#WIPWednesday, or Guess who is still working on christmas presents! orz

[spindizzy]

• I'm making one of my friends a mat/cover for her sewing machine based on these instructions and it's... Going? Going. I patchworked some jellyroll strips together, and if the patterns were any louder, they'd be a heavy metal festival, that's great. I just made the brilliant decision to stitch in the ditch to kinda... Quilt it a little bit? Make it more secure? Except that I was using the fabric patchwork for both sides and discovered way too late in the process that I hadn't lined the ditches up properly. .________________________. EVERYTHING IS FINE, I CAN FIX IT IN POST. I cannot fix it in post


• Stared into the abyss that is my fic WIP folder and... There's stuff in there that I actually want to finish????? What! Currently bouncing between a FFXV Shadowrun fusion I started for thebaconfat's birthday like three years ago and an array of self-indulgent Astarion/Tav fic. And Karlach/Dammon fic. And general miscreancy. Why Am I Like This. Anyway, can't find any bits of the BG3 stuff that isn't spoilers, so here's the current opening of the FFXV fic:
  

  Crowe wasn't technically an employee of Tenebrae Incorporated, no matter what payroll or her ID said. She'd never gone through the formal hiring process, even though the paper trail through the company records showed that she'd had three separate interviews to get to where she was. Spotless record. Been here for years.
  
  It was amazing what you could do when your inside man was the head of the company.



• On the review/general screaming front: I'm working on a review of I Want to be a Wall that I'm gonna pitch to Smart Bitches Trashy Books because it's so much about romance despite the explicit premise being an aromantic asexual woman and a closeted gay man got lavender married. There's no romantic feelings between them, so they don't have the heteronormative scripts to fall back on and that's fun! And it really sits with the asexuality and how the aroace protagonist being a fujoshi isn't actually conflicting traits! I feel very seen!
  
  Trying to do a round-up of my reading for ladybusiness because god, I want to yell about books! I want to have opinions with my friends and yell on the internet some more! I miss this! ... And I'm screaming about Baldur's Gate still, because the screaming will never end.

God I need to get back on twitter. I scrolled through someone's feed of retweeted Astarion art and FUCK, I am SO READY TO WRITE THINGS now! Fuck! Is going back to tumblr a better choice? Because god I miss fanart and meta and fic recs, but I don't miss wading through Discourse to get it. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!