Fandom and rl update

[jedi_of_urth]

Okay, so there’s a few updates on some of my ongoing projects (if people are all that interested) here, but then there’s real life stuff again.


-Project 1: The reviews-

I do need to get back to them, especially since now dwrewatch actually *has* caught up with me, it’s time to get back to that. I just seem disinclined to do them, I’m mostly just watching stuff (that’s not in my review queue) these days. Some of that’s tied in with real life stuff, some of it’s just...lazy basically, I don’t feel in the mood to do reviews so I’m not.

-Project 2: Fic-

I’ve conceded defeat on doing the drabbles this summer this year. I only got through like ten and their due in a couple weeks and I’m just not inspired for drabble length writing. I may post what I did do eventually, but I’m kind of meh on the whole thing.

And while my mind keeps spinning on the next story in the TVD series I’ve got going (the series needs a title at some point) I haven’t actually written anything in a while and I’m starting to think I may need to rethink even some of the stuff I did write, so it’s probably a ways away. A couple other fringe muses pop up occasionally, but mostly my muses are on vacations.

Also, does anyone have a floorplan of the various houses on TVD? I’m always sure I’m forgetting parts of the Gilbert house and have no idea how the boarding house is laid out, and either it’s my spotty memory or we only see parts of the Forbes’ and Matt’s (and hardly any of Bonnie’s); the Originals’ mansion is pretty much open to creativity in my head too. And these are things I like to have in mind when laying out a scene sometimes.

-Project 3: Vidding-

babylon5_love has gotten me to dust off a B5 vid I started a few months back and actually finish it. But it’s *still* not coming together as well as I want it too. I’m not posting for a few more days but this is sort of emblematic of how my vidding muses have failed me for several months now. I *miss* vidding, I really do, but the muses that manage that aren’t talking to me much. Maybe when I can get DVD copies of TVD s3 so I don’t have to worry about pop up bits I’ll feel inclined to try my hand at that again (credits are still pain on that sow since they go one forever and usually over important character bits).


(Twiddles thumbs awkwardly, okay, guess it’s on to real life stuff)

So yeah, my grandma didn’t make it, in fact she was gone by the time I got there. Apparently my mom had kind of downplayed for close she was to passing so I thought it would be a couple days but instead she went quietly basically over the course of a day. And we all know that was probably for the best, if she wasn’t going to get better she didn’t suffer, and going so quickly (relatively, she was 94 with a variety of health issues that came with age so one could say she’d been dying for years) and quietly it seems kind of like she knew it was time and just...faded out.

So yeah, last week was family time, which was okay. We mainly made it about celebrating grandma’s life rather than sad times. We played all the games she used to play with us, barbequed a couple meals the way she liked to do if we got together during the summer, and the fact that we *were* all together (a couple of my cousins couldn’t make it, but they tried even though it would have been a long trip) would have made her happy.

I’ve been putting off talking about it less because it’s upsetting (it’s sad but not exactly traumatic) and more because I just don’t have the words. Well, that and I didn’t have much time alone until the last couple days to think about what I might say in a write up and I always prefer to be alone when I’m writing so I can process what I’m saying out load and react to it as I want, and something like this really needed that.

She was a great lady, and I’ll miss her, in the end maybe that’s all that needs to be said.


(Yes I did take time out of all this to post TSTWA, but it was ready to go so I didn’t have to call the muses back to deal with it.)

Comments

[karenor.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about your grandma. But glad you got to celebrate her life with your family. *hugs*

[jedi_of_urth]

Thanks. Considering how universally we responded that way we all clearly knew it woud have been what she wanted.

[jedi_of_urth]

Thanks for both the sympathy and the link.

Hmm, all I'm seeing on the link is house info and pictures, which isn't as helpful as I was hoping for sadly.

[got_swagger]

*HUGS*

I'm so sorry about your grandmother.

[jedi_of_urth]

Appropriate icon is appropriate (one day that sort of phrase is going to rot all of our vocabularies).

Awkwardly hugs back (not the most casual hugger me)

[silverraven.livejournal.com]

So sorry to hear about your grandmother. *hugs*

[jedi_of_urth]

Thanks.