I have got to stop putting myself through this kind of stress

Oh thank fucking god.

Done.

So utterly done.

And after I finished the expansion, I even went back and read through the whole damn story as I coded italics and such-like, and made a few tweaks to flow and phrasing and the progression of the emotional arc.

So yeah.

Done.

...

Now I get to catch five hours of sleep before I go to church for the year-end class party. That should be interesting.

[Meme] the color of my rainbow; also, Stories of the Sacred class party

Baaah, am sheep. :-) Found via snaegl:

Your rainbow is shaded violet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is says about you: You are a creative person. You appreciate beauty and craftsmanship. You are patient and will keep trying to understand something until you've mastered it.

Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.

Not terribly inaccurate, though patience is a quality I have attempted to cultivate through long and frustrating work, rather than one I was born possessing.

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The class party went fairly well. We had four kids and all four teachers (at least part of the time; Joanna went home early). We began with popcorn and apple juice -- the popcorn was drizzled with olive oil rather than butter (for vegan sensitivity) and lightly salted. Also, it's gluten-free so our kid with gluten allergies can eat it.

After that, the kids decamped to the floor to play Othello and Don't Spill the Beans, and to fool around with mismatched Legos. It was remarkably non-stressful. :-)

Remix Redux 8 stories are live!

The Remix Redux 8 archive is open!

The stories are anonymous for a week, so I cannot point you to the one I wrote. Also, I was at work when the archive opened and I did not get home until almost 10pm, so I have not had time to read anything beyond the remix written from one of my own stories.

And that remix is amazing.

Someone (I have what is probably a hilariously wrong guess as to who) took Compatibility, my story about Team 8 and the history of the Aburame clan, and remixed it into:

Some Unseen Place on the Opposite Side (An Incompatible Remix) [ETA: by hungrytiger11], which puts my story into the larger context of the prices all ninja clans pay for their talents, and is a lovely Hinata character piece as well. Or, as the summary says, "When someone marries into the Hyuuga, Hinata learns to make the seal. A daughter of the clan defends her own. Team Eight, Hyuuga-centric gen."

It is quiet, and moving, and utterly gorgeous, and I am in love.

*reads the story a third time*

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ETA: Okay. I cannot, as I said, point you to the story I have been despairing over these past two weeks. But if you guess which story I wrote (and tell me before the author reveal next week), I will write a ficlet to a prompt of your choice. :-)

I feel that my story has my narrative voice and pacing and paragraphing quirks and so on all over it, plus I only write for a limited number of the fandoms in this year's Remix archive, so theoretically it should not be too hard to guess?