#gloamfic

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How much of the insane cylinder Roman empire astrology world is canon from warrior cats, and how much is you?

Almost none of it is from warriors! Really the only thing is that they call midnight 'moonhigh' and for the most part this seems to be literal except that they also have an eclipse at one point. Everything else is me; I thought it would be funny to staple a separate setting on for what was going on with the humans.

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Blazer's Glowfic Stats

✧It's my fourth glowbirthday!✧ And what better way to celebrate could there be than making a giant spreadsheet based off the output records?

(I think I started this sheet around my first anniversary, but it was unwieldy and desperately needed an overhaul and some updating. Now each year has its own sheet instead of all being in one that was a monster to scroll through! Huzzah!)

I'm mostly doing this out of vanity and not because I particularly expect it to be interesting to anyone else. Also data entry is fun.

(You can really tell where I started writing with Alicorn, can't you!)

Let's start with the basics: in my four years as a glowfic author, I've written a total of 280,184 words. I have 48 threads (three of which are marked complete), 26 proper templates (not including Zinglets, Zettings, or the one-off cats), and 153 character accounts. I have 103 galleries with a total of 2,300 icons (what a nice round number! I didn't even rig it it just came out that way I swear).

My template with the most instances is Alphabet Soup with 16, though Jida (15) and Starchild (14) are close behind. (There are 22 untemplated cat accounts but those of course don't count.)

My longest thread so far is of course your stare was holdin', which as of today is 128,638 words long, with 79,154 of those being written by me.

Here's a little baby table of my high scores (or, the most I'd ever written in a single day, midnight to midnight, at each time).

Out of the past 1,461 days, I've written at least a little on 828 of them, which is 56.7%! On 51 of those days (3.5% of the total; 6.2% of days I wrote at all), I wrote at least a thousand words.

There's no calendar month which I didn't write on at least one day of, though I've gone for longer than one at a stretch without tagging: 37 days across July and August of 2019. Conversely, my longest streak of consecutive tagging was 64 days, from September to November of 2021. Here's another tinysheet of my streak high scores:

By the calendar, there's only one month I've tagged on every day of, which is of course October 2021.

Here are each of the charts, day by day and per year:

(You can REALLY tell where I started writing with Alicorn, can't you!!)

(Love the one dot from the day of the moon shadeling princess thread wrecking the scale. Good times <3)

And here we are! This is lacking today's wordcount, even though technically I have another two hours or so before the anniversary of my first tag. It's just easier to count in years going forward if I only do it day-by-day, and anyways most of my count today was sonnets, so it doesn't make much difference. :Þ Speaking of years of going forward and writing glowfic, here's hoping for many more of those! It's been a fun and creatively fulfilling four.

And to wrap things up, here's the total over time with month-sized units. Pretty close to 300k! Not a lot when I compare it to nanos or whatever but I'm proud of it. Thanks for reading <3

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A few variations on Ancora, my beloved 7′-tall very smart idiot goth faelien vampiric child

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also I was going to post this a month ago when I wrote it but then I didn’t, but since it came up again here’s the previously-mentioned gallery poem

art is a matter of subtractions, as any good sculptor will say. behind and inside (to still-whole things' dismay) can you find, where they hide, the pieces and fractions composing an object worth viewing, creating a project worth doing, developed by cutting away. discipline, then, is the crux and the key, elision the foremost objective. empty your soul through a colander's strains, fishing out flaws and rehousing remains - get left with your brand-new perspective. hello unrecognizable me. hollowed and broken and melted and moldered, ironed and mended and straightened and soldered, irritations removed and new graces shouldered. is it different for a project than a heart; is it right to view one as static and lovable; is it wrong to see them as growing, adjustable. is there a difference in revision and vision? it is different, yes, and the difference is art. it's not hard to see all the world in these ways jagged edges exist to be sanded leave off sugarcoated allays, it's more proper and right to be candid nothing is gained without forfeit: not something most people admit, I hear. only lovely things are worth loving, my dear, so lace yourself into that corset; so shave off your pieces that ill fit. we'll make you an object worth seeing; we'll make you a person worth being.

(concept of gallery poems originated by beloved roommate @bobby-the-dapper-duckling; each line corresponds with a photo and expression of the relevant person, and since there’s no way to pick what order they display in you just have to write it alphabetically.  I think this is extremely cool!!  so I did one myself.  it’s much more difficult than just picking lines from an existing song or whatever but also extremely rewarding)

[blazingdarkness]

very glad to have done a baby little nano this month

did not even hit my goal of 10k but I wrote every day and I’m going to keep going and soon enough I will have a thread which I can actually mark complete, which I have never done before and is very exciting

and I finished redoing hana’s gallery and writing the poem for it which I started literally sixteen months before

and it just feels really good and I don’t even care that lots of other people did much more impressive things (except that I do quite enjoy consuming them), because I’m just so happy in my little corner over here with my basically-earthfic-because-we-have-not-gotten-to-the-vampires-yet lesbians

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in the midst of my 3b1p binge it's only appropriate to post the eugene & izzy drawing I did the other day. Will This Cause Me to ever actually write any more a3t: only time will tell! it would be nice. literally bella's lullaby at the top of my spotify wrapped and nothing to show for it, what am I doing

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man I was looking through my topposts and there Really are not that many, huh have a dumb baby (feat. sponge) that I drew like last fall or something

(drawn on paper, colored digitally. lineart under the cut)

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rlly excited about the lineart coloring sneak I figured out while doing this. have a random veronan citizen