liminalovertea

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Background

should

none of that

hate

Business Info

The Urban Village Witch (official business website)

SoulFood CoffeeHouse (the shop where I take drop-ins)

My appointment-booking page

My business email: theurbanvillagewitch [at] proton [dot] me

Services I provide

Life coaching

Spiritual mentorship

Talk/vent sessions

Tarot readings

Lenormand readings (French cartomancy tradition)

Kipperkarten readings (German cartomancy tradition)

Playing-card readings

Pricing

First appointment: PWYW (pay what you want)

Repeat appointments: $2.55 USD/minute for up to an hour

Payment options:

Mode of operations

Most of my appointments are in-person and limited to the Greater Seattle Area, because I don't drive and my transportation options are limited. If you are not in the service area, I will gladly do readings over email. First-time clients will still be PWYW, and readings for repeat clients will have an agreed-upon price beforehand, based on the current pricing structure. You will receive attached photos of the cards that were drawn, as well as an in-depth explanation of the meanings and how I arrived at that conclusion. Feedback and follow-up questions per draw are ALWAYS WELCOME!

Important Disclaimers (please read)

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Still have questions?

Comment on this journal or contact me at the business email listed above!

Thank you!

Current Mood: productive

althea_valara

Someone - I forget who, sorry! - linked to this list of 15 questions for fanfic writers, put together by

maevedarcy. I do so love questionnaires and writing memes, even if I'm not that big of a writer (yet!).

( questions and answers under cut to spare your reading pages the length )

javert

I'm gonna be real with you chief, I don't have the energy nor the inspiration for a proper blog post today. I overslept... and also it's the week-end... I don't want to use my brain... I'm resting...

I made a list of stuff to do this week on Mastodon and I've actually been crushing it, so that's been nice, at least. I like feeling like I'm Being Productive at least a little. It's good to have objectives and stuff. I'm actually kinda looking forward to seeing how much of my August to-do list I've managed to get done...

Anyway, onto the miniblogging:

I haven't been working on my ficinabox letter at all... aghhh. I promised it'd be ready by tomorrow, too, so I guess I might crank it up today LOL. Well, I did make a list of my favorite Linda³ animals, at least, I just need to format it. Then it's going to be all about going through what I copied over from last year and fixing stuff if needed.

I fixed up the mobile version of my fanlisting, because it wasn't actually super mobile friendly especially now that I was adding more stuff to it. I'm pretty happy with it now though. This is what it looks like:

The one thing I'm still stuck on rn is the placement of the subtitle... I might try to figure out a better way to handle it. Who knows. It's not a huge issue, just kind of a pain when it comes to responsiveness. (As usual!!)

fandomgiftbasket sign-ups are open!!! I had most of mine already ready LOL, but I added some last minute stuff and suddenly realized it couldn't fit in one Dreamwidth comment. That had never happened to me before; kind of exciting in a way. Anyway, you should sign up so I can draw Pokémon for you or something.

My goal today is to have the barebones of a website set up for Noah, who wants a site to host its fanfic and future novel information, that's easy to use and doesn't require it know anything about coding. (Well, I'll be here to offer HTML & CSS support and fixing no matter what, but you know.) I mostly want to figure out a super simple design and then try using Arrow's fic masterlist + easy AO3 template so all that Noah has to do is just download all of its fic as HTML files and plopping them in. I'll probably have to handle the fic masterlist stuff myself but that's okay. We'll see what Noah thinks about it. (I know you're going to read this BTW. Hi Noah.)

Okay, this is already getting too long, this is supposed to be a miniblog!!! That's about all I have to report on today though I think.

Because I suddenly remembered they existed, I checked the Blaugust themes & prompts for this year, and I might try to do some of the latter ones? A lot of them are really focused on being in the Blaugust Community which is fascinating to me. Maybe next year I'll try to get involved beyond just making posts lol. I feel a little bad because the only people who are also doing it that I've been commenting on have been

linky and Scumsuck. Which I guess is better than nothing! My efforts to comment on more posts I see through my Reading page have been paying off though, I think. I'm trying... Being social is difficult!!! I used to live in a cave and not talk to anybody, you know!!!

