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sodaliteskull · 5 days ago

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Monday M'Update 6ix

Kinda took a little break from writing during the first part of the month due to things beyond my control, BUT! ☝️ it was my best friend's birthday on Saturday, so after we got back from hiking, we had a writing slumber party where we both managed to finish a story each, so we've just got two left, baby!

(lol the temperatures maxed out at around 10 Celsius, so it was positively balmy for this time of year)

To Marenkes! - went from 3119 to 8428 words

The Islanders Go To School… At HOGWARTS! - went from 10,627 to 20,381 words

We've split the last two stories between the both of us again, so the hope is still to get those done by the end of the month. lol I'm going to have to get more aggressive with guarding my free time from those who would encroach upon it in the coming days, because I am at my limit with having to clean up other people's messes!

#writing update #writing progress #writing #writers on tumblr #writeblr update #siocupdate.ini #my co-writer finished the hogwarts story but she had me running research for it because we both forgot so much of what happened in HP #and it really threw into perspective how shoddy a lot of the worldbuilding in that series is!#so many plot elements were created for the purpose of fixing a single problem #but it was clear that when she was coming up with the thing that she wasn't thinking about how it would affect the setting as a whole #like the fucking time turners?!?! literally invented a method of time travel so that harry could save his uncle #but didn't consider how time travel could fuck with so much of what she'd already established #so she had the means of time travel destroyed like two books later!?!#or the pottermore thing where wizards would magic their shit away before the introduction of the toilet #which was apparently a more recent introduction to the wizarding world #BUT THEN WHY WAS THERE A PLUMBING SYSTEM BUILT INTO THE SCHOOL A THOUSAND YEARS AGO BIG ENOUGH FOR A FUCK-OFF HUGE SNAKE TO USE!?!?#I never paid attention to this shit when the books first dropped because I was so caught up in the fandom experience of it all #but coming back to look at the series with a more critical eye reveals nothing but the cracks!#like I remember at the time thinking there was going to be some point as to why the wizarding world was at turn of the century tech #while the rest of the world was literally in the 1990's #some statement about this being a representation of how out of touch with reality the wizarding world had become #but nothing of the sort!#and listen I am a rule-of-cool girlie at heart but only if something can logically tie into the plot or setting somehow!#but its become clear that jowling kowling rowling was not taking that kind of thing into consideration #if nothing else the HP series is a great example of what not to do when writing your own stuff (even outside of her IRL social blunders)#LOL ANYWAY ranting over I gotta go to work now!#(growing up had us moving away from the series before JKR showed herself to be such a shitheel)#(we finished this story for the sake of completion of our own stuff)

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