Manaheart

Aaand I'm done - except for the part where I'm not, because I'm still feeling super driven to obtain more, better gear. I also want to make sure I finish the season with no less than 50 timed 10+ runs. With as many crests as I need, it'll probably be 100+. 💀

Ugh, I can't believe we're almost halfway through 2026...

Work is still a challenge. I love what I do, but I'm struggling with not feeling like I'm where I should be in my career by now and I'm not feeling supported by my new boss. I applied for an opening in another department, but it's extremely competitive - and I don't want to leave my current department anyway, I just want to feel valued and like I'm moving forward professionally in a way that I really, really don't right now.

I've been playing WoW almost entirely solo this season. I'm currently sitting at an M+ score of 2776, am one of the top 500 hunters on Moon Guard and #251 for my spec. I could definitely be doing better and I'm going to try to make a push this week, I just feel strapped for time all the time and pugging keys is... an experience.

As for writing, the problem remains: I'm always starved for some combination of time, inspiration, and/or motivation. I thought adjusting to my new schedule would solve it, but it hasn't. I used to write early in the morning while I had my coffee before work; now I start work so early that the only time I can write is after work, when I'm tired and unmotivated. My weekends tend to be all-or-nothing days where either my schedule is packed so I couldn't write even if I wanted to, or I'm exhausted and stubbornly refuse to do anything that could be considered productive. It sucks, because I generally LIKE writing. I haven't been short on ideas, just finding the execution impossible. Even when I make a genuine effort, it feels like what comes out is shit, if I can get anything written down at all.

So I definitely did not Do The Thing last week. Alas, entirely too much has been going on in meatspace for me: a new boss, new role, and new schedule at work - all very different from what I've grown used to - as well as goings on at home with pets' health and my own that required my time and attention. I'm on day three of a desperately needed vacation, which isn't turning out to be much of a vacation after all, but I am making the most of it. My Alliance main is level 89 and I hope to get started on alts by tomorrow - and perhaps a spot of writing. Inspiration is a fickle bitch. Sometimes, even when the idea is there, the execution just refuses to be.

I've been wrestling with many brainworms. Big changes at work and not-so-good health have deprived me of the spoons needed to bring them to life, but I'd like to get some writing out in January if I can.

I really need a vacation. 😭

Thank you to @daily-writing-challenge for reblogging some of my stuff even though I was late. 💛 Below are the permalinks to my posts for this week, all for @voidwalkwithme:

Static

Lucky

Serious

Ribbon

Sunshine

Echo

Drop

I'm not proud of my writing this week - for proper samples of my writing, please see my writing in August - but I am proud of myself for seeing it through whilst not only working outdoors in dour weather, but battling an illness that is turning out to be more serious than I'd originally thought.

I had to rush to finish more than one of these pieces. Both "Ribbon" and "Echo" felt woefully incomplete. All seven pieces were meant to be vignettes and not stories per se, but even as a vignette, I feel like "Ribbon" in particular falls short (it is utterly bereft of context). In contrast, I feel good about "Lucky", and had a great time writing "Serious" and "Sunshine".

All of these pieces are canon for Jaeness and will make more sense going into the events of Midnight. We'll learn more about what happened between Jaeness and Castinus and what's going on now between Jaeness and Zariya. She'll meet new OCs (maybe even one of yours) and finally have a STORYLINE.

Work and my mystery illness (for which I'm getting a chest x-ray tomorrow to rule out pneumonia) sapped me of a lot of energy, especially creative energy. Still, I am really stoked for Midnight. Jaeness will almost certainly be my main throughout the expansion, though I am also sporadically working on Yet Another Blood Elf character concept, and the affectionately named "Scandal Elves" Corinne and Zariya aren't going anywhere. Emily, on the other hand, is taking the back seat for a bit; it is Elf Time.

I've been on a hero dose of antibiotics for a few days now in addition to the OTC medications I was already taking, and I reckon I'm about as recovered as I'm going to be for close to another week, so I finally banged out my first (very belated) piece for DWC here!

I plan to write for @voidwalkwithme all week this week, so expect a bit of the eldritch and a whole lot of sass. The wrap-up will be posted here at the end of the week.

Hello, beloved friends and readers.

A brief character list is now available on this blog for reference here. Its primary purpose is to validate this OOC blog's ownership of my OC blogs, which are all sideblogs. It should also help clarify to others why this blog may be interacting with theirs (since all comments and asks that would otherwise come from my characters come from this blog). While it doesn't server as a proper introduction to my full cast of characters (something I intend to do here soon), it opens the door for interested readers to poke around.

All of my WoW characters are currently available for RP in Discord or in-game by request. Emily and Jaeness are my longest held and most played characters. Corinne, Zariya, and Rose are all very new and were written to facilitate specific plots with my writing partners. That being said, they are still available for RP, just know that Corinne's circumstances severely limit the scope of what she is available for.

That's a wrap for me!

Here are my entries, spread across three characters:

i. Ethereal (Emily) ii. Wither (Zariya) iii. Primal (Emily) iv. Languish (Corinne) v. Rustic (Emily) vi. Celebrate (Corinne) vii. Serene (Zariya)

The last couple days were difficult to get through with chaos happening in meatspace, but I'm glad I saw it through! When I planned what to write for each prompt, I actually did not plan spreading the prompts out as evenly as I did, so I'm happy about that, too.

Expect to see more of Emily and probably a lot more of Scandalous Blood Elves in the future - and maybe look forward to the eventual return of this one?

I love this hobby and I'm glad to be back at it. I've been putting out some of the best writing I've done in a while (along with some of the okayest), and reading everyone else's work has been fun. I have found myself curious about the outcomes for a particular mercenary group, and someone needs to get me the deep lore on that one elven house ASAP because WHAT AN ENSEMBLE CAST and all of the associated writing is fire (not tagging everyone in my OOC bullshit but I see y'all).