friday.

As always around these parts, it's barely Friday yet, it's more like four hours from Thursday, still, but Google has informed me it's the 8th now, so that means it's Friday and International Women's Day, if you celebrate that. Some years I do. Some years I don't. I feel like it's gonna be a don't year this year.

Today will be a big cleaning day, lots of stuff to do around the apartment, as well as me doing final rounds of editing on chapter 6 + 7 of Lest They Leave (I'd call it proofreading, but there are still enough edits that I don't think that really covers what I'm doing), these are the two primary things. While K. vacuums the place, I'll be shopping groceries and making ready for dinner prep. That's in the afternoon.

It's also the day of fourth check-in for smallfandombang, so at some point today or over the weekend, I'll need to check-in and report on my progress. I did find a sort of beta which is good enough for me, honestly. I'm relatively happy about my writing in this piece that I think I can do without an actual beta. Still need to do a good chunk of work on formatting and posting this shit, though. Sigh.

Least favourite part of the challenge experience.

Today was also the day when it was officially announced that Our Flag Means Death won't be renewed for a third season which isn't that huge a surprise, but from the sideline (through my girlfriend), I've really seen the fandom give their all for this and I'm a bit sad on their behalf. Personally, I'd be very happy if we left Ed and Stede where season 2 leaves them. I didn't honestly need a third (or fourth) season of drama, tearing them apart and possibly putting them back together (or not, you never know with these things, we know how history went, or do we), so while I am sad for the fandom that really went all in on this and fought so valiantly, I'm mostly relieved. Season 2 is my favourite (for many reasons), mainly because it lands the main couple in a place I can live with and have craved to see in popular media, so.

Mixed feelings, I guess. Mixed blessing.

I should go back to bed, honestly, but not sure I could sleep. But maybe I should just try. I can always get up again, if not.

Is that a plan?

friday.

I slept a little, but somehow just feel more tired than I did, sitting up at 3 am. It's thus been a slow morning, waking up very gradually. However, this slow pace seems to have been helping my productivity, because I've already read/edited chapter 6, moving on to chapter 7 in a moment, as well as started writing a new thing. This is the first new piece of writing I've started since finishing Lest They Leave, so this excited me more than anything. I'm not planning on it being terribly long or anything, but I have written a beginning and have an ending in mind, plus it's mostly structured in my head, usually a good sign that I will finish it...

It's written for ladiesbingo's "deities and followers" prompt which I just couldn't leave untouched, now that this round is closing soon (March 31st). It's emulating a religious text, like biblical writings or ancient Greek myths and is the bidding of a fantasy goddess unto her, in these particular fragments, female worshippers. It was nice working a little in my trademark "prosetry" (prose-poetry) style again and I will definitely try to finish this one before the bingo round closes. Even if I don't manage to do a whole line, I can post it as a single during amnesty. That'd be nice.

Because I'm so relieved to be actively writing again and because I'm rather proud of the formatting of this, I'll share the first couple of verses with y'all.

( The Scoll of Maidens, Mothers, Matrons and Mistresses, start... )