Mostly Writing Stuff

It's snowing out again, which... BLEGH. But at least it's not as bad as earlier this winter and over the last couple of weeks most of the snowbanks have melted away. Still. SPRINGTIME WEATHER NOW, PLEASE.

I spent some time last night trying to write down all the pets I've owned that I could remember, for a possibly future writing project (working title: Menageria), and I got the cats (Osiris, Triton, Loki, Arjuna, Tiamat, Gwydion, Nio, Vesta, Lilith, Freya, Pluto & Kali), the axolotls (Kaida, Haku & Ryuu), the rabbits (Phantom, Phoenix, Pauper, Panyin, Pagan & Peter), the turtles (Sheldon, Sherlock, Genbu, Kappa & Gamera), the rats (Yuki, Nanashi, Kori, Sora, Riku, Roxy, Terra, Aqua & Ven), the snakes (Ayame, Nyoka & Opal), the birds (Skippy, Jade, Sky, Peepers, Winter, Shield, Riley, Emmett & Rosie), the degus (Bedrock & Granite), the gerbils (Flash and Dazzle) and the tarantulas (Muffet & Itsy) but there's no way I can remember the names of all the mice and fish I've owned in my life. Oh, but I guess when I was a kid I had a dog named Wicket and three cats named Crystal, Rumble and Khol that I should probably include as well. I think that's everybody? Unless you count the baby squirrel I had briefly. His name was Kusha but he passed away a couple of days after I got him. :|

idk, ever since I got out on my own I've been crazy with the animals, I guess. They keep me company, enrich my life and make me happy, and I love caring for them so. I guess that says it all. I'm an animal person.

Anyway, I want to pull from this HUGE source of characters for Menageria; I won't be using all of them, obviously, but I'll pick-and-choose depending on what I'm looking for in a cast, as I figure out the storyline and stuff. I do have a general idea of what I want to do... ish. Based on an unfinished fanfiction I was writing forever ago.

Then again I might just scrap the entire idea of using my old/current pets' names and make up original ones instead. idk. Still brainstorming a lot at this point. =/

In other news, the two new post-Horror High one-shots now have titles, Puppy Love and Summer Nights, and I have a good start on Puppy Love (about 3,500 words or so just this morning) and I've written a couple paragraphs on Summer Nights, but for the most part I'm going to be leaving that one until I'm done Puppy Love.

In related news, I still haven't finished editing Teeth because I'm totally procrastinating over it and I guess that's okay because there's still another couple of weeks before I'm going to be posting it. But like. At the same time, STOP CREATING NEW PROJECTS JUST TO PROCRASTINATE OVER YOUR ALREADY EXISTING ONES, SENA. BAD FORM.

Deciding to take a half-step back from Horror High and Storm Season (et al) after I post Nightingale had my brain feeling a little relieved already. I love this series with all my little heart, and still plan to work on it, but I need to work on other stuff as well before I completely burn myself out on it. I want to be able to keep working on it and not end up dropping it completely, which might happen if I don't slow my roll.

So, I'm working on Puppy Love, but I'm also working on my The Witcher/Heralds Of Valdemar fic, Horse Sense, which is the sequel to Being Roach, which I wrote way back in 2021. And I fully intend to finish TKA (finally) and get started on My Zombie or Freefall or both. Maybe Endgame Girls, if I can get the rest of the character stuff nailed down? idk. I'd also like to try starting to write Frailty, which, admittedly, is SPN fic, but it's a completely different AU so I feel like it doesn't count. :P

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And I keep saying this, but I think I'm going to try to work on my scrapbooks this afternoon or this evening, even if it is just a little bit. I have all these bits of paper just laying around, cluttering up my surfaces, and I really need to get them glued in where they belong. =/