Mockingbird; Not Nightingale
Oct. 29th, 2024 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senashentaAlrighty, so. Basically, Nightingale has been REMOVED from the post-Storm Season one-shot roster because it really works better as a stand-along one-shot, I think, since it focuses on Sam more than Dean and Cas and all the Horror High et al stuff is very Dean and Cas centric. HOWEVER, it has been IMMEDIATELY REPLACED by ANOTHER fic, Mockingbird, which struck me this morning and DOES fit in Horror High verse quite nicely. Unrelated to Nightingale, even though they both have birds as the titles. :D;;
I'm making up my own original monster for Mockingbird, which I've never done before, I've always used SPN-verse monsters or (bastardized) monsters from folklore around the world (the jorogumo, the palraijuq), so making something up on the fly is going to be interesting. Socorros are interesting, though, they can mimic any sound or voice with near-perfect accuracy. It's how they lure in their prey. Hence "mockingbird", though they also have things in common with shrikes as well, particularly in how they feed. And of course they have a human form to blend in with society.
Anyway, yeah, so Mockingbird is a thing now and I have way more figured out for it than I do for Day Drinking, which I THINK is going to be a wraith Hunt, but then again, I've done wraith Hunts twice before already so I kind of want to do something else. Maybe ghouls? I'm still deciding.
So I finished When Lightning Strikes, Ghost In The Machine and Pinfeathers (not in that order), and now I'm working on Teeth and trying to get as much done of it as I can in the next two days before the NaNo starts and all fanfiction goes OUT THE WINDOW for an entire month. DO YOU HEAR ME, BRAIN? ALL FANFICTION GOES OUT THE FREAKING WINDOW. FOCUS ON TKA GDI. ALSO DO NOT SUDDENLY HYPERFOCUS ON FREEFALL, EVEN THOUGH I CAN TELL YOU WANT TO. BEHAVE YOURSELF FOR ONCE, OR I SWEAR TO GOD NO MORE ADHD MEDS FOR YOU. (I'm kidding pry my ADHD meds from my cold dead hands.)
.....
Tonight I have to give Kaida's tank a thorough cleaning, like take all the hides and stuff out and clean them off and vacuum out all the gunk because even cleaning every day I'm missing some, especially on and around the hides. And part of that is NOT dumping the water back into the tank after I'm done using the gravel vacuum, so last night I got a bucket of water out and sitting to dissipate all the chlorine so I can use it to top up the tank when I'm done. Hopefully I can do all this without traumatizing Kaida TOO much. Poor guy. But it really does need to be done. :/
I can't remember if I mentioned it or not, but I DID end up pulling Castiel out of the axolotl aquarium and repotting him in soil after all. He just really wasn't doing well (as opposed to Dean, who is THRIVING) and I didn't want him to die, so I just yoinked him. I also renamed him Gabriel, so whatever plant I end up getting to go in with Dean can be named Castiel and my little shipping heart will be happy. I'm thinking about getting a monstera on Thursday when my money comes in.
P.S. Sam is also doing really well in the tank, and Jack is growing like a bad weed so I'm hoping to be able to add him to the tank in a couple of months, too. ♥
When I put out my Pumpkin Parade this year (I put out 10 and I have another one to put out on Halloween night) I was half expecting some of them to get stolen by the redneck asshats who live next door to us, but so far it hasn't happened (a miracle??) and I am not complaining. I can't really put out any more pumpkins/jack-o-lanterns outside because I have nowhere to put them, but there are nine inside as well. I'm enthusiastic about my pumpkins. XD;;
Mom even got in the spirit this year, too, though, she bought a witch window decoration and a ghost for our front door wreath, which like, she NEVER decorates for Halloween so I must be catching. It's super nice to see her getting into it a little this year, though. Normally Christmas is her thing and she's just MEH about Halloween.
SPEAKING OF CATCHING. Mom and I both seem to have miraculously NOT caught Covid from our trip to Toronto/the aquarium, which is like. Yeah. Wow. I figured FOR SURE we'd both end up sick from that and I'd end up with pneumonia again at the very least. NOT COMPLAINING.
Also my jaw is hurting right now. The one that got shattered by the dentist back in the summer. It doesn't hurt much anymore, but sometimes it still aches so I guess it's still healing. Probably just the last of it, but I'm reluctant to get dentures until I know for sure my jaw has settled down, you know? If I get them and then my jaw shifts a bunch more they won't fit right and I'll be SOL because ODSP won't pay for a second pair that quickly. The dentist told me to call in early November to book an appointment with the denturist but idk. Then again, with my new diet and all the vegetables and fruit and CHEWING I'm going to have to do, I NEED the dentures, so like... idk, man, idk.
