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As I'm sure I've made abundantly clear to those on my flist and Twitter feed, I started a new job a couple weeks ago where I'm operating on the graveyard shift, which means that the hours that used to be my prime tagging and sleep hours are now work hours, and I'm pretty much sleeping noon to seven or eight in the evening. With luck, I manage to squeeze in tags when I get home in the morning and again before I leave at night, meaning I can get through one or two rounds a day if I'm diligent and if I keep my threads at a manageable number. I don't think this has actually made me any slower, the more I think about it, because without work, I'd spend hours not tagging, just doing other things, so it pretty much works out the same except for those people I used to go multiple rounds with late at night when I got on a roll.
Anyway, as a result of actually being employed, I'm busier, but more content and in a much better mood. I'm hoping this stays true, because I've needed it.
EDEN MCCAIN
I did not do as much with her ability as I could have, which is annoying, although I'm still threading things out with Claire which is probably the most important thread anyway. Besides, I can still focus on the fall-out of her having had an ability and now going without again, so that will probably come up in the near future. In spite of my initial protests I wouldn't do it at all (I get too easily fed up with the way some people skip over others in the past), I sent Eden to speed-dating and though it's barely off the ground, it's interesting and at least allows for her meeting new people. I'm not so set on her having a romance and she's sort of feeling that she'll never actually find someone to be in a relationship with again, so she's more focused on enjoying her life, but there's a niggling part of her that does want something more stable and long-term, even to start a family eventually. But of course, the people to whom Eden's most drawn have rarely been conducive to that aspect of herself, and at the moment the people to whom she's most attracted are essentially taken, at least in spirit if not actuality (Auggie), or fall directly in line with that trend and definitely aren't the long-term type (Lily).
UPCOMING: Basically business as usual. Trying to do better by her and get her to meet more people and expand on existing friendships.
MEREDITH GREY
Still threading out powers plot, I am slow, sorry, sorry. Anyway, Mere had the ability to turn into water, which is interesting to work with, and does not sit well with Sean, which is always fun. I fell completely slack on things in general, ugh, although I have some delightful threads for her. Like I was saying to Di last night, of all my pups, she's the only one right now both in a stable relationship and at a place in her life to even consider children, but that's a long, long way off. I think there's a bit of her that wants that and isn't willing to admit it, because she's had a taste of it and not been as bad at it as she would have expected, but she also doesn't want it because she still mentally balks a bit at the idea of being wife and mother, and because she's worried she'll fuck up as bad as her mom did/pass on those Alzheimer's genes. Plus she won't have an easy time conceiving and she'd have to be incredibly careful if she did, per canon, so… Unlikely for quite a while, basically. In the meanwhile, even thinking about it is plot enough.
Besides, she still has to get married. Leshia, I think there was a thread you wanted to do beforehand? But I will be better in the next couple weeks and find a dress, etc., and we can do that whenever we are up to speed, pretty much. Eep.
UPCOMING: Marriage. Also continuing to teach her classes.
BRITTA PERRY
Ugh, I've been a failure with her. I had grand plans for her this month and then failed to follow through on them. Things have been exciting, though, in that Abed is on the island, and she loves Abed, even if she has fallen back into Greendale Parent mode, worrying he's going to canon puncture everyone. Next month is Jeff's canon puncture, which is going to be a lot for her to deal with, and therefore is exciting, and very probably a Troy in the near future, and everything is golden, I just. need to do better by her, because I'm getting into that frame of mind - which I've noticed I get a lot with the more popular pups - that, if I don't do anything with her, I need to let her go because I'm not doing right by her or whatever.
UPCOMING: Bumping her up to a priority place over the next while and trying to do more with her. Also crazier.
OLIVE PENDERGHAST
My precious girl, agh, light of my life. Olive threads basically just make me happy no matter what, which I always need and always will. Things have been interesting with her of late. Of course, there was powers plot which has been a blast, and also reminded me she has that very independent streak and that this is one thing she shares with Veronica, actually - while Olive's much more forgiving and trusting, she's also the kind to recoil and rely on herself in times of trouble rather than run the risk of not being the one who chooses to be on her own. That was interesting, certainly. Also she and Eduardo hit six months on Wednesday, which is… small compared to some, but a big deal for both of them, when she's never been in a relationship before and he's never been in a serious one. They will probably just spend it being adorable, though.
