update 5/9/14

hello! so i haven't finished anything since my last post i still feel like i've accomplished some things.

mainstream au stuff first (if you wanna browse through the posts at your leisure you can go here.)

• i haven't worked on thg story in a while but that's because i've been working on a lot of other stuff. going by the way i told myself that i was gonna work on all my stuff i'm technically not supposed to worry about that for a really long time anyway so
• i haven't talked about my batman stuff here since i'd said that i had started over. i had made up my own arkham asylum story and stuff, but i have since realized that i'm gonna have to do some other stuff before i get to that, which means i'm writing a year one story and then something after and then the arkham asylum story. (here)
• along with that, some stuff about the batman character and how i plan on writing him when i finally get to it. (basically it's me being scared that i'm not portraying the mental space correctly) (here, here, and here.)
• i've been doing a lot of talking about stuff pertaining to captain america and the war stories i have in my au (something i've never brought up here, i think) and i think i might have finally parsed that out (finally!) (there are a lot of posts about this and related things in the tag but ones actually about the story are here, here, here, here, here, and here.) 
• i made up yet another new story, but this is really interesting b/c southern gothic x-men. come on guys. (here, 2 and 3 on this, here, here, here, here, and here.)
• i did some talking about spiderman in my au and how things are gonna go in spiderman 2, specifically, now that that movie is out. there are spoilers in some of these links, so be careful (here, here,and here.)
• prophs. oh, prophs. so with that, i've actually managed to write a whole new outline, which was much more in depth and actually listed what i need to cover in each chapter so i'm not just blindly stumbling around based off of a couple of descriptive words. i even managed to write another chapter. (posts about some cultural stuff here, here, and here, and some character stuff here.)
• i posted the prologue for the first potc story a while ago and never put a link here so you can read that here. sorry about that!

okay, now stuff in other aus:

• darkvengers: i went to my dad's house over easter and suddenly decided that i'd work on editing darkvengers, and man i got a lot of stuff done! i edited all the way to where i'd stopped at before (which is the attack on the helicarrier) and things are much more dynamic now. there's a lot of new meta in the tag, and you can read the prologue of the avengers here.
• coven and children of the night: i'm about four chapters into cotn!man of steel including the prologue (which you can read here). i'm incorporating arrow into this side of things and wrote some meta about laurel and oliver. coven, on the other hand, has a whole lot of meta and no writing done. i did manage to redo the graphics i had made when i started this au, and they're pretty slick (especially pepper's). links to important meta here: magic system re: witches, maya, skye (1)(2), loki, brief winter soldier talk(!), and grant and his coven. (spoiler warning on the second skye post and the grant post)
• lego story: i also did some heavy editing on lego story. i expanded the first chapter (which you can read here), and rewrote the last half of the second chapter. i'm still working on the third but i'll get there.
• red right hand: this one is brand new! there was a post that came across my dash and got me thinking; a month later it became full fledged Thing that i'd made multiple posts for. there's no actual prose but there's so much meta in the tag that i've almost written out the full story. (it's best to read that tag from back to front so there's some semblance of order.)

and that's what i've been up to. you can tell the school year was winding down because i actually did stuff. see you next time friends.

update 4/10/14

so it looks like it's time for me to tell you what I've been up to in the last month and a half. but honestly I have a lot of school stuff going on so it's not much. um, I finished dmc last month, which is probably the biggest thing since that's been sitting around since last fall. I haven't started on the next one or anything like that yet but I will be getting to it sometime soon (hopefully). If you follow me on tumblr (and you probably should be if you care about this at all) you know that I took harry potter out of my au a while ago, and while I am in the process of negotiating resurrecting it it seems likely to stay dead. my new the story has passed 22,000 words! the games part of the story has changed a lot since I got back to it and it's coming along nicely. prophs is waiting in the wings because I'm not sure how to proceed to get the ends that I want. fallout/skyrim (the new story I mentioned in my last update) has been changed yet again but these changes seem to be permanent. have I told you guys about the lego story? well that's a thing that I might be getting back to as well.

and I think that's everything that's happened. again, follow me on tumblr or twitter if you want to stay more up to date, i'm witabif on both.

oh my god

ooooooooh my god guys.

i haven't made a post in like three months or something and so much shit has happened. like, i quit nano like i'd said i would but i also took harry potter out of my au??? i completely threw out all the batman stuff out that i had and made up a new story??? i made up two new aus??? i came back to thg fic in december and am in the process in changing prophs again??? i made a new story in the mainstream??? i got straight a's???

a lot of stuff

update 11/13/13

just a few updates

• i'd started doing nano but i might drop because i have a lot of school work and i'm not in the state of mind to write a whole novel right now. i want to, but it deosn't seem feasible to do it in a month. i need to have the time inbewteen to do, you know, school work.
• i changed prophs again, almost completely this time, down to the names and everything. i even wrote myself a false wiki so i'd have the info i need to start it but nano came before i could keep on. i'll get back to that.
• for a story i haven't talked about in a while - i haven't finished dmc because i got stuck on starting an elizabeth chapter but i definitely plan on getting back to that sometime (soon if i drop nano)
• i haven't touched darkvengers in a while but that's alright because that's a background project. might get back to that when i have the time too.
• i started editing batman begins again. i know i just finished the other edit about a month or so ago but this is my detail run through, and from the looks it's probably going to take a bit.
• in non writing news: i've started american horror story? it's very good. i'm also watching agents of shield right now, which is very entertaining. 

v short but yeah. haven't been v productive since last time :/ school's gotta come first though

update 9/17/13

note: i think i'm doing chapter by chapter reviews of the ma of steel novelization on the other blog, so you can check that out if you want

updates!

