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My current foster dog has decided that if I'm going to have my laptop in my lap, her head's going to be in my lap, too, which makes typing super fun and, in fact, I cannot actually use the external mouse. (Trackpad, yes. Mouse, no.)

Anyway, let's see if I can get through an update before she moves her head enough that I can't use the keyboard, either.

- I'm doing getyourwordsout again! I bumped my pledge up this time to 180 days instead of 120 because...well, because I usually do NaNo and that's 30 days right there, and I thought it might be a good challenge to hit 50% of the year. Surely 50% is possible, right? Well, so far I'm clinging to par by the skin of my teeth and I'm wishing that I hadn't wanted a challenge. XD Hopefully with March being a month with 31 days, and April being Camp NaNo, I'll be able to get fully back on track.

- What is probably NOT helping my writing habit is that I started playing FFVII Remake after rewatching Advent Children in theaters a couple of weeks ago, because that was one of The Formative games of my childhood. I'm only 4 chapters in, but I'm really enjoying it, and I've only had to look things up a handful of times (usually when there's a decision to make). However!! I've managed to avoid getting sucked into a 13-hour playing binge; the longest I've played is about 2 hours at a go and I haven't even played every day.

I'm extremely proud of myself for this, y'all have no idea. I virtually stopped playing video games several years ago precisely because if it was something like Final Fantasy, playing it was all I'd do, beyond the bare necessities of taking care of myself (and work). "I'll just play for 30 minutes" inevitably turned into 3 hours, and the next thing I knew it was time for bed. So the fact that I've been able to manage my time well enough to continue writing, reading, taking care of the dog, etc., is something worth being proud of.

- I'm on a social media hiatus for Lent, which means basically I'm staying off Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook until March 31, in an effort to break the habit of just sitting and scrolling (and then picking up my phone to see if there's anything different on the little Internet *facepalms*). I've popped on for a few things (to opt out of having my posts sold to AI generators, for example, or to mark some new bot followers as spam), but overall I've done a pretty good job of staying away from social media. I'm allowed Dreamwidth, Pillowfort, and Bluesky, because those aren't the same kind of time suck as the others, but that's it. (I'm also hoping to get a little more regular about posting updates here on DW, but we'll see how that goes.)

Well, the dog's migrated closer to the keyboard, so that means I'm off.

Hope everybody's having a good weekend!

Another threesentenceficathon round up, this one with a few new fandoms, including one for an anime I literally just finished watching like two days ago. I've been doing these fills for Ked's WIP Wednesday game over on Tumblr, and I've pulled at least one other person into checking out the 3SF, which is excellent.

So here are the fills since the last post (29 across 12 fandoms, plus original work):

Leverage

( Parker/Eliot/Hardison, Technical Difficulties )

( Parker/Eliot/Hardison, Something Something Saving Throws )

Gargoyles

( Gen, The Book of Lost Spells )

( Elisa/Goliath, Monsters )

( Owen/Xanatos, It's So Hard to Find Personal Time These Days )

Tiger & Bunny

( Kotetsu/Tomoe, Brushing )

( Barnaby/Kotetsu, Airplanes )

( Gen, Apartment )

( Ryan/Karina, Gonna Be Blue Rose's Next Single )

( Gen (Barnaby/Kotetsu, Karina/Ryan), Just a Little Crush All Around )

( Karina/Kotetsu (one-sided), Heartbreak )

( Barnaby/Kotetsu, Remembering )

( Gen, Dealing with Customer Service )

Sk8 the Infinity

( Gen, Fun )

( Gen, For a Given Value of 'Fun' )

( Joe/Cherry, Emergency Contact )

Castlevania

( Gen, Sense )

( Trevor/Alucard, Chants )

Teen Wolf

( Cora/Lydia, Tracking )

( Scott & Stiles, One Night )

Mary Stayed Out All Night

( Mary/Jung In/Mu Gyul, Mittens )

Yowamushi Pedal

( Toudou/Makishima, An Important Part of a Bicycle Race )

( Toudou/Makishima, Return Flight )

Good Omens

( Gen, Promotions )

Original

( Binding )

( The Village at the End of the World )

Voltron: Legendary Defender

( Shiro/Keith, Homesick )

Boys Over Flowers

( Jan Di/Jun Pyo, Noodles )

My New Boss Is Goofy

( Aoyama/Kinjo, Look At Me )

I've now finished my seventh story for NaNo (they're all 7500 words or less) and I'm less than 1k away from par. Hopefully tomorrow I can catch up and start getting ahead, since the holidays and associated travel are coming.

But hey!



Words!

