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2025 crative bingo changes
After looking at it for a while and due to me writing a lot in the past 2 days, I've decided to make a small change to the bingo.
Instead of 'Rewrite one of my old bsd fics' it will be "Rewrite one of my old fics'.
I don't think I'll be rewriting anything bsd related anytime soon, though I will not rule out writing anything for that fandom. I just think rewriting for that fandom isn't an option right now. I am, however, rewriting something for My Hero Academia, a fandom I haven't visited since 2019 officially (I did write chapter 3 for the fic in 2020 but never finished it or showed it to anyone). I've already rewritten the first chapter, and the second one is in the works right now. Happy with how that's going.
I have also decided that I will allow myself one change on the bingo after the beginning of the year, mostly for later in the year if I see that something just isn't working and something else would be better to fulfil (as long as I haven't already done it by that point in time). That being said, I am working on that fic, slowly but surely. Making nice work there, while some other things are slower. I will be getting at least one row done, as it seems now.
Instead of 'Rewrite one of my old bsd fics' it will be "Rewrite one of my old fics'.
I don't think I'll be rewriting anything bsd related anytime soon, though I will not rule out writing anything for that fandom. I just think rewriting for that fandom isn't an option right now. I am, however, rewriting something for My Hero Academia, a fandom I haven't visited since 2019 officially (I did write chapter 3 for the fic in 2020 but never finished it or showed it to anyone). I've already rewritten the first chapter, and the second one is in the works right now. Happy with how that's going.
I have also decided that I will allow myself one change on the bingo after the beginning of the year, mostly for later in the year if I see that something just isn't working and something else would be better to fulfil (as long as I haven't already done it by that point in time). That being said, I am working on that fic, slowly but surely. Making nice work there, while some other things are slower. I will be getting at least one row done, as it seems now.
Kantayra (kantayra) wrote2025-07-14 07:33 am
kantayra) wrote2025-07-14 07:33 amOne Week Down...
My first Officially Super-Busy Week at Work (TM) went better than expected. I have a second super-busy week this week, and then hopefully work will quiet down. Unfortunately, the week after this is a competition week, so that will be busy for entirely different reasons. But after that I am going to have a break and look very much forward to it! 😊
Here is where I stand, fandom-wise:
Goals for this week: 1) Survive work moar, 2) Finish 1 of my remaining assignments, 3) Figure out my other assignment, 4) Watch some BNHA, 5) ???, 6) Profit!
Here is where I stand, fandom-wise:
- Exchanges due in May/June (
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hurtcomfortex, pickmeupexchange, idproquo, seasonsofdrabbles, diegetic_exchange + mystery pinch-hits and treats): I am going to move fandom5k out to July/August because otherwise this bullet will linger through the end of July. So now this is still done at 11/11, and the final reveals have happened! Here are the things I wrote:- Untouchable was my assignment for hurtcomfortex, Hannibal/Will, more post-fall fun.
- A Thousand Meetings was my assignment for pickmeupexchange, Charles/Erik X-Men movie-verse, and turned into a monster that was tons of fun to write.
- Untouchable was my assignment for
- Exchanges due in July/August (fandom5k now, caseficexchange, nonconex, justmarriedexchange, Terrible Temperature Troubles flash + mystery pinch-hits and treats + future stuff): With fandom5k moved over, I am now at 5/7. I did, indeed, finish The Shiny Thing That Ate My Brain last week, hooray! I didn't get any of my other assignments done, but I did get a start on one of them. My goal this week is to finish at least one of the remaining two, and crystallize my ideas for the other one. I'm also eyeing several pinch hits, although I'm not going to set a goal for any of them while my schedule is so busy.
- Also, I got two gifts for Temperature Flash! I love that one of them is heat-focused and the other is cold-focused, the best of both worlds:
- The Beast and I Are One: Hannibal/Will post-fall escaping from Chesapeake Bay and huddling together for warmth while wet and naked, YUM!
- Too Hot for Work: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan trying to stay cool in the summer heat by taking advantage of Shen Wei's naturally cool body, also YUM!
- Potentials for July/August...and even September/October: I see some things shaping up on the distant horizon! As predicted, I skipped raremaleslashex (although may check out pinch hits), and I think I'm sitting out iddyiddybangbang. However! The following things are all coming up and look relevant to my interests: enemiestoloversex (I've already nominated), Grief/Mourning Flash, classicfilmex, fallingforyoufallexchange, ficinabox(!!!), & seasonsofdrabbles. There's also rarepairexchange, although that's more debatable, and then I remain vaguely tempted by scaldinghotcibingo. So I should keep myself busy for the foreseeable future. 😊
- Once again again again, no updates on Femslash Salad Bar (shocking!).
