Soul in the World. Can Ruby, barefoot in a graveyard, convince Effie she's not crazy?
https://tapas.io/episode/1303599
https://tapas.io/episode/1303599
Public School Fun
Jan. 18th, 2019 07:23 pmSo I work as a TA in a public school, and while most of the time it's pretty great (aside from the fact that I don't get paid nearly enough to be able to move out of my parents' house at twenty-five), the administration is just... ugh. Today I found out I have to connect a profile on one credentials website to another, which basically involves just making a profile on the other site and manually uploading everything there. For one thing, that's a sucky way to do things, but for another, I need the licensing number for the site which is (drumroll please) at the site.
So I have two choices (three, if you count not doing it and just leaving all of this nonsense behind): do the thing over my lunch break or do it when I could be doing other TA stuff. My current plan is to ask the instructor if I can do the latter so I can at least tackle it while I'm paid for this nonsense, but the fact that they apparently think we have the time to do this is exhausting. We barely have the time to do everything we already need without cutting into class time.
Choice four: do it during class time. The afternoon class is pretty chill, and it'll give me an excuse to tell the other TA to get off her phone.
If anyone about works in schools, do you have to do this? If not, what schools do you work for? I'd love to get some options in my life of where I can go that won't drive me up the wall quite this much.
So I have two choices (three, if you count not doing it and just leaving all of this nonsense behind): do the thing over my lunch break or do it when I could be doing other TA stuff. My current plan is to ask the instructor if I can do the latter so I can at least tackle it while I'm paid for this nonsense, but the fact that they apparently think we have the time to do this is exhausting. We barely have the time to do everything we already need without cutting into class time.
Choice four: do it during class time. The afternoon class is pretty chill, and it'll give me an excuse to tell the other TA to get off her phone.
If anyone about works in schools, do you have to do this? If not, what schools do you work for? I'd love to get some options in my life of where I can go that won't drive me up the wall quite this much.
New Chapter!
Jan. 3rd, 2019 09:37 pmIn addition to my fanfic, I've also got an original work on Tapas! If you like Victorian horror and lesbians, feel free to check it out. Here's the latest chapter: https://tapas.io/episode/1287200
On Recommendations
Jan. 2nd, 2019 10:12 amFor day two of the Snowflake Challenge, we're asked to recommend three fanworks that we didn't create. Here are three that I've particularly enjoyed.
Ten Years After the Fall (Legend of Korra): https://archiveofourown.org/works/3699647/chapters/8189771
This one's part of a series that I haven't read all of (but will get to once I'm less behind on my own writing), but it's set years after the events of the series and follows various characters like the Beifongs and Ikki (one of my personal favorites). All the chapters I've read so far are a lot of fun!
Prejudice and Pride (Pride and Prejudice):
https://archiveofourown.org/works/8862334/chapters/20320546
Genderswapped Lizzy Bennet? Super gay sexual tension between him and Darcy? Gay Kitty Bennet? Ace Mary Bennet? So much sibling love? Sign me the fuck up! (It's also beautifully written, by the way.)
All I Ask of You (MCU):
https://archiveofourown.org/works/17163950/chapters/40356803
Stony, but for theatre nerds. It's too cute to handle.
Ten Years After the Fall (Legend of Korra): https://archiveofourown.org/works/3699647/chapters/8189771
This one's part of a series that I haven't read all of (but will get to once I'm less behind on my own writing), but it's set years after the events of the series and follows various characters like the Beifongs and Ikki (one of my personal favorites). All the chapters I've read so far are a lot of fun!
Prejudice and Pride (Pride and Prejudice):
https://archiveofourown.org/works/8862334/chapters/20320546
Genderswapped Lizzy Bennet? Super gay sexual tension between him and Darcy? Gay Kitty Bennet? Ace Mary Bennet? So much sibling love? Sign me the fuck up! (It's also beautifully written, by the way.)
All I Ask of You (MCU):
https://archiveofourown.org/works/17163950/chapters/40356803
Stony, but for theatre nerds. It's too cute to handle.
On Happy Places
Jan. 1st, 2019 11:50 amMy happy place is a whole mess of things, honestly, but if I had to narrow it down, it'd be the top floor of my college library. During the term after my roommate attempted suicide (she's doing better now, but it was a really rough time for both of us) I'd pack up my laptop and whatever books I needed to read for homework and huddle in one of the armchairs by the windows. I had a great view of the sidewalk leading past some frat houses (which may not sound like a great view, but when I had the time to spare, it was fun to watch people walk past on their way home or to class or just around), and on sunny days the chair would be warm but never too warm. I'd do all my reading, and then I'd write either my own projects or on a role-playing site until I had to go back to my dorm and plug my computer in. (I never bothered to bring along my charge cord. Don't bother asking me why.)