I'll leave you with a preview of some of the buttons I've been making for the fanlisting. Life is hard when there's almost no canonical material of your OTP even just standing together... Actually, I should make a button of the Café Lysandre scene...

Current Mood: drained

fred_mouse

It is a mere 20 days since my last reading notes post. I do occasionally wish that I had it together to do this weekly, and write more comprehensive reviews, but eh, when it happens, it happens.

finished

My Throat an Open Grave (Tori Bovalino) - teenager from Evangelical Christian small USA town wishes their younger brother away. Much darker than Labyrinth, does some very clever things with traditional story tropes. 4.5 stars. review
What Feasts at Night (T Kingfisher) - reread. Not the Kingfisher I was planning on reading, but eh. 4 stars. review
Of Melodies and Maledictions (Maddox Grey) - prequel novelette, good world building and characters, but I resented being treated as if I couldn't see the plot detials shaping the story. 2 stars. review
Within Prison Walls: Being a Narrative of Personal Experience During a Week of Voluntary Confinement in the State Prison at Auburn, New York (Thomas Mott Osborne) - very well written kinda long form journalism, kinda memoir, about the social experiment of a prison reformer spending a week in prison. 5 stars. review

active

(started or progressed)

The Siege of Burning Grass (Premee Mohamed) - this is on my phone, and I haven't been on the bus, so I got about a third in and then haven't touched it in a week
Unmasked: The Ultimate Guide to ADHD, Autism and Neurodivergence (Ellie Middleton) - finding this much less readable than the Aussie one that was specifically about ADHD, and thus struggling to maintain momentum. Also, I keep stopping to write grumpy reading notes. Such as "late diagnosed". Sweetie you are 25. (which, yes, is late diagnosed using specific definitions, but this hasn't been defined, and I've a lot of friends getting diagnoses in their 40s and 50s. Possibly 60s).
After Story (Larissa Behrendt) - continues to be emotionally hard going; I've read a chapter in two weeks

there are also several for uni that haven't made it into the reading record.

paused

The Spider and Her Demons (Sydney Khoo) - forgot I'd borrowed this, got a 'return or else you are out of renewals' notification, got about 2/3 read in the time before I could get to the library. Very annoyed that I can't opt out of automatic renewals, but not enough that I'd done anything other than be annoyed at a librarian who kept trying to tell me it was a good process.

abandoned

nothing! For a value of nothing that includes the fact that I've taken two books from the little free library near the office, looked at the first few pages, and then returned them. One was about the Corn Laws in the UK, and while it might have reached the point that I agreed with the author, the way the whole thing was being framed was very much 'these stupid people didn't understand what was being done for their own good'. And the other was a history of Singer (I don't remember if it was the sewing machines specifically or the company) that I decided was probably really interesting but I have too many other things I want to have read in my life, and I'd rather read something else (at which point I think I started Siege of Burning Grass, and I am still of the opinion that was the right choice even if I've stalled on that one)

thispatternismine

Watching When Destiny Brings the Demon & holy shit it's is amazing! If you're not watching this, I highly recommend it! To entice you, here are some random things that happen:

- A significant portion of the budget has gone on dry ice.

- ML holds FL to him, declaring that she will not die so long as he wishes her to remain alive, his face spattered with the blood of his enemies, as buildings burn around him & epic music plays. She is concerned about whether he's eating enough.

- ML shows up to a sparring display, throws an apple (well, a flower petal) of discord into the ring, & watches everyone biting each other's dicks off.

- FL receives a mysterious letter (that is clearly not from ML) inviting her to a midnight meeting & is like 'nah'. Common sense in a cdrama FL!

