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I am spending a TON of time on this round of Cursed Witch editing at the moment, and loving it. It's still hard work, and it was hard work getting to the point when I could do this, but it's all coming together and feeding into each other and that's a great feeling. The worldbuilding is being refined even further, leading to new ideas that magically solve other problems I had on the backburner, so my brain was likely working on it the whole time even without my active input.

It's still all a bit strange. At first, going on yet another round of structural editing after so long felt like ghostwriting someone else's story. Then because the changes started getting smaller, and generating more ideas of their own, it felt like creating fic for it, haha. Now, I don't know, I work on it in the morning and at night and the story and world and characters are constantly living in my head, in a "love you guys" kinda way rather than the "OH MY GOD I AM SO SICK OF THIS STORY" way I had reached last year. I always had a vague idea for 2 potential sequels, a one-line summary ready for each which was interesting but apparently not enough to actually make me really plan to ever write them. Now I'm adding more details to that "Sequels ideas" file once or twice (or thrice!) a day, peppering little hints of foreshadowing, sometimes even bits that work in layers so that (I think) one can think are related to the current story, but should someone care enough to re-read later after knowing what happens in book 2 or 3, then some sentences take on a completely different meaning. And I'm thinking maybe I'd quite like to take a stab at book 2 once I've handled the Soul Thief structural edits? I also had a "fatal flaws" file about a couple of points I thought made the story broken at a fundamental level, but I believe I managed to smooth or fix that to an acceptable degree to me anyway :D

I am so excited. Obviously, working/editing at the current pace would not be sustainable, but I'm just making a big push while all that motivation and excitement are bursting at the seams. And I know this is all flowing relatively well thanks to all the thinking and prep work I did, even if it felt like it was taking forever. I had to summarise my summaries of beta-reader comments because it was still too long to easily reference XD But I think this kind of exercise is what's helping keeping as much as possible in my head.

May this energy last until I finish this round of editing, too...!! Haha. One can hope. Back to it, now.

andersenmom

Vic found Jeff through KinnPorsche, a BL they assure me I don't want to see. In these cases, I defer to them. Whatever his acting skills, this man has a VOICE. Like, an amazing voice.

( Jeff is good! )

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: One and Only - BoyNextDoor

andersenmom

Weekly Score: 19.4% (6/31)

Goal 1: Declutter house and take care of family. 30% (6/20)

Review: I didn't do much, which is odd, because I had a trip and I needed to get ready, and my youngest is off to school. Cue panic. Maybe that's why.

Goal 2: Catch up on Fannish50. 0%

Review: I did nothing on this. I think I had so much to do that I sort of... froze and didn't post anything because it felt like there was too much to post. I don't know for sure.

Goal 3: Prep for writing retreat. N/A

Review: Had nothing scheduled for this week.

Intentions for the future: G1: Cleaning in downstairs bathroom and my office - mostly my office, because the bathroom is clean (gasp). I'm going to write up a schedule of what to wash when, so I get things moving as far as that goes, too. And just keep up on the laundry. G2: Get rid of the "I'm posting too much" because it's my blog and I can do that. And just get things done. G3: Again, not much going on as far as metrics go - working on gathering recipes and figuring out what I need to buy so we're eating. I will have another email to go out, but not yet.

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: Oh My! - Seventeen

linky

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Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Biri Biri Be-lie-ving

volkameria

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biteshelter

The release of the new Logseq app, introducing the database version of Logseq, is supposedly right around the corner. The current app has been basically abandoned up until recently in order to develop the new app, so the fact that a release is coming up is exciting and relieving. There have been many doubts about the likelihood of the new app making it to release. However… as I think about migrating to a new app, I’m not sure I want to continue using Logseq at all.

My initial belief was that the database version would completely replace the Markdown version. In that case, the only supported syncing solution would be through the upcoming subscription service. Since I self-host my file syncing using SyncThing, I thought that this would be incompatible with my current setup. This doesn’t actually seem to be the case. Apparently the new app will support an alternate mode for Markdown files that can be synced as before.

This should have been a relief, because it means my notes and setup should transfer cleanly, but the scare left me with some lingering concerns about the future of Logseq and my notes.

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I’ll try out the new app when it releases. Even if it’s a smooth transition, I don’t know if it’s a good choice in the long run. I’ve been using Obsidian for the past few days and it’s going well. Converting notes from Logseq is a pain,² but I’ll probably have to do it eventually, so this might be the right time to start.

2: I have a main vault where I’ve recreated my workflow in a more Obsidian-compatible way, and a second vault for testing converted notes before merging them in.

