Ok, Shen Wei! Ready to learn how to email?

[clevermanka]

Guardian/adjacent:
Fanart: A comic based on frith_in_thorns  fic! Iconic show moments, illustrated. The lines and coloring in this are so soft. Tiny Weilan with big ears is giving me life. Chibi snuggles.
Mmm, yes, badass Shen Wei.
Bai Yu Lip Alert.
Singer-songwriter!Zhu Yilong pic spam thread.

Untamed/adjacent:
d-y-i-n-g
A thread about Fatal Journey which I haven't seen yet--any tips on where I can watch it w/o a subscription service? 

Guess it was just a dry spell on Twitter bc my timeline yesterday and this morning were packed, as you can see. 

I went outside yesterday, not far, just to the sidewalk in front of the house, and it felt wrong. Not illegal wrong, but unsettling in a very personal and internal way. I didn't care for it at all. Which means I need to go on a walk today. I've stayed nearly 100% indoors since the 15th and while I don't consciously mind it at all, my psyche is obviously building some things in there that I don't care for. So I guess I gotta venture outdoors. If it wasn't raining, I'd go right now since it's unlikely that many others will be out for their constitutionals at 7:30am.

Did I mention my county is under Stay At Home orders until April 23? Did I mention that apparently the cops can stop you if they think you're not running an essential errand? The fact that they can't demand ID/papers (yet) is hardly comforting. I get the idea, okay, Americans Humans American Humans are fucking idiots, but fuck the police, y'all. I don't trust slippery slopes at all. ETA: I'm extra thrilled to be able to tell SOMEONE that he had bad information on this. \o/

Posted the second to last chapter of Ghost Story this morning. Ahhhhhh! I'm behind in writing the DVD commentary, which I'd like to post sometime the week after the final chapter. So many things to write! Today I might finish the car wash outfit porn. Which has a title lurking in my brain somewhere--hope it pops up sooner rather than later. And I finally figured out the logistics of how I want to write the rest of Deconstruction, which is a great relief. I hadn't touched it since the 22nd and that was making me sad.

I'm having a difficult time finding escape in reading right now. I just can't immerse myself in a fic, especially short ones. Very frustrating. I worry that my brain is becoming too overwhelmed by The State of the World and Current Circumstances. I was able to do it with All-Consuming, so I hope it's just I need something long to really sink into. Very much looking forward to binging Carte Blanche.

Okay, well, I have hot tea and a cat next to me on the couch so I guess it's time to start writing something.

Comments

[glymr]

Walking outside feels so strange, now! We're used to going for walks almost every day, it's just part of our lives. But now we're constantly worried about seeing other people. We choose places where we know we have space to separate ourselves if necessary: a street we can cross to the other side, or a park with wide fields where we can see people at a distance instead of a narrow sidewalk or trail. I get tense when I see anyone, will they approach? Where's my exit if they do?

I HATE it.

I read the first chapter of Ghost Story, then decided to wait until it's finished to read it all at once. I'm really looking forward to it! I agree about not it being hard to immerse myself in fic right now, though. I keep getting distracted and checking Twitter. Maybe I should just put the fics on my kindle...

*hugs* I can't wait for your carwash porn. That's about the level my brain can handle right now, I think! XD;

[clevermanka]

I get tense when I see anyone, will they approach? Where's my exit if they do?
This is not a normal or healthy state for humans and I hope there will be adequate and appropriate resources available for people to recover when we get through this. Who am I kidding, though...

[glymr]

This is not a normal or healthy state for humans

It's really, really not. And the longer it goes on, the more deeply it's going to affect us. And right now it looks like it's going to go on for a really long time. ;_;

*sighs* Wouldn't that be nice? I'm not holding my breath, though.