Today is Thursday, which means I posted the last post-Horror High one-shot, Falling Stars, to AO3 and Tumblr (I'll get around to Vanimadin later today.) It's kind of... bittersweet, posting the last of the post-HH one-shots. I know I have a whole other cycle to go through in the series with Storm Season and IT'S one-shots but it still feels like the end of something. I dunno. It's weird.

Everything I Do didn't do very well AT ALL (235 hits, 26 kudos and 1 bookmark; no comments) which was disappointing because that was my personal favorite of the bunch, but there's nothing I can do about it. I thought people would like the fact that there was a top!Cas/bottom!Dean scene in it, but maybe the tags were confusing, because I had to include all the tags for that position as well as the usual one. They were pretty muddled.

I guess I just keep holding out hope that the series will somehow catch on, even though it's pretty clear by now that it's not going to, just because I love it so much. Still, I do get the occasional comment, and every time I'm nervous to click on them in case they're someone telling me my writing is bullshit, you know? But so far all but one have been really positive. I literally JUST got one for Falling Stars (like 5 minutes after I posted it, this person is a SPEED READER) where the person said they loved the series, so that's a good way to start out with a new fic, right? Right.

I'm done the first-draft editing of Storm Season up to Chapter 5 so far, so I just have 6-->10 to go, and then I'll circle back around and go through them all over again just in case. I have a little timeline that I'm scribbling out on a post-it note as I edit because I'm fairly sure I screwed up my timing with a couple of things along the way. They're easy fixes, I just need to know the time between specific events that I laid out originally. I think I kept just referring to past time as "two weeks" or "a couple of weeks" when actually like a month had passed, and that's the kind of thing people call you out on lol. I've learned that from experience.

Then it's on to finishing up and editing When Lightning Strikes, and then the others, but only until November 1st at which point fanfic is getting put to the side in lieu of writing TKA.

I'm so nervous about this whole TKA thing, though, like I really, REALLY want to do well at it, but with my past track record with the NaNo I'm super afraid the same thing is going to happen here, again, and nothing will really get done. I keep trying to put these thoughts out of my head and focus on the fact that I have like three years of planning and an entire huge long, detailed outline to go by this time, but they sneak into my brain anyway. I wish they'd go away. I wish I had more confidence with myself.

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Like two years ago I downloaded the first season of a series called From because I heard about it and it sounded right up my alley, and then when I watched it it was SO UNBELIEVABLY GOOD OMG so I looked up to see if there were other seasons, and there was one other, so I tried to find IT to download, too, only... nada. Zip. Zilch. Couldn't find it anywhere. So, I've been lowkey looking for it off-and-on ever since and two days ago I searched for it again and I FOUND IT, so I downloaded it like ASAP before the universe noticed and took it away again.

And again, it was SO FREAKING GOOD. I LOVE FROM SO MUCH (but like, the title? Please that is the hardest thing in the world to search for. You get everything. EVERYTHING.) And apparently there is a third season out now, which I am excited for, but like... I have no idea when I'll be able to find it. Could be another two years. idek. Hopefully not but we'll see because it's SUCH a good series. <3

Last night I emptied out one of the bins on my shelves and packed up some stuff for storage to make room for my binders full of writing. They all fit except for the Biology (et al) binder, which is in Jessie's room now, and my new TKA binder, which is just kind of sitting next to my computer table, but like... this is a SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT because I used to have SIX huge binders between my computer table and my work table, so I cleared out a lot of floor space with that, and they're much more organized now. I do wish Biology and TKA would fit, too, but there's not much I can do about it at this point. =/

I'm 90% of the way through my next batch of Wiggly Foxes. I just have to touch up the white on their bellies, paint the white in their ears, and paint the black on their noses and eyes (with a sewing needle, SUCH a pain) and then I can take pics (UGH) and list them on Etsy. Then I'm going to start working on finishing up my Rainbow Dash fox and my Starry Void fox, the ones that Poe suggested, even though it's depressing to work on them, still. And after that I'll dig out four or five more Foxes and start over again.

I think later today I'm going to try to make a point of sitting down and posting all my buttons to Etsy as well, finally. The Pontypool and Evil Dead Rise and misc. ones. Then I can start working on designing more. I have Ghostbusters, Abigail and Late Night With The Devil quotes that I want to use, and eventually I want to do some JAWS, Jurassic Park and Alien quotes as well. I have to figure out a way to pick quotes that would appeal to the masses and not just ones that are niche to me.

I also need to re-take the pics of some of the jewelry I've already got listed and swap them out now that I have a better background. Just. I have so much Etsy stuff to do but I always procrastinate on it. I would SO MUCH rather just take my wares to a market or con and sell them all there. Etsy is tedious and, at least for me, a pretty much constant let down.

Anyway. Now I'm going to go do some editing for a while before I have a nap. Tonight is my turn to cook supper, but I'm just making Hamburger Helper because *SHRUG* And then tomorrow I HAVE to make an apple pie for my brother, it's already a week late. I would do it today but there's no room in our fridge and I want it to be as fresh as possible for when he comes over on Saturday. :P