I'm making up my own original monster for Mockingbird, which I've never done before, I've always used SPN-verse monsters or (bastardized) monsters from folklore around the world (the jorogumo, the palraijuq), so making something up on the fly is going to be interesting. Socorros are interesting, though, they can mimic any sound or voice with near-perfect accuracy. It's how they lure in their prey. Hence "mockingbird", though they also have things in common with shrikes as well, particularly in how they feed. And of course they have a human form to blend in with society.
Anyway, yeah, so Mockingbird is a thing now and I have way more figured out for it than I do for Day Drinking, which I THINK is going to be a wraith Hunt, but then again, I've done wraith Hunts twice before already so I kind of want to do something else. Maybe ghouls? I'm still deciding.
So I finished When Lightning Strikes, Ghost In The Machine and Pinfeathers (not in that order), and now I'm working on Teeth and trying to get as much done of it as I can in the next two days before the NaNo starts and all fanfiction goes OUT THE WINDOW for an entire month. DO YOU HEAR ME, BRAIN? ALL FANFICTION GOES OUT THE FREAKING WINDOW. FOCUS ON TKA GDI. ALSO DO NOT SUDDENLY HYPERFOCUS ON FREEFALL, EVEN THOUGH I CAN TELL YOU WANT TO. BEHAVE YOURSELF FOR ONCE, OR I SWEAR TO GOD NO MORE ADHD MEDS FOR YOU. (I'm kidding pry my ADHD meds from my cold dead hands.)
.....
Tonight I have to give Kaida's tank a thorough cleaning, like take all the hides and stuff out and clean them off and vacuum out all the gunk because even cleaning every day I'm missing some, especially on and around the hides. And part of that is NOT dumping the water back into the tank after I'm done using the gravel vacuum, so last night I got a bucket of water out and sitting to dissipate all the chlorine so I can use it to top up the tank when I'm done. Hopefully I can do all this without traumatizing Kaida TOO much. Poor guy. But it really does need to be done. :/
I can't remember if I mentioned it or not, but I DID end up pulling Castiel out of the axolotl aquarium and repotting him in soil after all. He just really wasn't doing well (as opposed to Dean, who is THRIVING) and I didn't want him to die, so I just yoinked him. I also renamed him Gabriel, so whatever plant I end up getting to go in with Dean can be named Castiel and my little shipping heart will be happy. I'm thinking about getting a monstera on Thursday when my money comes in.
P.S. Sam is also doing really well in the tank, and Jack is growing like a bad weed so I'm hoping to be able to add him to the tank in a couple of months, too. ♥
When I put out my Pumpkin Parade this year (I put out 10 and I have another one to put out on Halloween night) I was half expecting some of them to get stolen by the redneck asshats who live next door to us, but so far it hasn't happened (a miracle??) and I am not complaining. I can't really put out any more pumpkins/jack-o-lanterns outside because I have nowhere to put them, but there are nine inside as well. I'm enthusiastic about my pumpkins. XD;;
Mom even got in the spirit this year, too, though, she bought a witch window decoration and a ghost for our front door wreath, which like, she NEVER decorates for Halloween so I must be catching. It's super nice to see her getting into it a little this year, though. Normally Christmas is her thing and she's just MEH about Halloween.
SPEAKING OF CATCHING. Mom and I both seem to have miraculously NOT caught Covid from our trip to Toronto/the aquarium, which is like. Yeah. Wow. I figured FOR SURE we'd both end up sick from that and I'd end up with pneumonia again at the very least. NOT COMPLAINING.
Also my jaw is hurting right now. The one that got shattered by the dentist back in the summer. It doesn't hurt much anymore, but sometimes it still aches so I guess it's still healing. Probably just the last of it, but I'm reluctant to get dentures until I know for sure my jaw has settled down, you know? If I get them and then my jaw shifts a bunch more they won't fit right and I'll be SOL because ODSP won't pay for a second pair that quickly. The dentist told me to call in early November to book an appointment with the denturist but idk. Then again, with my new diet and all the vegetables and fruit and CHEWING I'm going to have to do, I NEED the dentures, so like... idk, man, idk.
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