- I'm now 1/4 through BNHA S3. I'm going to hit a problem with my current episode source at the halfway mark, but I think I've found a back-up solution. Aiming to watch more of this, this week.
- I still haven't picked up any books. I'm waiting for the next item in my library queue to come up, unless I change my mind before then.
Goals for this week: 1) Survive work moar, 2) Finish 1 of my remaining assignments, 3) Figure out my other assignment, 4) Watch some BNHA, 5) ???, 6) Profit!
Blue (overmore) wrote2025-07-13 01:52 pm
overmore) wrote2025-07-13 01:52 pmEntry tags:
Fanfiction archive site live
You can check out the archive here! It is mobile responsive too.
After a while, I finally decided that having a fic archive would be a good idea. I was going back an forth on if I should wait to get a supporter role on neocities but decided to just make a new account. For now, It will have a few fics, mostly ones from smaller categories to have something to work with and to be read, later I will work on getting all my bsd and idv fics up. I have a lot of them so it will take a while to have it all sorted out.
In the meantime, I am thinking if I should forget about archiving my fics here. I will still have them on ao3, my laptop and now the archive, so there isn't much need for a community here. I don't plan on getting a membership here anytime soon, so having spare space for a community is nice. Not that I plan on using them much, but at some point, it might be useful. I will still think about it well, as I still have enough time to think over it.
Blue (overmore) wrote2025-07-13 12:27 pm
overmore) wrote2025-07-13 12:27 pmEntry tags:
Sunshine Revival Challenge #4
Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.
There's a lot of things I think about often, but some of them would be:
- 1. Joscarl
- 2. Alvaluca
- 3. writing events
- 4. indie web
- 5. personal websites
- 6. fandom on small web/non-social media spaces
- 7. writing trans characters as a trans person and how a lot of people who see one way cannot understand not all of us want the same thing
- 8. Antodrew and how much more time i need to dedicate to them
- 9. Umamusume
- 10. Sky children of the Light
Blue (overmore) wrote2025-07-11 07:13 pm
overmore) wrote2025-07-11 07:13 pmEntry tags:
Site updates and progress
As I recently updated my site to the v5 of it, I've finally gone through some much needed changes for it, like removing pages I really wasn't using in any way or updating the way you navigate some pages (mainly project page and writing page) but there are some other stuff I'm happy I worked on. Mainly updating the main page to feel bigger. I like the smaller ones, they do look neat, but I felt like there was just not enough of everything I wanted to show on it. With me still figuring things out on how I want it to look like, I really am having a hard time picking how I want the main page to look like. I want to have so much pretty stuff, but making that a reality will take a lot of time man.
The thing I am the happiest about was figuring out how to use iframes efficiently.Using target ID is a lifesaver, no more multiple pages for the same thing with different center text, now it's all iframes!I admire people who have their whole page done in iframes, cause that does take a lot of work. Not for me since I like having more than one page with pretty decorations (or at least i would like to have, since this is still not the case for me) so I will be sticking with that for project and writing pages since those do need to be a bit more practical.
I'm also considering getting color TCG and getting my fanfic archive set up somewhere. There's not neat templates to work with, as I don't think I'll be able to make it all by myself, so that's one thing made easier. Just not sure if I want to have it all on my main site or have a separate one. Since I don't have the ability to get domains yet and I can't support neocities still for a supporter role, the on site solution might be the best. When it comes to color TCG, I am kinda lost on it. Not sure how to make it and use it. There's a neocities template that makes it all easier, but really, it does not look like that to me. I'll just have all the files on my PC for a bit before I decide for sure.
So far, I'm happy with my progress. Is my code any good? Probably not, but it works. It ain't a professional site so it does not matter much, as long as you can navigate it. I do wanna work on improving a lot of things still, maybe making it look cooler. For the time being, I'll stick to writing articles and ramblings on stuff I like.
Blue (overmore) wrote2025-07-09 01:45 pm
overmore) wrote2025-07-09 01:45 pmEntry tags:
Sunshine Revival Challenge #3
Journaling prompt: What are your favorite summer-associated foods?
