Hi!

thinking too much about eden again

sigh

sigh

also lots of cowboy chatter but like in a spaghetti western way

idk why cowboys always pop up

but the canaries keep making hal 9000 jokes and now i’m thinking about simon essentially possessing the ship since it takes less effort than fucking with grace

and grace finds him somehow and is like “okay this says SIMON but it doesn’t give me what that stands for”

and simon is like ah yes my chance “Snark Intercepting Monitored Override Network” that sounds reasonable but grace is like

“so something is extremely wrong bc this is not in a place where it should be recognizing voices” but just kind of. rolls with it. to see if something is up with the ship.

on a good note work forces me to take a break from writing and thus allows for Scheming…

dimitri, watching ilyukhina pretending to pass out: you have a doctor?

stranger: ?? you seem fine?

dimitri: oh- no, no.

ilyukhina, snapping her claws out the second enough people are in range:

So thank you for sharing those ideas and words with the world <3

YAYY my inbox is working again

also YIPPPEEE i’m glad you are wiggling free of the funk!! may ye continue to enjoy creations

grace, panicking: okay. we don’t know she’s in danger. she might just have bad connection. i’m sure it’s fine. everything is fine.

eva, checking her phone:

eva: i am giving yao permission to have a weapon

grace:

grace: i’m not disagreeing i just want to know why

eva: i have been informed west ark just updated its siren count by two

rocky: i would also like a weapon

eva: adrian?

adrian: i would like a weapon

eva: grace would you-

grace: i would like to consider making sure we aren’t jumping to conclusions please

eva: simon?

simon: i don’t need one

grace: h ey so maybe we think about this a little longer

eva: lokken was reported in kaliningrad

grace:

however i could just. write another books worth of fantiction.

i wouldn’t even know what to write a book about. i would feel the need to make my own world. or an alien world. and that’s so much work. and i so rarely like my own OCs and worlds. i like playing in other people’s sandboxes :(

i guess i could follow a world making tutorial

maybe treat it like dnd homebrewing would work

i could use my homebrew templates to reduce disorganization and frustration

anyway new chapter of salt in the wound

grace has a much milder crash and gets to enjoy a little bit of peace. enjoying shoal time.

naturally he is not allowed to have nice things for long tho

some evil part of me rubbing its hands together as i typed simon thinking things would be okay

mainly grace having an issue with thinking he’s got a habit of running away from things which like— almost. he’s almost put it together. he doesn’t run places he will be alone in. he runs to specific areas he knows his friends will find him. the seawall is where simon likes to hang out. his cubicle is where rocky will sometimes stop by and where eva can find him. the library is where he can run into adrian on rainy days. he is not running away from his problems, he is running toward people he hopes will help him find answers, but he struggles with slowing down once he starts running :( my little guy

simon, still in ‘probation’ but finally part of the shoal: are you going to be nicer to me now

rocky: meaner actually. evil in fact

simon: that’s fine— wait is eva my boss now

rocky: did she have you sit in a room for eight hours doing paperwork

simon: what

rocky: the answer is no then. but soon.

simon: hmmm suddenly i think i’ve forgotten how to write. and read. can’t do that.

rocky: damn i guess we have to toss you back in the water :/ grace is going to be so sad. he wrote you a welcoming letter and everything

simon:

simon: genuinely

i will survive this but oh my god things are happening so much all the time

two weeks to fix things.

but i’ve done it before i will do it again

the ao3 curse and my own bad choices have come for me