#I'm always really happy to talk about my work and about taxidermy in general

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I didn't know you did taxidermy! Would you have any of your work to show in that field? Very curious :)

I do! In fact I have some shots from my very first championship earlier this year! (I don't have a lot of photos around because Championship rules forbid posting any pictures of your competition pieces until after the judging, and I never really know what's going to turn out good enough to be a competition piece till later.)

This is Finnegan (idk I just like to give my pieces names and he felt like a Finnegan to me), a roadkill find that became my first competitive entry. He took third place in the Novice division! I made everything by hand except the eyes, sculpted the head form from scratch after making a plaster cast of the carcass.

And this is a little fella I couldn't come up with a good name for but Piebald Pirate Patrick seems nice and alliterative, who also got a third place in the Anthropomorphic division (a new division for Australia, so doubly exciting to me). His sword is made of a cocktail stick, and that treasure chest contains exactly 56 gold coins I made and painted by hand from Sculpey. He has a body form I carved from foam and bulked up in places with cotton and thread.

And here's one of the bases I'm working on! That darker area will be filled with translucent greenish-brown resin to better represent an Australian riverbank, and the bare clay areas will be dressed up with dead eucalyptus gum leaves and little pieces of dried grass here and there. Eventually, two rats will be positioned on the branch, peering into the water at a little fish. I can't wait to finish that, I think it's going to look great!

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2024 fic roundup!!!

got tagged (ish) by my beloveds @eybefioro and @captainblou and i'm just gonna do it here because i think i've already written more for poolverine than the ineffable husbands LMAOO

What fandoms do you write in?

deadpool & wolverine, previously good omens

How many words have you published in 2024?

78,557 words so far. 39,124 for good omens and 39,433 for deadpool & wolverine holy shit dude

What is your greatest achievement this year?

honestly just writing more. it's not something i ever did consistently before the end of last year and idk how i went my whole life without it tbh. i fucking love writing

What are your favourite top three fics you wrote this year?

transitional heart taxidermy—at risk of sounding like a broken record this fic means so much to me and it's also my first completed multi-chaptered fic so it was a great achievement. i still can't believe that it became what it did i have no idea how that happened. i have been wanting to write something like this (this relationship dynamic, at least) for a very long time and the thing about good omens is that it really presents you endless opportunities to do whatever you want. and so i did. and it was one of the best things i've ever done

to rome: a play—sonny, eybe, and blou, i will ALWAYS be so grateful to the three of you for always encouraging me in everything i did because without you all this fic would never have been made because i simply would never have wanted to write or thought of writing it otherwise. it's the most experimental thing i've ever done and honestly the most fun i've had writing a fic. from drawing the cover of it playbill-style to formatting the entire thing like a play to writing something happy for once 😭 it definitely did test my writing too because i don't write much fluff or dialogue and hey it worked out. i'm proud of it

sunday morning synesthetics—i just love this fic so much. idk i love writing about how things are like other things. how everything is connected and how everything reminds you of everything else, and how people can connect with each other without words. i love that i could have an opportunity to describe my favourite character in any way i wanted and through the eyes of someone else. i love writing from wade's perspective but more than that i love writing about how other people see him

What have you learned?

to write for myself fr. and adjacently to do everything in fandom for myself. who the fuck cares about notes or engagement or whatever who caresssss who cares. that's not the point of anything

What fic did you want to do but never made it off the ground?

oh all my good omens ideas :( the hanahaki fic, the house of leaves fic, the spooky bang fic that i abandoned KJHEFKJAHA well. maybe one day

Did you beta any fics?

i did!! do!! just for friends who have asked

What ideas are percolating for next year?

sooo many things... i have a gigantic poolverine longfic brewing and maybe i'll be able to pull it off. along with a thousand other ideas and more fandom events lmaoo

Who do you want to thank?

@crowleys-bentley-and-plants @eybefioro @captainblou you three will always always be some of the dearest friends i've made on here. i love u all so much and i'm so glad i baited two of you into talking to me by posting about how i wanted people to be my idea trampolines (and eybe who just dmed me to ask me about marvel comics) lmaoo. we all truly went together like 4 peas in a really weirdly big pod and i always have fun with u all. and also @seven-stars-in-his-palm for being so so generous with ur support and friendship i love u and i love ur mind. you all are what i miss most about the good omens fandom <3 i've also made so many other friends in both of these fandoms so just. thank u to all my mutuals ever

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