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Today was WriDay which means I push myself on word count. The smallest goal is 2.5k and that’s what I aimed for.

Ahem we are now entering the stage of mutually pining idiots bwahaha. Honestly, I did Helen who was thinking to herself “why hasn’t James kissed me yet?” and going to James who was thinking “I’d like to kiss her but her body language says no and I don’t want to pressure her.” and this is only going to get worse I’m afraid. They are going to slide into loving one another, and yet being utterly convinced the other has no interest.

I wish I could say John was going to do better but nope he’s going to be even worse. I’m still feeling out this middle part and deciding when to introduce Nigel and Nikola. Originally I put in my tentative plan that they didn’t start working with the source blood until the epilogue but I’m starting to rethink that. I’ll have to see how it develops.

Anyway the story is moving forward. The honeymoon is now over and they have just got back to James’ home. John was waiting practically by the door and is a bundle of nerves bless him, as he’s a bit scared that James is going to abandon him now he has a wife. A little TLC needed I think 🙂

Words Written: 2,629
Current Total: 22,384

littlejoregal said:  I envy you for being able to post constant updates on your writing! ❤

galactic-pirates said:  @littlejoregal it’s a new thing lol. It’s been years since I was this productive. But thank you 🙂 I hope it continues. 

littlejoregal said:  What is the secret? 😅 I mean the drive? 

galactic-pirates said:  @littlejoregal I like to tell stories. I have them in my head and I like to get them out. That has kept me trying even on really lean years where I’ve written next to nothing. At the moment my new enthusiasm for Sanctuary is helping a lot. It’s heady days with a fresh obsession 🙂 

littlejoregal said:  Oh, that I understand too well! 😅 If there aren’t stories in my head I can’t cope with life as it is. I meant your writing shedule. You just will yourself to sit down or you have something going on like nanowrimo? 

galactic-pirates said:  @littlejoregal oh I see! Yes I am trying to make it a routine. I sit down and open the document everyday and endeavour to write at least a sentence. I did try and mandate a set amount each day like NaNo but I haven’t been able to manage that. I struggle with anxiety and writing can set off panic attacks. I managed words half of the days in January which was a big win for me as I think I maybe managed 15 days in total January-November last year 😛 

littlejoregal said:  I see 😊 I’m happy that this is working out for you! I’ll work something out. 😅 

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Finally watched the end of Agents of Shield.

That was a wild ride huh?

Excuse me while I laugh at the thought of Deke being Director of Shield in an alternate timeline. He cares, oh I know he cares, but director? He’s a bit of a clown. Still he has grown up a lot and it looks like Shield will be a baby agency to begin with, as all the old pros were likely taken out. It’ll take time to rebuild and in that time he can learn I guess. And hey if it doesn’t work out he can always be a rockstar or a tech giant.

I’m kinda sad May and Coulson aren’t together. I get that he died and is a robot now but it’s him inside, like all his memories and everything that made him him. I’m going to headcanon that May inviting him to the academy was her saying “I’m ready now”. I love that May is the new academy director. Nobody is better suited to inspire and shape young minds, she is just awesome.

Daisy and Sousa having space adventures is pretty cool. Daisy is suited to that, I mean she had loads when searching for Fitz and Sousa is the kind of guy that just rolls with everything. Peggy Carter was a good warm-up for that haha.

That hologram tech is just wow. I’m guessing the chronocoms left some toys behind? Especially for Daisy to be able to call in from space.

I thought I would be more bummed by Fitz’s limited screen time but honestly I’m not. It was the most respectful “writing out” I think I have ever seen. He wasn’t there in person but he was very much there in spirit. He was never forgotten, frequently mentioned and his absence made sense. Other shows would have just dropped him, ignored it and hoped nobody noticed. I’ve seen that happen. No explanation as to why they weren’t around.

Fitz and Simmons getting their Perthshire home, their family and the quiet life after saving the world so many times is perfect for them. In a world where Shield never fell I’m sure they would have stayed agents. However, in this world where it was lurching from one extreme situation to another, they needed off the ride. It looks like things have calmed now, back to just business as usual for shield, but the last few years would exhaust anyone. Plus I’m sure they keep their hand in. They are both brilliant inventors after all and they need to do something for a paycheck. I bet May gets them to guest lecture once a year or something too.

