#i'm working on revising some writing today in the meantime

[gumpistol]

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[lantur]

good things,

I had a three-day weekend!! Saturday was a very chill day doing board games with Derek, and we watched Taylor Tomlinson's newest Netflix special at night. I love her work so much - both her second and third specials literally bought tears to my eyes at times because I related so much to her material.

I had a fun day with my friend Laura yesterday. We went to the gym and I was her personal trainer as I guided her through my upper body strength routine. :) Afterward, we came back to my place and had a homemade brunch party. Laura made an egg bake, and I made chicken and waffles. Tip for chicken and waffles: use the Red Lobster cheddar bay biscuit mix in your waffle maker. The results are 🔥 !!! Afterward, we watched The Newsroom. :)

It felt SO good to be off today after how challenging last week was with the conference. I had a good run this morning, and I'm so happy that I finally had time today to sit down and write my personal statement for my MSW program application. I've wanted to do that for the past two weekends, but they were both too busy. I'm so relieved that I have that done. I just need to make some minor revisions, and then I'll be good to go! I'm so excited to start this program. I wish I didn't have to wait until September. :(

I read an article online yesterday about how people are hanging out with one another irl less, and the various reasons for that. Part of the article talked about how important it is to maintain social health and fitness, like physical health. It got me thinking about all the hugs I've been fortunate enough to share with my friends over the last weeks, months, years. Hugs hello when we see each other for the first time in a week or two at our houses, or hugs hello when we see each other for the first time in months (or years!) at the airport or at the train station, or hugs goodbye until we see each other again next week, or hugs goodbye until we see each other again in months, or maybe next year, knowing we'll talk every week in the meantime.

I think that life is nothing without love, and I'm grateful for all the ways that love shows up every day and every week. Brushing Westin every morning while he purrs, and brushing my teeth next to Derek at night, and FaceTimes and calls and in person hangouts with my friends.

[rosietrace]

Coughs awkwardly in announcement

So uhhhhh

To the people who went to my masterlist, you've probably noticed that all my AUs (excluding the remastered Addams family AU) have been crossed out and listed into ‘Old shit’

➜ More under the cut!

To my older AUs, I'm very sorry to say that I'm discontinuing them until a possible revision

And for the gamers that have grown attached to melodic misconceptions...

Yeah, sorry to say this but, it's discontinued too.

A lot of the reasons I've discontinued these AUs is because of certain decisions made within the writing that I just- Didn't like as much anymore. Especially in MM's case, since..... 💀

Not sorry to say that I'm never dabbling in oc x reader again. The romance aspect of MM is very clearly unimportant, and just plain weird to me now 😭

The following is more or less gonna be me talking about MM so.,,,,

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Melodic Misconceptions writing decisions that just.... Didn't age well at all

➜ The romance

THE ROMANCE IS SUCH A HUGE CAN OF WORMS, HOLY SHIT 😭 I'm so sorry I ever did this to Vic because an ‘x reader’ romance was not something she was planned for

To the people that liked the romance, I apologize because it just.... Didn't work for me as the series went on 💀

➜ Vil's characterization

Oh my lord. Oh my fucking lord.

As a Vil stan that has redeemed themselves, rereading what's left of MM is such a travesty with the way this man was written 😭😭 like how the hell did I do him so WRONG?;!::?;?

➜ Koral ‘Can you leave now’ Larrane

I was today years old to realize that Koral didn't fit the narrative whatsoever outside of being a foil to Ellis, and the series' personal punching bag 🤓

The only thing I really liked about the Koral plotline was that she was a foil to Ellis, no lie there 😭 I'm thinking of scrapping her altogether

➜ Shin and Runako

Sakura, please don't be offended when I say this, but.... Shin and Runako just- Didn't work with the narrative

Runako was only really relevant to Y/N and helping in developing the very shitty romance

And Shin is just..... A bit too personal to Chizuko? Like you can take him out of the story, and nothing would really change (yes I know that you suggested him being connected to Koral, but narratively speaking, I just didn't like it, I hope you can understand that 🙏)

I know I promised to make them have their time to shine in the series at some point, but now with MM being discontinued, I feel bad that as much as I don't like it, Runako and Shin won't have their time to shine anytime soon 😭 I can't word for the life of me FUCKKK

And.... I think that's it? From the top of my head, those are the only writing decisions that didn't age well in MM (at least imo)

I will be making a revised version of the series, so stay tuned for that! But in the meantime, thank you for supporting Melodic Misconceptions despite how messy it became 😭💔

[tgrzrk]

So I've been (unsuccessfully) searching for a job and in the meantime decided to try selling some of my written pieces to make a little money until I find something more stable. I still live at home and want to contribute to the house payments. I text my mom today to let her know after she sent me another ad for a job I've applied to a hundred times.

I spent the day thinking over how I could revise and improve some of my old work that I wrote in high school, but didn't actually start on anything yet. After dinner we (my mom, sister, and I) sitting in the living room and out of nowhere with this nasty, almost mocking attitude my mom asks: "How many pieces did you sell today?"

Dumbfounded I simply said "What?"

To which my mother's response was "What did you sell?"

I told her I hadn't sold anything yet because that isn't how writing works and she just dropped the subject and acted like nothing was wrong with what just happened.

What happened wouldn't hurt so much if it weren't for the fact that my younger sister has always wanted to be an artist and has received unyielding support from both family and strangers who my parents gladly show her pieces to.

She has already picked out a school and is practically a shoe-in to be selected. After I graduated, all I wanted to do was take a year off to figure out what I wanted to do with my life, but was instead guilted into medical assistant school. Now I have to pay back student loans on a degree I didn't even want and my sis gets to go have her talents doted on at college.

On top of that my mom just said to me that I'm totally allowed to write if I want but I have to get a "real job" and write on the side. So, apparently my sister gets to go live her dream and go to art school while I'm stuck in a shitty 9-5 job that'll just deepen my depression.

Why is it that my mom has this unfounded belief that my sister is going to be the world's greatest artist, but I have to sit down, shut up, and get a "real job"?

It's not that I don't support my sis, it's more that I'm sick of my own aspirations being pushed aside so I can be forced into a dead end job to pay off my student loans and help pay for her art school.

TL;DR my mom supports my sister wanting being an artist, but not my being an author and it's bull