it's my 23rd birthday today. i guess i thought i'd write something reflective, but my life isn't all that interesting, so i'm just going to ramble a little. for today is the day to do whatever makes me happy !
i sort of planned to write a birthday fic as a gift to myself, but as it got closer to the date i got less interested. maybe next year it's still a fic i'd like to write, but ultimately i think i left it too late for what i wanted to do. it was a JillMist high school au, because i think they have a sort of high school yuri vibe, and the reason it was going to be for my birthday was because it was particularly self indulgent. i'll work on it some other time. i don't really feel like i missed out on anything by not posting a fic today lol. i did draw fanart of severa for myself though.
you get less gifts as you get older anyways, but i got a couple books and a kirby plushie, so i'm happy ! a dear online friend also made a silly little collage of characters i like wearing party hats and it touched me very deeply. i think because i tend to be a little quiet about some of my interests, with the thought that i'll annoy people if i talk about them, or things like that, that knowing someone cares and knows me like that is very sweet.
outside of the whole birthday thing, if we're talking about me, personally, then i'd like to keep being happy. i think i'd like to make more friends... that's something i've been thinking about recently. i think i should probably go to university next year, but i still don't know what i want to do. even though i'm 23, this kind of topic is still too big for me to talk about, so i'm going to talk about other things.
i've been reading more this year, which is really nice. i think between the ages of about 17 and 21 i would read about one book a year, and almost halfway into this one i've read 13. (i read ten last year, but funnily enough nine of those were after i turned 22.) it's been nice to get into! my one problem is simply that a lot of the books i'm interested in reading are surprisingly annoying to get a hold of haha.
as for games... well, i played the hundred line in may. all of it. i feel a little bad that i might have rushed through it, and worry that it may have impacted my enjoyment of it a little, but i really couldn't put it down at the time. that and i do hate getting spoiled, which was inevitable no matter how many words i muted on twitter... i feel like i haven't played much else this year, or at least that i haven't finished much. i'm currently juggling unicorn overlord (which was put on hold earlier in the year to make room for hundred line) and kirby: planet robobot. fe6 is somewhere on the back burner... there are a ton of games i'd really like to play though. i'm thinking of getting into visual novels a little more.
oh, and i'd like to actually work on learning japanese again... i'm unfortunately really bad at applying myself >_< but i think i can do it. i'd like to do it. i will do my very best. ganbatte, et cetera
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part of what i like about trans!Laurent so much is that it makes it more... touching? that he continues to emulate Miriel, at least to me. like his gender is a whole separate thing to that. i just think it's fun
write seven(?) fics for a certain fanweek (which i will then shelve until closer to posting)
revisit my 'finished' drafts (there are three) and post those throughout april
finish my other fic that i'm working on (a small drabble collection) at some point in the next month or so.. im just slowly chipping away at that one
then with all that cleared i'd like to focus mainly on my big bang fic..! i do have a couple of other ideas that i'd kind of like to write though, and i'm hoping i can have at least the guts of said big bang fic finished by june.. i am rather slow at writing unfortunately. it will of course need revising and polishing so the sooner i can finish a first draft the better. i've gotten a lot better for letting fics sit for a while before editing and posting and i do think it's helped up the quality
today's thursday thinkpiece is short because unfortunately i'm busy and i didn't feel like touching any of the other topics i've thought of. yesterday i listened to a podfic for the first time.
i want to start by saying: i don't really listen to podcasts or audiobooks either. i rarely find myself in situations where only listening to something is stimulating for me, and when i do, i usually prefer listening to music. i've tried podcasts before on longer bus journeys, but yearned too much for my playlist. i don't mind podcasts that also have video, though i don't watch them too much...
but as i was looking through some fics yesterday, i came across one which had a podfic available. i thought, sure, i'll try it. a few seconds in i realised i could read along to the fic while listening, so that's what i did. it was a nice experience! i even looked for more podfics to do this with immediately after, and now i wish there were more podfics in general. i found they helped me to focus more. i understand it's somewhat of an unconventional way to enjoy podfics, but it worked for me and i had fun!! they're something i'd wanted to engage with before, but just never felt like i could. so i'm happy i found a way that works for me.
it kind of makes me want to record my own too, though the speech impediment and the accent make me a little shy about it. even still, i think a bigger barrier for it would simply be that not a lot of authors have transformative works policies! finding fics that are open to podfics is easier said than done. i suppose you can always just ask, but it's nice to know what an author's general policy on it is! this is my shill for transformative works statements. i think whether you're willing to give blanket permission or not (and it's always totally up to you!), they're a great way to keep fandom thriving.
i think that's all i really have to say this time. let's all make more podfics!!
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maybe it's just because i'm generally more drawn towards the nohrsibs but i find post-birthright stuff so much more fascinating than post-conquest. but also maybe i just need to replay fates
i'm like i must use tumblr more and perhaps document all of my fire emblem playthrough experiences but i'm on ch19 of fe7 rn and my experience so far is just that all my units are allergic to good level ups except florina and hector