She's loving her classes. If you're her teacher, you can expect she's an absolutely devoted student, attentive, quick to ask and answer questions if given the chance. She's taking the lead in self-defense per Natalia's having said she expected her to, and because she's already trained with her some; she adores Natalia and doesn't want to let her down, so if you're in that class, she's working hard to be useful and an example. In more personal news, agh, her thread with Mark from the other month somehow turned from lighthearted fencing to her telling him what happened the night she came to the island which was unexpected, especially since Mark is one of the last people I would have expected her to talk to about this. He's Mark so he's blunt and not especially emotional, but I think that's kind of what she needed anyway, to work through her self-blame, at least a little. It's definitely a turning point for them either way, at least in her mind.
UPCOMING: Everything ever. I have several EPs planned and the next month should be busy anyway. ALL THE THREADS.
CAMERON WINKLEVOSS
Oh, Cameron, darling boy, you're such a fool. Even he thinks so. He's still so set on going home that he's having trouble connecting to most people because he doesn't feel it's right to make friends with people he's intent on leaving, and definitely it isn't right in his book to go out with anyone when he has no intention of sticking around. That said, the women of the island make that difficult, to say the least, and he can't entirely pretend he doesn't find several of them attractive or that he isn't increasingly intrigued by Jenny, though she's one of the few friends he has. Whatever he says, he's essentially asked her out under the pretense of dinner as friends, so it'll be interesting to see how that goes.
In the meanwhile, I want to work on his sort of accepting that he may be here longer than planned and, in turn, throwing himself into doing worthwhile things, or at least more. At the least, he'll finally be getting it together with the skiffs from the boathouse, which he'll be fixing up in his spare time once I start on that and then eventually he'll try and pull together a rowing team that he'll say is mostly for fun but he's incredibly competitive, but then he'll feel bad for being so awesome. Also he needs bros. Give him bros (male and female, really, but bros).
UPCOMING: Boats and bros.
HARLEY ALTMEYER
Sometimes the ease with which I write Harley already is terrifying. He's just lodged himself in my head, pretty much, and his voice is very clear, clearer than any first person voice I've ever tried to write for anything, which is a relief because I always feel I'm horrible at the first person (narration/voiceover is an entirely different beast). He's also insanely loud, which is rare with male voices for me. I only just debuted him so that's to be expected, but at this point, he's giving even Olive a run for her money in that department. I already started writing a new EP in my head, but I'm waiting for next weekend/month to post it.
It's going to take a while for Harley to adjust to island life, because his has been shit, so all this kindness? He doesn't trust it. None of it makes any sense to him and he's incredibly suspicious of it. Eventually he'll find a way to do his part, he's too proud not to, but for now he's going to try to keep to himself, enjoy what the kitchen has to offer and be generally squirrelly, hanging out in the jungle, using the Compound mostly at night other than meal times, and squatting in an abandoned hut for a couple weeks until he decides it's okay to actually ask for one officially. I love him so much, even if he makes me facepalm a lot, which is better than flat out horrifying me all the time, I guess.
In the meanwhile, for the first couple months at least, I'm mostly going to be EPing him, because it's pretty much guaranteed that his narration is going to involve a) child abuse, b) murder, c) him thinking about hurting your pup, d) him thinking sexually about your pup and not just in the checking her out way, or e) all of the above, which… like, he's not a bad guy, he's a good kid, if fucked up, but his imagination is violent and sometimes his obsession with sex is, too, or at least forceful, and I don't want to just throw that on unsuspecting people, because I never know who that's a trigger for, so I want to hold back until I have a better idea who'd rather not deal with him. It's very rare he actually acts on any of these impulses; in fact, the one time in canon he actually strikes anyone, he doesn't think about it - it just happens. Him thinking about these things, these fantasies, isn't about actually wanting to do anything so much as it is about the illusion of self-confidence, strength, control, things he either doesn't possess or doesn't think he does, and which he's been taught by example only exist in violence and anger, though I don't think he's sure he agrees. tl;dr, it's all in his head.
UPCOMING: EVERYTHING. I have two EPs planned off the top of my head and several item options I can't decide between, all of which I'll be holding off on for a long while anyway.
