you know your life is exciting when being able to drink Coke again is the highlight of your weekend

Yesterday I was scheduled to work 9am-5pm, but it was so slow that PB and I got every task that requires two people done before 3:30pm (*gasp! shock!*) and I clocked out at 3:45pm. Then I went home and slept for two hours because of cold recovery issues, and also because I had tickets to a concert that evening. Said concert was put on at my church by NYS Baroque, and consisted of a bunch of French Baroque music played on period instruments. It was excellent music excellently performed, though I suspect I would've enjoyed it a bit more if my head hadn't still felt as if it were stuffed with cotton balls. :-/ Ah well, such is life.

In other cold-related news, I continue to improve! I was able to actually sleep through the night last night, instead of waking every hour or two with a hideously dried-out mouth (because of inability to breathe through my nose). Today I was able to drink Coca-Cola again! And I have been writing!

I looked at part 19 of "Lemonade" and made the executive decision that I do not care if detailing the translation spell and its effects is a delay and a derailment of the plot, because screw it, that's what I want to write about and trying to cut that out and segue into other stuff is probably the main reason I stalled out for so long. So I have retitled the section in acknowledgement of its total self-indulgence and have been merrily poking away at that this afternoon. It is currently at 1,450 words, just into Sasuke's POV section. This means it'll probably be on the shorter end of the average chapter length, but what the hell, it will be a chapter.

Also it will have world-building and exposition, because what's the point of a translation spell if you don't take the chance to actually explain some things? So yeah.

Hopefully I will have that up later tonight. :-)

[Fic] "Lemonade" chapter 19 - BtVS/Gundam Wing/Naruto

Yeah, I fail beyond belief at timely updates. In other news, water is wet. (2,175 words)

( Lemonade, Part XIX )

As always, if you have any criticism or suggestions, I am all ears! I wrote the first half of this about a year ago, then decided the details of the translation spell were holding up the story and tried to start over, only to decide today that that was a stupid choice and go back to finish the chapter I'd originally started instead of the alternate version I tried to force myself to write. So this is a weird combination of written so long ago I'm out of touch with it and written so recently I have no perspective on it.

Also the blue teakettle mantis demons are a little tricky to write. I have a file of world-building about them which I can post if anyone is interested, but mostly I'd like to know if I'm getting enough description in for you to have a reasonable picture of what they look and sound like, or if I need to backtrack and spend a few more paragraphs talking about them.

(Tangentially, does anybody know if Sasuke's name actually means anything in Japanese? This is vaguely relevant to how the translation spell works, and the coincidence of Faith and Duo both having names that are actual English words.)