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almosthumanbang was not a thing. However, I did manage to complete artwork for another author's story. You can find both that story and my graphics for it here. (Weirdly located at sentinelbigbang, but whatever...)
What was I doing in all that time I wasn't writing? Mostly, MUDing—which is not a pastime I'd expected to get into again. But then, I wasn't aware that Shadows of Isildur was finally opening up again. SOI is a Lord of the Rings themed MUD that has been running, on and off, for maybe about fifteen years. I originally played circa 2007, back when they had a mixed human and orc sphere. When Tur Edendor was destroyed in a mighty siege, it was fun, but I kind of lost my will to play the game.
Now, the game is back, this time moving away from Gondor and the Second Era to take place in Mirkwood. Currently it's in playable alpha, but once open the game will be set in Laketown.
Oh, also maps. I was tapped to make some maps of the gameworld for the game's wiki. You can find those maps that have been finished here.
As heavily as I've been into SOI, though, I've gotten kind of burned out. I don't plan to drop the game entirely, but my mind is drifting back toward wanting to write fic. This is, of course, a good thing if I can bring myself to focus on it. I'd like to go back to tracking word counts...I liked seeing numbers representing something I could pretend equaled progress. So I might go tally up what I've got for the various fics I consider "active" projects, and post that in a few days time.
I finally got caught up on Grimm. I felt a little silly once I did, because that thing that I thought they were doing that upset me so much I stopped watching? They weren't actually doing that. They didn't write Wu's out of the series, his dealing with what he saw is actually becoming A Thing, and I actually think they're handling the whole arc pretty well. Didn't dig them killing off Sebastian, though. And I didn't expect to like Truble, but I actually kind of like her—as previously demonstrated with Juliette, Rosalee, and Kelly Burkhardt, the writers have a wonderful talent for writing female characters I can actually give a shit about. Though I still wish Adalind would just die. Seriously. She's been stirring shit up since season one...as a villain she's not interesting, and well past the expiration date at which she should have been replaced by another villain. As a character she basically embodies every trait I can't stand in female characters on other shows, all in one tidy package.
Also, she's a rapist—now a two-time offender—but nobody is going to call her that, whether it's because she's a woman or because she was using magic. >:(
*sigh*
But, having caught myself up on Grimm, there is an inkling of a whiff of a possibility that I might actually manage to get some progress done on the Castle crossover. I've been sitting on manips for that for over a year, and the fic itself for coming up on two.
I've been playing a lot of Fallout 3 lately. One of my planned fic projects, should my brain choose to accept it, is going to be a podfic diary of the Lone Wanderer. I've lined up my bff Z to voice young Jamie...it should be a lot of fun, once things get started.
I'm also giving Fable 2 another whack, since my sister bought my dad a discount copy. That is not going to wind up being fic, don't worry...it's mostly just a palate cleanser for when the Capital Wasteland gets too bleak.
As for the whole family situation...
That's...actually going pretty well. My dad has been managing sobriety successfully so far—falling back on the auxiliary vices of caffeine and video games, but my mom and I can totally deal. That would be about...four months now. And it's already had a very noticeable, positive impact on his health. Not only has he not suffered any more seizures during that time, but he's recovered his ability to navigate just every day stuff (like making a pot of coffee, or following the plot of a movie) that he sometimes had trouble managing after his stroke. I'd always figured the alcohol wasn't doing him any favors, I just never would have expected such a degree of improvement so quickly.
He has had some issues with anxiety and depression. These may have been pre-existing conditions he was self medicating (based on my own experiences with both of those things, and his mother's history of them, I'm thinking probably), or they might have been the result of the stroke, it's impossible at this point to tell. He's on medication for that now, which I'm surprised my mom, as his medical proxy, agreed to, because she's always been leery of that sort of thing. It seems to be helping him, though, and that's really what matters.
But yeah, over all that's been really good.
almosthumanbang was not a thing. However, I did manage to complete artwork for another author's story. You can find both that story and my graphics for it here. (Weirdly located at sentinelbigbang, but whatever...)What was I doing in all that time I wasn't writing? Mostly, MUDing—which is not a pastime I'd expected to get into again. But then, I wasn't aware that Shadows of Isildur was finally opening up again. SOI is a Lord of the Rings themed MUD that has been running, on and off, for maybe about fifteen years. I originally played circa 2007, back when they had a mixed human and orc sphere. When Tur Edendor was destroyed in a mighty siege, it was fun, but I kind of lost my will to play the game.
Now, the game is back, this time moving away from Gondor and the Second Era to take place in Mirkwood. Currently it's in playable alpha, but once open the game will be set in Laketown.
Oh, also maps. I was tapped to make some maps of the gameworld for the game's wiki. You can find those maps that have been finished here.
As heavily as I've been into SOI, though, I've gotten kind of burned out. I don't plan to drop the game entirely, but my mind is drifting back toward wanting to write fic. This is, of course, a good thing if I can bring myself to focus on it. I'd like to go back to tracking word counts...I liked seeing numbers representing something I could pretend equaled progress. So I might go tally up what I've got for the various fics I consider "active" projects, and post that in a few days time.
I finally got caught up on Grimm. I felt a little silly once I did, because that thing that I thought they were doing that upset me so much I stopped watching? They weren't actually doing that. They didn't write Wu's out of the series, his dealing with what he saw is actually becoming A Thing, and I actually think they're handling the whole arc pretty well. Didn't dig them killing off Sebastian, though. And I didn't expect to like Truble, but I actually kind of like her—as previously demonstrated with Juliette, Rosalee, and Kelly Burkhardt, the writers have a wonderful talent for writing female characters I can actually give a shit about. Though I still wish Adalind would just die. Seriously. She's been stirring shit up since season one...as a villain she's not interesting, and well past the expiration date at which she should have been replaced by another villain. As a character she basically embodies every trait I can't stand in female characters on other shows, all in one tidy package.
Also, she's a rapist—now a two-time offender—but nobody is going to call her that, whether it's because she's a woman or because she was using magic. >:(
*sigh*
But, having caught myself up on Grimm, there is an inkling of a whiff of a possibility that I might actually manage to get some progress done on the Castle crossover. I've been sitting on manips for that for over a year, and the fic itself for coming up on two.
I've been playing a lot of Fallout 3 lately. One of my planned fic projects, should my brain choose to accept it, is going to be a podfic diary of the Lone Wanderer. I've lined up my bff Z to voice young Jamie...it should be a lot of fun, once things get started.
I'm also giving Fable 2 another whack, since my sister bought my dad a discount copy. That is not going to wind up being fic, don't worry...it's mostly just a palate cleanser for when the Capital Wasteland gets too bleak.
As for the whole family situation...
That's...actually going pretty well. My dad has been managing sobriety successfully so far—falling back on the auxiliary vices of caffeine and video games, but my mom and I can totally deal. That would be about...four months now. And it's already had a very noticeable, positive impact on his health. Not only has he not suffered any more seizures during that time, but he's recovered his ability to navigate just every day stuff (like making a pot of coffee, or following the plot of a movie) that he sometimes had trouble managing after his stroke. I'd always figured the alcohol wasn't doing him any favors, I just never would have expected such a degree of improvement so quickly.
He has had some issues with anxiety and depression. These may have been pre-existing conditions he was self medicating (based on my own experiences with both of those things, and his mother's history of them, I'm thinking probably), or they might have been the result of the stroke, it's impossible at this point to tell. He's on medication for that now, which I'm surprised my mom, as his medical proxy, agreed to, because she's always been leery of that sort of thing. It seems to be helping him, though, and that's really what matters.
But yeah, over all that's been really good.
