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FRIDAY UPDATES

These will be the updates for Friday 05/28/2021:

Barista Beauty 8.2

Best Part: 4 & 4.5

It’s you: Pt.6

Ficlet: Happiest Year: Oikawa x fem reader angst: 1-5

Ficlet: You were good to me: Hawks x fem reader angst: 1-6

Ficlet: Kiss Me: Sukuna x fem reader fluff: 1-4

Him & I: 4 & 5

Mama <3

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Jan. 18th, 2020 // Opera, and Huxley, and new semesters, oh my! 

Going to be trying a thing on Fridays where I give a little academic update for the week. Kinda studyblr-esque but not exactly since I don’t really consider this blog to be a studyblr in a strict sense. Also a lot of my mutuals on here are also academics (or maybe some of y’all out there are looking forward to studying at university and want something to look into for some insight?), so I figured that this might be fun (or at the very least perhaps something for my own records). 

This isn’t meant to be rantish, but I’m gonna give an honest viewpoint into university life from my perspective (with all of its ups and downs and in-betweens), so buckle up and as I like to say on my blog, on y va! 

This week was the first week back at university for the spring semester of my second year, and it was a weird week for sure. I feel like most people have felt this way about this week, (and about this year tbh). I’m beginning to realize that I’ve got an academic niche, and perhaps that’s a good thing, but it might be too early to tell. Currently, I’m taking a class on Modern Britain and I feel so out of my depth. The class is terribly small (twelve of us in that class!) so the professor is able to keep track of participation pretty well, and my brain just isn’t grasping onto this subject as well as I thought it would. It’s frustrating to say the least. I’m also taking the second half of my two-semester honors class after taking a break last semester to take some theatre classes, and we’re hitting it right off with some Spinoza. Class discussion has been slow, but I’m hoping that more people will participate so I don’t feel like the only one talking! The first week always has me feeling incredibly scattered, and it always gets better fairly quick into the semester, but I’m hoping that feeling of security in my abilities and focus comes soon! 

English classes have started off pretty well and I’m trying to wrap my head around some honors projects that I want to undertake this semester. For my premodern lit class I’m thinking about something involving a study of how the law functions in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost. I’ve noticed that while the law sounds strict in its original detail, it doesn’t actually become that strict in practice, which might be something to look into. I’m also going to be reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel The Black Arrow and doing a project on it for my Victorian Young-Adult lit class. That project will become more detailed once I read it. My professor for my Victorian lit class (who was the same professor I worked on #ProjectAriel with) realizes that Victorian lit isn’t really my area, and I was like ‘yeah, you’re right’. It isn’t my area. 

I decided over break that I want to pursue grad school (after some several semesters of debating it), but I want to get into a good grad school. I’ll be totally honest: I don’t love the university that I’m at now. So far, I have not been challenged much academically and nearly everything has been an easy A+ (and I’ve taken several classes in the 400 level for my major - and if I got an A it was only because that professor didn’t give any A+s to anyone) *knocks on wood though, just in case*. At the same time, my university is notoriously easy to get into, so I have no idea how I’d rank against other students who are in perhaps more difficult programs than I am. I’ve had professors who have offered to write me rec letters for grad school, which is encouraging (like, I didn’t have to ask them for it!). My Shakespeare professor from last year offered to do this for me, and he studied for his undergrad and graduate degrees at Cambridge, so I guess that’s good? Again, I have no idea where that puts me, because of the  notoriously easy school that I’m at. It also probably doesn’t help that the amount of professors in the English department who specialize in Early Modern lit is a rather small number. (But we’ve got Ayanna Thompson and that’s all that matters :’) )  - she said that she was interested in my thesis work for when the time came around (again, I’ve got about another year before that will start up). If any of y’all are in English grad programs, any advice or direction would be wonderful. And just to make it clear, this isn’t to show off my accomplishments in any way. I feel incredibly unstable in this process because I don’t really have any other students my age at my university to compare myself to. This whole thing has my brain in like 9,000 different pieces. I’m in sore need to guidance and direction. 