For this, I'd have to go for barbecue, since there's not much summer-associated foods that I love, honestly. I specifically love horse burger the most. It tastes so well. For my region it's a bit unconventional as eating horses is not common here, but I adore it. When paired with fries and banana liqueur it's great.
Blue (overmore) wrote2025-07-08 09:25 pm
overmore) wrote2025-07-08 09:25 pmEntry tags:
2025 creative bingo mid year update
By now it's been over half a year, so I decided it would be nice to look at how much progress I've made on my 2025 creative bingo I made at the start of the year to give myself some more motivation to write, such as completing projects that have been on my mind or have been ongoing for a while and still have not been finished.
As of the day this is being posted, I have completed 10 out of 25 bingo slots.
Thoughts so far:
I am happy, all things considered. I had a whole month where I hadn't posted anything, and writing was also bad then too. All of my works have also been on the shorter side, which I do wish to change as the year progresses. I've been doing a lot of challenges, so my ideas default to being shorter for them, while I normally prefer longer works, at least by my standards. That would be at least 2k words per work. In reality, this is short still, but to me, it feels not exactly short the same way a drabble is short or a ficlet is short. For the latter half of the year, I've reduced the number of challenges entering to zero, not counting one that's ongoing now. This will probably help with my will to write works that are a bit longer. I will still participate in a few events, mainly one hosted by ficwip as those were planned and overlap with some of my goals and my own IDV Secret Santa exchange (thought this one is still not 100% confirmed on my side)
The two most difficult challenges to finish are completing Lifeless Stars and A little more warmth, mainly due to the fact that they're multichapter works. The latter is easier as I do have it planned out and it ended up being only a few more chapters long, but Lifeless Stars is a longer project, one that I want to be perfect in my eyes. I love alvaluca so much and they deserve another nice longfic that's finished and enjoyable.
The one other square I'm also iffy on finishing is the 'rewrite a bsd fic' one. At the beginning of the year, I was a lot more enthusiastic about this, as I was in a particular mood, that did not last that long now that I think about it. I would not rule out completion of this, but I would not be surprised if it was left uncompleted by the end of December.
Which squares do I wanna fill the most?
Starting/continuing to work on specific names fics are probably my main priorities right now. I'm aiming for one chapter to say it has been started being worked on, and for 'It's hard to say that everything will be okay' to finish the chapter I am on now (chapter 3) and finish a scene in a chapter much later in the story to a degree it's not even numbered. Probably start another chapter too. Most of these can be left for the latter part of the year still (November/December).
I also really wanna do the dofulaw fic, at least something short. My main idea for them is a longfic one, so it might take a while before I allow myself to work on it. Until then, I will pounce around some of my smaller thoughts and hope it can become a fic. Finishing off 'Let me down slowly' should also happen soon since I started working on the last chapter.
Final thought: How much will I finish by the end of the year?
My best guess is that I will finish one diagonal and one column by the end of 2025. Free space still doesn't have a specification on what it will be, but it could be participating in a specific event I know I will finish. When it comes to unfinished squares, I will carry them over to next year while adding new stuff where my finished squares are now.
I enjoyed my journey with this bingo so far and I hope it goes well until the end of the year too!
As of the day this is being posted, I have completed 10 out of 25 bingo slots.
Thoughts so far:
I am happy, all things considered. I had a whole month where I hadn't posted anything, and writing was also bad then too. All of my works have also been on the shorter side, which I do wish to change as the year progresses. I've been doing a lot of challenges, so my ideas default to being shorter for them, while I normally prefer longer works, at least by my standards. That would be at least 2k words per work. In reality, this is short still, but to me, it feels not exactly short the same way a drabble is short or a ficlet is short. For the latter half of the year, I've reduced the number of challenges entering to zero, not counting one that's ongoing now. This will probably help with my will to write works that are a bit longer. I will still participate in a few events, mainly one hosted by ficwip as those were planned and overlap with some of my goals and my own IDV Secret Santa exchange (thought this one is still not 100% confirmed on my side)
The two most difficult challenges to finish are completing Lifeless Stars and A little more warmth, mainly due to the fact that they're multichapter works. The latter is easier as I do have it planned out and it ended up being only a few more chapters long, but Lifeless Stars is a longer project, one that I want to be perfect in my eyes. I love alvaluca so much and they deserve another nice longfic that's finished and enjoyable.
