Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

[kungfuwaynewho]

For some reason I got it into my head that I couldn't post until I had finished my edit of Part One, because to do otherwise would somehow admit defeat?  I didn't think of this literally or articulate it to myself, but every time I thought of a post, I would think, "no, I'll be done with the edit soon, I'll post then."

I am actually done with the edit now!  I ended up feeling that I needed an epilogue of sorts, instead wrote a full chapter, and had to go over that enough that I felt it was as polished as the rest of Part One.  But it is, in fact, done now.

(Of course, not posting has nothing to do with why I haven't been reading my flist.  I get the weirdest social media-related anxiety and issues sometimes, I don't even know.)

One of the major things that stalled my progress was the absolute glut of video games I either received or purchased for myself around Christmas.  I hadn't really been playing games much the last few years, and I'd forgotten what it was like to come home from work (or, in earlier years, school) and just sit down and play Civ for like five hours straight.  (What is it like?  It's great, except you start feeling like you haven't showered in a week, even if you did, in fact, just shower.)  I think I've gotten it out of my system, but for about three weeks there, I wasn't doing a whole lot else.  It was kind of sad.

Randomly this last week I have found myself actively missing fandom, specifically B5 fandom circa-2010, and landcomms, specifically scifiland, a whole lot.  I've been saying for over a year now that I was going to make a new fun B5 comm that was going to be like half-meta, half-landcomm, and I've never gotten around to it, so it's hard to whine about there not being anything going on when I'm not even attempting to be active myself.  But 2010-2011 was like a great period of time fandom-wise and I really miss it.  :(

And here is my favorite gif from the last month:

Comments

[ghanimasun]

Congrats on finishing Part one!

I totally understand the gaming addiction thing. I go for bursts like that too where I don't want to do anything except play a certain game (although for me it's usually either The Sims or a Final Fantasy).

Also there are still some landcomms around on LJ, if you are interested!

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I wish I could get into the Sims, but every time I play, I can't figure out how to get my sims to have any self-worth or ambition. I spend all my time micro-managing and get so frustrated. (I'm sure that it's just that I am no good at The Sims.)

I bought a new game on Steam at Christmas called Guacamelee, and it is amazing.

Yeah, every now and then I will try a new landcomm, but none have really been the same, honestly. The last one I signed up for was like universe, the (or something like that), and I was so confused immediately by all the rules and teams and various comms that I never did a single challenge. It was kinda sad.

[ghanimasun]

I don't really love unviverse-the, I can see how you'd be confused, there's too many coms. I prefer womenverse or even tv-universe atm, much more straightforward!

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

I think I was going to apply to womenverse when I saw the last sign-ups, but I want to say I was either busy with NaNo or something else was going on, because I completely forgot. I'll have to keep an eye out for both of them, though, next time sign-ups roll around!

That is a beautiful, beautiful Delenn icon. Did you make it?

[ghanimasun]

If you're still interested, womenverse just started a new round a few days ago. So you can definitely sign up whenever you want now and start fresh!

Also yes I did make that Delenn icon, thanks :)

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Okay, I totally threw my name in the hat! Yay! And yeah, that Delenn icon is TOPS.

[ghanimasun]

Thats awesome, looking forward to seeing you around over there.

And thanks again!