tangerine's dream

In the last few weeks, I've gotten a bunch of new things! Almost none of them fun! Adulthood!

I got new glasses two weeks ago, and I think my eyes have finally accepted their new normal. It was the biggest shift in my prescription since I first got glasses in mid-1996. The assistant asked me if I want to wear them home, and I was all, "uh, not unless I want to crawl, thanks."

I got new summer tires. Hurrah?

I got a fair amount of dental work done. I had a cavity filled before a cleaning, and man oh man, was that so nice to be frozen for what is usually a wholly unpleasant experience.

I got a new cable box which means I can now talk to my remote and tell it what I want to watch. Which is actually good practice for me, since one of my main stuttering triggers is talking to anything not-human (cameras, voicemail, etc.). I feel vaguely ridiculous, but my main reason for doing all of this was so I could watch Roswell, New Mexico, and it involves so much clicking with the remote to find that issuing verbal commands to a machine is just much easier.

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This weekend is Edit All The Things weekend. I have a little over 50k to get through with only a chunk of that on a definitive deadline. It helps that I love both of these stories very much, but lord, that is an intimidating word count to work through.

I also have some books to read. And by some, I mean way too many. Keep me away from the library.

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I have really been enjoying Roswell, New Mexico. I never watched the first series, so this is all new ground for me.

Dororo remains amazing. There was a bit of a dip in quality during the first few episodes of the second cour, but last episode was perfect.

Fruits Basket also remains amazing, and I love it so much, and I definitely should have gotten into it when it was first recommended to me, back in the mid-2000s. I should have all the manga read by the end of this weekend.

I also got caught up with Isekai Quartet. I was a little concerned I wouldn't get all the jokes since I've only watched KonoSuba and Re:Zero in its entirety, with a few episodes The Saga of Tanya the Evil and none of Overlord. But turns out that doesn't matter at all. It's pretty funny at times, and the episodes are only 10 minutes.

After some sweet advice from paintedmaypole, my story is finally moving again and moving well even, and I'm so pleased with it. I can't tell if it's a 20k or 30k story, but considering I only promised 3k, I think I'm doing all right. I clearly can't write short AUs.

I ended up not signing up for fandom5k this year, even though I loved it last year. Not enough time in the day! Fingers, type faster. Brain, stop procrastinating. Stuff to write! I would like to write a square for both of my outstanding bingo cards, and I still have my Hurt Comfort Exchange story to write (I matched on the one I REALLY wanted, so yeah, wee!).

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I am so done with winter. It's been snowing AND raining all day. And you think the rain would melt the snow, but it's evidently freezing rain, so nope. Next Thursday is supposed to be mid-teens Celsius, but let me voice my doubts. At this point I would settle for sunlight and dry.

I moved here ten years ago, but I will never get used to the winters here. Never, ever, ever.

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I started watching The Magicians (entirely because of Escapade and all the discussions about it). I'm mid-way through season 2. I really like it. I can see why people warn about some of the content. It also makes me want to read fic about it, so that's good. I'm trying to pace myself because a) I really need to finish this story and b) uh, I basically only had one reason.

I have watched several things recently. I have thoughts -- well, tbh, more feelings than thoughts -- but I feel like there are things to be said.

( Roma )

( Star Trek: Discovery, Season 2, Episode 1 )

( Run With the Wind )

In other news, evidently Marvel is getting the rights back to Marvel Gets Rights Back to Raina Telgemeier’s X-Men: Misfits for 2019. This is legit the only universe where my secret-heart-ship of Angel/Longshot makes even a remote amount of sense, so I contemplate it often. The whole book feels very Ouran High School Host Club to me, though I've seen people bring up Fruits Basket as well (which I have not read... yet!). All this to say, I'm very happy because maybe there might be more! Wouldn't that be fun!