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  <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:30:44 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>April 5 2026</title>
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  <description>Today i did my taxes &lt;em&gt;and &lt;/em&gt;put air in the tires of my car without crying even once and that&apos;s going to have to be a win.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/350943.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;other stuff going on recently&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope everyone&apos;s doing okay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=350943&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:34:18 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Looking for hope (first two chapters of Carnelian Lace, an Anita Blake fic I won&apos;t finish)</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;I have had a very interesting few days, writing-wise. I had been noodling on an idea for a while when, maybe three days ago, I started wondering if I might be able to do use the premise of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/18980413/chapters/45068215&quot;&gt;Hour of the Wolf&lt;/a&gt; (my Teen Wolf/MCU&amp;nbsp;timetravel long-lost family story &lt;em&gt;feat&lt;/em&gt;. Allison Argent) on something related to Anita Blake.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Note: It took me a whole day to remember had already done that in 2005 with Switchback, a story I didn&apos;t import over to AO3 as it&apos;s incomplete. (You can find it &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-6605/Mhalachai+Switchback.htm&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;; cw: rape)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Sometimes people say they only tell one story&amp;hellip; and I just re-read Switchback and realized that I didn&apos;t create something new with Hour of the Wolf; I&apos;d taken my one story and applied it to Teen Wolf.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Anyway.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;A few days ago, when the idea occurred to me to apply the HotW premise to Anita Blake, I went all in, I was writing, I was plotting, and I had over 6,000 words together by the time I managed to think my way through to the end of the story&amp;hellip;. And then I stopped. I realized that I absolutely &lt;em&gt;do not want&lt;/em&gt; to write this story as it&apos;s set because there&apos;s no chance of a hopeful ending. The story starts with irreparable loss, and there&apos;s no way to fix that.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;So I stopped.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In the interests of transparency (and because I like throwing dark-haired girls and their preternatural sidekicks back in time), I&apos;ve posted what I have written below the cut:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/350287.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;Read more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=350287&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:52:03 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Saturdays in May</title>
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  <description>For reasons that I&apos;ll explain in a month or two, I&amp;nbsp;went to a local used bookstore (Pulpfiction on Main is my saviour) to see if they had copies of the earlier Anita Blake books. Subway construction on Broadway was so bad that it took longer to get there on the bus than it took me to walk home; c&apos;est la vie. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, my route home took me past my old apartment. I&amp;nbsp;haven&apos;t been that way much since I&amp;nbsp;moved out in 2009. The old neighbourhood was pretty much the same - taller trees, although there are a number of rezoning proposal signs up; we&apos;ll see what goes through the city planning office and what can actually get built, with the cost of construction sky-high. I&amp;nbsp;wondered if I&amp;nbsp;would feel any nostalgia when I&amp;nbsp;walked past the old place, but there was none. It was a crappy place and I&amp;nbsp;was in a not-so-great mental space when I lived there. Pretty happy I left when I&amp;nbsp;did. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;K&amp;nbsp;that&apos;s enough navel gazing. I&amp;nbsp;have old books to look at :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=349984&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <category>mhalachai goes outside</category>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 23:17:57 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;we had a strange one-day heat-wave yesterday (it&apos;s been averaging 19C here for a month and shot up to 30C yesterday; back down to 22C today) and now I have a headache that&apos;s either from the heat, some flavoring in the sparkling water I was chugging, the fan, or some fourth option like a change in the air pressure or a brain tumour or something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Going through life is weird. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=349938&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:05:10 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Trying to keep a toehold in fandom spaces...</title>
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  <description>so the biannual distress flag has been raised over at Tumblr (well, everywhere, but specifically over there) so I&apos;m shorting up my fandom-based social media presence again. I&apos;m going to start posting here as well as over on blusky, in case that ever becomes a thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, some links:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;On bluesky: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bsky.app/profile/mhalachai.bsky.social&quot;&gt;@mhalachai.bsky.social&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;On tumblr: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.tumblr.com/&quot;&gt;https://mhalachai.tumblr.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;On AO3: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/users/Mhalachai/&quot;&gt;https://archiveofourown.org/users/Mhalachai/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;I&apos;m on Discord but not reliably. If you want to connect on there, or you just want to say hi, drop a comment or a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/inbox/compose?user=mhalachai&quot;&gt;dm&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=349392&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2022 00:29:08 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>thinking about things these days</title>
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  <description>I&apos;m watching the implosion of Twitter and can&apos;t help but think back to the decimation of LiveJournal, and the fragmentation of fandom social spaces in general. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  I don&apos;t have any really eloquent thoughts on this one, but maybe it can best be summed up as, it feels like it&apos;s getting harder and harder to find, create and sustain community in fandom spaces. I put &lt;i&gt;find&lt;/i&gt; first in that list as that feels like the biggest barrier right now - finding where people have scattered off to, and also being able to find new communities when new fandoms pop up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   Isn&apos;t that just the paradox, though - the internet is more vast than ever and it&apos;s really quite lonely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=347477&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2019 19:06:13 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Fic rec: The Necrofloranomicon (Stucky necromancer AU)</title>
