Being very normal lately

[chocolatepot]

I forced myself to wrap up the second volume of my three-volume novel, and got a couple of friends from Tumblr to look it over for an alpha read just to reassure me that it's worth continuing with. So far one has finished it and was VERY enthusiastic, which is helpful. Now I need to write that third volume ... that's the really exciting one, of course, because it has the culmination of the romance and the final reveal about the heroine's parentage, but it also has some holes in the outline. And of course writing for myself is never as fulfilling as writing for AO3 because you get so much lovely, lovely feedback with the latter.

Finally got myself to sign up for the Renegade Bindery typesetting and binding exchanges, overcoming nearly two weeks' worth of procrastination.

I've started writing a new WIP, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, based on the idea "what if Stede got to the dock and Ed didn't (and then things got really dark)?" Also posted a few more chapters of Prisons of Our Own Perceptions ... A fic called Waitin' For My Dearie that's basically a DW entry about why I identify so much with Stede asjdklasjklda and another, Be Careful, It's My Heart, which is another AU, where Stede somehow does everything in ep 10 faster and gets back to the ship while Ed is still in breakup depression mode. (More than halfway done with my next A Kiss On The Hand fic.)

Some time ago, I got blocked by someone who used to follow me on Tumblr, I'm pretty sure due to Discourse. It's a weird feeling, because I tend to reblog meta with a variety of viewpoints, I don't take hardline stances on fandom stuff (I'm a ship and let ship, stan and let stan person), so there's two options: 1) they were annoyed that I didn't take a hard line on something they believe ought to be banned (people being interested in Izzy Hands at all), or 2) they were offended by my "Mary is great but plays her own part in her and Stede's disconnect" and "Stede Bonnet is autistic" takes. I don't mind mind except that they didn't just softblock me (when you block someone to make them stop following you without realizing it, then unblock them), they fully blocked me, so I can see when they've been having a conversation in the replies to a post but I can't see their half of it, which is annoying - so I keep asking myself, what did I do that was so wrong that they couldn't just disengage from me but had to make it so I couldn't see or interact with their posts?? It is neurotic but like I said, I'm just not used to being blocked. Going to try to be less mentally ill about this but it's this or being worried about bears all the time, so.

Comments

[danabren]

Dust your hands of the person who blocked you. You don't need that drahhhhmahhhh in your head.

[chocolatepot]

I just need to figure out why! Once I understand why I can forget about it! I hate unsolved mysteries.

[danabren]

No, you really do not need to figure out why. That person is not going to give you an answer. Acknowledge that, let it go, and carry on. Te Absolvo, as it were.

[mala_14]

Sounds like lots of writing. Go you! I'm sorry you were mysteriously blocked. That is weird.

[chocolatepot]

I can't believe how much writing I've been doing over the past four months or so! Just incredible.

[m_of_disguise]

Sometimes people block for the smallest of reasons. (I got blocked by someone because of a laugh react on one of their FB posts.) You may never know what it was, and if they weren't a close friend then I wouldn't really worry about it.

[chocolatepot]

Well, tbh what makes it a bit prickly is that she's fairly outspoken about racism in fandom and I can't help but wonder if I did a microaggression, or a number of microaggressions, without realizing ...