As show finales go I think this scores maybe 9/10. It was very well done. There was good closure, we see hints of how life will go on for them now we’re no longer watching. That magic 10 is just lost because I am sad they are no longer together. Stargate SG-1 show finale sucked for a lot of reasons but the end shot of them marching through the gate, of telling us they would continue to have adventures, that is what I remember from the finale. That image is a positive one and Agents of Shield is a bit more bittersweet given the team has split up. They were more than a team, they were a family, and once a year holo-calls isn’t the same. Daisy is still sad about it and so am I.

Anyway I’m really going to miss this show. It didn’t get weaker over time (as so many shows do) instead it got stronger. The continuity was ace, the writing was tight, the characters always acted in character. Even if I didn’t like what they did, I could always understand why. I know that this should be the basics of what to expect from a TV show but as Once Upon a Time showed us… (sorry I’m not ragging on it, Once has a special place in my heart but that show was a mess).

Every year I used to be scared AoS was going to get cancelled and it made seven seasons. I would have liked more especially as the last 2 were just half seasons. However, I am content with what we had. It was satisfying. I’ve already rewatched the earlier seasons a couple of times, I know I will watch the whole thing many times.

Bittersweet end indeed. I already miss it fiercely :/

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Hmm it appears I forgot to ramble yesterday haha.

Ok well I did write yesterday and I also wrote today. I have now gone through, checking and fixing all existing scenes (and inserting new as appropriate) so I’m back to just linear continuation from tomorrow.

I need to close out the scene I walked away from (James and Helen talking as they walk along the seafront), and then probably do another 1-2 set a week or so later, before their return to London.

The new tentative deadline I’ve set is the end of next month. Ideally I’d like it finished before then obviously but I really don’t want it to take any longer. I have other projects I want to work on too!

Words Written: 1,402
Current Total: 19,070

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Watching Miss Fisher.

Hugh: Miss Fisher’s gone on holiday again.

Jack: Anybody dead yet?

Hugh: Just the one sir.

*dies of laughter*

I believe that’s what they call ‘hanging a lampshade on it’. Honestly she’s as bad as Jessica Fletcher 😂

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I fixed James’ scene today. I could have gone on and done John’s but I decided to spend the extra time on January’s drawing AND

GOOD NEWS

I have finished it!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

The summary for the fic was hard to write, I’m not confessing how long I just fiddled with it going “ahhh I don’t know!” a lot. Anyway, it’s now all ready to post next Tuesday so yay! That is a big task off my to do list.

So tomorrow I need to fix John’s scene and then I need to work on Helen’s. After that I think I just need to double check flow but I was pretty happy overall with the bulk of the wedding night scene. However, I’m not all that pleased with the scene starting the following day, so that will likely need adjusting. After that though I’ll be done with the fixing and just writing new stuff.

Progress!

Words Written: 740
Current Total: 16,905 (still shifting)

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So the blipped people blipped back to where they were when they dusted? I suppose we sort of knew that from when the people arrived for the final battle in Endgame but I’d not thought about it before.

Marvel really didn’t think that one through.

What about all the people in planes? They are just going to fall out of the sky. People in cars? Congratulations you are now sitting in the middle of the road. Makes me wonder how Nick Fury and Maria Hill avoided injury as they were in the middle of the road. People in the middle of surgery. Are they now on top of whomever is currently having surgery? Somebody was having a shower and their family moved after the blip, you are now naked in somebody else’s house.

I’m sorry it’s just the implications are staggering. It’s crazy.

Monica is definitely my new fave, I love her. The stuff with Maria though is making me even more sad than I was this morning! Maria founded SWORD which was all about monitoring space, and space travel – yeah I wonder who she was looking for/hoping to meet up with.

If I wanted to make myself cry even more I’d picture Carol looking Maria up after Infinity War. Battling cancer, lost her daughter, dead in two years, like holy shit no. Do not want. To be honest in that light no bloody wonder Carol went back out into space and didn’t return until Endgame. She had nothing left on Earth.

I was a bit confused as to how Darcy was an astrophysicist when she was a political science major. But then it hit me that was years ago, and interning with Jane Foster could have changed her path. So bachelors in poly-sci and then masters/Phd in astrophysics. I mean Elle Woods did some kind of fashion degree to get into law school so it seems possible (I don’t really know the US college system that well).

