Write Every Day, April Day #21 (and rec your stuff!)

[auroracloud]

I've been meaning to do this for a while, but I've either forgotten or been so tired I haven't had the energy. But, this year the previous hosts of Write Every Day have had this new idea that I'm going to continue. So, if you want, rec something you've written in the comments to this post!

And if you didn't happen to write today but want to rec, you can just comment on the post anyway to rec your writing (maybe specifically mention that you're not checking in for the day, just so it's clear).

I haven't managed to do this yet, but I'll try now that I'm hosting it. I'm going to post mine in the comments. At the moment I'm trying to read through my old fics to find something I can rec - the problem is that I keep wanting to edit the already posted works and finding they're not as good as they were in my head... Trying to find something that doesn't make me lose faith in my writing... (I try to remember that I am writing fanfic in a language that isn't my own, and that actually can be something of an extra challenge.)


Today's Writing

I was exhausted by some RL stuff, so I let myself just do the word equivalent of doodling: I added character sheets for a few characters into my Scrivener project for Ambush Project #2, and wrote bits and pieces about the characters there. It's useful both for getting ideas down, and seeing what I still need. But I got a bit distracted trying to decide which pictures would best represent my characters (I saved a bunch when I first brainstormed it). And then I got even more distracted by inherent sexism in my language, gah. People tend to imagine Finnish is very gender-neutral because we don't have gendered pronouns (or gendered nouns, adjectives etc.) but we do have a ton of job names and titles that are inherently masculine, and they can be a pain. Some of them are easy to change into gender-neutral versions, but some are decidedly not. You can't just insert the word for "person" or "woman" where the original word has "man" because the expression only has the meaning in its original form, and people get totally different connotations when you change the word. Gaaaah.

Basically I don't know what to call one character's job title because it's one of those words and I can't find a workaround that's any use. Maybe I have to brainstorm with some local writerly friends... (And no, the society hasn't tried to find a gender-neutral version of the title yet either, as far as I'm aware.)

Tally

Day 1: alexcat, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 2: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, china_shop, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, deifire, elliet, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 3: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 4: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 5: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme


Day 6: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme


Day 7: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 8: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme


Day 9: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme


Day 10: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, caprices, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme


Day 11: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme


Day 12: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 13: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 14: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 15: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 16: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 17: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 18: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 19: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, yasaman, ysilme

Day 20: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme

Day 21: auroracloud, china_shop

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Comments

[alexseanchai]

me to silveradept 45m ago, upon discovering that an artistic choice I decided upon last night and fell asleep before implementing is, according to research I did 50m ago, a really good choice:

…this is perfect, and also, people are going to think I know shit about music 🤣

silveradept's reply:

The Internet is for more than just porn.

I have best housemates


…self-rec time? hmmm


speak truth to knowledge by equivalence relation (1656 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ready For It - Taylor Swift (Music Video)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caged Cyborg & Hooded Cyborg
Characters: Caged Cyborg (Ready For It), Hooded Cyborg (Ready For It), Original Trans Female Character, Original Male Character
Additional Tags: Dialogue-Only, Artificial Intelligence, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Sister-Sister Relationship, Identity Issues, Queer Themes, Podfic Welcome
Summary:

severalty: the sole ownership of property by someone

cage:
• to confine in a barred enclosure; to put into and keep in something that hinders freedom
• to restrict someone's movement or creativity

—

hood:
• a covering for the head attached to a larger garment
• an enclosure that protects something, especially from above

forethought:
• thinking beforehand or in advance, planning; prior or previous consideration; premeditation
• provident care; prudence


cannot break us, not with a thousand swords (647 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Characters: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Alya Césaire
Additional Tags: Post-Reveal Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Marriage Proposal, The Princess Bride References, I Blame Tumblr, Podfic Welcome, Romantic Fluff
Summary:

Are you kidding? Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Revenge. Giants. Monsters. Chases. Escapes. True love. Miracles.

Guess Ladybug and Chat Noir like The Princess Bride too—to Alya's delight and those of the Ladyblog's Tumblr followers. Emphasis on bride.


(no request is too extreme, if) your heart is in your dream (3103 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir & Emilie Agreste & Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth
Characters: Emilie Agreste, Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Alya Césaire, Kitty Section (Miraculous Ladybug), Original Akumatized Character(s)
Additional Tags: POV Outsider, Resurrected Emilie Agreste, Implied/Referenced Domestic Violence, Chat Noir Emilie Agreste, Butterfly Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Ladybug Gabriel Agreste, Ladybug Adrien Agreste | Mister Bug, Blood and Violence, Angst with a Happy Ending, Podfic Welcome
Summary:

Gabriel wished for his wife alive again.

That is exactly what he got.

[auroracloud]

Yay for supportive housemates! And yay for fics! If I ever get around to checking out Miraculous Ladybug (don't count on it, I'm not very good at watching TV shows, but I admit I've grown curious and it looks cute) I'll have to check out some of your fics as you've written so many. :-)