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This week's questions were interesting, although I struggled with sharing without sharing too much 😂 The Internet is a wide, empty space, yeah?

( My answers! )

Read the other responses to this week's Friday Five here.

snowflake_challenge: Tell us about a personal win.

I completed a WIP last Friday. It wasn't one of my longer multi-chapter fics but was just a chat fic that had gotten out of hand. Nevertheless, I've listed it as having more than one chapter over on AO3 and stopped regularly updating it about three-fourths of the way in--which is typical of me, but!!!

ON FRIDAY!!!

On Friday, real life has slowed down enough and has coincided with the right amount of spoons for me to finally finish the last few chapters. I polished the words I wanted to update, created the media related to the fic itself, and used some boring computer and HTML trickery to make it all work out in the end.

I love chat fics. I swear I do. But for the number of words you see "on the page", there's at least three times as much work/effort done in the background. It's all a bit ridiculous, really, and I don't know why I do this to myself.

But yeah. That story's complete and I'm mighty chuffed about it.

I've also created a Prompt Meme for my main fandom (any Young Royals fans still on here? 😅) and launched it earlier this month. There are about twenty-plus requests on there, last I checked, with several unposted claims and one posted work. I'm incredibly pleased with its reception in the fandom, and I look forward to seeing it grow as time goes by!

It's been a hot second since I've posted earnestly on here and lemme tell you guys: so much has happened since then. My tumblr got unshadowbanned (a good thing social-wise but definitely a bad thing re: my productivity) and two-point-five of my favourite shows dropped and I've had enough time since then to step back and just... process it all.

Now, I'm returning to my slow-paced hobbies. Let's crack on with last week's Friday Five, yeah?

( My answers )

Read the other responses to this week's Friday Five here.

Ahh, food. My greatest enemy (affectionate).

I'm such an equal opportunity eater--aside from clear boundaries, which will be explained below--that to choose between two options is just... pure evil, I think. Absolute nefariousness. How on earth am I to survive?

( My answers )

Read the other responses to this week's Friday Five here.

I know I'm a few days late for this particular Friday Five but in my defence... I just discovered this comm really recently and time is wibbly wobbly anyway? I haven't posted here on DW in a while due to a myriad of reasons, the least of which is my being very careful to avoid spoilers for YRS3--because, yes, I still haven't gotten around to finishing it.

I don't want to jinx anything, but this is feeling so much like Merlin S5 all over again.

But I digress. Here's my response to thefridayfive's questions for this past Friday. I'm such a language nerd and I'll take any excuse to gush about my language learning journey!

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I'm not gonna comment on the comm and say I've done this. I have a habit of doing things late and, while I'm not ashamed of it, it's kind of like strolling in halfway through a lecture with Starbucks and that's just... not the vibe I want to bring to the world. So I'm just gonna hang around in my little sandbox in peace! I wonder what next Friday will bring?

It's a new day and I'm ready for the second episode. Let's crack on, no dilly-dallying, 行くぞ!!

( On the table tradition )

( Before Class )

( Classroom Scene, aka Wille has no rizz )

This was in the 'drafts' and couldn't be posted before my flight boarded. To reiterate: I have no time management skills whatsoever. But anyway, I'm off to watch S3E1 now. So damn excited!

How is it that I'm only on the first episode? I literally have zero time management skills, I swear...

( Transitional Scenes )
( The Lunch Scene )
( Micke )
( Initiation Party )

It's been a hot second since I did a re-watch post, so please bear with while I get back into the groove of things.



( Dinner at Hillerska )
( Simon and Ayub )
( Wille and his family )
( Alexander!! )
( Classroom Debate )

Aaaand that's all I've got time for now. I've still got about fifteen minutes left of this episode. Fingers crossed I get to finish this one soon! I'm itching to get started on episode two.

Here's the thing: I cooked up a bunch of fairytale AU ideas for my OTP last summer, and I ran it by my number one brainrot supporter (my dearest, loveliest IRL who betas for me sometimes) and they were like, "The BatB AU sounds interesting." Personally, I liked the Little Mermaid AU a tad bit more, but... what my monsterfucker bestie wants, my monsterfucker bestie gets.

(In a sense. I haven't written a single word for this AU but, rest assured, the idea is percolating.)

Which is why I've decided to read the original The Beauty and the Beast novel by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. And by original, I don't mean the OG French version--I'm interested in the story, but not that interested that I'll learn a whole new language for it. Sorry!

So I sourced myself an English version. In fact, I went ahead and sourced several English versions.

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Check out my 2024 Book Bingo progress here!

So... Amazon finally released the trailer for the third season of the Alex Rider TV show. It could not have come at a better time (that is to say, within the last twenty-four hours) because I am having A Time™ right now. Can't wait for this week to be over.

While I don't know if this will work, I'm still throwing my lot with the HTML gods and that some of their tech-y magic will work with me today. For some reason?? Amazon has neglected to upload the trailer on YouTube, which is. A Decision. Here's a link to the trailer, just in case.

But anyway, the S3 is set to drop on April 5th. Totally serendipitous, I know, that it will not clash with the release of Young Royals S3. I don't know what I'd do if they were released in the same month or--I dread to think!--in the same week?? My brain would melt.

( My thoughts on the trailer! )


I'm so excited!