The Doormouse in the Teapot

Good Morninggg

A whole week has passed, so might as well do another one of these. So, lets list the things I've done.

I've entirely moved houses, somehow less stressful than I thought it was going to be. The new room is set up differently then my old one though, and I don't have any soundproofing here yet. I'm kinda hesitant to record anything now because of that, but I guess I could do the tried and true method of just moving to the closet to record. 

I really want to make something for Out of the Auditary. It's kind of perfect timing because I just read "The Construction of the Eighth Wall: Layered Realities in MCYT Storytelling" (It's an amazing essay, highly recommend) by iamsolarflare (who has a blanket permission statement!!!) and I was already thinking about podficing that one. Another idea I had for Out of the Auditary was to do something in the series "The Magnus Institute vs the 21st Century: a series of emails and IMs" because I remember really liking those fics. It's been a good while since I last read them, but the formatting is really fun. I think any of those fics would also lend themselves well to some fun sound design. 

I don't think I've mentioned this, but I have a goal this year to read one book and make one "good" art piece every month. This month's book will probably be System Collapse by Martha Wells. I've read the rest of the Murderbot Diaries and for some reason I've been stuck on this book for months, so I want to finish that. Hopefully this week if I can find the time for it. 

Today's Bannerfall streams were fun, some little lore drops. Also I offer this clip to the people. Owain is so aromantic coded (too me at least). I do find it interesting how I have somehow managed to miss every single plague lore scene. Ok I'm writing this while watching and Nom is trying to convince Scott to siege the Red Kingdom at this moment. Oh Nom's character is going off a deep end and I don't even think he knows it this time. 

I'll see if I can get a whole day ahead on school this week so I can have more time to work on personal projects. The last time I did that I ended up having one of my best weeks, so I want to see if I can make this a habit.

Might as well make a diary out of this while I learn more about the site.

I customized the journal theme a bit. It now matches my trademarked color pallet (black, purple, and green). I joined some communities for short fic writing. I don't write fanfic often really, I mean I've been working on my current one for... 4 months? At this point? And its under 3k words. I am a horribly slow writer lol. But hopefully having a prompt and the expectation for it to be short might help encourage me to write more.

The journal title is from Alice by The Mechanisms btw. It's my favorite Mechs long song and I did go by dormouse for a while, so it's only fitting.

I think I might use this to share my fanart & fanfics, because why not. Oh! and because I started making podfics too I could share those here as well.

okk done with Dreamwidth talk now for other things uhhh

I apparently have almost no work to do this week. It's actually quite helpful for the things I have planned. It'll also give me time to get the performance critique done because I am so behind on those (I should have 2 done by now, I only have half of 1. oops). I got tickets to an opera next month though, so hopefully I should catch up on those soon. (side note, I've never been to an opera before and have almost no knowledge of the medium, I am excited(?) to see how I go about writing a critique for that)

I'm also watching Katiegobrr's Bannerfall stream as I type this and OH MY GOD THE ANGST. I love joining in the middle of lore conversations. This is great. Someone please talk to me about Bannerfall omggg

Okk, that's it I think. Idk how often I'll do these entries, probably whenever I feel like it.