dhampyresa

1. I was gonna use the weekend to try and write up some WorldCon thoughts, but then I remembered I got a call from the EFS about an urgent need for platelets. So on Saturday I put on my best goth clothes and went to give them some. Spent the rest of the weekend sleeping/recovering.

2. RLS + wonky knee is a bad combo

3. I signed up for ladiesbingo, here's my card.

Freestyle AU	Absolute Zero	It's a Trap	Unnatural (Events, Weather, Beings)	Compare and Contrast
Case / Mission Fic	Curses	Curry Night	We're all going to die!	A Player of Games
Repeated Images	Complementary Colours (Opposite on the Colour Wheel)	Wild Card	Winners and Losers	A Strange Friend
Sensory Deprivation	Someone is Disguised	Fade to Black	Chance Encounters	Render Unto Caesar
Character transformed into an animal	The Sky at Night	Aliens	Something is Concealed	Slow Build

I'm back!

What I did while I was away: sleeping, reading, sleeping, blackberry jam, sleeping. Seriously, I must have slept something like fifteen hours a day? 15 hours a night + 3 hours of siesta = 15 hours. I don't understand why I'm still tired. HOW?!

I also did a lot of reading. I finished a bunch of things, averaging about one a day, although a lot of it was comics and BDs, details forthcoming.

I did not finish Ghost of Cannae, because I am very very bad at reading non-fiction. I just keep stopping and highlighting bits and going "I need to put this aside for a bit while I think about it". I do this with everything! Whether it's Ghosts of Cannae or Rome's Revolution or Trickster Makes This World, every time I read non-fiction I end up highlighting at least one thing on every page. And we're talking ebook pages with a bigger-than-average size font, here. (Y'all should see what my paper copy of Métronome looks like. So many post-its!) Idk whether it's because I'm very very stupid or the books are very very interesting or something else, but I end up having to read tiny chunks at the time if I want to process things properly.

Also, I apparently became a "great historical specialist" ("la grande spécialiste historique Dhampyresa") while I was away, so that's nice. Where can I collect my award? (Just kidding. I ordered Le Graal de l'InfraMonde already. I was looking for info on when Book 3 was coming out, which is TBD.)

Also also, I was tired of feeling like I'd written fuck all since July started, so I wrote a fic on the train back.

House Rules (1111 words) by sevenofspade
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ancient History RPF
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Scipio Africanus/Hannibal Barca
Characters: Scipio Africanus, Hannibal Barca, Gaius Laelius
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - College/University
Summary: Game night is more interesting than Scipio first thought.

Basically, there was a bunch of people trying to play 7wonders (excellent game, btw, would totally reccomend) and a girl reading Kid Paddle nearby, so I wrote fic in which Hannibal and Scipio bond over playing Ephesus in 7wonders and Max from Kid Paddle is there also. (Untagged, because I find it very dubious that anyone would go looking for Kid Paddle fic on Ao3.)


It also fills the "High School / College AU" prompt of mygenprompt_bingo card from way back when.( Card under the cut )

Hey, does anyone know if I can count fics I didn't explicitly start for the bingo as filling bingo squares? And how much I can stretch the definition of "gen"?
 /fails at bingoes forever

And that brings to 10 both the number of fics I've written in the "Ancient History RPF" fandom and that weren't written for anybody else (out of 39). I'm sure this says something about me. Not sure what, but something.

And now, more sleep.

I told myself I wasn't going to ask for another genprompt_bingo card, since I haven't done anything with the first one yet, but then they introduced the category "8. Titles of Yoko Tsuno Albums" (complete prompt list is here). As I am very predictable, I had to ask for a card and I got one. It's got three (3!) Yoko Tsuno prompts, I'm delighted.

Oaths / Promises	Energy Beings	Crossover: Books and literary	Compare and Contrast	Original characters
Imprisonment	High School / College AU	Rich and Poor	Mirror, mirror: Doppelgangers, clones and evil doubles	Historical AU
Les Titans (The Titans)	Anthropomorphic Personifications of Abstract Concepts	Wild Card	That Moment (incident / chapter / episode) in detail	Virtual Reality
Mobile / Carnivorous Plants	La Frontière de la vie (On the Edge of Life)	Mind and Body	La Pagode des brumes (The Pagoda of the Mists)	You're only young twice: Age Regression
Snakes, Serpents and Worms	Winners and Losers	Wingfic	I Walk through the Valley of Death	All the Dead Characters are Living Together

This is a pretty great card, methinks. I've got a couple of ideas, but I'm always open to suggestions.

One of them is a writing bingo and the other is a reading one.

( Bingo! )
I've no idea  what to do with either of these. Somebody take this computer away from me.