Hi all.

I am pretty much having a day where my brain is vomiting forth more ideas than I can possibly complete in a short span of time. I've recently weaned off my antidepressants - one of the only unfortunate side effects they had on me was to stifle my creativity and emotive expressionality. So now that my brain is unmedicated it's like "GO FORTH AND MAKE THIS !!! WRITE THIS!!! DRAW THIS!!! COOK THIS THING AND GO TRAVEL HERE!!!" I'm always an ambitious person but GODDAMMIT I can't do all this right now. Especially since I have progress reports to write for students. Ugh. Second to last time I'll ever have to do it, thank god, cause next year my school is changing its system to something way more efficient HOOYAH. (Btw, I weaned off my meds because I'm doing well and being stable. Consider it a sign my life is ing awesome, 'kay? Don't worry about me!)

So I've been plotting and writing like mad for By Her Stripes which is brand spanking new, though the idea is a few months old. At first when I thought of it I was like "ugh, this is so hackneyed and dumb" but the more it developed the more I was like "wow this is holy really compelling" and now it's spreading out and becoming EVEN MORE COMPELLING. I know the prologue is kinda... eh (at least to me it is) but the next chapter introduces Dara and it promises to be interesting and start setting the tone for the story more and more. Consumed is a little bit on hold. I am planning to write it out in parallel with By Her Stripes once the first chapter of the latter is posted. Consumed takes so much research, I'm not even kidding. I don't have ANY experience with the treatment of amputees, burn victims, with court systems or the stock car racing world or whatever else. I feel like a real writer doing that story (eheheh) and trying to make it seem more plausible but still nice and dramatic. BHS will take less research but more lining up of puzzle pieces. It's really kinda turning into a bit of a mystery. Not totally but... yeah.

And aside from writing, my girlfriend and I were trying to go to the art museum today to see Mika Ninagawa's show on her last day... the line was around the block and we were hella late getting there. But the ticket brochure we had gotten was a flexagon thingy and I dunno if I was just deprived as a kid but it is SO COOL and I want to make a bunch as art pieces and sell them and also have my kids make em. And I'm gearing up to make an account on pinkoi.com (it's like a Taiwanese Etsy) and start selling prints of my artwork. I am so pumped because I haven't sold artwork in literally years. I never considered it worth selling, but I've gotten a lot better and found my voice there too. So it's time! I'm gonna do some fanarts of 2ne1 as well when I've got a moment to spare.

And last but not least, I am compiling and editing a PDF of TBYH. I still can't believe to this day that the story got so many dedicated readers. I wanna thank you all from the bottom of my heart for making it the most voted chaera fic on AFF. I don't know if I'll ever write something that approaches it again, but we shall see. I'll keep doing my best. As CL said, she won't ever give up, and I'll never give up on my ladies of 2NE1 either (I'm gonna follow Minzy's career closely too).

In case y'all need any good tunes this evening (whatever time it is), here are the two tracks leaving itches in my brain these days:

TroyBoi - Do You? , that bass tho. Nasty, squishy, and dark trap.

Tegan & Sara - U-Turn  Such a morning jam. 80s bubblegum pop vibe coming through strong. I can't wait for their new album.

Now I'll stop procrastinating *cries forever* Take care, doods.