- ML needs to feed FL his blood (because it's magic) but she is unconscious & won't open her mouth. Clearly the only thing to do is to suck some of his blood into his own mouth & feed her mouth to mouth. There is simply no other way to achieve this.

- ML turns FL into an otter (because reasons) & is constantly petting her & carries her around everywhere & snuggles with her in bed. You could say the whole thing is... otterly adorable.

These things all happen within the first 10 episodes. It's not quite Till the End of the Moon levels of intense batshit, but damn it's close. I gotta say though, my favourite thing here might just be how it's shot. There's actual thought put into how scenes are blocked out & shots are framed. A couple of particular standouts that spring to mind: A shot where the ML draws a dagger while holding it in front of him, so his face is framed by the blade & his sleeve. And another is a scene where the 2FL is having a talk with the main antagonist & it's blocked & framed in such a way that they spend part of the scene back to back, which absolutely should not work & breaks basic rules of filmmaking, but works perfectly & underlines what is going on in that scene.

I withdraw everything I said about Mistakenly Saving the Villain. Got to about 25% & the story just started spinning its wheels. Main character fell into a coma for a decade so we got a timeskip, but it didn't feel as if anything had really changed aside from his personality disappearing. His drive to do medical research & help the love interest (to the point of torturing the guy who trafficked him & giving his soul to the LI as a birthday gift because death was too good for him!) sort of evaporates & he's just kind of there being useless. It's all so... meh.

I might have pushed through if it was just that but... An Long. He shows up, causes enormous damage breaking into the MC's home & bites a chunk out of the MC(!), who then APOLOGISES TO HIM for making him worry! Even though he wrote to him as soon as he was out of his coma, telling him he was fine & to stop trying to break in. But apparently it's all the MC's fault he did so anyway. Ignoring boundaries is fine! And he & the LI have an awkward rivalry over stuff that happened over the 10 year timeskip, but don't do anything about it for no other reason than to drag out what is almost certainly the most boring reveal in the history of literature when the MC finds out. That's okay though because he's not sticking around, righ- Oh, we're going on an awkward road trip because the MC wants them all to be a squad or something. No thanks. (And the author leaves an author's note reassuring the readers that don't worry he was going to get a good ending! I don't want him to have a good ending - I want him to die immediately.)

Threw in the towel at chapter 42 (33% of the way through).

I would have liked to have immediately leapt into the official translation of My Husband & I Sleep in a Coffin, but no bookshop in the UK is able to get their hands on a copy, it seems.

I've started on The White Cat's Divine Scratching Post. I'm liking what I've read so far, though I've only just started so I've yet to form any real opinion. (I was planning on starting The Beauty's Blade next, as it's next up in the publication order of the novels I'm checking out, but TBH I'll probably take one for the team & buy it regardless, as this is clearly 7S testing the waters regarding baihe.)

Current Mood: hungry

sonofgodzilla

Title: Kindness
Universe: Wonderful Precure!, Delicious Party♡Pretty Cure
Prompt: Power Rangers Megaford: S20E13 - Dream Snatcher
Character(s): Nekoyashiki Mayu, Kome-Kome
Rating: U
Warnings: N/A
Summary: The girl didn’t turn to look at her, but she could sense the shift in her interest. This girl, almost 16, the same age she had been when Yuki had been given the gift of reaching back for her.
Length: 725 words
Author's Notes: This harks back to a couple of things I have done recently. I think sometimes I am guilty of looking so inward and examining those feelings and assuming you are just on the same page that there is no hope, but trying to communicate is better than saying nothing at all. also: external link.

nyaan

( Kindness )

Current Mood: sad
Current Location: somewhere
Current Music: Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue

paperghost

1. I am drunk right now because I was gonna go out to a lesbian bar this evening, but then some at home schedule stuff got in the way lol. So I am coping by drinking at home. If this is incoherent, that's why.

