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1. For those of you who were at the party last night, I looked it up, and "Natural Harvest" says that semen has approximately the same textural qualities in cooking and baking as egg white, so you probably wouldn't need extra stiffeners. ^_^

2. Also, Riddles of the Exeter Book, our grand and noble heritage as English speakers, and 100% definitely what really happened in "Riddles in the Dark", someone ~~ellenfremedon~~ should write that version.

3. So I didn't quite manage the October challange to finish at least five wips so I could earn the right to do NaNo; I'm actually REALLY CLOSE but when it came down to the wire I said "screw it" and went to bed early instead. oops. So as punishment, instead of NaNo, I have decided I have to add at least 1500 words to one of my wips every day in November.

To aid this effort, last week (...when I could have been writing) I went through and made a new Scrivener file that includes every story I have worked on but not finished in the past three-and-some years. It has 154 files, containing 294,856 words, divided into four main folders: "WIPs", "WIPs that I claimed were finished and posted to AO3 anyway", "stories that exist only as outlines", and "notfic and ficlets I could expand". Along with some original fiction and nonfiction stuff, there are approximately 63 different fandoms represented.

(compare this to my complete fic posted to AO3, where there are 104 stories with 97 different fandom tags, and 284875 total words. --there's overlap there, though, due to the 'WIPs I claimed were finished and posted anyway" category, though only about 50,000 words' worth. Of course AO3 represents over ten years' output as opposed to three-and-a-bit.)

Anyway I will be posting the stories I worked on and how many words here periodically, to motivate myself, under the tag 'nanowrimo' if you care. Also I have realized I have a bunch of money I budgeted to give away this year that I've spent hardly any of, so to sweeten the pot, every time I finish a WIP this month I will donate 1% of its wordcount (in dollars) to a semi-related good cause of some sort. whooo.

So far I have:

Added 850 words to the one where Bucky Barnes is a Yankees fan, because when even the Hydra Trash Party thinks that's going too far, I can think of no better endorsement.

Wrote 850 words of the next bit of the aNitLO megacrossover, since it matches my Halloween costume.

So I'm not technically behind until I go to bed tonight without writing anything more!

4. Harry Potter LJ fandom is apparently having a reunion party this week. I'm not sure if I'll do anything for it (...finish a ten-year-old HP wip, maybe?) but I think there's still some old HP friends hanging around here who might be interested.

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I just want you to know that every time I manage to forget that book exists, someone mentions it again and then I have to remember. Eyugh.

....oops? <_<

I love Bucky the Yankees fan, BRING IT ALL TO ME.

It's just SO RIGHT.

...I am slightly alarmed by the implication that I am the Hydra Trash Party, but even then, man, there are lines you just don't cross. (There's a really awful, tasteless joke in here somewhere about Brock Rumlow--who is clearly a Yankees fan--and reciting baseball stats. I'm not going to make it, but I'm just saying.)

I was just trying to anonymise it a bit. (...also you aren't the only person to have had that reaction....)

....and oh god rumlow and baseball stats. maybe you actually are the Hydra Trash Party. clearly you should write the version where he only thinks he's a Yankees fan because Rumlow made him recite scores during sex...