Because people have been sharing their fandom happy places, here's mine: a spaceship. I have mild insomnia, and sometimes when I have trouble falling asleep I put on spaceship engine white noise. Sometimes it's the Enterprise-D, sometimes it's Serenity, sometimes I go for Deep Space 9 (which I know is not a spaceship but it's spaceship adjacent). Funnily enough, I don't tend to write sci-fi, even though I often plop myself on a ship in my daydreams.
Because people have been sharing their fandom happy places, here's mine: a spaceship. I have mild insomnia, and sometimes when I have trouble falling asleep I put on spaceship engine white noise. Sometimes it's the Enterprise-D, sometimes it's Serenity, sometimes I go for Deep Space 9 (which I know is not a spaceship but it's spaceship adjacent). Funnily enough, I don't tend to write sci-fi, even though I often plop myself on a ship in my daydreams.
Moving In?
Dec. 30th, 2018 06:57 pmSo my girlfriend made a very vague (or maybe not so vague -- I've just never been in this situation before) overture to my moving out to live with her. I'm in Colorado; she's in Minneapolis. The suggestion brought nothing but panic, and while I was able to push it aside and eat dinner, I can't help but still feel rather nervous about the prospect. I think I could live with her, but at the same time, I can't bring myself to feel excited about the prospect. The most I can feel is a sort of resigned contentment mingled with nervousness.
This is normal, right?
This is normal, right?
So I recently finished a book called From Here to Eternity, about funeral practices around the world. This isn't something I've thought about much, as I'm only twenty-five and keep alternating between being certain I won't die any time soon and knowing that if I should die there will be other people to handle my funeral, people who will actually know what they're doing.
But my parents aren't twenty-five, and while they're still fairly young, my grandparents aren't. One grandmother died about five years back, and the other recently had uterine cancer. She's doing fine now, but she and her husband have already picked out burial plots. (The other grandfather has breathing problems. We don't know how long he has.) It's really weird, going with your grandparents to look at the place they'll be buried, but what was even weirder was looking at the cemetery.
I haven't been to many cemeteries. I haven't even thought about them much, but I still have a rather romanticized vision of them in my head. They're places full of grass and mossy tombstones, with flowers laid on graves and random trees dotted about. The place where my grandparents will be buried has trees, but it's large enough to drive through, and the streets all have names that feel very distant from death.
Part of the argument From Here to Eternity makes is that Americans as a whole are too distanced from death and the dead. We keep ourselves separate from it, and that leads to death anxiety. I don't feel too worried about my own death, perhaps in part because I spent several years nearly suicidal and faced my own death fairly often. I'm not even worried about others' deaths (as long as I'm not confronted with them suddenly but have time to consider them), but I am worried that, when someone I love dies, I'll be handed all the responsibility but won't know what to do.
I don't want my mother, a woman who has encouraged me to follow my conscience as long as I put thought into that following first, to have an ordinary burial. I want to give her something that will connect her to the earth, something that will have meaning for both of us, and not the canned sort of meaning funerals pretend to have. I know I have years to prepare, but a part of me feels like I should be figuring this out now, so that I'm ready in another twenty-five or so years.
More than anything else, I don't want her death to be all about money for the funeral industry. I know she'd hate that.
But my parents aren't twenty-five, and while they're still fairly young, my grandparents aren't. One grandmother died about five years back, and the other recently had uterine cancer. She's doing fine now, but she and her husband have already picked out burial plots. (The other grandfather has breathing problems. We don't know how long he has.) It's really weird, going with your grandparents to look at the place they'll be buried, but what was even weirder was looking at the cemetery.
I haven't been to many cemeteries. I haven't even thought about them much, but I still have a rather romanticized vision of them in my head. They're places full of grass and mossy tombstones, with flowers laid on graves and random trees dotted about. The place where my grandparents will be buried has trees, but it's large enough to drive through, and the streets all have names that feel very distant from death.
Part of the argument From Here to Eternity makes is that Americans as a whole are too distanced from death and the dead. We keep ourselves separate from it, and that leads to death anxiety. I don't feel too worried about my own death, perhaps in part because I spent several years nearly suicidal and faced my own death fairly often. I'm not even worried about others' deaths (as long as I'm not confronted with them suddenly but have time to consider them), but I am worried that, when someone I love dies, I'll be handed all the responsibility but won't know what to do.
I don't want my mother, a woman who has encouraged me to follow my conscience as long as I put thought into that following first, to have an ordinary burial. I want to give her something that will connect her to the earth, something that will have meaning for both of us, and not the canned sort of meaning funerals pretend to have. I know I have years to prepare, but a part of me feels like I should be figuring this out now, so that I'm ready in another twenty-five or so years.
More than anything else, I don't want her death to be all about money for the funeral industry. I know she'd hate that.