2. Soooo there's whispers over on Bsky (etc.) that Neocities might follow suit on the NSFW bans. This was disclosed via an email from Kyle Drake, and Neocities in general is kind of... unmoderated unless it's something REALLY bad or something that exploits the site's spaghetti code. NSFW will only get banned from Neocities IF the US laws allow it, but.... I was thinking that maybe, the silver lining of the social media bullshit is that people will go make their own sites again with no rules besides "don't post CP or anything else illegal". But if this happens, I will go postal. I will cry. I've been willing to grit my teeth and agree to disagree with Kyle Drake's AI shilling but he cannot sell out so easily when the baseline rules of "anything legal in the US" works and NSFW websites are shadowbanned / not searchable. I'm already worried Bsky is going that way when I really like it, but if the worst happens I really might bite the bullet and look into buying a domain and a paid host. I'm just not ready :( (<- draft I wrote last night when I was sober lol)

I know there's Nekoweb, since the servers are in Germany and they (probably) won't be affected by US laws. But it's run by zoomers and customer support is done over Discord, that's insane. I don't even mind Discord but emails are right there. I know where I'd buy a domain, and what paid host I would use (NFS), but ugh. I've been taking a prolonged hiatus from my site because I don't enjoy it anymore, and the community is just refurbished Tumblr/Discord. I should probably look into push updates and a SSG. If I move to a better paid host, I'm sure that .php or .cgi has better ways of hosting an art gallery than the hard-to-organize OC bullshit I have and Javascript. But I'm just not ready for all of it, but the way things are is too much for me. Again, I'm drunk so if this is "unfiltered but incoherent" I'm sorry. I'm a wagie, not a techie. I'm trying to touch grass and try to be in sane online communities. But man. It's hard.

2025 is 2005 if I was an adult during it. What the fuck.

lumiosecity

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Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Ghosts Again (Depeche Mode)

liminalovertea

My wife and I are kind of obsessed with animation, so we make it our thing to sit on the couch and watch together, especially during a new anime season.

Here are some of the recent things we've watched/are watching:

Call of the Night (よふかしのうた)

My Dress-Up Darling (その着せ替え人形は恋をする)

To Be Hero X (凸变英雄X)

The Apothecary Diaries (薬屋のひとりごと)

Dandadan (ダンダダン)

Other series we've enjoyed together in the past/are waiting on new seasons for (that I can remember right now):

SPY×FAMILY

Chainsaw Man (チェンソーマン)

Otherside Picnic (裏世界ピクニック)

Girls' Last Tour (少女終末旅行)

Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle (魔王城でおやすみ)

Laid-Back Camp (ゆるキャン)

Current Mood: relaxed

ursamajor

I did not end up making a dessert for choir this week that magically used any portion of our eleven cups of plum jam in the fridge. I made chocolate chip cookies, and they disappeared like magic (the only empty container on the snack table when I went to clean up after break!) and I got multiple compliments on them *preens*.

It was my usual recipe, doubled because I used the oversized 20 oz Ghirardelli bag of semisweet chips, and then I went through my spice cabinet and pulled out baharat and rosewater. Though I've made a couple of adjustments over the years, and didn't actually write them down online, so here, have my ( go-to chocolate chip cookie recipe. )

Ugh, I need a new chocolate icon, FJKR.

That being said, I went by Market Hall this morning since the internet said they were my local carrier for the See's Candy x McConnell's Ice Cream collab - they didn't have all the flavors, but they did have Coffee + Molasses Chips, so that got promptly plopped into my bike basket.

But while I was there, I also perused the other things they had available, and the regular old standard size 12 oz bag of Guittard semisweet chocolate chips was SIXTEEN GODDAMNED DOLLARS I HATE THIS TIMELINE.

Even checking online right now - Berkeley Bowl is claiming $12.39/bag, Guittard direct says $11.99/bag, and I am wondering how many bags of the semisweet I can order via my farmshare at $7.49/bag before they cut me off. Ghirardelli is still available at Berkeley Bowl for $8.79/bag, but I'm wondering for how much longer - before this summer, both of these were pretty close price matches, maybe 50c/bag difference and not always consistently in the same direction depending on what supermarket I was at? This feels like when vanilla prices exponentially spiked a few years ago and my $50 of vanilla backstock was suddenly worth $300.

