Wow, August 11th already?

1. Do you want to get married?

Yes? I always thought I would because I grew up surrounded by people who married young. I just assumed that it would happen easily and effortlessly for me, but obviously that didn't happen. Honestly, I'm glad that it didn't happen earlier because I have changed so much since my 20s and my mental health was not in a good place during many of those years. I could have so easily fallen into a bad relationship (if I put myself out there, which I didn't), and I was aware of it even then. I would still like to, but I've seen so many crappy marriages that I feel trepidation. Still, if the right person comes along...

2. Where would you like to get married?

Somewhere outside where there's trees and greenery. Places like that fill me with peace.

3. If you were getting married in a week, who would be in your wedding party?

Honestly, that is my biggest concern because I really don't know.

4. What would your wedding colours be?

Never thought of it.

5. Does marriage mean to you 'til death do us part?'

Generally yes, but not if it's detrimental to either partner. I don't want anyone to be stuck with jerks or abusers.

Wow, the song that's playing is oddly fitting. XD

Got this from musesfool

rules: give us the links to your fics with the most hits, most kudos, most comments, most bookmarks, most words, and least words.

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Okay, that was enlightening, and I was happily surprised with many of the results! I wasn't sure how it would make me feel about my writing, but surprisingly, it made me feel better about it. I still want to write more, though.

I just realized that I've had this journal for ten years now. The official anniversary was on July 22nd, but today is close enough. Let's hope that I continue posting even more in the next ten years!

The heat has been really getting to me. It's pretty hard to concentrate, and I just feel scattered overall. It feels like time is going by really fast, and I'm not able to accomplish as much as I would like. We don't have AC, and it really sucks! Earlier in the summer, I was house-sitting for my aunt who does have AC, but since then, I've been trying to cope without it.

One of the things I have accomplished is finishing my assignment for seasonsofdrabbles. I am pretty pleased with it, and more than that, I am happy to be writing again. I love writing drabbles for their minuteness and the need to make every word count. In that way, they remind me of poetry. I hope to write some treats as well if I can get my mind to cooperate. I am really excited! :D

Also, I still need to finish Good Omens.

I finally went to see the Barbie movie yesterday. Overall, I enjoyed it. I was expecting something like Life-Size or Disney's Enchanted,and that's basically what we got--except even more meta and existential. I had read that was what it would be like, but I still wasn't ready for it! I'd really like to see more of Greta Gerwig's work now since I also enjoyed her version of Little Women (Which is actually the only version of Little Women that I am familiar with in any medium).

I also absolutely loved the soundtrack. I was listening to the songs before the movie came out and will continue doing so now that I've seen it. I could list my favorites, but I would probably list half of the songs in the process. I may make a post about it later.

The movie was pretty quotable, too, and I plan to watch it again once it comes out on streaming! Allan was definitely my favorite and weird Barbie was fun too.

I don't really have anything else to say about it for now. In the meantime, check out these articles about the movie:

Queer Easter eggs in the movie (spoilers)

It is not an explicitly queer film, but the Barbie movie does have quite a few queer references.

The discontinued dolls in the Barbie movie

As the link says, this is an article about the various discontinued and controversial dolls featured in the movie. I knew about Earring Magic Ken and pregnant Midge, but I had no idea about the history of the others.

I signed up for seasonsofdrabbles. Wish me luck!

torachan has been doing this for a while so I thought I'd give it a try as well. This song has been popping up on my Spotify a lot, and it's so catchy and fun! It's from the upcoming Barbie movie.

I realize now how seemingly ominous it is to post about getting Covid and then stop posting for a year. Even if my last post was about getting better, anything could have happened. The good news is that we all survived Covid, but...

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I'm much better now, but it was a real struggle getting through last year. I stopped doing a lot of things (like visiting DW), but that wasn't good for me in the long run. I'm back because I missed this place and am unhappy about what is going on with Twitter and Reddit these days. At any rate, I am glad to be back and will have a happier post soon because some good things did actually happen to me since my last post, but I want to save them for their own entry.

What did I miss?

My mom has Covid. She's a few days shy of 65, but she is vaccinated and boosted. She will probably be okay, but my grandma and I have also been exposed now. My birthday is on Monday next week; this is the worst birthday gift I've ever received!

In other news, I did sign up for getyourwordsout. Anyone else? Wish me luck!

I realize there is a bit of mood whiplash between these two announcements, but I wasn't sure how else to put it and wanted to end on a lighter note.

Resurfacing for the annual snowflake_challenge!

Challenge #2

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Hm, let me see.... I have a lot I would like to accomplish in theory, but I don't want to overwhelm myself and set myself up for failure. I tend to view my goals as all or nothing, which isn't the best. Maybe that should be my first goal?

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That seems like enough for now. I can add more later if I feel like it. A lot of these echo my goals from last year, but I hope I can have better luck with them this time around. I *did* manage to socialize more last year, but most of it wasn't on DW. I also feel like I am in a better headspace this year, which bodes well.

Challenge #15
In your own space, Talk about Your Snowflake Experience. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable
doing so.

I'm glad that I participated in the challenge again because it helped give me inspiration to post regularly on DW after a long hiatus. I got to talk to new fannish people (I really put effort into it this time) and learned about others. Although I had many other things on my mind during January, I'm happy that I carved out enough time to do as many challenges as I did. My favorite challenge was reviving old memes. ^^; I can't remember when I last did snowflake_challenge, but I think it was back when challenges were every day? It is somewhere in my archives... Anyway, the pace of every other day kept me from feeling overwhelmed. When did the schedule change? I swear that there used to be challenges every day, but I can look it up later.

I really needed it this year. Not only did I want to post more, but I also have felt pretty lonely during the pandemic. Before the pandemic, I had grad classes to attend that gave me the chance to get out and be around people. I'm still finishing up my MA and taking Zoom classes, but it's not the same. Without them, the people I talk to on a regular basis are my older family members whose politics drive me up the wall. While I'm trying to get to know my classmates also, this gave me an opportunity for some much needed fannish interaction. I want to get back into fandom and start writing again, and this challenge offered a nice start to those goals. The world has felt increasingly scary and out of control over the past year, and I'm grateful that snowflake_challenge is still around to provide some feeling of normalcy.

I may go back and do some of the earlier challenges that I skipped, but we'll see.