october wrap-up
Nov. 2nd, 2023 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rurusayshithis month was weird. felt all over the place but i did some stuff that i am very proud of.
first things first, i moved again. at least this time it was not between countries + i didn't have to part with or donate my belongings. rather i'd say, a temporary change of places? i still miss half of my stuff, my room and everything but staying there for so long became somewhat suffocating after a while because %90 time i was staying inside.
in other words, my relationship with the outside was very limited.
imagine a place situated far from the city center, with limited access to public transportation (read: NONE) and there is you, who prefers not to drive because you are scared of cars. i'm used to having something to do in walking distances or having buses/trams/etc close. so i can move around! without the need of a car! it is a very icky itch within me that a city is planned with no consideration of pedestrians because in a way it is also a topic under inclusivity of a community.
anyways, the point is i was BORED.
first things first, i moved again. at least this time it was not between countries + i didn't have to part with or donate my belongings. rather i'd say, a temporary change of places? i still miss half of my stuff, my room and everything but staying there for so long became somewhat suffocating after a while because %90 time i was staying inside.
in other words, my relationship with the outside was very limited.
imagine a place situated far from the city center, with limited access to public transportation (read: NONE) and there is you, who prefers not to drive because you are scared of cars. i'm used to having something to do in walking distances or having buses/trams/etc close. so i can move around! without the need of a car! it is a very icky itch within me that a city is planned with no consideration of pedestrians because in a way it is also a topic under inclusivity of a community.
anyways, the point is i was BORED.
- so i got into making jewellery. it is super fun! i make really simple stuff as i'm fairly new to it but i ordered some air drying clay to make my own beads.
- then i started "this is how you lose the time war - amal el-mohtar, max gladstone" but it was a dnf because i couldn't keep up with how vague everything came with it. the concept was nice if i am honest yet the level of reader engagement fell short of my initial expectations, at least from my own perspective as a reader.
- saw "celebrity" on netflix. managed to watch it until the sixth episode, then i didn't continue. i held no big expections for it, overall it proved to be a pleasant even. the main love insterests didn't have any chemistry. like at all? and before i knew it, i forgot its existence.
- this month's highlight was however, i am back to writing fanfiction once more!
i've been lurking in skz twitter for so long, with no engagement with the community, only following what the boys are doing + reading what is on ao3, occasionally leaving comments. however i love writing. i've been writing in a percy jackson roleplay forum with other people for so long which left the writing urge within me satisfied most of the time.
yet.
i tend to never leave my comfort zone if i can help it but this month's promise was to not to get stuck with constants in my life, and welcome change. am i happy? yes! i don't know why i thought it was a good idea to step back from everything and just watch things happen in silence. it is not a good feeling, really.
so what did i do?
yet.
i tend to never leave my comfort zone if i can help it but this month's promise was to not to get stuck with constants in my life, and welcome change. am i happy? yes! i don't know why i thought it was a good idea to step back from everything and just watch things happen in silence. it is not a good feeling, really.
so what did i do?
bedtime stories
this is a minsung fic, initially written at the roleplaying forum i've mentioned above. i translated it and since i decided to keep it as an au, not so much has changed. they are still demigods; jisung apollon, minho chevemo. (chevemo is a minor greek god of birds, created by the loveliest tiff.) and they have a little baby jeongin (he is zeus's son). it's basically idiots in love and hurt/comfort.
my main struggle with it revolved around composing the smutty parts in my native language. because each language possesses unique strengths, yet sometimes, meanings become rather hazy or fail to shine as prominently as they do in another tongue. what i'm trying to pinpoint is that, getting the smut in english was a better experience the narrative flowed naturally, devoid of any cringe-worthy moments, and I didn't find myself grappling with vocabulary issues, unlike my native where some words can take on rather peculiar or awkward connotations. for example, a literal translation of “precum” is “pleasure liquid” and well, yeah you guess the rest… it is not the same! it doesn't feel the same! i was facepalming the entire time i was writing it so the english version was like a breather for me haha
i think i will have a commentary for bedtime stories once i post the last chapter.
something worth fighting for
this is a changjin dystopia au twitter thread fic that i'm writing. already published the first two chapters, and the rest will hopefully be posted soon. it is a mix up of my favourite tropes: exes to lovers, kid fic, dystopia, hurt/comfort. there is a little bit of implication of infedility but we will see. the chapter outlines are all set and ready, leaving the rest up to me to sit down and start writing.............
have some pumpkin and spice
another from twitter, this time a oneshot! this one is pretty cute and light hearted, i wrote it for a lee know birthday event. i was hoping to keep it short, yet it is around 2,5k words(fairly short for ao3 standards but definetely NOT for twitter because oh boy, i hate copy pasting in thread fics). might do a little bit of editing and crosspost it to ao3, bc why not? (trivia: just came up with the title)
it starts with his heart
another minsung fic, probably the one that took me the longest to write. this one is set in a dystopian world, featuring minho as prostitute + cyborg and jisung as space pirate. this fic is my baby. just finished it today, and would probably have another dedicated entry for it before i post it to ao3 since i plan to have a detailed lore discussion.
i also joined minsung ficathon, trans skz fest and minbin bingo in which i am very excited. can't really talk about the ficathon prompts i've claimed but i can say that i am quite happy with them. and as for the minbin bingo, i've already received my card and my brainworms are very vocal about this space royalty minbin plush a touch of breeding kink and tentacles. but we will see. this is a minsung fic, initially written at the roleplaying forum i've mentioned above. i translated it and since i decided to keep it as an au, not so much has changed. they are still demigods; jisung apollon, minho chevemo. (chevemo is a minor greek god of birds, created by the loveliest tiff.) and they have a little baby jeongin (he is zeus's son). it's basically idiots in love and hurt/comfort.
my main struggle with it revolved around composing the smutty parts in my native language. because each language possesses unique strengths, yet sometimes, meanings become rather hazy or fail to shine as prominently as they do in another tongue. what i'm trying to pinpoint is that, getting the smut in english was a better experience the narrative flowed naturally, devoid of any cringe-worthy moments, and I didn't find myself grappling with vocabulary issues, unlike my native where some words can take on rather peculiar or awkward connotations. for example, a literal translation of “precum” is “pleasure liquid” and well, yeah you guess the rest… it is not the same! it doesn't feel the same! i was facepalming the entire time i was writing it so the english version was like a breather for me haha
i think i will have a commentary for bedtime stories once i post the last chapter.
something worth fighting for
this is a changjin dystopia au twitter thread fic that i'm writing. already published the first two chapters, and the rest will hopefully be posted soon. it is a mix up of my favourite tropes: exes to lovers, kid fic, dystopia, hurt/comfort. there is a little bit of implication of infedility but we will see. the chapter outlines are all set and ready, leaving the rest up to me to sit down and start writing.............
have some pumpkin and spice
another from twitter, this time a oneshot! this one is pretty cute and light hearted, i wrote it for a lee know birthday event. i was hoping to keep it short, yet it is around 2,5k words
it starts with his heart
another minsung fic, probably the one that took me the longest to write. this one is set in a dystopian world, featuring minho as prostitute + cyborg and jisung as space pirate. this fic is my baby. just finished it today, and would probably have another dedicated entry for it before i post it to ao3 since i plan to have a detailed lore discussion.