here’s the thing:

I finished my stats roundup for everything I got up to last year! It's a mixed bag of spreading out my creative energies more than I'm used to, which is why I'm glad I'm tracking so many aspects of what I do instead of just tracking writing and going "OH NO I DID NOTHING AND FAILED"

Here's some highlights!

Notable Facts About These Facts:

This is the least number of fiction words I've written in a year ever since I have records. Which is 2012, when I was 12-13. Which is kind of wild? I'm really glad to have the rest of these numbers too so I can go a) I'm still being creative, it's just more aimed toward podfic this year b) I still wrote a metric fuckton of words.

This brings my total up to 851,398 fiction words in my lifetime and 193,465 academic words for a total-lifetime-writing of 1,044,863.

NUMBER GO UP!!!

Oh also for the record:

AO3 pseud for fic: ThatAloneOne

AO3 pseud for podfic: Aether

AO3 pseud for original work: Pingoodle

the more i try to explain gender to cis people the more i understand plato's allegory of a cave

plato: the shadows are like a surface level understanding and coming out of the cave and seeing the actual objects is what being a philosopher is like

me: this is stupid and pretentious

cis person: girl is when pink and flower and boy is when blue and guns

me: oh no theyre still in the cave

You could not make me immortal because even if I faked my own death and left I would not be able to stop using ao3. Ao3 going back 100 years with 5k fics or something

People would accuse you of backposting your fics to seem cool and mysterious but then someone points out there are comments on there which are dated from long-deactivated accounts 100 years ago and it's a whole thing

I would have to be like "yeah it's a thing where I inherited this account from someone dead and he had a whole thing about passing the account on"

So the fannish-next-of-kin feature was really just devised to disguise the existence of vampires.

Ao3 user DreadPirateRoberts

On the plus side, we know that the archive itself will be in good hands; I can't imagine that an immortal who wants to keep posting there would allow it to fall into ruin.

While the Onion buying InfoWars is indeed extremely funny, very few of the posts I've seen commenting on the sale have mentioned that the families of the Sandy Hook victims apparently agreed to voluntarily reduce their lawsuit payout as part of a deal to ensure that the Onion would acquire InfoWars wholesale, rather than having the company broken up and auctioned off piecemeal, as the latter course could potentially have allowed some of those pieces to end up back in the hands of Alex Jones' cronies.

Like, yes, it is in fact very funny that InfoWars is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Clickhole, but the real props go out to the Sandy Hook families who saw the opportunity and willingly gave up the additional millions of dollars that could have been realised by stripping InfoWars for parts in order to make that happen.

fans when a story has some sense of inexplicable mystery or intrigue beyond the scope of its borders: oh fuck we need to explain all the mystery and intrigue immediately it was so rude of the author to leave the story open like that

happy out for a walk bitch day to those who celebrate

they should legalize polyamory. everywhere. and im not kidding at all. if someone wants to marry multiple people they should be allowed to. for any reason.

Me lying down: I feel pretty much fine. What am I doing lying around? I should get up and do something. Or at least sit upright, damn.

Me when I’m upright: oh, Jesus. Oh, damn. Oh, RIGHT—this is why I was lying down.

Obsessed with characters who’ve memorized a numbered list of rules that the follow and will recite when situationally appropriate. 99% of the time it’s painfully bland characters going “rule number 71, never fall in love with pretty boys” ands it’s so sucks. The only time I’ve seen it work was for Star Trek ds9 Quark.

Like yes, tell about how rule of acquisition number 53 is never trust anyone taller than you. I fully believe that you have memorized this 431 rules long list, I am completely immersed go on.

“my body is a temple” well MY body is the USS enterprise and let me tell you there are some inconceivable situations happening on board

Having ADHD is so fun because sometimes youre looking for something that you use regularly and definitely put away in a smart and reasonable place and you have absolutely 0 hope of remembering where and finding it. And then other times ur like "hmm I need a some kind of small pointed object. I feel like i remember seeing a paperclip under the left couch cushion a month ago, i wonder if its still there" and it is