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  <description>Sunday fic rec! it&apos;s all my favourite things, together at last :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/13640571/chapters/31325814&quot;&gt;The Necrofloranomicon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; by&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://leveragehunters.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://leveragehunters.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;leveragehunters&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Summary&lt;/em&gt;: Bucky didn&apos;t want much. Just to keep his head down, to sell his scavenged flowers in peace, and to stay off Shield&apos;s radar. His life would have been a lot easier if his flowers weren&apos;t dead and if being a necromancer wasn&apos;t illegal, but easy or not, he was getting by. Steve didn&apos;t want much, either. He was happy working for Shield, he had good friends, and overall his life was going just about the way he wanted it. Problem was, being happy with your life was generally an invitation for fate to throw a spanner in the works&amp;mdash;and in Steve&apos;s specific case, it was going to be a spanner named Bucky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(A love story about flowers, trust, and magic and the choices we make about doing what&apos;s right.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/13640571/chapters/31325814&quot;&gt;Read it on AO3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=346354&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 17:06:44 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>tea</title>
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  <description>&amp;nbsp;I&apos;m going through a tea phase - mostly black tea during the day, and peppermint with honey after 6pm. I&apos;m lucky to live in a city with a number of great tea shops. My favourite tea right now is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.davidstea.com/ca_en/tea/organic-la-la-lemon/10266DT01VAR004105.html&quot;&gt;La La Lemon&lt;/a&gt; from David&apos;s Tea, and I have a rotating selection from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://granvilletea.com/39-tea&quot;&gt;Granville Island Tea Company&lt;/a&gt; (currently drinking their Christmas 2018 blend).&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m also drinking far too much coffee but I have to be at work by 7:30 and I&apos;m making trade-offs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What&apos;s your favourite tea?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=345797&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2019 00:39:10 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>fic rec: Once Upon a Beanstalk (Stucky fairytale AU)</title>
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  <description>Sunday fic rec!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: larger;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: larger;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/16968999/chapters/39881658&quot;&gt;Once Upon a Beanstalk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  by&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://leveragehunters.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://leveragehunters.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;leveragehunters&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A fairy tale AU&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Summary&lt;/em&gt;: Everyone knew how the story went: climb the beanstalk, brave the terrible giant, and if you were lucky and clever and quick you could come away with fortune enough to change your world. If you weren&apos;t&amp;hellip;well, not every story had a happy ending.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bucky&apos;s problem was that his story had gone wrong before it started. He wasn&apos;t braving the giant for a chance at fortune, he was climbing the beanstalk to save his skin&amp;mdash;ironic, when he knew the giant was probably going to stomp him flat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Except he didn&apos;t. Didn&apos;t stomp him flat, didn&apos;t send him back down the beanstalk, didn&apos;t act much like a terrible giant at all. He was kind in a way Bucky didn&apos;t know how to deal with because everyone knew that wasn&apos;t how the world worked. But Bucky was slowly coming to understand that at the top of a beanstalk nothing was what it seemed and that sometimes, with enough determination, what everyone knew could be changed completely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/16968999/chapters/39881658&quot;&gt;Read it on AO3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=345140&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2018 20:03:53 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>My 2018 in fic</title>
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  <description>Writing this year has felt like a bit of a slog, what with the day job, but the numbers aren&apos;t that bad. I think my tendency to write super-long chapters is what draws it all out. Anyway, here&apos;s what I published in 2018:  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/2143266/chapters/4682211&quot;&gt;Hands of Clay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Chapter 32:&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/2143266/chapters/31560591&quot;&gt; Sunset and the Mockingbird&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Chapter 33: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/2143266/chapters/35119385&quot;&gt;Autumn Leaves&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Chapter 34: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/2143266/chapters/40179242&quot;&gt;Mood Indigo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/12990834&quot;&gt;Clint Rogers&apos; Very First Hanukkah&lt;/a&gt; (chapter 2 finished in 2018)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Outtake: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/2585939/chapters/32713095&quot;&gt;The Proposal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Outtake: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/2585939/chapters/34159622&quot;&gt;Playground Stories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Outtake: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/2585939/chapters/39807537&quot;&gt;The Second One With 29 Collected Tumblr Short-Fics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Yuri on Ice!&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/13658244&quot;&gt;Silver and Glass&lt;/a&gt; (Valentine&amp;rsquo;s Day ficlette)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/14714997/chapters/34008639&quot;&gt;And each man stands with his face in the light&lt;/a&gt; (6/7) (aka &lt;i&gt;As the Sword Turns&lt;/i&gt;; swordmaster AU)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Chronicles of Narnia/Avengers&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/16370504/chapters/38311646&quot;&gt;Turn, Archer, and Heed the Wild Hunt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Word Count Roundup&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hands of Clay: 48,286&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hands of Clay Outtakes &lt;i&gt;(incl. Clint Rogers&apos; Very First Hanukkah)&lt;/i&gt;: 46,700&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Silver and Glass: 2,688&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;And each man stands with his face in the light: 36,914&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Turn, Archer, and Heed the Wild Hunt: 23,854&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div&gt;Total 2018 word count: 158,442&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=344405&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2018 22:41:27 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ask Me Anything December: Dec. 30</title>
