Rambling Down the Boulevard,

 I just realized that yesterday was St. Valentine's day and I saw no indications of that anywhere. It's fantastic and thank you internet!

When I was little my dad would read us stories, things that we were still too small to read by ourselves. He’d do the voices of characters, funny little impressions, and when the story was dragging he’d throw in bits like Bilbo Baggins slaying a goblin in the first two chapters of the hobbit or Harry actually dueling Malfoy instead of Malfoy setting Flich on them (which he had to hastily retcon when he figured out it was plot relevant), and when a chapter didn’t suit him he start it with, “It was a dark and stormy night.”

It took us (me, my brother, and sister), a bit to catch on but once we did, anytime we suspected he was doing this we’d chorus “Daaad, read it the right way!” and so Bilbo had a nice quiet life in the shire until those dwarves showed up, Harry, Ron and Hermione had to run from Flich straight into a three-headed dog and chapters never begun with “it was a dark and stormy night.”

Which was well and good until we started on A Wrinkle in Time. At this point when we'd hear "it was a dark and stormy night" the automatic reaction is, "Daaad read it the right way!", so he did. Or so we thought. I’m re-reading it now for the first time on my own and hey, guess what? It actually starts with, It was a dark and stormy night. I spent ten years thinking we’d pulled one over on my Dad and A Wrinkle in Time started on a sunny day.

Congrats Dad, ya did it.

One of my goals for this year is to post a weekly roundup to keep an eye on my mental health, encourage myself to write at least a little every week, and keep a record of what I'm up to. This is the first of them, hopefully published every sunday from here on out. 

What I’m doing: In Mexico, working on my S&R certification, so I can progress to a DM. 
What I’m reading: Laurie Penny's column on longreads about sexuality, feminism, and the #metoo movement. They're fantastic reading and I've been devouring them. Start with The Consent of the (Un)governed if you check them out, and work from there.
What I’m listening to: Jay and Miles X-plain the X-Men. I let my queue build up so I’ve got the last 4 episodes to get through.  Thankfully I’ve got a fair amount of time on the boat everyday and I find listening to them very grounding. 
What I’m watching: The trailer for the kid who would be king on repeat. It’s written and directed by Joe Cornish who directed Attack the Block, which might be my favorite movie of all time. Also I finally got around to watching Annihilation and it's fantastic- the best possible adaptation of the book.
What I’m writing:

• history’s longest suicide note, now written out to chapter 5, 10k of ??
• road song: An AU of AoS season 2 where Skye refuses both the inhumans and shields help and goes on a run. Themed around Richard Siken's Driving, Not Washing. 2.5k out of roughly 10k 
• no colors anymore: coda to I see the girls dressed by in their summer clothes. Where we get to see Lex's perspective on Kara's kidnapping. .8k out of 2k. 
• an untitled atla/star wars fusion fic where Rey is the avatar and Kylo Ren is not the Zuko friend. 1.4k out of 2k?

Mental Health Check: 5/10. Feeling a little isolated, despite my best efforts. Had a bad moment where I outed myself as a level 9,000 nerd wizard and just watched the entire group shut down. But I'm still up on all my messages and I called my sister this week which is good. Also Brooklyn 99 comes back this week which is gonna be really good for me.
Final Notes: my inner monologue has been pretty heavy on the why can’t you be just a little less autistic and that’s not fair or kind to myself. This year I’m trying to be both those things.

it's 30 minutes from the new year and i'm wine drunk, eating chips, watching sci-fi and writing fic.

If this is how 2k19 goes, I think i'll be ok.

Mostly i think that anything will be kinder than last year.

About Me:
Blog for opensummer on ao3. She/they. I'm ace, pan, and prefer queer as a universal descriptor. Well over 18. Moved from openemptysummer on tumblr to dreamwidth with the latest purge news. It's nice to go back to my lj roots, though I will absolutely miss the tag novel. I like squeeing about all sorts of things and writing.

I'm team cockroach, actually ADHD, lowkey autistic, highkey le tired, and young enough to still want to do something about it. I've been lurking on the edges of fandom for a decade now and that's the way I like it. 

If I'm online, I usually have discord running in the background. You're more than welcome to stop by and say hello.

My Fandoms Include:
Agents of SHIELD, Avatar the Last Airbender, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Castlevania, DC comics, Dragon Age, Harry Potter, Hilda, Hunger Games, Killjoys, MCU, Marvel comics, Mass Effect, Miraculous Ladybug, Pacific Rim, She-ra, Supergirl, SyFy Alice, The 100, The Expanse, The Librarians, The Vampire Diaries, Wonder Woman, Zombies, Run!, and many more.

I'm currently writing mostly for Supergirl, Castlevania, and Agents of SHIELD.

My Master Fic List is here and still under construction.

"Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower, than curse the darkness."
GNU Terry Pratchett