On that note, I was debating doing a history minor, but based on how this Modern Britain class is going right now and the fact that the minor itself is quite broad, I decided against it. So I’m just going to be a lit major, which has me feeling like I’m not doing enough, but then again, I think I’ve found my niche. I’ve found what I like to study, and the broadness of this history minor doesn’t really fit into that. I’m hoping it’s the right choice! 

Currently wrapping up Huxley’s Crome Yellow (which I’m tempted to turn into a little script adaptation for its 100th anniversary coming up next year). The book is incredibly humorous, but also incredibly long-winded, even in the shorter length of the novel itself. It would require a bit of moving things around to make it more dramatically interesting, but I’m up to the challenge. I also just finished Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. I would love to possibly do a study into Madama Butterfly herself, along with Nora from A Doll’s House, Lady Windermere and Mrs. Erlynne from Lady Windermere’s Fan, and Rachel from A Woman of No Importance and examine the agency they took against their somewhat similar situations in their stories. They all come from works of the 1870s-1910s, so that’s where my brain went. Next Friday, I should have watched Billy Budd (which I am incredibly excited to watch after listening to Ian Bostridge and Sir Simon Keenlyside talk about it). Speaking of Ian Bostridge, he’s having a concert next week in my state like two hours south of me that’s free so that’s fun. I won’t be able to go, but I’m hoping that there will be another opportunity to hear him live! 

Anyway, this probably became somewhat rantish, but these are most of the things moving around in my academic world right now! 

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Our first Friday site update for April: Volume Six’s updated pages are NOW ONLINE. Reread your fav chapters and enjoy the updated dialogue, lettering, art and colours, starting from Daisy’s comic con trip!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapter 5 is up!!

Jikook -- Detective/prosecutor -- AU

BTS AU

Prosecutor Chief Kim Namjoon 

[lycorogue]

Latest chapter of “Peeping Tomcat” is live

Holy smokes was this a slow grind, but I made it! Thank you, everyone, for being so patient with me!

So good news and bad news (or just good, depending on your perspective).

This chapter ballooned to a massive 7500+ words! And I’m not even done yet! So there is still at least one, maybe two, more chapters of PT coming your way!

In the meantime, I hope this lengthy chapter makes up for the update being so late.

Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug Rating: K+ Shipping: MariChat / Adrienette Chapters: 15 out of 16(?)

Summary:

Something called to Adrien, and before he knew it, he was addicted to sitting outside Marinette’s window as Chat Noir; just watching her. His voyeuristic habit needs to stop, but things have gotten far too complicated now that he realizes he’s growing a crush on her.

You can check it out On AO3     On FFN     or On DA

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Chapter 5 page 22

Red’s Blog

Blue’s Blog

Stuff

[lycorogue]

Latest chapter of “Peeping Tomcat” is live

It was a crazy week, and this chapter needed an almost complete rewrite. @_@ It was frustrating, but I think I'm happy with the result, and it was posted on time. YAY!

Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug Rating: K+ Shipping: MariChat / Adrienette Chapters: 12 out of 15

Summary: Something called to Adrien, and before he knew it, he was addicted to sitting outside Marinette's window as Chat Noir; just watching her. His voyeuristic habit needs to stop, but things have gotten far too complicated now that he realizes he's growing a crush on her.

You can read the latest chapter:

On AO3          On FFN           On DA

[lycorogue]

I suck so bad at this Tumblr thing still. Completely forgot to mention here that I posted the latest chapter of “Peeping Tomcat” this morning.

Don’t forget to go check it out.

Rating: K+ Shipping: MariChat / Adrienette Intended to have 14 chapters

Summary: Something called to Adrien, and before he knew it, he was addicted to sitting outside Marinette's window as Chat Noir; just watching her. His voyeuristic habit needs to stop, but things have gotten far too complicated now that he realizes he's growing a crush on her.