auroracloud: a silhouette of a young woman with old-fashioned updo, writing, with handwriting across the silhouette (writing / silhouette)
[personal profile] auroracloud
It's Midsummer Night's Eve in Finland - Midsummer is traditionally one of the biggest holidays/festivals in Finland, still one of the only days in the modern times when almost every place is locked up. I like the idea in principle, but I'm not hugely into it in practice, since celebrating it usually means getting very drunk and then being boring idiots, and I'm not into that at all. (For the record, I know how unusual a Finn this makes me, not liking to get drunk, don't remind me. Trust me, I've been reminded more than often enough throughout my life.)

Anyway, I did come to visit family for Midsummer, because it seemed nicer than hanging out in the city on my own. We have, um, eaten things? I've been catching up on comments, the majority of the others are watching a murder series on TV that's slightly too gruesome for me, and I think that says enough about how wild our celebrations are, hah. But the weather's nice and I've brought my swimsuit, hope I can go swimming at some point.

Today's Writing

I did some research reading and notes before I left home. I tried to write in a notebook on the bus, but that didn't go so well, because I started getting motion sickness. I did get almost a couple of hundred words on a new fanfic done, though, and I just typed them up. I also have been editing some fics, including one of the Cottoncandy Bingo fics. So while the new words number less than 300 so far, I still feel I've been doing plenty. Although savvy as I was, I started editing an older fic and only then noticed that I'd already started editing it in another document. Guess I'll have to compare the versions to see which edit is better!

I'd still like to write a bit more fic tonight, we'll see if something speaks to me. Though I ought to also move a bit, since I spent some hours sitting on a bus today.

Tally

Day 1: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] falkner, [personal profile] luzclarita, [personal profile] ofmonstrouswords, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] used_songs, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 2: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] falkner, [personal profile] ofmonstrouswords, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 3: [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] falkner, [personal profile] ofmonstrouswords, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] talkingtothesky, [personal profile] used_songs, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 4: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] falkner, [personal profile] ofmonstrouswords, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] tinx_r, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 5: [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] falkner, [personal profile] ofmonstrouswords, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] st_aurafina, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] yantantether, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 6: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] ellieet, [personal profile] ofmonstrouswords, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] talkingtothesky, [personal profile] yantantether, [personal profile] ysilme

Day 7: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] ellieet, [personal profile] ofmonstrouswords, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] st_aurafina, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] ysilme, [personal profile] yantantether (15 so far)

Day 8: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] ellieet, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] talkingtothesky, [personal profile] yantantether, [personal profile] ysilme (14 so far)

Day 9: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] st_aurafina, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] talkingtothesky, [personal profile] yantantether, [personal profile] ysilme (15 so far)

Day 10: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] navaan, [personal profile] ofmonstrouswords, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] st_aurafina, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] talkingtothesky, [personal profile] tinx_r, [personal profile] yantantether, [personal profile] ysilme (16 so far)

Day 11: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] navaan, [personal profile] ofmonstrouswords, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] st_aurafina, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] talkingtothesky, [personal profile] tinx_r, [personal profile] yantantether, [personal profile] ysilme (17 so far)

Day 12: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] ofmonstrouswords, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] talkingtothesky, [personal profile] tinx_r, [personal profile] yantantether, [personal profile] ysilme (15 so far)

Day 13: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] ofmonstrouswords, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] talkingtothesky, [personal profile] tinx_r, [personal profile] yantantether, [personal profile] ysilme (15 so far)

Day 14: [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] talkingtothesky, [personal profile] used_songs, [personal profile] ysilme (11 so far)

Day 15: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [profile] carenejean, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] ysilme (10 so far)

Day 16: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch (10 so far)

Day 17: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch (9 so far)

Day 18: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] st_aurafina, [personal profile] sylvanwitch (11 so far)

Day 19: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [profile] sylvan_witch (11 so far)

Day 20: [personal profile] alexcat, [personal profile] alexseanchai, [personal profile] auroracloud, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] cassini, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] shopfront, [personal profile] sierranovembr, [personal profile] silveradept, [personal profile] sylvanwitch (11 so far)

Day 21: [personal profile] china_shop

Let me know if I missed you, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet. You can join in or drop out any time!