The one other square I'm also iffy on finishing is the 'rewrite a bsd fic' one. At the beginning of the year, I was a lot more enthusiastic about this, as I was in a particular mood, that did not last that long now that I think about it. I would not rule out completion of this, but I would not be surprised if it was left uncompleted by the end of December.
Which squares do I wanna fill the most?
Starting/continuing to work on specific names fics are probably my main priorities right now. I'm aiming for one chapter to say it has been started being worked on, and for 'It's hard to say that everything will be okay' to finish the chapter I am on now (chapter 3) and finish a scene in a chapter much later in the story to a degree it's not even numbered. Probably start another chapter too. Most of these can be left for the latter part of the year still (November/December).
I also really wanna do the dofulaw fic, at least something short. My main idea for them is a longfic one, so it might take a while before I allow myself to work on it. Until then, I will pounce around some of my smaller thoughts and hope it can become a fic. Finishing off 'Let me down slowly' should also happen soon since I started working on the last chapter.
Final thought: How much will I finish by the end of the year?
My best guess is that I will finish one diagonal and one column by the end of 2025. Free space still doesn't have a specification on what it will be, but it could be participating in a specific event I know I will finish. When it comes to unfinished squares, I will carry them over to next year while adding new stuff where my finished squares are now.
I enjoyed my journey with this bingo so far and I hope it goes well until the end of the year too!
Kantayra (kantayra) wrote2025-07-07 08:49 am
kantayra) wrote2025-07-07 08:49 amAhhhh, Work!
Work will be horrible this week. And next week. Either that will mean that I don't have the mental energy to write anything, or else I'll be so stressed out that I'll write loads as a form of escapism. Not sure which yet, whee! 🫤
In any case, I knew this was coming and am in a decent spot to weather the storm either way. (Although it would've been nice if I'd gotten a bit more done this last week.)
Here's where I am with everything:
Goals for this week: 1) Survive work. 2) Finish The Shiny Thing That Ate My Brain. 3) Finish 1 other assignment. 4) Edits for Temperature Flash. 5) Watch some BNHA.
In any case, I knew this was coming and am in a decent spot to weather the storm either way. (Although it would've been nice if I'd gotten a bit more done this last week.)
Here's where I am with everything:
- Exchanges due in May/June (hurtcomfortex, pickmeupexchange, idproquo, seasonsofdrabbles, diegetic_exchange, fandom5k + mystery pinch-hits and treats): Still done at 12/12. I'm debating moving fandom5k to the next batch, since that doesn't reveal until late July and everything else here is already revealed. We'll see. But, yes, pickmeupexchange & hurtcomfortex both are in the anon period right now, and I got a couple of lovely gifts:
- Butterfly, my gift for hurtcomfortex: A delightful Hannibal/Will fic taking place post-series, cool take on the fall, and lots of nice tension and Hannibal and Will being dark, fucked-up weirdos just the way I love. ❤️
- Leave the Bow Tie On my gift for pickmeupexchange: A fun Garak/Bashir romp for Star Trek DS9, with undercover dating, public sex, and hot xeno galore! Such a great, breezy read, I really lucked out here! ❤️
- Butterfly, my gift for
- Exchanges due in July/August (caseficexchange, nonconex, justmarriedexchange, Terrible Temperature Troubles flash + mystery pinch-hits and treats + future stuff): I am now at 3/6. Yes, that means I foolishly picked something up that I am not yet finished with. But it was so SHINY! I could not resist! 😭 I'm currently halfway through that, and trying to avoid grabbing something ELSE shiny. My goal this week is to finish the current shiny thing and finish one other thing, so that I would be at 5/6. I'll also need to do a final editing pass for Temperature Flash since that goes live this week. And I'm not going to pick up my next shiny thing until I have a draft complete this time, dammit self!
- Potentials for July/August: I skipped littleblackdressex - nothing caught my eye. I'm pretty sure I'll be skipping raremaleslashex for the same reason. enemiestoloversex is starting up, and given how much I love that trope, I really REALLY hope that there are some compatible requests in it! I will do seasonsofdrabbles in early August. rarepairexchange & iddyiddybangbang are debatable. Also, scaldinghotcibingo looks really tempting, but given how faily I've been with Femslash Salad Bar, I'm hesitant to pick up another prompt list. But...it's also only just 3 fills, so I should be able to do that, right? I will noodle on it.
