#pirate updates

[benevolentgodloki]

// Hi, it's me making another update 💚

For the few of you lovely people I'm writing with, replies will mostly now be only Monday to Thursday. I think I'm finally managing to get into a rhythm of working on my original writings and fanfics as well as squeezing in social/health/offline stuff I want to put more time to, which means leaving drafts alone Friday to Sunday for my peace of mind unless I'm really jonesing to hop in there. My tracker should give you a general idea of what's next for each partner if you're waiting on something in particular :3

xxx

[killmebutneverinsultme]

Hello, loves. I've made a big ol' post over on Loki's blog about a change I need to make when it comes to how I use tumblr. With heavy heart, I am going to retire a LOT of my writing partnerships to give myself time in other areas of my life. For Jack's blog, I'm making the tough decision to (for the indefinite future) make him private to only 2-3 partners.

To those few of you I have been writing with and am about to tag, please know I love you and I've thoroughly enjoyed the stories we've been telling. Thank you so, so much, including those of you I've already parted ways with. It's been amazing.

@ashortdropandasuddenstop @itslordnow @teachthekraken @vyrulent

Pirate xxx

[ask-xi]

Q: Is XI back?

A: Yes, and no.

Everything I did before I went on hiatus has been an amazing journey but I won’t be able to dedicate the time I used to here with Loki still being my main baby. I’ll be going through my drafts and old archived threads and pretty much consigning them to the past. XI is chronological, everything that has happened to him remains happened to him for good or ill, so the memories are not lost. 

However, I intend to open him up - tentatively - to my Loki blog partners. I may reconnect with a few old partners for old times’ sake. At the very least I’m very happy to answer asks from old friends.

Essentially XI is moving more toward a ‘private’ status. I’ll be unfollowing people I don’t recognise/weren’t directly involved with him so I can clear his dashboard. I may also unfollow blogs who post a little bit too often/too much ooc for the sake of both my dash and brain.

Family and good friends of the Doctor will hopefully get threads in the near future as/when we come up with things we wanna do! It’s awesome to see people still knocking around. I miiiight pick up things with characters from current Who in the future but we’ll see how the new series goes. Last series I wanted to burn every script on a pyre. Jodie is amazing but I have never been so enraged by Doctor Who writing in my life. So that didn’t help me return :P This series has me half curious at least!

Enough waffle. XI is back, sort of! Just quietly and with Marvel flavours where people are interested.

P.S. If you’re one of my existing Loki partners and you have a Doctor Who muse, that gives you an automatic ‘in’ pending mine and XI’s interest!

[benevolentgodloki]

Likely to be scarce until Monday, loves. Going to see Oppenheimer after work tomorrow and then Mojito is staying the weekend for us to indulge in natterings, hopefully Pride parade, and much Witchering. Regular schedule returning soon xxx

[benevolentgodloki]

// Super late heads-up that tomorrow I've got the amazing @araedi and @arroganceandfear visiting so I won't be doing any proper tumblring until the 16th Sept minimum. It's already 10pm and I have a bunch of chores in the morning so no guarantees on the drafts I can stuff in my queue but attempts will be made. Keep safe and stay hydrated, because I'm a die in the heatwave here. Will catch you soon if not here and there xxx

[benevolentgodloki]

PSA

Hey loves. I was going to wait 'til this weekend but I'll just crack on with an update now. Apologies for this long ass post, but the time has come for a big old change with the way I play here. I've been writing on tumblr since 2013 and whilst I don't want to give that up fully, I can't sustain things the way I have been doing.

To give insight on how my life's been running (not that it's all that much, but it's a lot for me), I've been trying to cram in up to 42 hours of work a week; a social activity nearly every evening; time with my family; time to work on my personal writing as well as fanfiction; time to learn languages; time to even vaguely tidy my house. I'm not keeping on top of my health mentally or physically, I'm neglecting my cats and my environment and my husband and I'm sure as heck not getting exercise or a moment to breathe. In that one hour or so each day in the working week I'm trying to desperately cram in tumblr like it's some sort of job instead of having proper fun with it.

I am now making the tough decision that I will be retiring a large amount of my writing partnerships, some with whom I have written for a long time. I'm sure this will have a range of reactions from 'sure dude that's cool' to abject disappointment and anywhere on the spectrum of that is valid. For my own health and life balance, I need to do this, so to those of you I part with, it's been wonderful writing with you and thank you for the memories and scenarios we've built together. I should be messaging most of you, but if you're someone who hasn't replied to any threads for a while I may just quietly slip off. Some of you will be on shared discord servers so you won't lose me there.

I will be keeping things Loki is absolutely frothing to continue, and this doesn't mean I'm not open to picking things up here and there as my whims decree. I will possibly also start replying to things out of order if I can find the balance between impulse and my desperate need for rigid structure. But that's the long and short of it. I want to limit my amount of partners so I can enjoy fully and more frequently the stories we're telling together and maybe even engage a bit more instead of only playing writing tennis.

Thanks for understanding, everyone xxx

[benevolentgodloki]

Just giving a heads up for interruption in activity this coming weekend and potentially leading up to it aaand the following week. Low on spoons and time as I'm prepping to tie up worky and houseworky loose ends before bestie @araedi visits this weekend, and also mildly bricking it that my monthly woman thing (you can say it Pirate, period) is imminently upon me and I'm testing out new medication for it in the hope I can not be horrendously ill on it when I want to go to the movies and yanno spend time with my friend and not the bathroom floor. Anyway, ahem, on top of that, I've got a week off next week which means I'm likely to bunk off doing things in a scheduled manner so thanks in advance to my partners and followers for their patience in waiting for their threads or other Loki content xxx

[benevolentgodloki]

PSA - ABOUT THREADS

//Yooo loves, I have finally tidied up my thread tracker enough for public viewing. A link to this has now been added to my pinned post on my blog so partners can see what threads I have tracked. I'm hoping this will help some peeps out in case they lose things and don't use tracker themselves. If there's anything that should be on there that isn't, let me know. If there's anything you don't want anymore at any time, don't be shy to pop me an IM xxx