wild for to hold

We finished watching The Book of Boba Fett. Such a good show! I didn't enjoy all parts of it as thoroughly as I did The Mandalorian, but that's an incredibly high bar to reach, so I'm altogether not disappointed. I really liked how many familiar characters showed up. I am also deeply in love with Drash and would let her step on me any time.

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Hello, lovely people! I'm not sure if anyone even still reads this journal, since I've left it abandoned for so long. :'D I'm not dead by a long shot, 2019 was just a busy year!

Yesterday was my birthday & it was lovely! Pretty much the nicest birthday I've had since middle school. ♥ I invited two of my friends & my roommate & we went to see Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker. Since my expectations were fairly low, I really enjoyed myself & many feels were had! I spent the whole movie holding on to melonbutterfly's hand on one side, and fowo's on the other. My dear friend Alex was there too, though he sat too far away to hold on to any of my appendages, haha. Gotta admit I teared up a little bit during the opening credits... I managed not to cry though (a good thing, since I was wearing a little bit of make-up). Then when we left the theater I realized I've been a huge Star Wars fan for over half of my life now. Which blew my mind a little bit.

I spent the first three quarters of 2019 in the throes of writer's... fatigue? I still wrote some, so I wouldn't call it writer's block, but it was very frustrating all the same. Then in October I realized NaNoWriMo was just around the corner, and I went back to my (very long) main WIP, a pre-game Dishonored fanfic called Seven Magpies, or 7M for short. My motivation trickled back in slowly, then exploded once November 1 rolled around, and I ended up writing 58k words! It felt SO FREAKING GOOD to write like the wind again. ♥ Of course the story is still far from over, but I'd guesstimate I'm about two thirds of the way through (?).

I also made it to almost every local write-in this year, which was fantastic for my mental health. November was a harrowing month, with my father's health declining dramatically, my own taking several hits (one of which landed me in the ER), old family bullshit resurfacing, and overall just... a lot of stress. My writing group was pretty much my lifeline, a couple of hours each week where I could just be around fellow writers & laugh and talk with them. I've organized one last write-in for this year on the 28th & I'm pretty stoked!

In other writing news (yes, this is almost entirely a post about writing lol), I might have some fanfic ready to post soon!~ It's just a Detroit: Become Human one-shot, but I hope I can put it up on my AO3 before December 31. I've also been working on some other Dishonored one-shots & one of them is ready to be edited. I've just been craving the sweet validation of adding finished works to my AO3, haha. Since 7M takes up so much of my time/motivation, I feel like it's been 84 years since I posted anything new.

If you like, tell me what's going on with y'all in the comments!