I love Darcy’s snark, glad she hasn’t lost that.

I was wondering why New Jersey for Wanda to make her place, as Vision died in Wakanda, but where was the Avenger’s compound/final battle? Upstate New York right? So straight after Endgame, she flies off with Vision and loses herself in her powers. Although that doesn’t quite mesh as Wanda was at Tony’s service. So either she held on until after that, or that scene takes place post-WandaVision when she’s been forced to finally let Vision go.

She’s grieving, desperately trying to hold on to what she’s lost 🙁 first her brother, then Vision. The only other person we see her close to is Clint and he just got his family back, and I’m sure she was thrilled for him, but it leaves her alone with no hope for her own reunion. I feel really bad for her. This is actually a very sad show looking at it like that. Poor Wanda 🙁

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I haven’t seen the latest WandaVision yet but I haven’t blacklisted the spoilers tag. I just saw a very pretty gifset of Maria Rambeau and I was going to hit insta-reblog and then I got to the last gif…

FUCK OFF

No, no, nope, no, not happening.

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I’m sorry I do not accept that.

I mean sure that ship is doomed with Carol not aging but c’mon, did they have to put the boot in? Couldn’t I dream like a teeny tiny little bit that they found a way somehow for Maria to age concurrently with Carol? Don’t know how but I just want them to be happy together dammit!

I’m sad now.

Way to break my heart on a Friday morning.

#I know I should actually watch for context and I will tonight#but damn poor Maria 🙁 and Monica still looks so young so it’s tragic all round

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I want to make Sanctuary gifsets it feels like forever since I made one and I have so many ideas!

So…
step 1: finish January’s drawing
step 2: finish gifset for the Bering & Wells exchange
step 3: do February’s drawing for the Bering & Wells exchange (because I like to make life complicated clearly)
step 4: ficlet/composition for the exchange aka put it all together and post/queue

No seriously that is the priority list :/ which means it could be another fortnight before I am clear to make Sanctuary gifsets.

Don’t get me wrong I love Bering & Wells. Every time I think about them I remember how much I love them, and wonder why I don’t do more stuff with them because they are awesome. So I’m not begrudging the exchange. Gimme all the Bering & Wells stuff. It’s just Sanctuary is all in my head right now, can we say total obsession?

Also I know I’ve said this before but it cracks me up every time – 150+ year old Victorians really make for the best ships bwahaha.

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Ok so not too much fixing today. I just wrote the new Helen scene to try and illustrate more her desperation. However, I think this means I might need another scene later? I’m not sure, I’ll need to check.

There’s a six week gap at the moment and I can’t decide whether that’s ok or not. I’m leaning towards yes precisely because that means when I get the scene, it’s at six weeks of boiling point and should therefore be more intense. Anyway next is fixing the John and James scenes as I didn’t get to that today.

I do still have about 80 minutes before I need to think about dinner (and it’s Thursday so my evening is booked), but I need to work on January’s drawing. It’s an illustration of John and James from my fic James Watson and the Curious Case of the Jarnul. I have been delaying posting until I could post it with the drawing. My plan is to drop both next Tuesday, as the final chapter of Our Darkest Hour will go up tomorrow.

I had hoped that I would seamlessly be able to pick up and start posting Choosing Fate next Friday but that’s not going to happen :/ so fic updates will cease for a bit after Tuesday until I finish this story.

Words Written: 1,942
Current Total: 16,374 (still shifting)

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Today I finished the new scene with James and John. I slipped it in before James meets Helen for the first time.

Tomorrow I need to check the James and Helen meet scene to make sure it works. Then I have the James scene directly after to fix, the John and James scene after that to rewrite/fix (change in POV) and I still haven’t added the new Helen scene from earlier either. That’s probably all I’ll manage tomorrow (at maximum) but I do have more scenes to check over/fix after that as well.

It’s Full Moon Madness tomorrow so hopefully as it’s a challenge day I should get a boost in my wordcount. Anyway, progress is happening again (thank merlin) and hopefully I’ll have the story all fixed in the next couple of days and I can crack on with writing it again.

Words Written: 615
Current Total: 14,439 (still shifting)