#so weird weekly

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Weekly Roundup (2/10/25)

Fanfiction:  So Weird: Annie, Kevin, & Lisa Thelan

Graphics:  Star Trek TNG: Alexander Rozhenko & Deanna Troi Star Trek DS9: Dukat & Tora Ziyal Star Trek The Final Frontier: Spock & Sybok The Good Place: Chidi, Ellen, & Michael Star Trek Prodigy: Dal E’El & Kathryn Janeway Star Trek: James Kirk & Janice Rand The Way Home: Colton Landry & Deliah Watson Star Trek DS9: Odo & Worf Star Trek Picard: Beverly Crusher & Jack Crusher The Way Home: Alice Dhawan & Evelyn Goodwin

[levemetal]

I got Procreate and gave it a test run with some silly AU sketches of course

So have Calamity SJ adopting Hong‘er! Ft. my silly calamity MNQ AU and it’s inevitable conclusion of atticwife Jun Wu in the second pic because I am no longer in control here.

SY tried to be the cool uncle, unfortunately YQY is the cooler uncle so he got the Feng Xin treatment. Binghe about to start beef with a child lmfao.

Ling Wen is new heavenly emperor and I ensure you she is as overworked as ever, but she does not care about heavenly officials marrying calamities anymore. First was YQY, and then Jun Wu. Xie Lian and Shi Qingxuan are really not trendstarters here.

[mikimeiko]

The Expanse | Season 4 (2019), Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby

[theshriekingsisterhood]

Wow wow wow you guys WWDITS season 5 looks INSANE

[weekly-eons]

hiiii maple.. ok so like. i know i already asked something on the rotom blog and i do NOT want to overwhelm you however!!!

don't you think rika leafeon (??) would be kind of cool?

No worries! Always love any asks I get ^^

[zondearts]

additionally some oc stuff

[monkee-mobile]

EVERYONE REJOICE!!

once again it’s….

🎉 WEIRD GIRL WEDNEZDAY!!!!! 🎶🎺 🎊👏👏

always remember my friends that

SHE ⬆️

is WEIRD.

a weird girl.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Outdrawn

f/f contemporary romance

two cartoonist who’ve been rivals since uni, and now have competing webcomics online, have to work together on the relaunch of a cult classic at the comic press they both work at

they both struggle with art-related physical and mental health issues, and complicated families

[marc--chilton]

(mgv) house walking into the conference room with his pupils super dilated and foreman asks straight up if he's high. house just chirps, "nope! just caught a glimpse of wilson's ass before he covered it up with a coat." and goes to make coffee

the ducklings shake their heads or roll their eyes but when wilson comes in later for his own cup -- because whatever the diagnostics team does with their coffee is more palatable than anywhere else in the building -- they all try to get a glimpse out of sheer morbid curiosity. house snorts into his mug when he sees them all, which catches wilson's attention, but when he looks they are Very Aggressively Not Looking At Him. foreman and cameron at picking through case files (cameron is holding hers up to her face so her blush is hidden) and chase is staring Very Hard at his crossword.

then wilson shakes his head, goes, "actually, i don't wanna know" before he turns to house with a "see you at lunch?"

house purrs out that "it's a date" which just has wilson scoffing out a laugh on his way out

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Weekly Roundup (2/3/25)

Fanfiction:  So Weird: A Friend From Another Life

Graphics:  Star Trek Discovery: Adira Tal & Hugh Culver Star Trek Lower Decks:  D’Vana Tendi & Sam Rutherford Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Nog & Rom Star Trek Discovery: Hugh Culber & Sylvia Tilly Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Nog & Odo Star Trek Prodigy: Gwyndala & Jankom Pog Star Trek TNG: Deanna Troi & Jean-Luc Picard

[ettadunham]

i saw that smirk, melissa

[netflixofficial]

Finally getting into a routine for writing =) or at least as close to a routine as exists for anything in my life. Hoping it keeps working 🤞

[harvestmoth]

i still havent actually read most of arc 2

[pastafossa]

How do you get past writer's block? I have a fic that I'm working on that is updating on a schedule, and I made the mistake of giving myself a month off in between parts and now I can't really get back into writing it. I don't want to leave it abandoned because I have a few people who I know are really invested and I don't want to leave them hanging, but I'm having a hard time getting as excited to write it as I did before.

Ok so I'm in a weird place for this, hilariously. Because The Answer That Usually Works For Me (TM) and that carried me through a regular weekly update schedule for almost two and a half years is, in fact, not at present working for me apparently my brain can write through a pandemic but not through recovery from the shit that went down in December/Jan so we found my writing kryptonite. However, I'm going to assume you're closer to 2021 Pasta than 2024 Pasta. SO LET'S GO WITH THE METHOD I NORMALLY USE SINCE IT WAS SUCCESSFUL FOR YEARS. Cause that's the thing: sure, I've written almost a million words, and pumped out chapters for years (ignoring the past few months) but I promise, I hit the same walls as everyone else even when nailing weekly uploads. But over those years, I came up with a fairly solid list of steps that I'd go through one by one.

