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theotherguysride
replied to your post “hi! im the original anon for the sith template au. Sorry bout the…”

*offers hugs* That sucks and I hope that the next few days are better. Brains suck and I can’t wait until we can upgrade out of the defective squishyware we have now.

*accepts* I’m hoping so, too. So far, it’s been good today. A lot of good sunlight, no having to cope with people, the neighbors have been blessedly quiet. Swimming might have been nice, but people, and all the nope, so no swimming today.

I am sooo ready for a cyborg body, even if I’m not entirely sure if I’m actually ready for hardware over wetware. I’d want better batteries and a secure and reliable power source for recharging, and a damned good firewall before I replace the wetware. But once those issues aren’t issues, yes! Oh, yes.

2, 11

2. Is there any specific ritual you go through while/before/after your writing?

Not always. If I’ve been having a difficult time, I’ll usually queue up one of the writing playlists, light candles and turn off the lights, and close tumblr, but that’s about it for before. Never really had anything I do other than sometimes loop a song for during writing. After – only when the writing has been specifically an offering, and thus mythology of a sort. Usually salt or water into the pot on the altar at that point, or other rituals of offering.

11. Weirdest thing you’ve ever written/thought about writing/etc.?

Erm. I think that all depends on how one defines weird.

Lies, Misdirection, and Terrible Truth was one of the most surreal things to write because of how my brain space was, at the time.

Queen of Mercy and Grace is equally surreal, if distinctly darker, and hasn’t held onto my brain for as long at a time.

Cats and Murder Kittens (also on tumblr) is a sort of AU I usually wouldn’t write, but it’s tooth-rotting fluff and never let it be said Obi-Wan and Maul can’t agree on at least one thing. Even if they can’t agree on how to murderize Palpatine.

16 and 20 for the fic ask meme?

16. Do you have structured ideas of how your story is supposed to go, or make it up as you write?

A little of both. I usually have an idea where I want things to go generally, and the details in between where I start and where it goes tend to be made up as I go. Sometimes involving the story sprouting subplots and side stories that I’m not expecting or intending.

20. 4 sentences from your work that you’re proud of

(Ok, so this is a few more than four sentences. Four sets of lines, more like. Because the best bits are better in context than not.)

“My loyalty is still to my captain. I will do what I must to see that he is not perceived as a failure to the rest of the Peacekeepers. Even if that costs me my reputation and my life in the end.” – Lieutenant Teeg to Captain Crais; Teeg’s Choice, Chapter Two: Present

So the news of the day becomes stories of the past, stories become legends, legends become myths. The world changes and grows and reaches for the stars, brilliant and blazing defiance of the old order. And if somewhere in those who work to that end, there are heroes and villians vying against each other, who can say? For the world knows the gods are real, no better or worse than the rest of humanity, save they live beyond the span of mortal years. – So All Passed Into Myth, and the Gods Walk Among Us; Story 30/30 of Lies, Misdirection, and Terrible Truth

“The next time I think to take up a dwarrow on the offer of an adventure to fetch his wayward war-master home, I’ll think twice on the offer and refuse.” Ráva doesn’t even bother to open his eyes, leaning against a boulder that had been his shield a couple of times in the battle he’d not intended to walk into. At least he’d come out the other side still in one piece, and Vorkha wouldn’t have to explain to his brother just how four thousand years of life had been ended by a wayward band of orcs.

Well. A wayward army of orcs.

– the beginning of Burning Bright, Chapter One: To Weather the Storm

These are the children of the seiðmaðr who was oath-brother to the rúnatýr. These are the ones bound in the blood of the Valföðr, who walks undying upon Midgard with raven-hair bound with feathers. These are the instruments of Ragnarøkkr, the deaths of the gods and the remaking of the world.

So listen, all you who hear me, and heed.

– the end of Valföðr, a Highlander story written for hlh_shortcuts in 2013

godoflaundrybaskets
replied to your post “the-last-hair-bender
replied to your post “And fuck it, I’m not going…”

I’m glad weeding went well and talking helped!

Removed half a pound of sorrel – which, granted, wasn’t entirely a weed, because I wasn’t fussed by it being there, I just don’t have any use for it – three nettles, a half dozen plants that I can’t remember what they’re called, a bunch of ground ivy, and some spiky plant that I still haven’t identified other than undesirable and pokey. Pretty purple flowers do not make up for pokey.

I have to get in mulch/straw for around the strawberries for the winter to protect them, and probably just going to rake leaves once they fall over the center of the garden where there’s nothing but some very unhappy parsleys, and might lightly cover the oregano and lemon balm with fallen leaves once I have them, too. But that’s for no earlier than the weekend.

the-last-hair-bender
replied to your post “And fuck it, I’m not going to attempt to catch up on the rest of my…”

*offers hugs* it sucks that you’re having a shitty day. I vote for tea and the hottest bath you can stand.

*accepts* I spent time yanking weeds from my garden, and then spent an hour or so talking to dad, because sometimes it is useful to talk to people in brick-space. Tea will happen as soon as I put more water in the electric kettle and dig out the tangerine orange herbal tea.

Hot bath, unfortunately, will have to wait until morning, when dad is out of the house, and I can go down to use that one, because the water heater up here takes forever and runs out too quickly. But I think that is going to be part of stuff tomorrow.

haruka89
replied to your post “@staff, while the offer to have a temporary reminder and means of…”

That’s strange. I can continue to read my dash, the voting stuff is just in my sidebar, not keeping me from anything.

I went to refresh my dashboard, and a version of what’s now just in my sidebar popped up and blued the rest of the screen out, and the only options to make it go away were functionally yes and no, if in different words. Clicking to the side did not make it go away.

On the other hand, it only appeared on my main dashboard, not on any other page, so posting the complaint was something I could do before I actually decided that no, they can’t do that, thank you for irritating the hell out of me.

(If I decide later to turn it on, I have the option of doing so. But I wish they’d left it at that, and not done anything more intrusive, because I’d have been far more likely to just go “yeah, sure, I’ll go for that”.)

I wonder if they’re only doing that annoying thing to some people, and not others.