What's everyone reading and writing this weekend? I'm still taking things slowly, but I'm continuing to get a little written everyday. I've also been trying to read more Hazbin Hotel comics, not on Youtube, but everywhere wants an account these days and I don't have the spoons.
I've successfully finished all the pages for my latest PMD oneshot! It's nice to have something all finished and queued to post so I no longer have to think about it. (also funny that I got it done before that event LeGaosaure had shared last week. will need to find something else to fit into that instead!)
I'm also starting to fall hard into the Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss stuff too. Been teaching myself how to draw the characters and wishing I could share some online because I'm super pleased with how they are coming but since this is a new fandom that exploded it means those who love/hate it are out in full force. I'm not in the mood to have to navigate around fans who ignore basic research and I'm not in the mood to deal with haters who can't do basic research.
Which my brain should find ironic. I'm in other fandoms where the blind love/hate is equally insane. But. But in general even people who hate Nintendo's very existence do not accuse Nintendo fans of being pro-slavery despite Nintendo legally gifting themselves indentured servitude in freaking 2020s (for those who do not know, look up the Gary Bowser case).
Because most people have not heard about that. And this is kind of my point. Men getting away with literal slavery in public doesn't invoke massive online screaming. However a bi hispanic woman who creates a successful franchise with characters of so many minorities and hires minority creators to help make it -doesn't have a squeaky clean background- means no one can be normal about this.
And just. VivziePop has things she should be accountable for. But how can accountability be asked for when the people who were actually hurt are downed out by complete lies?
I don't want this post to be entirely negative. I don't like that most of my posts have been that as of late. But not sure were to go with this. Hazbin stuff has been making me laugh and smile harder than I have in a very long time. I'm a sucker for drama-queen characters so flawed its a miracle they haven't died via choking on their own saliva.
The roundup! I knew I was forgetting something yesterday =D
Yes, I'm still juggling way too many plates at once compared to the spoons I have. Meh. That being said, Finish What You Started began yesterday, so I exhumed an old and dusty WIP to work on. It's Star Wars, reader insert, and it was supposed to be PWP but uh... OK I'm nailing the "no plot" but when you get over a certain amount of angst and psychological analysis it doesn't exactly make the transition to smut easy either x') Time will tell if I manage...
Also earlier this week I had a stupid doctor appointment to renew meds that should be renewed automatically if things made sense, but my point is: waiting room. Doctors' waiting rooms are a space out of reality where I find myself reading books even though I've been basically unable to for years. So I've read Straight by Chuck Tingle. It's not the kind of book that'll spawn fandomy things for me, but if you like horror (or even if you're not particularly interested in horror but are not repulsed either) I warmly recommend it =)
I honestly may take advantage of this Finish What You Started challenge because I DO have some fics I've been wanting to get back to eventually.
I didn't know Chuck Tingle wrote horror! Heck, despite my general aroace tastes I keep thinking I will dive into Tingle's work eventually. The titles and summaries are so delightful.
I'm still on a Pokemon kick, but I'm becoming more and more obsessed with Dungeon Meshi so I may start exploring the fandom for that soon. It has a strong set of characters. No writing this weekend, but plenty of R&R which I badly needed. :)
Oh Dungeon Meshi is one I keep meaning to read but gets lost in, well, everything!
Hope your R&R goes well~