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happy new year
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stellar_dust and her cat but I'm still scared to take the rapid test that's right next to me because I've had a little bit of a sore throat lately, what if I caught it anyway? (When I inevitably get omicron I want it to be sometime when I can blame it on work, please.) Happy 2022, everyone.
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snowflake_challenge this year? Maybe I will actually do it?
Also I have exactly 100 comic trades shelved beside my bed, none of which I have read, so I could attempt a read-one-a-day-and-post-about-it thing, free up some shelf space and cognitive overhead and to-read list. They are all review copies that came from a friend who worked at Diamond and was literally avalanched with review copies; she no longer works there post-Covid layoffs so I actually have a chance of getting caught up on comics now! Maybe after Snowflake.
My New Year's resolution is to get a cat, which entails getting the apartment ready for a cat, and also choosing a cat to get and making a commitment. Maybe if I delay long enough one will choose me, that's how it's always worked before (also I really don't want to go tour shelters right now.) (I want one who can be like my sister's cat and clear executive function logjams by screaming at me until I get up and do stuff, but I don't know how to find that. Also one that cuddles and will walk on a leash.)
I made my Goodreads reading challenge by scrambling to add my Yuletide reading this morning! 52 books. The last few years I've started with a low number, been well over it by June, doubled it, and then read basically no books in the back half of the year, which also happened this year, although I think there were several re-reads and small books that didn't get counted, so I'm probably more comfortably over than I looked. (I really wish Goodreads handled rereads better. And reads of different editions of the same book! I read three different editions of my Yuletide canon and I still don't think I managed to get that in GR right, though at least it counted it for the challenge.) I put in 100 for next year while eyeing that shelf of trades, we'll see.
The AO3 download-your-history app has been down since November. :( I understand wanking to take it down around the period when everybody will be wanting their year-end stats, but I hope it comes back! Or somebody makes a new one! Not that it would tell me much this year, because the recs project would definitely mess up the stats. I added 132 pages to my AO3 history this year though! That's 2639 fic pages loaded this year, or an average of 7 a day.
The only fic I wrote this year was my yuletide fic. I wish I'd managed to write more on it - in particular you will just have to imagine Part 2, A Discourse on Translation, in which A. Square meets some Lines in the asylum who are so bent they are practically Polygons and various people realize they can rotate themselves through the third dimension for purposes of destroying gender essentialism, and also escaping the asylum. But writing about inverted Victorian geometry was great fun! Andprimeideal left a nice comment so I must not have messed up the maths too bad even if I worked too late to get a maths beta! (most of my knowledge of 4+ dimensional geometry can be credited to an 8 AM multivariable calculus course my freshman year of college, in which I learned that the way to see into the fourth dimension is to repeatedly fall asleep in your 8 AM multivariable calculus class, so this fic is dedicated to my recip and to the prof who though it was a great idea to schedule advanced freshman math at 8 am.) (Anything I did get wrong is due to A. Square not being up on the latest geometrical theory, due to being trapped in an asylum.)
A Discourse on Inversion Among The Inhabitants of Flatland (3164 words) by melannen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: The King of Pointland/A. Square
Characters: A. Square, The King of Pointland
Additional Tags: Solitary Confinement, Geometry, Solipsism, Dreams, Dream Sex, Dubious Consent, Worldbuilding, extremely nonhumanoid sex, Xeno, polygonal sex, Victorian Attitudes, Canon Nonbinary Character, it/its pronouns, sexual inversion, geometric inversion, a center point inverted to the point at infinity, hot vertex-on-vertex action, Sexuality Crisis, Non-Euclidean Geometry, sort of vore but not really it's complicated
Summary:
stellar_dust and her cat but I'm still scared to take the rapid test that's right next to me because I've had a little bit of a sore throat lately, what if I caught it anyway? (When I inevitably get omicron I want it to be sometime when I can blame it on work, please.) Happy 2022, everyone.And I am proved correct in my prediction that I would continue to forget how to post regularly after my 100 days were up! Maybe I will attempt
snowflake_challenge this year? Maybe I will actually do it?Also I have exactly 100 comic trades shelved beside my bed, none of which I have read, so I could attempt a read-one-a-day-and-post-about-it thing, free up some shelf space and cognitive overhead and to-read list. They are all review copies that came from a friend who worked at Diamond and was literally avalanched with review copies; she no longer works there post-Covid layoffs so I actually have a chance of getting caught up on comics now! Maybe after Snowflake.
My New Year's resolution is to get a cat, which entails getting the apartment ready for a cat, and also choosing a cat to get and making a commitment. Maybe if I delay long enough one will choose me, that's how it's always worked before (also I really don't want to go tour shelters right now.) (I want one who can be like my sister's cat and clear executive function logjams by screaming at me until I get up and do stuff, but I don't know how to find that. Also one that cuddles and will walk on a leash.)
I made my Goodreads reading challenge by scrambling to add my Yuletide reading this morning! 52 books. The last few years I've started with a low number, been well over it by June, doubled it, and then read basically no books in the back half of the year, which also happened this year, although I think there were several re-reads and small books that didn't get counted, so I'm probably more comfortably over than I looked. (I really wish Goodreads handled rereads better. And reads of different editions of the same book! I read three different editions of my Yuletide canon and I still don't think I managed to get that in GR right, though at least it counted it for the challenge.) I put in 100 for next year while eyeing that shelf of trades, we'll see.
The AO3 download-your-history app has been down since November. :( I understand wanking to take it down around the period when everybody will be wanting their year-end stats, but I hope it comes back! Or somebody makes a new one! Not that it would tell me much this year, because the recs project would definitely mess up the stats. I added 132 pages to my AO3 history this year though! That's 2639 fic pages loaded this year, or an average of 7 a day.
The only fic I wrote this year was my yuletide fic. I wish I'd managed to write more on it - in particular you will just have to imagine Part 2, A Discourse on Translation, in which A. Square meets some Lines in the asylum who are so bent they are practically Polygons and various people realize they can rotate themselves through the third dimension for purposes of destroying gender essentialism, and also escaping the asylum. But writing about inverted Victorian geometry was great fun! And
primeideal left a nice comment so I must not have messed up the maths too bad even if I worked too late to get a maths beta! (most of my knowledge of 4+ dimensional geometry can be credited to an 8 AM multivariable calculus course my freshman year of college, in which I learned that the way to see into the fourth dimension is to repeatedly fall asleep in your 8 AM multivariable calculus class, so this fic is dedicated to my recip and to the prof who though it was a great idea to schedule advanced freshman math at 8 am.) (Anything I did get wrong is due to A. Square not being up on the latest geometrical theory, due to being trapped in an asylum.)A Discourse on Inversion Among The Inhabitants of Flatland (3164 words) by melannen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: The King of Pointland/A. Square
Characters: A. Square, The King of Pointland
Additional Tags: Solitary Confinement, Geometry, Solipsism, Dreams, Dream Sex, Dubious Consent, Worldbuilding, extremely nonhumanoid sex, Xeno, polygonal sex, Victorian Attitudes, Canon Nonbinary Character, it/its pronouns, sexual inversion, geometric inversion, a center point inverted to the point at infinity, hot vertex-on-vertex action, Sexuality Crisis, Non-Euclidean Geometry, sort of vore but not really it's complicated
Summary:
I should count myself a King of Infinite Space, were it not that I have bad dreams.