This is not a depression post

[ishie]

For a change! How about an update?

Work is work, the less said the better.

I miss my cat so much still.

I got an encouraging note from an editor who rejected a story I really love.

I'm desperately spiraling deeper into doomshipping Effie/Haymitch, but I have at least managed to claw my way out of this one before so godspeed to us all.

Still haven't found rock bottom on either Elvis or Spy.

I officially get my bachelor's degree as soon as final grades are posted, and as long as I didn't fuck up this last class too badly, I'll do it with a 4.0. Take that, past self-sabotaging self!

But for real everybody write 700k of either Effie/Haymitch or Spy Susan/Ford fic for me to read instead of sleeping or going to work OKAY GREAT GO TEAM.

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[damalur]

Congrats on wrapping up your degree!!!

I feel like I spiral at least once a year over Katniss/Peeta. It's like this secret thing where I tried reading it because I didn't get why anyone cared about Peeta and then came out of it in love with the pairing because Katniss /wants/ him and man, I don't even know except that I wish I cared less about HG. Anyway, because I do care, is there a particular fic that pulled you into Effie/Haymitch and where is it???

[ishie]

I can't remember which one pulled me in!! But it might have been When the Smoke Clears? And I read all nine million words of FernWithy's prequel verse, which is really only nominally Effie/Haymitch but mostly Haymitch POV, in like three days? LITERALLY COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN. Fell asleep at least three times with my tablet in hand, eyes burning from lack of sleep for dayyyys.

I love Katniss/Peeta so much. Like. I know that there are people who care whether Gale lives or dies and sometimes these people even want him to put his face on Katniss's face but they seem like characters in some kind of a fairy tale passed down from generation to generation that I never really got because PEETA. HE IS TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORLD.

[damalur]

Hooooly crap, that prequel series looks like everything I've ever wanted to read for this fandom (although, to be fair, I rarely go looking for fic - it sort of seems to fall in my lap). I'm going to set it aside for the weekend because I've already spent the past five days making unfortunate choices re: bedtimes and Batman fic.

I'm so hung up on Katniss/Peeta at this point that I can't even get angry about the epilogue, which would normally have me all up in arms (and probably painting some kind of child-free slogan on my chest, lol). Like! He's SO GOOD! She wants him SO MUCH! People change! They should have a million fat babies, WHATEVER.

The only actual serious thought I've ever had about Gale is how weird it is to see an almost-Thor with brown hair. I can muster interest in Katniss/Haymitch, which I think is popular? Although right now it occurs to me that Katniss/Haymitch/Peeta is what I really want.