Fun one first: when I'm in a block, I almost always try re-engaging with canon first. I'd rewatch my favorite episodes, binge a whole season, or even the whole series depending on how much of a boost I needed. For me at least that was often like Pavlov's bell, my favorite story triggering a flood of affection. I'd remember why I loved this fandom and the characters so much, and it could often kickstart my brain and excitement back into gear. If you really want to dangle a carrot and your fic touches on canon, focus on watching parts you're excited to get to in your story. A big one for me in TRT for example was the post-Nobu, Nelson v. Murdock episode, since I'd had that planned for TRT almost since the start, and I was very excited to reach the hurt/comfort I had planned. Even if your fic isn't following canon though, see if it'll give you a creative rush again!

So let's say step 1 doesn't work, either because the canon just isn't hitting the spot or because your fic is dealing with something else. In this case, my next step was usually to jump ahead to write a scene I was really eager to get to. It was often a short blurb, but it was always something I REALLY wanted to explore, and because I'm also a reader who likes exactly the tropes and plots I'm writing, I want to read what fucking happens. Except, fuck, I'm not there yet, am I? And I can't see how that scene finishes until I write my way up to it and finish it. This is my own carrot. Multiple scenes in TRT were written months or even years in advance, simply as a way to bribe myself. This is also an option!

But maybe this doesn't work. Sometimes it didn't. This is when it got a bit more serious. For anyone who was reading at the time, you'd have noticed that I'd sometimes drop side fics, either Matt POVs or one-shots. This was me, in essence, working on the shower principle (basically, ideas/solutions will come if you stop thinking about it and do something else, like take a shower). I figured if I went and wrote something else - either with less stress, or something fun and dopamine-inducing - the part of my brain focused on my Big Fic would wander around the writer's block beneath my notice. And it almost always worked, all while I still kept my brain trained that, hey, even if we're not writing This Thing, we're still writing.

But let's say this doesn't work either. You're well, and truly, stuck. Been there now and then. And, you're going to hate this one. I hate it but it works 9 times of 10. And it is: Write anyway. Half of it was spite. I was not going to give up my schedule, I liked my schedule. The other half was that I knew myself. I knew if I could just get past the chapter/plot/dialogue I was struggling with, I'd be able to roll along again. And so I made a rule: whatever I wrote didn't have to be pretty. It just had to exist. If that meant I wrote, "Jane chased the cat in circles and caught it. She was happy." then that's what I wrote. Because everything, EVERYTHING, can be fixed in editing. But you can't fix what doesn't exist. And so there were those nights when I would scowl and groan and snarl and bash my head against that writer's block until 5 in the morning, but in the end Jane chased that fucking cat adn caught it, it was written. Hilariously, sometimes those chapters have wound up amazing (likely because I spent so much time hammering at them) and reader favorites. There are absolutely, I believe, moments where you can, and should, see if you can push through.

But that brings me to *waves* now. A lesson I've only recently recently and with encouragement. Namely... sometimes brain no go and that's ok. My steps work for me 99.9% of the time, but I've done the above during the past few months, and it just... hasn't dragged me out entirely out of it yet. Sometimes, our brains demand that break, especially when things just aren't going great. There's a reason TRT had a break of roughly 2 years between chapter 4 and chapter 5 (feel free to check the chapter index with dates on AO3!). I had some life things happening and I just was not in a place to write, even if I was still busily plotting and planning and thinking about TRT behind the scenes. And that was ok. We're not machines. I came back like a bulldozer in Jan 2021, yes, and bulldozed through weekly updates, but that break was needed. And now I'm obviously taking a short one again while I recover from everything. It's ok if you're not in a place for it. So the last step is one I've been told a lot by dear friends recently as they helped me through this: be kind to yourself, and try not to stress if none of the above works. The story will always be there, and if TRT is any indication through all its highs and lows, your readers will be there when you start up again.

[hollowflight-propaganda]

I think it's time I change my bio to say it's been 11 years since I started to watch Ninjago.....

Gosh. Where's my senior discount on the lego sets, huh?

[battywitch]

Next week's spread did not turn out how I originally planned, at all, but I don't hate it. Pay no mind to my shit handwriting.

One in sunlight, but it was overcast, and one pic with indoor light that kinda shows some of the metallic bits. The pinky pen I went over the numbers with and wrote "watching" with is also metallic but it's not showing up well at all.)

Ok I'm going to go hide in a cave now 🫣