Open Thread: Oracle Hotline
Oct. 26th, 2018 09:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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superhero_muses--Anyone suffering from a broken heart in your latest WiP?
Nope! My fics exist to fix broken hearts, on the whole, so they only exist in the middle of the story if at all. Pining is about as broken as I'm likely to go.
I ended up having to skip Yuletide this year--first because I don't have the time, and second because I keep getting assigned the same person in exchanges, I have for about 3 years now in a variety of exchanges, and although they're a really nice person I just feel like they're likely to be getting tired of fic by me for their gifts. I could have tried to jigger my offers to avoid it, but they always request the characters and pairings I love most! Considering I'm very unsure I could write anything worth the time to read this year, it seemed safest to just skip it.
I'm feeling really low because for the last few weeks all I've done is go to school, come home and work until I fall asleep, repeat. I can make a few gifs during my commute so I keep my hand in there, but there's no time for anything else, and I'm just... tired. I've got a couple of days off coming up and maybe I can get through some of my backlog of comments, including here, which is currently at over a thousand? Here's hoping, and here's hoping you're doing better!
Nope! My fics exist to fix broken hearts, on the whole, so they only exist in the middle of the story if at all. Pining is about as broken as I'm likely to go.
I ended up having to skip Yuletide this year--first because I don't have the time, and second because I keep getting assigned the same person in exchanges, I have for about 3 years now in a variety of exchanges, and although they're a really nice person I just feel like they're likely to be getting tired of fic by me for their gifts. I could have tried to jigger my offers to avoid it, but they always request the characters and pairings I love most! Considering I'm very unsure I could write anything worth the time to read this year, it seemed safest to just skip it.
I'm feeling really low because for the last few weeks all I've done is go to school, come home and work until I fall asleep, repeat. I can make a few gifs during my commute so I keep my hand in there, but there's no time for anything else, and I'm just... tired. I've got a couple of days off coming up and maybe I can get through some of my backlog of comments, including here, which is currently at over a thousand? Here's hoping, and here's hoping you're doing better!
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Date: 2018-10-26 08:24 pm (UTC)Ah~ Broken hearts~~~ I didn't used to write anything so sad and tragic, but I've gotten fairly mean to in my writing lately. If I can break Saitou's heart, I'm going to. =D Or, I can just draw attention to his already broken heart, seeing as all of his friends are gone and I typically pair him with Souji during his Shinsengumi days, and of course, Souji dies so tragically... Then the one time I had him fall in love with Hijikata unexpectedly, and of course, Hijikata dies. Then Saitou's first wife, who I typically headcanon as being integral to helping Saitou get through the pain of the wars, well, she dies lol I'm mean to Saitou. But I guess this means that Tokio and Sanosuke can love Saitou forever? (Only sometimes. One fic, well lol I'm mean. Really, really mean. Honestly, pushing Saitou down some stairs would be kinder at this point.)
It's interesting getting the same person in exchanges isn't it! In this case the same person and I keep getting each other lol. You just can't help it when they request the things you want to write. XD But I can understand feeling like they might get tired of your writing. It's only happened to me twice and I'm already worried they're tired of my writing.
I too skipped out on Yuletide. I'm busy, I got something else major I want to work on and I don't want to overburden myself. Plus, Yuletide is just massive and sort of intimidates me.
Having a massive backlog hanging over your head is just... Ugh. It's a massive, depressive cloud. =X I hope you can start to work through it, if only for yourself to help you feel better! <3
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Date: 2019-11-03 05:53 am (UTC)Yeah, I've never gotten any hint that they DON'T like my writing and we match up well on pairings and tropes, but... still. When I'm not feeling inspired, I feel super-guilty at gifting uninspired fic!
You are super, super mean to Saitou! I confess I do love seeing my favorites suffer, as long as that happy ending shows up eventually...