Sena's DW :: Watermelon Life

Just got finished posting Chapter Eight of Horror High to AO3, Tumblr and Vanimadin. I never get anything off Vanimadin, but then again I don't expect to, and I usually get 5 or less likes for each chapter on Tumblr, but at least I can count the hits on AO3. The last couple of chapters I've gotten a few more reviews and they all basically amount to "this is a great fic, don't get discouraged by the lack of reviews, please keep it up!" Which is nice to hear. Maybe I'll get a couple more messages with Chapter Eight?

Either way I've fully committed myself to writing Storm Season now, after all my waffling before. I've already written like 167 pages of Horror High, plus 5 one-shots that average around 32-ish pages each that go BETWEEN Horror High and Storm Season, AND started a one-shot that goes AFTER Storm Season, so I figure... FUCK IT. STORM SEASON IT IS. I'm currently 39 pages in and going strong! lol. (I'm aiming for around 150 but I learned not to estimate when I was writing Horror High.)

Anyway.

Today my goal is to overhaul my Writing Master Post over on tumblr. It hasn't been updated in YEARS and I need to add a Supernatural section and reorganize the The Witcher section so it makes more sense. I'm HOPING to locate all my old graphics that I was using, but I get the feeling those are lost to the void, so I'm going to have to just make all new ones. It's kind of a pain but I guess it is what it is.

I also need to figure out what I'm going to do for my photoblogging for today because I am currently coming up blank. :|

Did I mention that I freaking hate air pumps. They're loud and buzzy and just really annoying, and now I have TWO of them running, one for my betta fish tank and one for the filter/air stone in the axolotl aquarium, and there's a good chance I'm going to need a THIRD because I'm seriously considering adding a second filter/air stone to the axolotl tank just to be sure. I mean I had 3 running in my room at one point for all the betta tanks, back when I still had Geralt and Yennifer, but I LOATHED THEM. L-O-A-T-H-E-D.

...I just took my morning pills and I can already tell this is going to be a bad day with the lithium. It makes me SO SICK for SO LONG after I take it, EXCEPT since I started taking the Vyvanse at the same time it's been a lot better?? Dr. K was baffled when I told her that at my last appointment, like why would the ADHD meds be affecting the lithium that way?? NO CLUE BUT I'M NOT COMPLAINING. I do still have some bad days when I end up really like, violently nauseous, though, and I think today might be one of those days. Boo.

I dug out one of my spare Cabbage Dogs last night, the ones I bought specifically to paint, since I finished Nonbinary Cabbage Dog the other day. I think this one is going to be a Pansexual Cabbage Dog? idk he's just staring at me from my work table right now seeming very pansexual to me. I'm going to try selling him on Etsy once I've finished him.

Still working on my Rainbow Dash wiggly fox; painting the entire tails of the wiggly foxes, and especially painting them rainbow, is a PROCESS. I learned that last time I painted a rainbow-tailed fox. It takes forever. But that reminds me, I do have five or six foxes already painted and ready to go that I could list on Etsy already. The problem is I have no boxes to ship them in? So I can't list them until I have the packaging material just in case. Not that I expect them to go fast or anything, my Etsy isn't exactly making bank. :|

I'm also partway through a Starry Void wiggly fox, I just have to actually paint his stars and touch up his ears a little bit. Poe requested him so I might send him to them when I'm done him rather than posting him for sale, but I haven't decided yet. I don't know if we're to the point of sending random gifts to one another yet or not, the copy of Tao Undead they sent me notwithstanding.

Speaking of Etsy and Poe, they had me go through all their button designs and pick out the ones I liked and then sent me the Photoshop files so I can order them to stock them in my shop as well. Then we're going to work out a percentage deal where they get, say, 10% of each button of theirs that I sell. I think it's a good plan and I like to collaborate with my friends, so I'm going to give it a go. I think they're still just... trying to make up for everything that happened back in the winter.

I think I've decided I'm going to download all my VLOGS from YouTube and then just delete them. Most of them, when I made them, were made strictly out of abject despair, and they're very raw and painful. I cry watching them even now. I don't regret MAKING them, at the time it was very cathartic to actually SAY THE WORDS OUT LOUD, even if it was just to myself, but I DO regret uploading them. It's a time in my life and a part of myself that I don't think I want out in my public YouTube anymore.

I'm considering selling Ishana. She's the doll that was originally supposed to be Katie, but when she came in I took one look at her and went "you're not Katie!" and immediately rebranded her. I like her well enough, but I haven't got the emotional connection with her that I have with (most of) my other dolls, I haven't bonded with her. Right now she's just kind of sitting around taking up space. I keep saying I'm going to do her faceup and then never getting around to it, and I doubt I ever will. So. Kijiji time? I think maybe. I can probably get $100 for her with her eyes, wig, clothes and shoes.

Poe never got back to me about the Finch Swap idea so I dunno if that's going to happen or not.

Also yes I am DEFINITELY having a bad, bad lithium day. I keep having to take breaks to go puke in the bathroom. There isn't even anything in my stomach so it's just horrible retching and dry heaving. :<

I need to take some aspirin because I'm having INTENSE gut pain atm but I don't know if I can keep it down. I think I'm just going to go lay down for a while. At least I got Horror High updated before everything went to pot. :|