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Jun. 10th, 2025 07:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
- Exchanges due in May/June (
hurtcomfortex,
pickmeupexchange,
idproquo,
caseficexchange,
seasonsofdrabbles,
diegetic_exchange,
fandom5k + mystery pinch-hits and treats): I've now finished 10/12 fics in this batch. I was going to snag 2 pinch hits last week, but I only got around to one, and someone else grabbed the other one, which I am okay with. I did get all the editing done I needed to, so that's good. Of the two remaining long fics, I wanted to get at least 4 scenes complete in the first, and 3 in second. I got a little over 3 in the first, and made no progress in the second, so that's still at 1.5. I'm feeling like I need to slow down and rest a little, so my goal for this week is to write as much on the first as I can. I don't think I'll get it 100% done, but I want to feel like I'm close. And depending how remaining PHs go in several exchanges that currently have delays, I might have some other fics that need final editing for reveals. But that's all I'm going for this week!
- Upcoming exchanges: No new assignments - I did pass on
narumitsuday; I just didn't vibe with the way sign-ups work for single-fandom exchanges. I'm considering
justmarriedexchange,
nonconex,
raremaleslashex,
littleblackdressex, and
rarepairexchange. The first two maybe I would sign up for if a request caught my eye. For the two rare ones, in order for me to get rare pairings, I'd have to nominate rare fandoms and then pick what would be the juggernauts in those essentially, which doesn't seem in keeping with the spirit of the thing - I'll think about it, though. I have absolutely no LBD characters, so I won't sign up for that one I'm almost positive; however, that does seem like something with interesting pinch-hit potential, so I'll think about that. There's also
iddyiddybangbang starting in July, and I have to think about whether I want to dust off an old drawer-fic I have that's maybe 75% done for that - I'm noodling on it. I do know that
seasonsofdrabbles is going to be back in late July-August, so I know for sure I'll do that. My guess is, though, that I'm going to be focusing on pinch hits more for a bit. New sign-ups aren't particularly calling to me at the moment.
- Did you think that I'd finish Femslash Salad Bar since maybe I have a bit of downtime? Ha, you fool! You have learned NOTHING about me from my posts! :P
- I got cut off from my source from My Hero Academia, presumably because S7 is about to come out so it's monetizing time. So I arranged for a back-up source instead, but that meant that I didn't have a chance to watch anything for a week. I'm back at it as of today, though. Still midway through S2.
- I finished Guardian by priest! I enjoyed it! Although I did like the more mundane every-day cases and weirdness at SID than the huge earth-shattering apocalyptic stuff. The ending was fine and satisfying, though, and I enjoyed the bonus stories. I can't tell, though... Did the original not have porn in it, or did that get cut for the English translation? I'm guessing it wasn't in the original, but was a little surprised by that, given how aggressively horny the writing was. Oh well, that's what fanfic is for!
- I've started reading Noblesse, the manhwa, because it popped up as a long-standing pinch-hit, and I thought, "Maybe that's short, and I can swing it!" LOL, it is not short, and I will miss that PH (sorry, requester!), but I'm REALLY loving the story and characters so far! It's a lot of fun and doesn't take itself too seriously, which I approve of. It's funny, the site I'm reading it on has comments from people who are presumably teenage kids complaining that it's too slow and there's not enough battle scenes, and I'm just like "seen every battle scene ever written, SO FUCKING BORING, oh hey, here's a whole arc where this character misses the entire battle because he doesn't understand how doors work, OMG, BEST THING EVAH! 🤩" So, yes, I hope it doesn't change its vibe too much, because the way it is now is definitely where my mind's at.
Goals for this week: 1) Make some good progress on 1 of the my 2 long fics, to the point where the end is in sight. 2) If anything comes up for reveals this week, do the final editing pass for that. 3) More BNHA. 4) More Noblesse.