'Tis the season to feel stressed

[derry]

It occurred to me yesterday that Christmas is in less than two weeks (??!) and I have done very little in terms of preparations so far, so today I went shopping for Christmas cards & dropped off my best friend's gift in the mail. I've honestly been feeling quite stressed but I hope that'll lessen once I start sending out these cards.

I'm going to spend the 24th with my lovely roommate! We're gonna do a Lord of the Rings marathon--we'll watch all 3 extended versions back-to-back. That'll keep us busy for sure. Then on the 25th my mom is picking me up for a Christmas lunch with my parents, my nephew, and my parents' BFF. I feel conflicted about it. On the one hand it's ~tradition~, but on the other... stuff that involves my parents is always really hard on me, especially around the holidays. I just hope I'll get through it relatively unscathed.

On Monday night I finished Prey and I just

• What the fuck

That is all. -- At least some of my questions were answered in the end! I've been reading Reddit in an effort to better understand all the subtleties I missed & I think I now have a vague idea of what was going on. I also went into the AO3 tag and discovered to my horror that there's not a single Morgan/Jason fic out there! Now I have to write my thing. I've also got to buy the Mooncrash DLC asap. I heard we're gonna get to know another member of the Yu family & I'm really looking forward to meeting them, whoever they may be.

I've been thinking about maybe making a WIP post where I ramble a bit about the fics I'm currently writing. I tend to be fairly withdrawn and insular about my favorite hobby, which is a bit sad--I'm so envious of writers who can just... talk about their WIPs, damn it. I tried to chat about writing on my Tumblr but that website in general just tends to give me that dreaded AllByMyself.mp3 feeling because I know how quickly posts can get buried in a deluge of reblogs. So I'm hoping that DW is more suited to my blogging style. I have a lot of WIPs so that'd be quite a huge post, haha.

My To Do list for the weekend includes:

• write Christmas cards
• LAUNDRY
• work on some fics
• start replaying Prey as female Morgan
• play Overwatch
• maybe cook
• make birthday plans

Comments

[masu_trout]

Ahh, yeah, I feel you on the family stuff - I hope it ends up going okay, holiday family obligations suck.

And yes, please do, I love seeing things about people's fic WIPs! I totally agree on the Tumblr thing, I loved looking at fanart there but could never quite manage to strike up a meaningful conversation at will. I think DW's text-based-ness makes it a great site for talking about writing-related stuff.

What fandoms are you into writing for?

[derry]

Thank you! I hope it goes well too! :)

Ahh, I'm really glad that sounds interesting to you! I'm gonna compile a post soon, that should give me something to do in between writing all these damn cards lol. My main fandom is Dishonored. I've uploaded a few fics to my AO3 and it's my most prolific fandom to date. I've written for Merlin and Assassin's Creed before and I've even got a few shorter Deus Ex WIPs kicking around.

How about you? :D

[masu_trout]

Oh wow, all that sounds awesome! I haven't had a chance to play the Dishonored series yet, but it's on my list for sure - I love immersive sims, and the whole worldbuilding sounds super cool. And I would definitely be very interested in hearing about those shorter Deus Ex wips you've got kicking around as well. :D

I've written fic for... a little bit of everything, really, haha. I hop around a lot. Mostly video games - a lot of Fallout and Overwatch and Deus Ex currently, and I've also written a fair bit of stuff for Final Fantasy VII and Pokemon.

[derry]

Thank you! <3 And yes omg, definitely do check out Dishonored, I highly recommend it. It shares its place in my heart with Deus Ex (I can never decide which I like more, so I've decided I'm just gonna have 2 favorite games instead of one). It is very immersive and fun to play and you can make a number of decisions that'll affect the ending.

That sounds really cool! I'm gonna have to check out your AO3 profile! I love Fallout and Overwatch and Deus Ex fanfic :D