Current Mood: sad

azurelunatic

I have:

* 3 appointments tomorrow, all remote (for later today versions of "tomorrow", because I rarely get to sleep before midnight)
* 2 appointments Wednesday
* Only one appointment Thursday, but it looks like a doozy
* The morning primary care adjacent appointment on Wednesday got scheduled today (Monday) by using the magic combination of phrases "my oncologist said" and "new lump"
* (it's probably a ganglion cyst, since I have a history of those going back to the 1980s)

And then I managed to drive myself to Pained Noises & a complete lack of energy today by:
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grayestofghosts

I've been spending some time on the digital audio player subreddit (and now have a Snowsky Echo Mini and matching Linsoul 7HZx Zero:2s* and probably shouldn't be looking there anymore, but the old Sony stick-style mp3 players are strangely appealing), and there are a decent amount of young new users out there who have... never owned a music library, like at all, they just have had Spotify or whatever their entire lives and have never bought music. I guess I shouldn't be surprised but it just seems insane to me. I'm not exactly a full scale digital hoarder but like, if you like something, get a copy, and save it locally. You never know when it's going to disappear.

*I've had the Echo Mini for a while but I just got the IEMs a couple days ago and I am hearing sounds I have never heard before in old songs and they're way more comfortable than my porta pros. I do recommend, if you're into that sort of thing.

Current Music: "Skylar Spence," SAINT PEPSI

linky

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melagan

First: pimping!

Graphic in the style of a wedding invitation with flowing script: You are cordially invited to a... Marriage of Convenience (at) fancake.dreamwidth.org, August 2025. The color palette is white with dusty rose and muted pinks, and there are flowers—what looks like dogwood and lenten rose—in the upper right and lower left corner.

Second:

I saw an actual honest-to-god working pay phone. It has been years since I've seen one.

phone

Where did I see it? I had a tire issue and had to take my car to the local garage. The phone was on the wall in the small customer service area. I kinda wanted to fondle it, it's been so long since I've seen a working one of these.

yarnandglue

Reddit is going to start blocking the Wayback Machine's bots from crawling anything except for the homepage. This is apparently to prevent AI using Reddit in its training models because AI could use the Wayback Machine. WTF.

guildrone

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grayestofghosts

I went to a writing group today with writers I met at the convention I went to last month. I am not sure what I will get out of it but they seemed really into the pitch of the novel I was working on and have put on pause because it's depressing so I guess I have to actually get back into writing it. It always makes me feel a bit strange when people are into my description because like... oh no... now they have expectations... what if it doesn't hold up?

In other news I've gotten through the point through a lot of therapy and being away from my family of origin of being able to feel how much my body tenses up and stresses out almost whenever I'm on social media. I do feel like to an extent that I need to keep up with some things but I have been trying to wind down my usage, and am trying to just keep up with other things I like. I feel like I will be less lonely if I actually listen to all the audiobooks I have, etc.

I've also been getting into vaporwave around 10 years too late, but I think it probably took that long for me to understand it, haha. What's so interesting is that you can't buy most vaporwave. It really does make it feel less real, like vapor. If you have some favorite vaporwave I'd appreciate recs.

Current Music: "Night In Tokyo Pt I" MACROSS 82-99

azurelunatic

https://comicbook.com/anime/news/homestuck-animated-series-hazbin-hotel-creators/

From the little I've absorbed about Hazbin Hotel, the creators might just be the correct kind of disturbed to do justice to Homestuck.

linky

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mistressofmuses

Kind of an oof of a day.

I was already a little annoyed with how I anticipated the day to go... Our office was essentially double booked, with a class and a test happening at the same time. The tests would normally happen in the classroom, but can't do that if a class is happening, which means those students have to test in the lobby, which is a lot louder and more crowded and not a great testing environment. When I was doing some prep for that yesterday, my manager acted a bit surprised pikachu about it, and mildly complained that the person who schedules the classes should have noticed and prevented that from happening...
... Except I pointed it out to my manager back in June that we were double-booked for this date. At the time no one had signed up for the test, so I asked if we should request it be removed. I got a kind of snarky response about "I'm not sure why you're even worrying about something months away when no one is even signed up for it, it might not even fill. There's no reason to be worried about it."
(I didn't say anything about that, because for the most part things have been pretty chill with my manager recently, and I don't want to cause tension. It ended up not being a huge deal, but still... I tried to prevent this!)

But then when we got in the truck... it wouldn't start. Not even a sad click. Just nothin'. *sigh*

So I called my mom, and she came to the rescue with her little portable jump start pack...

Except it also wouldn't work. We did get *one* tiny partial turn-over, but it drained the whole pack and didn't quite get started.

*sigh again*

So mom rescue x2: she took me to work, while Alex took the jump pack in to charge back up.

I got to work just as people were starting to arrive for the class, so I don't feel *too* terrible. Still, I was about 45 minutes late, which I hate.

Mom rescue x3: she went back and she and Alex did get the truck jumped, then went to go get a new battery.