Date: 2019-06-21 08:01 pm (UTC)
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
From: [personal profile] alexseanchai
mrgh

also this impressively fucked-up scenario (in which Adrien's experience of child abuse is even worse than canon and it isn't even Gabriel's doing! nor Émilie's, to be clear, and the person whose doing it primarily is has no idea how much worse her attempting to improve Adrien's relationship with his father is actually making Adrien's situation) was after midnight so it counts. (post says twenty of six, post says about ten hours ago, one of these is a lie, but still)

Date: 2019-06-21 09:38 pm (UTC)
ysilme: A bunch of Swedish summer flowers. (Swedish Summer Flowers)
From: [personal profile] ysilme
Glad Midsommar! We used to go to the Saturday events of the Swedish society of the next large town, but stopped when all our close friends from there moved away. But we're going to have a little bonfire tomorrow night just for ourselves.
I totally get being the odd one out because you don't drink; although it's not as bad in Germany as the saying goes for Finland (which is all I have as a comparison ;o) ) it's unusual and often causes remarks and attention if you don't or rarely drink any, and particularly if you don't like beer, like me. :-P I like the taste of some drinks, like good, dry, wine, very dry cider, or smoky and peaty single malt Whisky, but I don't like the feeling of inhibition alcohol causes and really only want it for the taste. Also, I'm having allergic reactions one out of two times I drink alcohol, but totally unpredictable, which is why I usually avoid it if not at home as I don't care to have to deal with that as well.
I'm glad to hear you had at least a decent time with it with your family, and also got some writing time in!
Sorry I haven't reported in for a couple of days, too. I've been reinstalling my desktop (which didn't go without hickups as it's typical for Windows) and also cut my left index finger badly enough to be hampered while typing for a couple of days, so it's been mostly editing for me, and between 100 and 750 words each day since the 16th, although yesterday it's just been a meagre alibi sentence as I was also having a bad sun allergy flare and was just generally miserable.

Date: 2019-06-22 01:57 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sylvanwitch
I very much hope you enjoy the rest of your visit without having to socialize too much or otherwise do anything that will make you tired. I think 300 words is an EXCELLENT word count for a day that involved traveling by bus. (I can't even read a MAP while in a moving vehicle or I get motion sickness, so I can definitely empathize with your situation.) I hope your muse is inspired by warm days and swimming and being in places that make you happy. :-) *hugs*

I had a friend from out of town visit. We went for a long walk by the river and then went for Indian food. It was delightful. Prior to her arrival, there was a flurry of cleaning, but before I did all that, I wrote a 1336 word sex scene. Apparently, I had a lot I wanted to...um...express? Lol! Anyway, I think I see the ending in sight!

Date: 2019-06-22 04:14 am (UTC)
china_shop: Close-up of Zhao Yunlan grinning (Default)
From: [personal profile] china_shop
22nd: More note-taking, some struggling with the beginning of a sequel, and some being stuck on a separate flashfic. Nothing is coming together today, so I think I'm just going to let it lie and hope tomorrow is easier.

Happy Solstice! ♥

Date: 2019-06-22 04:33 am (UTC)
sierranovembr: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sierranovembr
Today I managed report writing, coding, AND 246 words of fic. And now I have to sleeeeeeeeep. :)

Date: 2019-06-22 04:35 am (UTC)
cornerofmadness: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cornerofmadness
I didn't know that the solstice was such a big deal in Finland, interesting (I enjoy celebrating it myself)

I got 184 words for my summer of giles story and 500 words on an unexpected comment_fic

Date: 2019-06-22 07:18 pm (UTC)
cornerofmadness: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cornerofmadness
Ah that's good to know, that will be helpful should I ever attempt a Finnish character. Thanks.

Date: 2019-06-22 07:26 pm (UTC)
cornerofmadness: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cornerofmadness
I appreciate that offer.

Also good to know. Yeah we used to have a lot of stores and places closed during holidays. These days it's mostly just schools and banks

Date: 2019-06-22 06:14 am (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
Happy Solstice. I was going to say that I hadn't written anything, except that I revised an article that I had gotten comments back from a beta on, so as to make it better and stronger, and it's longer now than it was before, so there were clearly words added. No fic progress today, other than reading, but there's plenty of writing done.
Edited Date: 2019-06-22 06:14 am (UTC)

Date: 2019-06-22 08:10 am (UTC)
talkingtothesky: (root)
From: [personal profile] talkingtothesky
Heyyy. Sorry, this continues to be a bad month for my writing, I've not been checking in. But I did write on Day 15, Day 17 & Day 21.

Date: 2019-06-22 09:09 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] carenejeans
Happy Solstice!

I wrote 432 words of free-writing, trying to drag some ideas out of my uncooperative brain. It worked! I now have a small list of self-generated prompts. 8-)

Now to work on some of them...

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