A veritable cornucopia of fic fests

[kangeiko]

I have spent the last couple of weeks either writing fic for ficathons, or signing up for ficathons. I know exactly why I'm doing it - April looms ever larger and frankly I'm going to keep myself busy with whatever works at this stage - but I need to pace myself and make sure it's a positive distraction rather than having a meltdown later on. I'm signed up for space_swap  and smutswap  and will also be doing the waybackexchange . The others on the horizon are ssrconfidential  and hurtcomfortex . Probably others? I know this means I'm not writing as much for 'till human voices wake us' but I am thinking about it and letting it percolate. I still want to finish it soon. Maybe not before Endgame - there's a bit too much to go of the fic for that - but soon. I feel like this is the trickiest part of the fic, where I'm closing out one section and moving it into the next section, and I need to make sure I'm absolutely certain of where it's going before I commit to it. It's good practice I suppose, but it is tricky to manage.

Work has reached a level of ridiculousness where I am repeatedly assured by senior bods that they are listening when I say "stop adding more projects!" and then they... add enormous, organisation-wide projects. I nearly cried on Monday from it. A colleague has also been signed off on compassionate leave for the same reason I was off last year, and his work has been parceled out in a way where the large project I was definitely NOT doing I am now definitely doing. My boss thinks the best way to approach this is to tell me to either not do it, or to make a fuss so everyone sees me doing it. Which I really don't intend to do, because helping someone out when they've had that happen to them is not actually one of the things I object to. I am a little annoyed (read: livid) that the senior bods have done nothing to plan out the parceling of the work and have left his team to scramble in his absence. "But why are they all coming to you with their questions while he is away?" "Because I said they could." And evidently no-one else did, and so the entire team - young, and new to the org - have had precisely one senior person saying they can ask Qs of them while their manager is away. What did they think would happen? Do better, work.

The kitchen is, thankfully, finally finished. I'm not allowed to talk about the resolution (!) but it is satisfactory. So I guess this means I have to get onto all the other adult-type things I've been putting off. I was planning to go to Ikea on Sunday to buy odds and ends but I may have to postpone that because I have been wiped out all week. Also...

I haven't seen Umbrella Academy yet. It'll be a Sunday afternoon watch I think.

DC's DCeased preview has me shuddering. I mean it looks amazing, but also NO NO NO. (tw: scary clowns. Er, the other scary clowns.)

The fandom trumps hate offerings offerings are up! I'm not participating but I am considering bidding.

Quick rec for you - this is so great!

Humans of New York Series - Spider-Man (1248 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Peter Parker & People of New York (MCU)
Characters: Peter Parker
Additional Tags: humans of new york, Mixed Media
Summary: A collection of HONY posts featuring our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.

Comments

[corvidology]

I think our senior management may be brain twins? Ack! Sorry you're having to deal with that.