- Nothing new with Femslash Salad Bar, take 100. 😝
- I didn't get any further in BNHA last week, because I was doing canon review for something else. This week I will try to get back at it!
- I finished Noblesse! It was good! The final battles were actually refreshing and involved, like, strategy across multiple locations and stuff. I was pleased with that, since the last couple had just been werewolves punching each other in the face a lot. Very enjoyable series, and I've already been requesting/offering it.
- I don't have anything I'm currently reading right now, but I think I'm going to take a little break, just to see how the next few weeks fall out with work and then my skating competition. I have several items on my wait list at the library that might come through in not too long, so maybe I'll just wait on those. (Unless, of course, I randomly change my mind entirely. Always a possibility!
Goals for this week: 1) Survive work. 2) Finish The Shiny Thing That Ate My Brain. 3) Finish 1 other assignment. 4) Edits for Temperature Flash. 5) Watch some BNHA.
Blue (overmore) wrote2025-07-07 01:30 pm
overmore) wrote2025-07-07 01:30 pmEntry tags:
Sunshine Revival Challenge #2
Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.
Starting this in the most cliché way possible, but I love my boyfriend. He means so much to be it's unreal. We first met last year over a commission, as I generally will write whatever as long as it's not my notp, so I was delighted to write an interesting rare pair for him twice last year. We started talking properly and being friends much later though, after I had some trouble with a friend and my ex later in the year, almost back to back, resulting in a breakdown on Tumblr, after which he approached me and we started talking more.
It had taken me so long to talk properly, and for more than just a few simple things. I felt that again, after a while, I was able to finally have friend that I could talk to about the stuff both of us liked, even if it wasn't something I was familiar with in the first place. And with bonding over liking the same character a lot, playing Sky: Children of the Light together for the first time, just finding little things to enjoy, it finally felt like peace. It took me a while to properly sort out my feelings as being on the aro spectrum does not help me a lot sometimes, but I was sure. He made me happy, and he was happy with me. I couldn't ask for more than that.
The other thing I love? I love writing. I has been one of the hobbies I've had the longest that have persisted everything else I've been interested in. It makes me happy, it brings me joy. I find so much comfort in it, even at times where it feels hard to do it, for whatever reason or problem I have in life. I love the hobby that brought me here now, writing this down. I wouldn't have met so many amazing people if it weren't for writing. It means so much to me.
Blue (overmore) wrote2025-07-06 03:35 pm
overmore) wrote2025-07-06 03:35 pmEntry tags:
Sunshine revival challange #1
Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.
My first time doing a challenge like this! Looked fun and seemed to be a good opportunity to post some more stuff here! I'll be doing the journaling prompt this time around.
I have my creative bingo for 2025 as my goals when it comes to creative things. I've gone through 10 out of 25 goals here, which I think is pretty good considering some of those intertwine and would require me to finish some before others. I'm also a little behind on writing my two biggest goals, finishing 'Lifeless Stars' and 'A little more warmth', as those are both long fics.The latter does have a chance of being finished as even as a multi chapter fic, it is shorter in nature than my big one, and I plan to to finish it as of a part of an event that will be running this September for 2 months, so I am leaving it purposefully for later.
When it comes to the few goals where I'm meant to just start working on certain fics, those might take a while too. I might have to rework some of the aspects to fit new lore information we've gotten after a while. Most of the ideas are from 2023, we've gotten some new lore on a lot of characters, plus more new characters since then. I don't think they'll have a lot of impact on my writing overall, as it only might be minor stuff, but I'd still want to take things into consideration. My overall idea of what counts as 'start working on this specific fic' is to have at least one chapter done, or at least mostly done. I think that's fair in my head.
The overall goal is to have one column, row or diagonal finished by the end of the year. And depending on how many are done by the end of it, I will consider how I will approach this type of thing next year, as I think continuing this would be nice. Having an overall goal on what to work on does motivate me than having nothing at all.
Another unique challenge I wanna try and do is the all ships all week challenge, with a very specific goal: to write for a ship I previously have never done anything for or if I did, it was long ago when I was a kid. It's a way for me to break out of my single fandom habit and to revisit some old ships I used to love but never gave enough love through creation. I want to even do a post related to all of the ships, maybe a manifesto for all of them or a proper shrine on my website. I'm not sure If I will be using the proper prompts when they're revealed for 2025 since they're not mandatory, I might give one a try at least. For this, I just want to do some more experimental stuff, especially if it's for something old to me.