As I'm sure I've made abundantly clear to those on my flist and Twitter feed, I started a new job a couple weeks ago where I'm operating on the graveyard shift, which means that the hours that used to be my prime tagging and sleep hours are now work hours, and I'm pretty much sleeping noon to seven or eight in the evening. With luck, I manage to squeeze in tags when I get home in the morning and again before I leave at night, meaning I can get through one or two rounds a day if I'm diligent and if I keep my threads at a manageable number. I don't think this has actually made me any slower, the more I think about it, because without work, I'd spend hours not tagging, just doing other things, so it pretty much works out the same except for those people I used to go multiple rounds with late at night when I got on a roll.
Anyway, as a result of actually being employed, I'm busier, but more content and in a much better mood. I'm hoping this stays true, because I've needed it.
EDEN MCCAIN
I did not do as much with her ability as I could have, which is annoying, although I'm still threading things out with Claire which is probably the most important thread anyway. Besides, I can still focus on the fall-out of her having had an ability and now going without again, so that will probably come up in the near future. In spite of my initial protests I wouldn't do it at all (I get too easily fed up with the way some people skip over others in the past), I sent Eden to speed-dating and though it's barely off the ground, it's interesting and at least allows for her meeting new people. I'm not so set on her having a romance and she's sort of feeling that she'll never actually find someone to be in a relationship with again, so she's more focused on enjoying her life, but there's a niggling part of her that does want something more stable and long-term, even to start a family eventually. But of course, the people to whom Eden's most drawn have rarely been conducive to that aspect of herself, and at the moment the people to whom she's most attracted are essentially taken, at least in spirit if not actuality (Auggie), or fall directly in line with that trend and definitely aren't the long-term type (Lily).
UPCOMING: Basically business as usual. Trying to do better by her and get her to meet more people and expand on existing friendships.
MEREDITH GREY
Still threading out powers plot, I am slow, sorry, sorry. Anyway, Mere had the ability to turn into water, which is interesting to work with, and does not sit well with Sean, which is always fun. I fell completely slack on things in general, ugh, although I have some delightful threads for her. Like I was saying to Di last night, of all my pups, she's the only one right now both in a stable relationship and at a place in her life to even consider children, but that's a long, long way off. I think there's a bit of her that wants that and isn't willing to admit it, because she's had a taste of it and not been as bad at it as she would have expected, but she also doesn't want it because she still mentally balks a bit at the idea of being wife and mother, and because she's worried she'll fuck up as bad as her mom did/pass on those Alzheimer's genes. Plus she won't have an easy time conceiving and she'd have to be incredibly careful if she did, per canon, so… Unlikely for quite a while, basically. In the meanwhile, even thinking about it is plot enough.
Besides, she still has to get married. Leshia, I think there was a thread you wanted to do beforehand? But I will be better in the next couple weeks and find a dress, etc., and we can do that whenever we are up to speed, pretty much. Eep.
UPCOMING: Marriage. Also continuing to teach her classes.
BRITTA PERRY
Ugh, I've been a failure with her. I had grand plans for her this month and then failed to follow through on them. Things have been exciting, though, in that Abed is on the island, and she loves Abed, even if she has fallen back into Greendale Parent mode, worrying he's going to canon puncture everyone. Next month is Jeff's canon puncture, which is going to be a lot for her to deal with, and therefore is exciting, and very probably a Troy in the near future, and everything is golden, I just. need to do better by her, because I'm getting into that frame of mind - which I've noticed I get a lot with the more popular pups - that, if I don't do anything with her, I need to let her go because I'm not doing right by her or whatever.
UPCOMING: Bumping her up to a priority place over the next while and trying to do more with her. Also crazier.
OLIVE PENDERGHAST
My precious girl, agh, light of my life. Olive threads basically just make me happy no matter what, which I always need and always will. Things have been interesting with her of late. Of course, there was powers plot which has been a blast, and also reminded me she has that very independent streak and that this is one thing she shares with Veronica, actually - while Olive's much more forgiving and trusting, she's also the kind to recoil and rely on herself in times of trouble rather than run the risk of not being the one who chooses to be on her own. That was interesting, certainly. Also she and Eduardo hit six months on Wednesday, which is… small compared to some, but a big deal for both of them, when she's never been in a relationship before and he's never been in a serious one. They will probably just spend it being adorable, though.
