So, following up from my last post, as an update: I did in fact put in for the Embrace the Deception zine, and I’m currently awaiting acceptance or rejection. Planning ahead, because I’m participating in so many challenges/projects, I have successfully sourced a reference image (from the lovely Adorkastock) and will be drafting that in the next few weeks. If I get in I’ll be ahead of the game, and if I don’t, I can always grace the Psych-o’s on Tumblr with it, lol.
We’re entering into a portion of the year where we are consistently busy. Fall is really my favorite time of year, and it feels like that’s the overwhelming consensus in the majority of my social circles, so of course it tends to be a busy time when everyone I know is trying to cram all variety of seasonal celebrations in.
We had our first party of the season on Labor Day weekend, hosted by our friend Raeann, which is always fun; and just this Saturday we had “Wing Out til You Ding Out,” hosted by our friends Pete and Jane, which was huge potluck centering on — you guessed it — wings (and holy shit, how many wings, lol. It was so good).
I also have a fancy, five-course, themed dinner party with my sister coming up; the start of Bear’s dance classes; apple-picking with Dan; pumpkin carving at Aimee’s; a six-week tarot-reading class; and of course, our September life drawing group. I’m very excited.
Today I plan on a mellow day spent relaxing and doing prep for my annual Red Dwarf writing challenge; my moot Artemis started it back in 2023, and I picked up the mantle the last two years. It’s yielded some really, really wonderful fic, and it’s just a joy to log on every day and see half a dozen new stories or vignettes (or sometimes art!) and to know that I’m in part responsible for their existence, lol. Generating the prompt list was less of a challenge than I’d feared it’d be, though I’m (foolishly, I guess) looking to next year already and thinking, “ugh, do I actually have another 31 prompts in me…?,” lol.
Also on the roster for today is working on tentative completion (pending review) of the two piece for my Big Collaborative Project), and hopefully starting my sketches for Drawtober. I’m not enamored with every single one, but I definitely have some great ideas for at least three of them, and I hope to get ref photos and sketches done today.
Hope all is well in your neck of the woods. Take care of yourselves and each other.
All Your Crooked Heart 