Can't believe it's already... *checks notes* May? Wtf. Where did the last three months go? Anyway.
Words Written: 27,588 | Words Translated: 5,103 |
Welp, I definitely took a translating haitus for a while there. In my defence, the one chapter I did was super long and every time I went to chip away at it I could feel my braincells fleeing at the mere thought of having to remember all the imperial titles I came up with for this. At least this arc is one chapter closer to completion, and finally the ML is going to stop playing around. Phew.
Onto the fun bit, writing!
Since I set the 90k goal for the year, the goal for 3 months should have been 22,500 words, which I definitely did!
I finished my fic for the
smallfandombang with a whopping 13k words! It was so fun to work on, probably one of my favourite fics of the year haha. It ended up taking me in a completely different direction than what I first envisioned when thinking about the Mushishi Modern Era AU, but honestly I couldn't be happier with how it turned out, and the podfic is gorgeous to boot! Now that
mushishiweek is coming up I'm wondering whether or not to do more works in that canon... I'll wait until the prompts come out to decide, this year I definitely want to post for more days than last year so hopefully I can get my shit together enough to pre-write some of that.
What else... Oh, I finally took the plunge and snatched a pinch-hit! It was for the
merthurglompfest, a fest I was thinking about signing up for but at the time of signups I was busy so I sort of sighed and let it go, but then I saw the pinch hits go up and I took a peek and one of them immediately grabbed be, so I said what the hell, this is my chance! It was actually super fun to work on and reminded me of why I love Merlin so much haha, def wanna write more merlin stuff in the future. Also, having to find a beta for this fic (as per the fest rules, I'm usually a "no beta we die like [humorous comparison]" kind of guy) got me in contact with a wonderful writer who introduced me to the show Lewis! I binged it all in under two weeks I loved it so much, and I'm even watching the pre-prequel Endeavour (which I do like, but it's different vibes from Lewis and I def like Lewis better). Now I'm beta-ing a whole-ass series of fics she's doing for the lewis/hathaway ship and I'm absolutely loving every single word. God some people just have gold in the brain.
The last highlight of the month is definitely the latest fic I did for the
bethefirst challenge! I wrote a Vaughn-centric fic for the Time For Chaos podcast (the one that introduced me to call of cthulhu, which I keep gushing about to anyone who'll listen) and honestly it was such a blast. I actually intended for it to go a vastly different way but the start wasn't working out so I re-wrote it in a completely different scenario and suddenly it all clicked. Needless to say, I'm already writing another fic for the fandom (because I need more Carter/Margot bickering in my life), and I'm waiting for season 2 to end (5 episodes left as of writing this oh god) so I can go back to re-listen and write even more. I know I will be the only person writing (and reading) for this fandom but I don't care, I do it because I love: therefore I must. Be the change you want to be in the world and all that.
Anyway hopefully next check-in comes at the end of may and not 3 months later... ㄟ(≧◇≦)ㄏ