She's loving her classes. If you're her teacher, you can expect she's an absolutely devoted student, attentive, quick to ask and answer questions if given the chance. She's taking the lead in self-defense per Natalia's having said she expected her to, and because she's already trained with her some; she adores Natalia and doesn't want to let her down, so if you're in that class, she's working hard to be useful and an example. In more personal news, agh, her thread with Mark from the other month somehow turned from lighthearted fencing to her telling him what happened the night she came to the island which was unexpected, especially since Mark is one of the last people I would have expected her to talk to about this. He's Mark so he's blunt and not especially emotional, but I think that's kind of what she needed anyway, to work through her self-blame, at least a little. It's definitely a turning point for them either way, at least in her mind.
UPCOMING: Everything ever. I have several EPs planned and the next month should be busy anyway. ALL THE THREADS.
CAMERON WINKLEVOSS
Oh, Cameron, darling boy, you're such a fool. Even he thinks so. He's still so set on going home that he's having trouble connecting to most people because he doesn't feel it's right to make friends with people he's intent on leaving, and definitely it isn't right in his book to go out with anyone when he has no intention of sticking around. That said, the women of the island make that difficult, to say the least, and he can't entirely pretend he doesn't find several of them attractive or that he isn't increasingly intrigued by Jenny, though she's one of the few friends he has. Whatever he says, he's essentially asked her out under the pretense of dinner as friends, so it'll be interesting to see how that goes.
In the meanwhile, I want to work on his sort of accepting that he may be here longer than planned and, in turn, throwing himself into doing worthwhile things, or at least more. At the least, he'll finally be getting it together with the skiffs from the boathouse, which he'll be fixing up in his spare time once I start on that and then eventually he'll try and pull together a rowing team that he'll say is mostly for fun but he's incredibly competitive, but then he'll feel bad for being so awesome. Also he needs bros. Give him bros (male and female, really, but bros).
UPCOMING: Boats and bros.
HARLEY ALTMEYER
Sometimes the ease with which I write Harley already is terrifying. He's just lodged himself in my head, pretty much, and his voice is very clear, clearer than any first person voice I've ever tried to write for anything, which is a relief because I always feel I'm horrible at the first person (narration/voiceover is an entirely different beast). He's also insanely loud, which is rare with male voices for me. I only just debuted him so that's to be expected, but at this point, he's giving even Olive a run for her money in that department. I already started writing a new EP in my head, but I'm waiting for next weekend/month to post it.
It's going to take a while for Harley to adjust to island life, because his has been shit, so all this kindness? He doesn't trust it. None of it makes any sense to him and he's incredibly suspicious of it. Eventually he'll find a way to do his part, he's too proud not to, but for now he's going to try to keep to himself, enjoy what the kitchen has to offer and be generally squirrelly, hanging out in the jungle, using the Compound mostly at night other than meal times, and squatting in an abandoned hut for a couple weeks until he decides it's okay to actually ask for one officially. I love him so much, even if he makes me facepalm a lot, which is better than flat out horrifying me all the time, I guess.
In the meanwhile, for the first couple months at least, I'm mostly going to be EPing him, because it's pretty much guaranteed that his narration is going to involve a) child abuse, b) murder, c) him thinking about hurting your pup, d) him thinking sexually about your pup and not just in the checking her out way, or e) all of the above, which… like, he's not a bad guy, he's a good kid, if fucked up, but his imagination is violent and sometimes his obsession with sex is, too, or at least forceful, and I don't want to just throw that on unsuspecting people, because I never know who that's a trigger for, so I want to hold back until I have a better idea who'd rather not deal with him. It's very rare he actually acts on any of these impulses; in fact, the one time in canon he actually strikes anyone, he doesn't think about it - it just happens. Him thinking about these things, these fantasies, isn't about actually wanting to do anything so much as it is about the illusion of self-confidence, strength, control, things he either doesn't possess or doesn't think he does, and which he's been taught by example only exist in violence and anger, though I don't think he's sure he agrees. tl;dr, it's all in his head.
UPCOMING: EVERYTHING. I have two EPs planned off the top of my head and several item options I can't decide between, all of which I'll be holding off on for a long while anyway.