Both bathrobes and slippers still require a step of “being undressed” which I hate to do at any point in the winter.

Alas; I just piled my warmest PJs on the sink and dressed as quick as I could dry myself.

The good thing is, it’s snowing less than last time.

The bad thing is, it didn’t start snowing til 3pm and we had already committed to going to the gym.

The worst thing is, now I have to take a shower and taking showers during winter are a 0/10 experience.

I started posting a longfic thinking it would keep me motivated, I was W R O N G -- now I have 5 chapters of something posted and I'm staring at the rest of it I have to write like.... fuck

hello my friend <3

anyway, I do miss the fandom community, and the friends I made along the way. I visited NYC (where I know many of you live) and was too ashamed of having been a ghost to reach out and try to arrange a meeting.

What else did I do last year? I read like, almost forty tradpub books, not even including all the fanfic I read. I watched a lot of TikTok. I watched all of Grey's Anatomy. I started going to the gym.

And like, I get THAT, but put it all into a video game with a controller and I'm MYSTIFIED.

which I find amusing because I DID recently start an actual real life in person D&D campaign with people I met on the subreddit for the city I live in.

I tried to play baldur's gate yesterday and got really overwhelmed by the mechanics.

It's 12 chapters plotted, 6 chapters written, and a direct continuation of a previous fic (Let Mercy Come) that I wrote for an exchange back in November of 2023.

its my insurance provider 🫠

last year's pitiful word count and significant reduction in subsequent interaction has done a NUMBER on my motivation to write things

I'm also not convinced that anyone is going to read it even though it's shaping up to be better and more interesting than the fic it's based off of (Let Mercy Come) but like, yknow

I adore you for this, but I'm pretty sure without your impact I'd have written like 0 words lmao