Stop wasting time having fun, go produce Social Efficiency Units.

[a_hollow_year]

I still zutara, motherfuckers.

That's all.

EDIT: can't post this to my professional FB because none of them care, they all just mad at me because I haven't been able to write since Ammy died last summer. LOL, my inability to get past her death is literally ruining my life and I feel very stupid about it. But I also still ship Zutara and goddammit

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[golden_meliades]

Fanfiction is like candy. It's easy to get and eat and it tastes good right away...none of the effort or clean-up of a full meal that you make yourself. It really is the most fun, and it's relaxing. I don't write anything for anyone else but I love writing fan fiction for my own amusement.

HAVING to write probably makes it impossible to do so, sometimes. Have you tried short stories? They might be easier to get through. (I really don't know. I've only ever written one, and I only got it done because it was a writer's prompt, which sort of put me at a distance from it. Which meant I managed to wrap it up quickly without getting stupidly over-involved with the characters and writing forever.) I'm sure a collection of your short stories would be fun. :)

Hope all is going well with everything else.

[golden_meliades]

PS: How is gardening in Washington state?

[a_hollow_year]

BAH I HAVE NO IDEA! We got here in Oct, so I'm not sure where the sun shines the most around my house in the spring and summer, but I bought poppy and larkspur seeds which are supposed to be fool-proof in this climate (poppies grow wild here, omg) so we shall see. I'll have to set up a container veggie garden on my back porch because my backyard is so wooded it hardly gets any sun.

(JUST REMEMBERED, GOT YOUR LOVELY GIFT, IT SITS RIGHT BY MY FRONT PORCH, THANK YOU THANK YOU)

[golden_meliades]

Poppies are lovely; I'm fond of them. I hope they grow well for you. :) Oh and I'm glad you like the stack, too.

[a_hollow_year]

Ok, gardening trip report: stuff falls on the ground here and then, like, sprouts.

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So now I'm picking a metric crapton of maple seeds out of my garden because at least half of them are already like, "LOL LOOK AT ME IM A TREE"

Smelled flowers today, too. I don't know what kind of flowers, but I think they might be hydrangeas??? lol, no wait, I just looked up hydrangea buds and these look nothing like them, I have no fucking clue what these giant bushes with these little tightly curled buds in the middle of big flat leaves are, but they smell good I think.

[golden_meliades]

"LOL LOOK AT ME IM A TREE"

*pfft*

That's adorable. :)

Oh, rhodos...(they could also be azaleas...nearly the same thing)...that's good, they have beautiful, vibrant flowers in spring, and those thick, glossy leaves are attractive even without them. Bet yours will get way bigger than mine ever could. (They're very tough so they grow fine in a cold zone but I'm sure they'd be more vigorous in a milder one.)

Things falling on the ground and sprouting just that easily sounds like garden nirvana...it sure doesn't happen, here. You should be able to have a big fluffy garden in short order, then. :) Or whatever kind of garden you want, really.

If you need any help figuring out shade gardening, let me know (you probably didn't have a shade garden in Texas, yeah?). I am particularly fond of shade-tolerant and woodland perennials like hostas and bleeding heart and brunnera and so on. (A lot of shade plants have exceptionally huge leaves, which are what gather the sunlight. So the plants can get big fast in a good climate.)

[a_hollow_year]

YES PLEASE GIVE ME SHADE TIPS, my whole back yard is in mostly shade, and my house faces north. There are a couple of sunny beds, but it's a looooooot of shade.

I seriously have no idea what to do about all the little whirlybird maple seeds. I spent 30 minutes picking them up and had only cleared a few square feet of bed. Maybe the rake? The beds are kind of sparse right now, which is why I want to try to fill them up with poppies and larkspurs and bachelor buttons (if I can find them). I saw a picture of a wild poppy field with bachelor buttons in the seattle area and I was like "GUH PLEASE YES"

Granted, it was on an article about how to make your own opium, but still. POPPIES. And there are no fireants to eat the seeds!!!!!!!!!! Though I think the birds might? IDK

[golden_meliades]

I love bachelor buttons. I made my dad grow a crop of them one year, lol. (Then didn't do anything with them. I'm bad that way. I also made my mom grow miniature white pumpkin plants for me one year because I thought they'd be cute growing up a trellis in my front bed...and I still think so...and then I didn't take any of the plants. I am so bad that way

[a_hollow_year]

Gimme a list of favorite shade plants. I have all these trees and no clue what plants to put them under! I do like low maintenance, though. But now I don't even have to water shit, WHAT MAGIC IS THIS??

[golden_meliades]

Sadly a large variety of shade flowers are white. With some pinks and purples and blues. Not many reds, though there is a burgundy variety of trillium and hellebores come in some reddish tones...but darker reds that are more purplish

[a_hollow_year]

Oh, they're rhododendrons.

[a_hollow_year]

STILL FREAKING GORGEOUS YAY

[a_hollow_year]

Wellllllll, I wrote 400 words on my book yesterday that I actually liked, so the therapy I'm doing is probably helping, lol. I have like 3 zutara fics open in my browser and I keep thinking about reading them. It's been ages since I've read long fic.

[golden_meliades]

Oh, good. :)

Fan fiction can be great for jogging your own ideas (I have a lot of realizations when reading/writing fanfiction) and getting you motivated for your own things. Well, I've found so, before. For all its based on someone else's ideas, there's a lot of originality in fan fiction.