this year has just been health issue after health issue and it's been exhausting. i genuinely don't know how i managed to publish a book in the midst of it all, lol.

in the midst of the other issues, at some point over the last few months, i fell out of the habit of taking my vit D supplement, and it built and built and built until i was so exhausted i could barely get out of bed, much less focus, or be social, or remember that DW exists, etc. but i'm taking it daily again, and things are (slowly, mind you) improving.

i managed to get in part of my assignment for ficinabox, and defaulted on the rest. i'm super pleased with it: i feel like all i've done concerning exchanges this year is just default on them. and i still haven't read any of the gifts i've gotten since before battleshipex. so if you're waiting on a comment from me, rest assured: i have simply not read/listened to it yet. i sure do hope i can get to that at... some point in a reasonable time frame, but honestly i can't promise anything. (i should really double-check which exchanges are comment mandatory, so i don't mess things up even more for myself orz)

i am signed up for fffx and yuletide_admin, too. not sure how that's gonna go, but so far i haven't thrown in the towel.

also, in a fit of procrastination, i made a Compendium of Big Bangs on 10001 Nightmares Party. then i had the brilliant idea of browsing the collection page on AO3, filtering for 'big bang', and i got another 100+ bangs to add to the list, lol. so that's something to look forward to! (genuinely, it's fun!)

i've been really, really wanting to do a big bang. the only one i've ever done is smallfandombang, which was delightful but limited to small fandoms and had a minimum of 10k words. (i was seriously considering signing back up this year but then i blinked and two months had gone by and i'm still kind of sad about that.) and i want to do a BIG bang. like MEGA big. i'm talking like 50k+ words minimum word requirement. or at the very least, a 30k words requirement. i want to be pushed to write and actually complete a longfic.

also, i think it says something about my state of mind and health that i've only recently realized that i at some point fully forgot about tinyfandomflash. the last prompt was almost a year ago. sigh. i do feel bad about that. the fact that booknook is managing to keep up the RIP Wednesday posts without me is a blessing, and i'm so grateful people are comfortable stepping up. i wouldn't want that to fall to the wayside <3

in the vein of 'i'm slowly, slowly, oh so slowly starting to feel like a Real Person again', i've dropped a bunch of new prompts on smallfandomfest. prompting is open for like another week, if you've got something for it. there are 7k+ total prompts in the bag to pick from now! i am both in awe and delighted by that.

when it comes to DW, i have 2k+ unread items in my inbox. i think i need to stop tracking comments on booknook—i do so for moderation purposes, but honestly i'm not able to handle the deluge right now. like, i'm super happy it's so active and the comments are thriving! but i can't keep up, and then it just keeps building...

so if there are any problems with booknook, anything that requires mod/admin action, (harassment, rule breaking, etc.) you'll need to PM me, or i will likely not spot it.