finally, the end has come. some of the fanfic links will lead to NSFW, so viewer discretion advised.
writing
i can't really say how much i wrote this month, but i did post a couple of drabbles and a short introspective one shot for
ficwip's fairytale week,
good stepsister, which is inspired loosely by cinderella III and the original disney movie.
i also posted a few drabbles,
swimming is a ficwip prompt fill, and i also stumbled across an old little drabble of my two ocs, misha and sasha, called
bite. i also updated one of my long fics,
someone to hate, though i'm... not super happy with this.
the drabble i'm proud of most right now is
vacate et scire, which is also a ficwip prompt-based drabble.
for the
intoabar event, i was assigned to write a fic with mike meeting dimitri (from fire emblem) in a bar (
my life's a mess, but i call it mine. i was super stuck with this fic, and writer's block was super unkind to me, but managed to get something out. i think it's a cute little short fic. i might have gotten the prompt a bit wrong since i wrote from dimitri's pov, something i haven't done in a long while.
for the rewind event, i wrote a long fic of my OTP under the spitefest category,
spatium. (you'll have to pry latin titles from my cold, dead hands.) this fic is very explicit and self-indulgent/self-centered, so be aware of the tags.
finally, this was originally going to be another ficwip submission for tiny ships fleet, but i decided against it.
thus always to tyrants is just a random one shot that i ended up writing out of nowhere, and it's orpheus/joseph which is surprisingly a super niche pairing on AO3, even in the CN fandom. but i was one of the very few to have written for the ship.
anyway, i think that's all of the posting i did. i've been struggling with brain fog and writer's block, but this month was pretty successful.
reading
you can see my progress on my
storygraph. so far i've made a huge amount of progress reading
too old for this, which is actually getting super intriguing. the entire book is about medium-paced, but once you hit the 30th chapter, it really draws you in. i love the main character and how she actually feels like an old woman rambling about her past days. i don't have any grandparents anymore, and i don't remember any of them, so this book is honestly super fun.
i've barely made any progress on
woman down. i hate the cheating trope, but i was so curious about what people on booktube were saying about this being a "self-insert" that i had to dive in. i normally don't like 1st person POV, and avoid it as much as i can, but i've made some exceptions (namely
too old for this). but it's... not horrible? i don't like it, but it's a book that i'll finish since i don't like to leave things unfinished. i know there are people who DNF books, but honestly, i paid for it so i might as well get use out of it before donating it.
roleplaying
i actually... did a little bit of RP, but it didn't end up going anywhere. i'm working on my worldbuilding for my 5k fantasy AU, which my partner and i have roleplayed a little bit of before.
spending
i... honestly cannot remember anything except the trip to buc-ee's.
closing thoughts
i might get rid of the "roleplay" activity and replace it with something else, maybe travel? since i did travel to buc-ee's and it was a four hour road trip. we went for my belated birthday, and it was honestly the most fun i've had in a long while. i really hope to go back next year, or even for christmas lol (when the holidays are over). i don't even wanna think about christmas yet though.
i've been super fixated on my ocs as of late, and i think that's probably why i've been struggling with my writer's block for identity v. it's not burnout from the fandom, though the fandom sucks, but it might just be that i've been wanting to write with my own ideas and these ideas don't really... fit idv? i have a lot of ideas regarding high/epic fantasy and my original indie novel is heavily influenced by epic fantasies like runescape, LOTR, skyrim, etc. and idv is more of the historical victorian fantasy genre, which is fine in itself but my brain really wants to default to medieval swords & sorcery.
i
did have an old fantasy fic with elf!joseph, but i lost interest. maybe i'll pick it up for the 5k.
which speaking of, it begins today officially, but posting doesn't begin until august. i really hope i can be patient for that long, since i LOVE to post immediately after finishing something.
so... yeah! i think that sums it all up.