Since Mother Eve in the Garden long ago

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.

That horrible moment when you can't remember if you made that vaguely critical ask anon or logged-in.

Tow presentations today. D: On the one hand, two in one day is something I haven't done since the time in first semester, and it nearly broke me. On the other, a) great to get both done on one day, instead of dragging this last week out longer, and b) I am a whole year and a half older and wiser and will probably not end up in tears or anything. Just ran through the Wheeler presentation again and I'm pretty happy with it. I should try to volunteer to go first or second but that is not a strong point for me.

So I decided not to work on my stays at all until I get home, because I want second opinions on fit from my mom, and it's funny how as soon as I put down one creative outlet I find myself head-over-heels in another. Yesterday afternoon and evening I wrote about 1,600 words of a Susanna Clark-esque short story - which isn't that much when I'm doing NaNo, as the aim for that is speed, but on a day when I'm lazing around not doing anything, and periodically going out for long walks etc.? I'm impressed. Especially as I haven't written anything new in ages, since before I started the Lefferts shirt, I think. I think some of it's that my free time gets taken up with whichever activity I'm currently working on, but even when I do try to switch from sewing to writing in one day it just ... doesn't work. But whichever I pick, I definitely feel a bit more energized on days when I'm concentrating on a project, even if I'm not actively working on it.

I've been watching Conviction on Hulu, and you know, I wish it hadn't gotten cancelled. I think I see why it was, but I like a legal drama once in a while to break up the mystery-solving procedurals. And it's much better than the L&O series(es) in terms of characterization.

Tumblr posts that need to happen: two or three on Candace Wheeler's stuff, and some more on Arts & Crafts/the PRB; Ancient Greeks in fashion history and in the twentieth century.