5 things make an update

[toujours_nigel]

• A lot of my engagement with my favourite character in any piece of media comes down to "X is a nightmare and I love that about them," which makes it... difficult in current Purity Or Cancellation fandom. But that's just the way it is: I like the genuinely nice ones, but they don't really grab me the same way. I guess in MCU? But even there I love Barnes & Romanoff the absolute most (and MCU isn't remotely an active fandom for me.)
• I'm starting a modestly-remunerated fellowship in November at my undergrad uni, after two months at home. Various job applications have failed to fruit into positive consequences, but otoh I haven't been assiduously applying for anything.
  • I'm hoping to nab a much better-paid scholarship in April, once this fellowship runs its course, and need to get to work for the application.
  • I have a conference in December that'll mean seeing filia_noctis for the first time since August, as it is organised by her workplace. I need to write my presentation-note soonish, as well as other pending papers, but eh. The apathy is strong.
• I have put in Yuletide nominations (two KJ Charles series, and the Mahabharata) but am still on the fence about signing-up, after last year's less-than-optimum experience. I am in better writing condition this year than last, so I'll just need to peruse the rules carefully and offer accordingly, I suppose. (That and take up a prompt collection if my recipient is happy with just about anything; I operate better prompted than not.)
• I have a whole bag of unfilled and solicited prompts sitting on a sticky-post, so that's my plan for November, but also I'm writing 3-sentence fic, so prompts for that are welcome.
• This is the longest I've lived at home in seven years, and I don't know if I like it. I do know I'm grateful for the fellowship, because it'll get me out of the house regularly for the next five moths.

Comments

[dragonlady7]

<3

Going back home to stay with my parents after finishing my degree was the Worst Thing Ever so you have my deepest sympathies.

Good luck with your stuff in general! Etcetera! *waves vaguely helloish*

[toujours_nigel]

Thank you!

[maplemood]

I'm exactly the same way--I love sweet, nice characters too, but they don't tend to grab my imagination in the same way that the messier ones do.

[toujours_nigel]

Yup! And then one runs into people trying to insist their fave isn't problematic at all, which is not why I like them to start with, so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[greerwatson]

I went back home to live with my parents while working on my thesis. It mostly worked; but the fact that my job search on graduating was ... interminably ... slow ... did mean that things continued more or less indefinitely. At least you've got the fellowship, and a toe in the door of academe. Or out the door of home, depending on how you look at it.

I hope you do decide to sign up for Yuletide. I've not always received optimal fic (or ideal assignments, for that matter); but, even if your recipient gives you uninspiriing prompts, there's the likelihood of being inspired to write a treat or two.

Best of luck with the job search.

[toujours_nigel]

It's not the living at home I mind, it's the having nothing to do. *g* I'm actually pretty resigned to living with my parents for the duration, it's just the job-market that's rather up in the air. Well, we'll see.

re: Yuletide, I'm okay not getting optimal assignments/gifts, but last year I was forcibly defaulted by the mods because of rules I hadn't entirely understood; that makes me rather wary.