... the farmshare website dropdown goes to 20 items. I'm not sure I want to be talked out of this. (I will probably buy at least 4, I am literally down to my last bag of chocolate chips and I usually have half a dozen bags on hand at any given time.)

Current Mood: indescribable
Current Music: this is the straw, final straw

haunted_cherries

(YES the title was an Edgar Allen Poe reference for funsies, NO I am not accepting criticism at this time xD)

No Fannish 50 this week since this work week had me BEAT, but it'll be back again next Friday! For now you get a YAPPING POST before I initiate my Friday After Work Nap™!! ^ o^)/

But AHHHHHHHHHH I WAS BRAVE AND DID A THING

So thanks to

rionaleonhart writing Death Note fic (here if you wanna read it b/c HELL YEAH THESE WERE SO GOOD), I stumbled on the

1character comm and their "50 Sentence Fic" challenge!! I was crazy enough to not only try it for Nagisa (P5X), but I'm also gonna try it for my Twisted Wonderland OC Tristan, too!! Nagisa for obvious reasons, and Tristan b/c in my break from writing OC stuff, I've REALLY missed him a lot!! ; u; When I saw some of the prompts, I thought it would be a chance to not only expand on Tristan's past, but to talk about his future, as well!

Nervous but EXCITED, at least!! (Because Trishelle is never going to miss an opportunity to feed the GAPING MAW of the WIP Drafts beast. xD These'll be MUCH smaller prompts in comparison to just writing a whole ass fic, so it should be pretty low stress! Fingers crossed!! 🤞❤️)

Speaking of the Drafts Beast, I'm gonna try to take a bit of Sunday to REALLY buckle down and clear out some of my WIPs b/c OOF the brain has been willing to write but the body fights it at every turn! (Also trying to ride the "fuck it, we ball" wave b/c no one's gonna read this (affectionate) so I need to stop worrying and just WRITE xD) Saturday is reserved for my Final Destination Extravaganza, so that'll be my break day along with today.

AND NOW SLEEPS! 🥱😴 Have a good weekend, everyone!! WE MADE IT!! ^ o^)/

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Cafe Leblanc
Current Music: DEJA VU - Michi Mochievee & K9 Kuro

kradeelav

I've been yoinking a lot of really cool background/living quarters/gardens type of reference pictures from chinese-speaking spaces, and it's highlighting an interesting conundrum that i honestly don't really know how to feel about (there's no easy answer to it).

on one hand, these are gorgeous, lived in traditional spaces with immense, antiquated character that's a feast for the eyes as well as real history, right. cool tea-houses, shrines, gardens, etc.

but they are inaccessible as hell lmao.

like i see a dude walking over a bridge that's a bunch of vertical tiny stepping stones and go 'ayep that's not ADA compliant... this stairway ain't either.... how the fuck is an elderly person supposed to get to this multilevel platform too, much less me... wait was that a rope ladder.. lol...'

(it's a common problem with "old" European cities too so it's not an east/west thing by any means; i've long since resigned myself to basically sticking to US/modern cities. arguably it's *the* reason i don't travel much because it'd be too much of an ordeal. yes yes yes i know there's services that exist blah blah, do you know how much still doesn't fuckin work in practicality and is there purely for 'check the box for compliance' reasons. yeah. just trust me on this one.)

and i'm not complaining here for the sake of bitching, the interesting conundrum here is just the fact that yeah - there is going to always bee an either/or division with 'gorgeous historical architecture' and 'is it easy to get to'. visually speaking, multi-level platforms is a great way to break up a space, but there's the inevitable steps, you know? and you can only make so many ramps.

so it's very interesting to also rotate this thought while designing/drawing fictional spaces, especially older historical ones -- how to make it plausibly accessible while remaining dynamic. (my dad and i talk about this all the time with him being an architect and knowing full well that struggle of 'how to make a functional space pleasing'. ngl it actually is fun listening to him complain about regulations since there's so many to learn about lol, much less shit like 'don't put a doctor's walk-in entrance next to the patient entrance because doctors are arrogant bastards who don't want to mingle with the plebeians (true story)).

tozka

Happy Friday! I recently found out the homeowners’ sink does sparkling water using the nubbin on the other side of the faucet from the regular water handle. I coulda been having fizzy water this whole time!

