#sixstepsaway

[russetm]

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I collect fountain pens.

I read on average between 10 and 20 books a month (although I've been having a lot of trouble focusing on my normal reading these past few months (part a need to read copious amounts of OFMD fanfic and part just being stressed out and irritated)

aside from pajamas and sometimes wearing sweat pants if I have to go out to shovel out the driveway I've only worn skirts and dresses for probably 20 years.

this was fun.

[russetm]

@sixstepsaway​ here’s my july bujo set up

here’s my title page, this year i’ve been writing out the lyrics to a different song from an album I like that has 12 tracks on it in different ways across the page, if I come across any fun stickers this month i’ll fill in the bit of white space and if not I’ll just put some washi there at the end of the month

my calendar page with everything I’m committed to so far for the month although I think I’m missing something so I need to check Boyfriend’s calendar when he gets home. 

I track all the I read or watch here (excluding fanfic and youtube videos because then I’d need way more space), and the blank page I usually use if I’m doing a read-a-thon or a reading challenge for the month and if I don’t I doodle on it at the end of the month.

and I’ve gone back to doing my weekly’s like this a couple weeks ago (although unfilled out because I don’t work that far ahead) I use the blank box for any little notes I might need to make and the opposite page will either be doodles, longer notes, or if I attend any event that has a physical ticket or something I’ll glue it over there.  

[kokichis-dead-dove-club]

lmao you're not dumb i'm sorry!! i've just spent so long in the MDZS fandom i see "nie" anything and immediately go "ah yes, the nie sect" rather than "niece???" i totally blanked on the fact that could be the interpretation lmao IM SO SORRY the nie brothers are big brother nie mingjue who has always protected the little brother nie huaisang and then nmj gets killed and nhs propels the entire plot with his 16 year quest for vengeance. also their song (qinghe jue) makes them sound like soulmates

ur SO valid

also hell yes that sounds like prime angst fodder

[three--rings]

So I've moved onto the donghua!!! so is it like... gay-gay???? i noticed it's more like the book in the GAY WAYS but i dont want to get my hopes up?

Unfortunately, no.  It does include some aspects of the novel, especially in the beginning, like keeping MXY queer (though they make him bi, not gay?).   But it is more censored as it goes along and definitely will not include any explicit gay romance.  The only adaptation that keeps to the novel in that way is the audio drama (and even they had different versions for Mainland China and the rest of the world.)  (And the manhua skirts awfully close to the line, but still can’t quite go there, at least so far from what I’ve seen.)

[three--rings]

ALSO!! my friend who i got into the untamed who hasnt actually WATCHED IT (we're going to do it together when her school ends) has gotten me big time into both xiyao and xxc with song lan and xue yang and i am ANGRY ABOUT IT (not really) because now i have three times the feelings i had when i started this thanks to your blog

SIGH.  Yeah, this is the biggest fandom ever for multishipping, I swear.  Somehow I became a giant NieYao shipper?  And it started with XiYao.  

There Is No Escape.

[three--rings]

i have three different mdzs fics on the go (only posting one at a time) and this is becoming a problem. one is a streamer AU? i'm writing a modern streamer AU? chengxian and wangxian both?? i am SCARED of posting it but i'm also proud of it??? why am i doing this help me i'm drowning

Lol.  I would be super into a streamer AU.  Look, I’m sitting here staring at a camboy AU and now a Beauty and the Beast AU.  It never ends. 

I cannot help you, I cannot even help myself!

[three--rings]

thanks for the explanation re: cultivation!! I'm gonna have to look into that! (also, pretty sure i OWN jade empire, played for ten minutes, ran away? hm) and as for the comment i received, it was so weirdly offensive, because they went out of their way to tell me my "wwx trauma recovery" fic was unrealistic and i made them roll their eyes and "Too much just says you don't know what you are writing about unfortunately." and i-- TRAUMA CONGA LINE. THE SHOW IS ALREADY ONE.

UGH.  God, that person! 

And yes, Jade Empire, the first time I tried to play it I just got killed a lot and rage quit, but eventually I went back to it and it’s a really nice game and I always loved the setting/worldbuilding.

[three--rings]

I have been happily posting fic for the last-- well, since I said I was writing fic! I'm still at it. And today I got a mean comment ("You don't understand what you're writing because you put too much trauma in" has this person seen the show? it's a trauma conga line) and it totally threw me because I forgot that those kinds of comments exist. I'm resisting the urge to reply with "Did I ask?" or "did we watch the same show"

Ugh, that  sucks!  I have to say I haven’t gotten any mean comments on my fic.  I don’t know what makes people do that.  I would totally reply with “did we watch the same show” but that’s me.  I’d say just make sure you’re tagging your content appropriately, giving an indication of what kind of fic it is and if they read it anyway, that’s their problem.  I mean, if you want nothing but fluff, then go read that!

SIGH.  People.