1. It's so good to finally have some energy back! And to be able to do not-strictly-necessary things again. \o/


2. The US election results are such a relief.

1. I did it! As of yesterday, all my fic is crossposted on DW, and available via my new index. Woohoo!
   
   The index can always be found via my journal sidebar, but I'm planning to put it up on neocities as well, as a backup, so nothing lives only in one place.


2. Relatedly, I just discovered dwfanfic, which is a directory of people who post fanfic on DW. (Not to be confused with dwfiction, which is a Doctor Who fic comm. *g*) This has existed for years, apparently, but I only found it yesterday. Very neat resource!


3. I had my Guardian fic under a temporary tag before, but that's gone now because everything is in the index, so in the unlikely case that someone bookmarked it, bookmark the index instead?


4. Big big extra thank you to those who commented on fic of mine here on DW! That was such a lovely surprise. ♥ ♥ ♥


5. And! AO3 has given a tiny sign of life via a surprise kudos email! \o/ Looks like they restarted the email process, so stuff in the queue from before the site went down got sent? Anyway, good to see something visibly happening!

» Charmed (TV 1998) - 1 story
» Christabel - S.T. Coleridge - 1 story
» Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis - 1 story
» Coldfire Trilogy - C.S. Friedman - 7 stories
» 绅探 | Detective L - 4 stories
» Doctor Who/Torchwood - 89 stories
» Fairy Tales - 3 stories
» 天涯客 | Faraway Wanderers - priest - 3 stories
» Grimm - 17 stories
» 镇魂 | Guardian (TV) - 57 stories
» Legend of the Seeker - 12 stories
» 沉默的真相 | The Long Night - 1 story
» Neverwhere - 1 story
» Once Upon a Time in Wonderland - 8 stories
» Bai Yu Pizza Hut Commercials - 1 story
» The Pretender - 1 story
» Rai-kirah - Carol Berg - 2 stories
» She-Ra: Princess of Power - 4 stories
» Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - 4 stories
» Sherlock (BBC) - 5 stories
» Sherlock Holmes - various small fandoms - 7 stories
» Star Trek (TOS/AOS) - 1 story
» Starfire Series - Various Authors - 2 stories
» Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - 1 story
» Thermos "Flower Series" Commercials - 2 stories
» L'Oréal "Time Engraver" Commercials - 4 stories
» 山河令 | Word of Honor - 4 stories
» Xena: Warrior Princess - 2 stories
» 长公主在上 | Zhǎng gōngzhǔ zài shàng | Eldest Princess On Top - 1 story

• I slept very badly last night, by which I mean I couldn't fall asleep and barely slept at all before I had to get up for work. This is why we have melatonin gummies, self! WHY DID YOU NOT REMEMBER TO TAKE ONE UNTIL 5 AM.


• If anyone wants a SquidgeWorld invite, I have a few! PM me your email, and I'll send it to you. ♥


• In the process of completing the DW crossposts of my fic, I came across a story I'd almost forgotten, so I had to reread it! And wow, I'm proud of this one. It's one of my holmestice stories, from 2023 - for A Study in Emerald, an Emerald-verse version of Sign of the Four, with Moriarty and Moran investigating - but it's also a version of The Yellow Face at the same time:
  
  Strange Chase [Teen]
  "There we were, chasing down the busy dusk-time street, the mongrel with its nose to the pavement fairly dragging us along - but I'm getting ahead of myself. I should say something about how it came about."
  
  I don't think it got much attention back then - perhaps because it's got a bit of a boring title? Idk. But I was happy to rediscover it!

1. Health:
   
   My cold improved for a few days ... and then abruptly got drastically worse. I was completely out of commission for two days last week, I don't think I was out of bed for more than four hours or so a day. Then things started gradually improving again, and now the cold is much better except for a nasty persistent cough. Keeping up with work was about all I could manage to do this week, though - I have a lot of DW posts to catch up on!


2. Exchanges:
   
   Yuletide assignments are out and requests are revealed! And I already have plenty of ideas for what I'm going to write. Looking forward to playing with this, but first ...
   
   ficinabox! I gotan extension for this, since I was sick basically most of October and not much writing happened at all. But I've known what I want to write since the start, so now all I have to do is sit down and write. Hopefully I can make some significant inroads this weekend!


3. AO3 outage:
   
   Of course all deadlines are uncertain right now depending on what happens with AO3. Because there's an outage - and the site might not be fully back for 2-4 weeks ... Fingers crossed they'll get some part of things up again much sooner. No news on what happened yet, but that's a pretty serious issue that can take the site down that long!
   
   I've been slacking off on crossposting my fic, so maybe this weekend I'll make a project of doing that. It's a simple thing to do for when I don't have enought focus left to write more!