#I'll take my wins where i can

[darkmothsy]

My sister moved out and my husband got us a new couch!!

Things will finally be clean soon because she's not here to fuck everything up. I can have a daily schedule again! Though today I'm taking a break. Cause holy fuck. Life.

[bi-law]

not to get all sappy. but i had a terrible workout and i was already feeling kinda gross about my body and i took this and instantly felt like 10x hotter. it's surreal to see myself and feel /better/ about myself, instead of worse. so help me i will destroy the dysmorphia demon.

[phoenixyfriend]

I don't love capitalism. This is known.

But every time I think about the company doing High Speed Rail along a specific set of Florida cities, I do feel respect.

Like yeah. That WAS a good choice. Go you.

[ekko]

ekko's time travel and z-drive is portrayed really inconsistently across league media, which is fine because it's just consequence of different writing teams. and half of the joy of writing league of legends is having the freedom to pick and choose what interpretations you like best! so a brief compilation of my thoughts and all notes of my specific portrayal of ekko.

i don't like that ekko only got his hands on the z-drive in season two. i was originally under the impression that he had it in season one, as the way the fight between him and jinx appeared to be portraying that ekko had gotten shot by her (artistically being censored with them play fighting as children), and then ekko reversing time in order to out maneuver her. ekko has his z-drive far before any event similar to arcane season two.

ekko originally released with a comic called chronobreak, in which ekko discovers the corpse of his friend named ajuna and tries over and over to rewind time to prevent his death. in this comic, we can infer that ekko's z-drive has the capacity to go backwards in time to upwards of five minutes. he tries multiple different routes, but is only ever able to find ajuna a minute before he passes. in one timeline, he murders the piltie who killed ajuna, but ultimately chooses to rewind time and spend ajuna's final moments holding him and saying goodbye. (my mobile banner is ajuna's goggles from the comic! which ekko chose to keep. he has similar keepsakes of jinx and vi as well, i think.)

^ both of these scenarios are really important to my ekko, i think! they're really well done. as such, my interpretation of ekko can go backwards up to seven minutes at a time (it has since improved since the ajuna incident), but the reliability of such is faulty. he can only safely and consistently go back for a minute, and he tries not to go further if he doesn't have to.

ekko cannot healthily cope with grief. he has not properly mourned the loss of powder, or vi, or ajuna, or anyone he's lost. he tirelessly works on the z-drive because he believes that one day he will be able to turn back time far enough to prevent what happened to powder, to save ajuna from death. he refuses to grieve them.

i was waiting for arcane to wrap up because i thought they might reveal ekko's real name, since they stated in ekko's original champion AMA that ekko is not his real name and instead an alias given to him by his friends. they didn't reveal it, obviously, so i'm taking the liberty of doing it myself. i saw one singular person on reddit speculating that the "tuff tuff" jinx writes in the arcane artbook and on ekko's jacket might allude to his real name as a nickname, and i think that's cute! ekko's real name is teffis. the only people who would be aware of this are jinx and vi. his mother also affectionately refers to him as tuff or tuft. ekko is horribly embarrassed.

i don't think i've stated it anywhere, but my ekko is also trans! he's also post-op, thanks to a shady undercity doctor. he has some gnarly scars for it. teffis is not his deadname, but the name he chose for himself as a young boy.

[malicemismanager]

I actually had to put on a cardigan autumn has finally arrived 🥹🥹🥹

[sodaliteskull]

M'Update Five

Guess who got fukkin FOOD POISONING!!!!

Honestly that is on par for the kind of December I've been having behind the scenes, so I'm REALLY hoping 2025 is gonna be kinder!

lol as of posting this, there's still around fourteen hours left in this year for me, so there's still time for this December to throw some other awful fucking thing in my path!

ANYWAY! Doom and gloom aside, while I didn't manage to complete every story left in the editing process, I did manage to finish all the ones that started as just random threads on the forum, rather than ones that were intended to be stories from the start, so that's not nothing!

Ivanova's Diary - Excerpt 4 - written to provide context, 2355 words

Syrenna's Herstory - lost story found, 763 words

Lookie lookie p3 A - renamed to Another Hunt, 3656 words

Hurrah! The end is nigh! p2 B - renamed to Reap What You Sow, 6860 words

Lookie lookie p3 B - renamed to The Islanders In Paris, 7064 words

Final count, tentatively, for Silent Island of Crow stories is looking like it's going to be 174. This very well may change, because the above story, Syrenna's Herstory, was found by my co-writer in an old binder she has jam packed with stuff about this whole shared universe of ours, and she found a handful of other stories and story ideas that were either partially written or just brainstormed, so she's in the middle of going over those to see what she's going to leave on the old Island, and what she's going to bring to the new one.

Alas, she's also been having a nightmare of a December, so she hasn't been able to do much of anything beyond dealing with crises as they arrive, so the main story that she's been trying to finish isn't going to be done by the time the clock strikes midnight.

But I'm gonna try being hopeful for the new year, despite all of the everything going on. I've got the first three days of the new year off, so I can definitely bang some writing out in that time. Loved ones are home from emergencies and bouncing back faster than I hoped, I've stopped expelling the entire contents of my digestive tract from both ends, and I've politely declined party invitations from everyone who I don't want to see, so here's hoping for some goddamn peace and quiet!

[nebulousfishgills]

Reading Emily's saga from HTM to Necrosis (plus Instinct and finishing with Shades of Blue) to @bowersbubbles has been a very rewarding experience, getting real time feedback while I make her laugh, lose her shit, and cry while I swallow mucus by the mouthful since my nose has Issues.

Apologies to my much beloved roommate for having to vaguely hear me reading out loud into the 1 or even 2 AM.

[iniziare]

Re-tag drop: Yelan

[graviconscientia]

I really should start sending letters again. I write them, but never send them...

The last person to get a letter from me was Darkleer, but that was more of a to-do list. Not particularly romantic, is it?

[hwanghyunjinenthusiast]

Oh, so your girl is taking a gap year next year

[hydrodragons]

I GOT THIS RELIC WHICH ALLOWS ME TO SWITCH TO A CRIT DMG BODY PIECE FOR DAN HENG AND NOW HE HAS A BETTER CRIT RATIO RAHHHHHH

[charlotte-of-wales]

just want the world to know that today the waitress at this restaurant we went too was shocked for a moment to find out I was a foreign after I spoke a bit of italian to her

[scribbledquillz]

I feel like making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at 8:45 am with a fork because you've run out of clean butter knives and haven't had time to get to the dishes while drinking an iced coffee made from the half pot you never had a chance to drink yesterday is peak tired mom aesthetic, but that might be just me

[blaidd-gwyn]

Win: I did some writing today!

Fail: it wasn't anything I had any intention of writing but now I have half a crack drabble

[beccabloo]

I'm working on another Rookanis piece and I'm feeling slightly feral over how good I drew Lucanis' face.

Now if only Eruwen would behave, I could actually get it in to clean up!

[sleepy-hyperfixations]

did you know you could be allergic to flea bites?