good lord i finally got the Snezhnaya Does Not Believe in Tears achievement
[insert jpeg of old woman Rose from Titanic "it's been eighty-four years..."]
you'd think it would be hockey, for obvious fandom brainrot reasons, and you'd be right! except my general level of fitness is not there yet, so i need to just skate and work on cardio + strength for a while first
this year's edition of Doubt Finds a New Expensive Hobby: ice skating! also, due to the practicalities of the climate i find myself in, inline skating
(re: hobbies of previous years, Magic the Gathering still going strong, Sewing/Quilting having waned but I still enjoy it, and Making Art still in hibernation despite my desperate attempts to revive the interest.)
[insert "could a depressed person make this??" meme here]
i have written one chapter of fic 😌
a Hollanov robot AU:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/79403941#HeatedRivalry #Hollanovthere's this text post from tumblr I can't find anymore, i've been thinking about it all day... it's about the overlap between autistic experience and enjoying kink or bdsm. Essentially it was a discussion about how if your every day is a constant balancing act of controlling or avoiding certain sensory stimulation, you might end up with a unique perspective on why people enjoy pain.
for example, when sometimes light or noise is overwhelming but you develop strategies to get through the discomfort anyway because you need to be able to go places. if that's how you go through life, then it's not too difficult to understand that sometimes things that are fun or worth doing are not necessarily also easy, comfortable, or painless.
Through this perspective, pain is just one of many stimuli like taste or texture or pressure where a person can handle a certain amount, and might enjoy experiencing different levels of it for fun, and even more so when it's in a strictly controlled environment with clear rules and agreements about consent
fic writing progress: 1200 words of the t4t AU and 700 words of an android AU

i want to work on fanfic... naturally, the writing process begins first by procrastination in the form of cleaning my house from top to bottom
i am so [shocked pikachu face] over this really astounding and heartfelt HR fic I just read featuring transfem Shane...

one of the 3 outlines for fics i had written out the other day was for a transfem shane and it's SO similar i'm going crazy. A bunch of the characterization and canon-divergent things that happen in that person's fic match perfectly with my outline, it's so validating but also like really intimidating?? I don't know if I can still fully write the fic the way I originally planned it anymore. And yes, I know, I know the "two cakes" philosophy of fandom but... wow... this other fic really knocked it out of the park and it feels like it took all the words right out of my brain.