She had to help us do this not that long ago. I looked back here, and we replaced our battery back in March of last year. So it lasted less than a year and a half, opposed to the 3-5 years that they're expected to last. Though I know we did buy the cheapest battery option available last time, and driving in hot weather is one of the things most likely to wear it down, and this summer has been very hot. (Not a ton of days topping 100, but lots of sustained periods in the upper 90s.) But still!

Turned out when they went to get a new battery, the employee of the auto parts place came out to look at it, and said "well, the battery you have is the wrong size. It's way too small!"

*sigh again*

So maybe it's good that we got a year+ out of a battery that wasn't large enough for the vehicle?

We now allegedly have a correctly-sized battery, and not the cheapest available. This one even actually comes with a warranty. Hopefully we won't be doing this in another year and a half. Wouldn't have been able to get it without mom's help, so very grateful, even though I wish I didn't have to keep asking for help.

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Tomorrow I'm going over to Taylor's to hang out for a couple nights. Looking forward to it!

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my apartment
Current Music: Signs of Life - Poets of the Fall

a_natural_beauty

So I've still been playing one of my favorite games - Animal crossing New Horizons. I've gotten to a four star rating now which is great news! One goal I still want is to get a stove so I can start cooking meals. Mike as a DIY so he can make one for me if I need to - but I'm hoping I can find one myself or buy one in the store. Also another thing I want to do is pay off the shops on Harv's island - the open air market shops. I've been doing little by little but would like to get them paid off completely soon so I can use those. I haven't gotten any photos of the villagers yet but I'm not too worried about that. It's still been such a nice feel good game, I'm glad I decided to play it again. So far my island has been pretty nice. I'm slowly working on making a playground in the southeast area of my island and I have made a zen garden up in the north east part. Also as I've been getting crops I've been keeping them and making a garden. On my old island I had a graveyard - I may do that again.

I've had villagers come and go over the last couple months. This is my list of characters I have now - Alfonso (he left Mikes island and moved to mine when I had an empty plot one day), Anicotti - who has been with me pretty much since I was able to build the first three houses and is one of my favorites, Bill - who I got from going to an island in search of a new villager and I'm happy with - he's pretty adorable, Butch (who is new to my island but I had in my last game and was a personal favorite so when he moved to my island I was overjoyed), Lucy (she moved to my island after she left Mikes and I've had her quite awhile - she is one of my favorites, too), Moe - who has been around since I built the first three houses in this new game - he's a pretty fun guy), Pancetti - who I found on an island one day in search of a new villager, Shep - he's one of my favorite villagers), Spork - who has been with me a good amount of time, he's pretty cute and lastly Sylvia who is also one of my favorites who I got from Mikes island when she moved away.
There are some animal species I haven't gotten in either game - like the hamsters and horses. Or the big bears - not the cubs. I've been enjoying getting new ones with last game and this one.

At some point I do want to play my other games again like Paleo Pines and Dreamlight valley that I was enjoying. It's been awhile since I have. Are any of you playing any good games these days?

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Whimsigoth dream Mix

vriddy

First, a PSA for people who keep letting things slide until the last minute/sometimes too late: you only have until Wednesday to sign up as a creator the sunflower_auction! I finally did it.

Secondly, the main point of this entry! I want to share sunsalute's post for people just starting out with exchanges, with is information that I sure could have used that when I trying to figure things out. Here's the table of content, because Sun is cool like that:

Contacting Mods

Signups and DNWs

Posting and Fulfilling Assignments

Chatter and Discord

Unintuitive Systems Everyone Seems To Know How To Use Already (AO3 & DW)

Further Reading & Thanks

There's a little bit on the technical aspects, but mainly the post focuses on etiquette and things that are not necessarily spelled out. It's a great post!

Link: Help I'm New To Fandom And Need To Get A Good Grade by sunsalute.

the_siobhan

I am currently sitting on twitch listening to the Convergence 27 Raid Train. It's been great for checking out new DJs and I now have a long list of bands and songs to look up later.

I'm sad about missing the people who are at physical Convergence this weekend and I really wish I could hang out with them in person, but... well you know.

Final Contractor came over last week so he could take some measurements. He's running behind on work orders (go figure) because most of his work is outside and his employees can't work a full day when the temperatures are over 30 C. Which makes perfect sense to me.

In the meantime, now that the painting is done I'm taking a break from big projects. I did zero house-cleaning while I was working on the yard and basement and the allergen level in the house is making me break out in hives on the regular. Doesn't help that I can't open the windows because the air quality is crap with all the wildfires. I'll spend August getting on top of that. And all the outstanding paperwork that's piling up on my desk around work permits and insurance claims. And catch up on appointments, if I can get that organized.

I haven't done great (yet) with scheduling exercise time, but I've putting aside time to write letters to politicians. I am so beyond pissed off at well, everything. I have no idea if it helps at all, but I figure it can't hurt and I have to do something with all this anger and frustration. And I'm too old to start a punk band.

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