On Dreamwidth

dolorosa_12 shares a warning about AI scambots from AO3 infiltrating Dreamwidth.

beepbird has written a book about plurality/multiplicty titled “For the Many,” and it’s available for free download (EPUB/PDF) at the post, or on their website here.

Summary:

Plurality is the experience of having more than one self in the same body. There are few guides written for those who don’t fit into “one person per body”, and it can be hard to figure out how to live a life where you’re never alone, especially if you struggle with internal conflicts or trust issues. For the Many offers over 100 pages of guides on self-discovery, communication, and developing an internal community.

(via ysabetwordsmith)

matsushima at longreads posted a selection of interesting articles and podcasts, including quite a few grouped under “AI is Bullshit.”

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Crossposted from Pixietails Club Blog.

javert

I was able to go to the park today... Actually, I'm writing this while sitting in the park! Yippee!

Originally, I was going to give stream of consciousness another try for this post, but actually, I might try to stay focused on a specific topic... Namely, I've been thinking a lot about dissociation, the internet, gender identity, and the line that connects all of these together. It was already on my mind following an encounter under a YouTube video about the LaLaLand series by biggt (this makes it sound like I met a stranger in the comments, and I did, but it was the video's creator, haha) and it's only become more present after watching the Serial Experiments Lain YouTube video I shared in my last post.

( Some personal ramblings under this cut. Warning for some light dysphoria/dissociation discussion. )

Current Mood: thoughtful

euhgh

I got logged out of Dreamwidth and it made me too lazy to want to login and write a post I wanted to make earlier. It's funny to be pointlessly lazy like that... the tiny extra bit of friction of having to log back in has stopped me more than once from posting or interacting with people in a timely manner. Besides that, I got mentioned in a weird post on Tumblr where someone was making polls comparing people's art?? I... I can't be the only one who finds this incredibly rude. I don't want to see the poll answers. I.........how DARE you??? I don't draw to be in a competition with other artists!! I didn't sign up for this!!!!! I'm just going to ignore it instead of draw attention to it. It really annoyed me at the time though.

Well, besides that, I've been getting a lot more kind random messages these days since I started being more social again, which is nice. I'd like to focus on that and write some kind of Today In Video Games post to talk about some of the latest games news I've been interested in besides Sonic.......but also Sonic. I've also been thinking of some older artists that influenced me a lot that deleted their galleries and I want to write about that. Much to do. Too much, even. I hate that being social requires... being social. It's as overwhelming as it is stimulating.

Oh, I've also never posted my art here before despite saying I willl, but I don't know if the first art of mine I want on this journal to be Espio getting fisted by Vector. A friend of mine mentioned it to me offhand and I just HAAAAAAAD to make it real. It looks as ridiculous as I thought it would. I don't know if I'm gonna color it or leave it a sketch, LMAOOOOOo... it'll be on Inkbunny eventually either way. Oh. Inkbunny is the only site that feels like it has a lot of Sonic artists outside of Twitter?? Weird. Oh, but I'm really rambling off all stream-of-consciousness like now and that'll never end. Back to werk.

Current Mood: relaxed
Current Music: Strangers Like Me · Phil Collins (Tarzan)

fadedwings

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selenicseas

At the beginning of the year, I made a goal to complete six video games that I hadn't played before. At this point in August, I've completed one: Horizon Forbidden West. I've started three others – Mass Effect: Andromeda, Quantum Break, and Divinity: Original Sin II – but ended up dropping all three.

