Rambling Down the Boulevard,

• The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch: I only ever seem to read The Rivers of London when I have access to a library. I’ve read the first five out of order and in and while I enjoy them immensely I never feel the need to go out and get the whole series the next day; the way I so often do.
• What is Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi: lots of lovely short stories all interconnected. When I got done I went and put her other book on hold immediately.
• Started New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson but I’m only about 50 pages in so my opinions are pretty unformed.
• This piece by Stephanie Beatriz about the B99 episode she directed. 

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• Performative feminism and the cool guy  and ooh boy do I have Thoughts. There will probably be a rant about that sometime soon.
• The Expanse series. I’m about halfway through Cibola Burn and I’m enjoying them pretty well? I’ve got a few stylistic bones to pick with the authors but other than that. Like, I actually could get behind Miller/Julie in Leviathan Wakes, possibly because I didn’t have the visual.
• Alllllll of the short stories on this Hugo rec post from the ladybusiness comm 

• A ficlet about Opportunity, being late, and meeting discworld’s death for the fandomweekly comm. I’ll post it here and on AO3 after the voting is done
• The leverage/AoS crossover
• road song
• NOT history’s longest suicide note because brain bad, words hard. Even though the next chapter is ready to go. Even though I’m interested in where it’s going. Fuck executive dysfunction. It’s the Actual Worst.

• The Discworld reading order guide now 3k and deteriorating into All the Tangents.
• history’s longest suicide note 
• The still untitled Leverage/AoS xo. 2k and now with Plot. 

• Knocked out 400 words of more seats reserved for heroes
• Wrote and rewrote the third chapter of history's longest suicide note like eight million times. 
• Another 1k of road song. putting me at 3.5k of 10kish

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.