2025 week 38
Sep. 22nd, 2025 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
larissamy hands still really hurt, so i'll try to keep this entry short.
however, i finished my fic archive! i'm really happy with how it came out. i need to tweak a few things that have errors, but other than that it's in good shape. fic writing has always been part of fandom for me but not something i've really talked about on my websites until recently, so this is a little weird for me to make, but: in a web that's increasingly narrow, i think it's important to carve out little spaces like this.
also, i like writing behind-the-scenes content for fics, so there's that.
other than that, my hands have been in terrible shape so i've been offline a lot to rest. watched several movies over the past week, of varying quality, but nothing standout. i should really start on one of those shows that's been on my to-watch list while i'm icing my hands, but i haven't gotten around to it yet.
my brother's wedding is in two weeks! i am not in the wedding (thank god) but of course i'll be going. while stressful, i think i am looking forward to it; he's the first of my siblings to have a big wedding so it'll be an experience for sure.
that's all for now. on to next week!
Two Sad Elf Fics, Coming This Fall to an AO3 account near you.
Sep. 17th, 2025 05:12 pmanneapocalypseWith Harsh Light at 81,318 words, and Gentle Dark at 91,740, I have two complete drafts in front of me.
I've been working on these two FFXIV fics for... something like a year and a half, I guess? Because all of my fic for Ariane (my player character) lives in one scrivener project and I've had that going basically since I created her, I don't have a file creation date to go on. I was going through an old journal recently and thought I found the page where I first jotted down the concept for this fic project, but that was only a little over a year ago and the word count spreadsheet I keep doesn't check out with that. Digging up some tumblr posts tells me I was probably first digging into it seriously in April 2024, and for that I think the word count from my spreadsheets checks out. Old dreamwidth entries tells me I had the concept in mind least as far back as December 2023 and was probably already jotting down some snippets as they came to me. April 2024 was also when I finished Endwalker, so it tracks that that's when I'd start working seriously on longfic.
Safe to say, I have been working on this for a lot of the past two years.
There is revising and editing and beta reading and more editing still to do, but it's WRITTEN! It's written!
Sad though they may be, I've enjoyed writing these so much. I'm really excited to share them when they're ready.
2025 week 37
Sep. 16th, 2025 10:58 amlarissalate post again because my hands have been killing me. it turns out playing too much videogames is bad for you. oops.
anyway, i've been taking it easy the past few days to let my hands rest. mostly i've been doing a lot of reading! i reread The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett, my favorite book from last year, so i could go into the sequel A Drop of Corruption fresh. both books were excellent; strong recommend.
then, in a desire to read something totally different, i picked up The Serpent and the Wings of Night and read it in like a day or two, lol. i'm halfway through the sequel now and honestly, it's a lot of fun. i love goofy romantasy.
i've been in a reading slump for most of the year — i kept picking up books and DNFing them for one reason or another, so it's nice to be on a little streak now. i'll probably stick with the crowns of nyaxia series for a little while since i'm having a good time with them, but after that, who knows. maybe sci fi.
in writing news, i have hit my ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
getyourwordsout goal for the year of writing for 180 days! about 160 of them have been consecutive; i haven't missed a writing day since the start of april. it's been really nice to consistently write again, although i have been pretty lazy about what i've been writing. i'm hoping to switch gears and work on a new original project soon.
in gaming news, i've been doing roulettes for my new relic in ff14, a bit of crafting, and some leveling of yet another alt. i've made some progress doing work for my fic archive as well; the content is nearly finished, so soon it'll just be time to code. i've sort of been putting it off, but i'd like to get it done this month.
i think that's it for now. on to next week!