Of those four, only Horizon Forbidden West was really able to hold my attention, and even that became difficult toward the end of the game, where I started skipping things just because I wanted to be done. With Mass Effect: Andromeda, I stopped playing after an hour due to lack of interest. I almost got all the way through Quantum Break before dropping it. And with Divinity: Original Sin II, I slowly stopped playing and haven't booted the game up in a few weeks.

I'm not sure why these games couldn't interest me long enough to finish them. They're in genres I tend to like, from developers whose games I've liked. I liked the Mass Effect trilogy, I liked Remedy's other games, and I liked Baldur's Gate 3 a lot.

Am I burnt out on gaming? Do I need to take a break from video games for a while? Am I not playing the right games at the moment?

Maybe what I need to do is go through my game libraries and try various games until something hooks me. Or maybe I need to replay something I've wanted to replay for a while. That wouldn't help me accomplish any of my goals, but it would potentially help me feel like gaming isn't the burden it feels like at the moment.

vriddy

This is mostly silly. A problem with one of the early chapters is that nearly everyone noted it "feels" long even though it's not that much longer than the others. There are a number of issues: the sentences are too long for what should be a quick and fast-paced scene (bandits attack the village!), the descriptions feel quite remote as if the main character was only observing instead of being part of the action. It's vague in too many places instead of zooming on specific, vivid events and characters.

I've been editing this story for a lifetime (untrue) (but apparently still 179h41 over 141 days in the last 18 months, so CLOSE ENOUGH! XD), and because this is an early chapter it's one of those I've reread the most. So to shake things up a bit and try to experience it and its outline differently, I decided to storyboard it. It turned out surprisingly effective! It helped me narrow down on the key moments, and also give more agency to the bandits. Also it was fun.

At first, I drew two sides: one for the bandits, and one for the village, to show the preparations/lack thereof.

Then once the two collide, I started narrowing down on the key battle moments. By the 4th moment, I realised this was already a lot and stopped there. I removed a couple of unnecessary minor plot threads, like worries about a spell failing, and more magic stuff that's interesting but not particularly relevant to the scene or story. And I buffed up the 4 selected moments to make them more vivid.

( You don't need to be good at drawing. Are the bandits bringing torches to burn down the houses, or flower bouquets to secretly woo the villagers? Who knows! 😂 )

I think it was good just to help me think about the scene differently. My usual outlines sure look nothing like this!! I was also hoping to reduce the chapter's word count to make the prose tighter, but it ended up bubbling up because making things more specific required fleshing out background characters and actions. I think I'm okay with it, but I'll have to see how it flows when I do a full reread later, after I'm done and have taken a break from the story.

Current Mood: amused

lumiosecity

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lieutenantsanya

As a Tomarry enjoyer, I can NOT get enough of the time travel trope involving those two. I think I'm growing way too attached to Harry Evans as a concept/character. While I do enjoy a good Lord Potter fic, there is something very delicious about the many possibilities of Tomarry's dynamic. Very delicious and very sexy.

One day, I might try a hand at writing those two with all my favorite tropes and scenes LMAO The gen writer is strong in me but something about those two makes me go feral.

I'm adding a Tomarry/Harry Evans shrine to my list of pages for my website, heheh. I kept flip-flopping on what domain to use since I fell out of love with eltee.xyz. I've now settled for kadotoriku.xyz as an ode to my old handle but who knows if it'll be the final domain. :P

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liminalovertea - A bit more about my cartomancy business, since I'm entering the busy season...
althea_valara - totally procrastinating, so here's a questionnaire
javert - miniblog..2 !!!
fred_mouse - Reading notes
thispatternismine - When Destiny Brings the Demon / Mistakenly Saving the Villain
sonofgodzilla - FIC: Wonderful Precure!, Delicious Party Pretty Cure - Kindness
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