• i started dead man's chest. i sat down one night after i had finished potc to finally watch on stranger tides (which was great, btw), and then i decided to watch dead man's chest as well, since the cable was out that day and i had nothing to do. right after i watched it i decided that i had to do it RIGHT THEN and started it, like, the next day or s/t. it's currently on hold because i got blocked, though i might pick it back up sometime soon
• i know i mentioned this on the other blog, but idk if i've ever said it here, but i'm rewriting an avengers fic i started this spring called darkvengers. it's a background project just like prophs is, but i've brought it into the forefront recently (it even has it's own tag on my tumblr) recently in the absence of dmc. it's based on the idea of taking a bunch of the chars in the mcu and taking them to ridiculous extremes, and then seeing how that affects the original story line, plus other things. though, since it's the avengers, you don't actually get to see all of the extremes (there are echoes of them in there though). maybe someday i'll write the iron man and thor and spiderman stories from that universe, but for now there's that.
• i've gone back to editing batman begins, partially because it needs it, and partially because the more i look, the more i realize that i'm gonna have to write the dark knight in full. that also means most of tdkr is on hold until i do and finish that, which won't be for a while because...
• nanowrimo is in a month, and i'm not starting a novelization of a christopher nolan movie the month before, so december, maybe. i'm doing my rewrite of sorcerer's stone for nano this year, and hopefully it will go better than my thg fic (though, if it's like curse of the black pearl, it might be under the length even if i finish it.)
• after reading the first chapter and a half of man of steel, i still think i write better than gary cox, but he's gotten better between the two books, and that's what really counts.

yay!

a teeny tiny thing

you know, i've never been a person to have high self-esteem, and i still don't, but i've noticed that i've been a bit into my own writing???

i've been reading stuff by gary cox, the guy who novelized the dark knight rises and man of steel, and just thinking, i write better than you. i've been doing this since last november and i write better than you. i made the same mistakes you did before i took that creative writing class. i write betTER THAN YOU. and like??? is that concieted? it feels like it because it comes from me, but maybe it's not. maybe i really am better than gary cox (at least a little bit). but i don't know for sure.

i think it's because there's a really weird disconnect between me and my writing sometimes? like, i mentioned this on my tumblr once, but i tend to look at my stuff as both the author and the audience, since i write mostly for myself. maybe i'm not better than gary cox, maybe y writing style is just super tailored to my own tastes.

though i'm pretty sure i'm better than gary cox. just saying.

speaking of, i reviewed the first chapter of the tdkr novelization on the other blog, so you can read that if you want. i wrote another blogpost yesterday too but i don't feel like linking to that b/c content. it's easy to find, don't worry.

things in old posts

do you know that i started modern warfare 3? like, for real this time. but i got to level 6? or so and i stopped because i didn't like the way it was making me feel.

 yeah i just found this and, like, this year or so i figured out that i have sensory processing disorder and that's why i have trouble watching call of duty and why i can't play it. basically the sounds of war could send me into a meltdown and that's not cool (and it almost happened during the time mentioned above). mw3 is particular because i don't actually like it that much so it just makes me anxious and stressy, unlike black ops, which i love so i can survive through it and feel a sense of fulfillment

• i want to see the dark knight rises again, because i want to watch the dark knight sometime soon and i'm afraid i won't want to see it again after that

yooooooo past!frankie what are you talking about. like... i don't even really know how to go about this because sequels being better isn't something that would put me off of a movie so like

I don’t want to be one of those people who deletes their account because they didn't get the house they wanted, so I think I’d be better to delete it before I get sorted, or get in at all. I know it seems dumb, but I like being a ravenclaw.

 hahahahahahahaha

i had a character that looked like Mark Whalberg, so i made one that looks like Matt Damon and went on with it. it wasn't until now that i noticed how weird that is, but then i noticed that i had the Matt Damon look alike married to a Vera Farmiga look alike.

fun story: both of these characters still exist and i totally forgot about this until i found this post. they're both so ingrained into the story that it doesn't even matter anymore. also eric (the matt damon) is married to emma, who looks like jennifer aniston...

73. i sometimes like to think that maybe snape put up a front for all those years
because maybe after a while he didn't really hate Harry, but he couldn't drop the facade because no one would never believe he’d have a change of heart after all those years.

...
no no no, like... how??? no

also in general, there are a lot of posts about how the chars in harry potter have been replacements to real friends and how much HP has affected me emotionally and like...
for the first i can't help but keep thinking how sad that is??? like i had no reason to not have friends except myself i just chose not to. the second is a bit harder because yes and no. like, HP has affected me emotionally but not in the way i phrased it before. in all it just made me a little more honest with myself re: my emotions

that's all for today. i've been on the other blog so you can go there if you want to read about feminism and batman or w/e