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I have not! I’ll add it to my list of Things What I Should Get To. :)

I’m glad people have been enjoying the Goblin Emperor stuff, I’ve been a little self-conscious that I went radio silent and then suddenly All TGE All The Time. (i have been posting more on Dreamwidth, I’m not really radio silent.) (Farm shit’s gonna start back up this week!)

I haven’t stopped with the Goblin Emperor yet, though. I’m gonna! I’m gonna get myself out of this weird little spiral.

Yesterday I saw two fantastic Twitter threads and one of them was a bunch of professional authors, including the current Hugo nominee Brooke Bolander, admitting that they love to write fanfiction and it helps them recharge their batteries sometimes, and it made me feel better that I’m periodically like this. I’d feel better if I’d actually, you know, ever published an original novel, but. Whatever.

I’m clearly working through a lot of shit, writing this, but it’s a little bewildering sometimes where my brain takes me, y’know?

Beshelar moved so easily with Ino on his hip, it was clear he was used to children, and it struck Cala that he’d never pried much into the man’s background. Once they were clear of the crowd, Edrehasivar did it for him.

“Almost we would think you had your own children, Beshelar,” Himself said.

Beshelar glanced over at him. Ino was completely unconscious, long legs dangling. She was too heavy for the nursemaid to carry thus without struggle, Cala realized, looking at the relative sizes of the two individuals; Ino was not a baby, and probably weighed a good third of what the nursemaid did. “Serenity,” Beshelar said, “we are the eighth of ten children, and our oldest sister married when we were seven and lived in the house with us and her husband, and once her babies were born we had much of the looking-after of them, so if once you are married you decide to dismiss us as your nohecharis, still we could be of service to your household as nursemaid.”

Everyone laughed at that, and Himself said, “We shall have to keep that in mind, Beshelar,” and then because he was a being of pure light, he added warmly, “but we cannot imagine ever wishing to dispense with your services as nohecharis,” and Beshelar glowed a little too.
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1) i fell on the ice again on the way in to work because it was 33 last night and 19 this morning and so the ground is fucking glass and knives, ugh. Nine years as a roller derby skater means I know how to fuckin' fall, all right, but that's got some additional downsides-- I'm pushing forty and have a dodgy hip for some reason, and also I muscle-memory-drilled how to fall on kneepads, so my take-a-knee reflex is less great in regular clothes. Also that ankle I sprained in October is not 100% yet and I probably need to look up some physical therapy exercises because it's not going to go back to normal on its own, is it?

2) There's got to be a way to blacklist tags on DW so I don't see them. Like, that's what tags are for, right? To find what you're looking for and avoid what you hate?
Similarly, is there a way, if you're importing a whole bunch of old entries, to make them not show up on reading pages? I'm seeing huge swathes of somebody's stuff that's backdated from years ago, but it's still showing up clearly chronologically in the order reposted, not in the order backdated, and that's a bummer. I've had to unsubscribe, but I figure, give it a day or two and I'll try resubscribing. But in the meantime-- if I import old entries, I don't want to do that! And if it's repetitively about a fandom I actively hate, if I blacklist it I won't see it, right, so the lion's share of the problem would be gone, right?
Only I don't understand how to blacklist on Dreamwidth. And I saw someone mention a "show on reading page" checkmark you could untick for backdated entries, right, only I don't see that fucking anywhere and I think I must have imagined reading that.
It would be a great feature if it existed!
(If you think you know who you are, that I unfollowed, don't worry, I'm gonna resubscribe. If you want to drop a line letting me know when you're done reposting old entries, that'd be fine too, but I'll actually physically write myself a note to check back, it's okay. I'm not like, annoyed, I just really need not to have my reading list be four pages of old essays about a fandom I strongly dislike, especially right now when I've just gone on a huge subscribing spree and so have no idea who's on here and what they normally do.)

(Listen, I've had Doctor Who blacklisted on Tumblr since 2012 and it's the only reason I stayed on that site, and you wouldn't believe how much Doctor Who shit I've still scrolled past. The nerds I love love that show but I absolutely fucking do not and I just don't want to hear about it, for no particular reason but like, it annoys the shit out of me, and that's fine, right? That's the curb-cutter effect for trigger warnings, right? I literally never want to see what's his name's face ever again in my life, I don't care that they've got a woman I like doing it now, I don't care about the show and just don't want to know.) (No, that's not the fandom in question at the moment but it's there for the record.)

3) I reread a bunch of my old fic last night while the cat was on my arm so I couldn't type. I used to be pretty decent at pacing. Clearly, it's a skillset I possess. I need to, like. Focus. I don't know what to do.
Just keep plugging away, I guess. I need a finished story to edit, is what I need. That's my current goal. So I gotta keep plugging away on that. Even if the pacing is awful and it's dragging and the whole thing is too long and a mess, I need to finish it and get it where it was going and then I can revisit and decide what to do. Having it half-finished is useless.