Chapters 7-10
Fandom: Castlevania (Netflix)
Relationships: Trevor/Alucard
Rating: Explicit

Excerpt:

Trevor rubbed his eyes, positive this was an orgasm-induced hallucination, but no, Sypha still stood there, a pack slung over her shoulder and her blue eyes shooting daggers at them.

Alucard slid in front of him. "Sypha! When did you—"

"Just now, obviously," she said icily. "Just as it's obvious you weren't expecting any visitors if you're doing that in the hallway."

Trevor quickly laced his pants back up while Alucard was shielding him. "I thought you were staying with the Speakers longer."

"I told you three weeks," she said. "And you told me you were coming back here to help clean up the castle, not to have sex in the corridors."

"I did come back to clean up the castle!" Trevor protested. Fuck, why was he expected to think right after he'd come? "We've done a lot. There's almost a full staircase back down into the archive, now. Fuck, has it really been three weeks?"

"It's been nearly four." Sypha was fairly radiating fury. "I suppose I should be grateful that you two are actually getting along now, although I'd have picked another way to find out."

Read it on AO3!

Chapter 4
Fandom: Castlevania (Netflix)
Relationships: Trevor/Alucard
Rating: Explicit

Excerpt:

There was a plate with three slices of bacon and a hunk of bread sitting on the kitchen table when Trevor went looking, but Alucard was nowhere to be found. Trevor took the plate with him while he went exploring, poking around more of the castle and reminding himself how all the rooms went together. He'd thought his own home was huge, but it was nothing compared to this. One wrong turn and Trevor was pretty sure he'd never find his way back to the outside.

Had Alucard been lonely growing up here, with no one else around but his parents?

Trevor finished his breakfast and deposited the plate back in the kitchen, then decided against returning to the archive right this moment. Maybe he'd be able to tomorrow—or at least be able to go down there and start rebuilding a staircase—but today it just seemed smarter to stay out of places steeped in memories.

Read it on AO3!

Title: Paris Revisited
Fandom: Good Omens
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley
Word count: 3168
Rating: M
Tags: Plot What Plot, First Time, Established Relationship
Summary:
"What do you think? I found them when I was going through some old things. They're in remarkably good shape for being over two hundred years old, wouldn't you say?"

"Uh." Crowley shook himself. "Yeah, sure. Good shape. You know that outfit nearly got you killed, angel? You do remember that part?"

"But it didn't." Aziraphale beamed at him. "Thanks to a very wily demon."

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Aziraphale finds a very familiar outfit while he's going through his things, and decides to try it on. Crowley likes it.

Read it on AO3!

Fandom: Teen Wolf
Relationship: Allison/Erica
Word count: 698
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Tags: Historical AU, Royal AU, Princess!Allison, Thief!Erica, established relationship, imprisonment, angst, Gerard Argent is a bastard in every universe
Summary: A prison ship. Her grandfather had thrown Erica on a prison ship, for the simple crime of loving her. And then he'd locked Allison up in this little tower room with the hope that she'd "come to her senses."

Written for this image prompt.

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Fandom: Original Fiction
Word count: 500
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Tags: Starving Animal, Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Setting
Summary: One traveler meets another on her way south, and accidentally ends up with a companion for the road.

Written for the prompt "compassionate."

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Writing these update posts is giving me flashbacks to the MySpace days. I'm trying not to put any pressure on myself to keep up with them, but I am enjoying writing them. Feels a little bit more like I'm holding myself accountable for the stuff I'm working on this year. So let's see where things are:

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I cannot BELIEVE that it is nearly March. Seems like January was just last week.

How are you all doing this month?

The 3SF is officially closed to new prompts as of yesterday and I am still slowly plugging away at filling prompts. Although I'll probably need to turn my writing energy to other things, I'm intending to continue poking at this for another couple of months at least.

Castlevania

( Trevor/Alucard, Damn That Cold-Blooded Nature )

( Trevor/Alucard, Adrenaline Is a Hell of a Drug )

Tiger & Bunny

( Gen, Cheerfully Honest Always )

( Gen, Memories Reclaimed )

( Barnaby/Kotetsu, The Worst Kind of Hay Fever )

( Ryan/Karina, A Hidden Tattoo )

( Barnaby/Kotetsu, Swapped )

Teen Wolf

( Gen, Adopting Werewolves )

( Lydia & Deaton, Telepathy Really Sucks )

( Scott & Stiles, Good Friends )

Yowamushi Pedal

( Toudou/Makishima, He and Gomez Will Get on Like a House on Fire )

Leverage

( Parker/Eliot/Hardison, He's the Little Spoon )