yuletiding and teatiding
Yuleteading? Whatever. Anyway, it's a bit less than a day and a half to the deadline OMG and I wish all of you still working on your Yuletide stories lots of words, in the correct order, coming swiftly from brain to fingers. And if you're having trouble...try drinking tea? :-) (That's my lame attempt at connecting two mostly-unconnected subjects!)
My Yuletide so far:
Assignment: done and posted
PH #1: done and posted
PH #2: within 500 words of being done? I hope? Beta-reader lined up.
Treat #1: outlined, 2 scenes written
Treat #2: thought about? vague idea?
Beta reading: 3 stories beta-read, one in process, one lined up next.
In addition to this, I'm usually hippoing in the YT discord for a couple of hours in my mornings and a couple more in the afternoons. Tagmod duties have been slight after the big work of tagset research/approval, but I've been helping out with the pinch hit spreadsheet here and there. Of course, once the deadline passes there will be story checking, whee.
Other writing/exchanges:
I decided to pass on
past_imperfect but I have a few requests saved for possible treats.
chocolateboxcomm is coming up, and I plan to nominate and sign up for that one. I have not touched my Witcher WIP in, ugh, too long but I really want to finish it because I have way too many words invested.
But what's this about tea?
I drink a lot of tea! And also, I participated in Drinkswap for the first time this year, and so I now have a bunch of small packets of David's Tea which I've been working my way through.
Also, I have started playing with my own blends. Part of this is because
krait sends out some home-blended tea each year and that has inspired me; part of this is because the local fancy tea shop is 1) ludicrous expensive and 2) uses flavoring, which admittedly pumps up the flavor, but also, I think I want to go more subtle; and part of this is because
yhlee sent me some really yummy tea which I think I want to try to duplicate.
So I've been making sort of random blends and drinking them and assessing them, and thinking that if I hit on something really good I will send it out to people to try. Right now it's sort of brute force "I like these things and maybe they make good tea!" Some of the things I've been putting in my tea (I've got Darjeeling black, Gunpowder green, and honeybush as bases):
tl;dr
How are you doing on Yuletide, or other fanwork exchanges? And what flavors do you like in your tea?
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My Yuletide so far:
Assignment: done and posted
PH #1: done and posted
PH #2: within 500 words of being done? I hope? Beta-reader lined up.
Treat #1: outlined, 2 scenes written
Treat #2: thought about? vague idea?
Beta reading: 3 stories beta-read, one in process, one lined up next.
In addition to this, I'm usually hippoing in the YT discord for a couple of hours in my mornings and a couple more in the afternoons. Tagmod duties have been slight after the big work of tagset research/approval, but I've been helping out with the pinch hit spreadsheet here and there. Of course, once the deadline passes there will be story checking, whee.
Other writing/exchanges:
I decided to pass on
past_imperfect but I have a few requests saved for possible treats.
chocolateboxcomm is coming up, and I plan to nominate and sign up for that one. I have not touched my Witcher WIP in, ugh, too long but I really want to finish it because I have way too many words invested.
But what's this about tea?
I drink a lot of tea! And also, I participated in Drinkswap for the first time this year, and so I now have a bunch of small packets of David's Tea which I've been working my way through.
Also, I have started playing with my own blends. Part of this is because
krait sends out some home-blended tea each year and that has inspired me; part of this is because the local fancy tea shop is 1) ludicrous expensive and 2) uses flavoring, which admittedly pumps up the flavor, but also, I think I want to go more subtle; and part of this is because
yhlee sent me some really yummy tea which I think I want to try to duplicate.
So I've been making sort of random blends and drinking them and assessing them, and thinking that if I hit on something really good I will send it out to people to try. Right now it's sort of brute force "I like these things and maybe they make good tea!" Some of the things I've been putting in my tea (I've got Darjeeling black, Gunpowder green, and honeybush as bases):
- cloves
- bits of cinnamon bark
- cardamom pods
- pieces of pecan (inspired by local fancy tea shop's "Pecan Pie Pu Erh")
- pieces of crystallized ginger (inspired by the maple brittle bits in a tea
yhlee sent - I don't sweeten tea but a little sweetness seems to be just the ticket) - lavender
- sage
tl;dr
How are you doing on Yuletide, or other fanwork exchanges? And what flavors do you like in your tea?
Crossposted from isis at Dreamwidth where there are
comments. | Comment at Dreamwidth