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  <description>I have no idea what number this is any more. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/341088.html&quot;&gt;Ask Me Anything December meme&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;Do you visualize scenes when/before you write them? Or do you go by how the words sound in your head? Both? Something else entirely? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In most cases I have visualized the scenes in my head before I write them, only the translation between my brain and the written word usually shifts slightly in the telling. About 30% of the time in the Very Important Scenes, the dialogue I sounded out in my head survives intact, but the other 70% I&amp;rsquo;d say that the gist remains even as the wording shifts to sound/feel better as the written word.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For &amp;ldquo;filler&amp;rdquo; scenes (where I know I need to get from point A to point B but haven&amp;rsquo;t spent months obsessing about the dialog) I tend to make it up as I go along &amp;ndash; this usually works as I know the characters pretty well by this point in the writing process.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=344102&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2018 00:58:43 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ask Me Anything December - catching up</title>
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  <description>For the &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/341088.html&quot;&gt;Ask Me Anything December meme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dec. 18: the one that got away (fic or fandom)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/1961022&quot;&gt;Hel&apos;s Bones&lt;/a&gt; escaped me with the relentless movement of the MCU canon (and the hole I dug myself into, more on that &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/343102.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fandoms? I have fallen out of a few over the years as I drift from canon interest &amp;ndash; Supernatural is a big one, as is Doctor Who. It&apos;s more that canon went in directions that didn&apos;t interest me so I went onto other ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As long-time readers of my blog would know, I set my &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/315469.html&quot;&gt;Anita Blake obsession on fire back in the day&lt;/a&gt; but again, a difference of opinion on where the characters were going.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dec. 19: How do you come up with names and story titles?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In most cases I get partway through the writing and start thinking, what should I call this? What are the themes I want to highlight?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/16370504/chapters/38311646&quot;&gt;Turn, Archer, and Heed the Wild Hunt&lt;/a&gt;, I wanted to highlight the archery bit that Susan and Clint were using to show the similarities and fit, as well as to riff off the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Hunt&quot;&gt;Wild Hunt concept&lt;/a&gt;. I ended up throwing words together but I think it works.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/2143266&quot;&gt;Hands of Clay&lt;/a&gt;, it&apos;s a riff off the idiom, &lt;em&gt;feet of clay&lt;/em&gt;, which means a weakness or flaw in an admired person. The main line in the story is that both Steve and Bucky work their way past their initial illusions of each other, see the other as a whole person, realize they love the whole man, and move to a real relationship. Only with hands instead of feet because part of Bucky&apos;s beliefs were around, who could love a man with only one hand (as well as his other flaws)? I thought myself witty when I made that up 4 years ago, but then writers always think that, don&apos;t they?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes, the title is the point-blank theme of the story. &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/1374466&quot;&gt;Inevitable&lt;/a&gt; &amp;ndash; well, the final confrontation and Harry&apos;s attempt at noble sacrifice was pretty much inevitable, as was Anita&apos;s refusal to sacrifice those she loves. &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/886492&quot;&gt;Widow Maker&lt;/a&gt; was another, where you thought it was going to be about &amp;ldquo;who made the Black Widow&amp;rdquo; and then I pull up in the last chapter to have Natasha realize that throughout it all, she&apos;s made herself into the person she is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I&apos;m desperate, I start looking up poetry online and seeing what I can grab for a title based on thematics (see, &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/14714997/chapters/34008639&quot;&gt;And each man stands with his face in the light&lt;/a&gt;; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/160277/chapters/230968&quot;&gt;Rosemary, for Remembrance&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dec. 20: What repeated themes do you see running through your work?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People losing use of their hands seems to be a big one. Found family or lost family members is another. People being smart and pragmatic while still making boneheaded decisions is another. But mostly found family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dec. 21: What&apos;s your policy on remixes, podfic, and other transformative work?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to remix/podfic/fanart anything I&apos;ve written? I will come to your house with cookies and clean your garage. I would love anything &amp;ndash; I love to see where people take things based on my writing :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Seriously. I&apos;ll make you cookies).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dec. 22: Where do you turn when your research is coming up with nothing of value to the story?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I&apos;m reading this right, it&apos;s where I&apos;m looking for information but online gives me nothing. Most cases this isn&apos;t the case, as what I&apos;m looking for are popular subjects (mainly medical and heath, mental and physical, along with childhood development and other stuff for kids). On the rare occasions where my plot research is more &lt;i&gt;niche&lt;/i&gt;, I have the very good fortune to work for a research-intensive university, with a very large library and access to an immense journal selection. In all my time of writing, I&apos;ve gone hunting for information in the library stacks about 4 or 5 times? Mostly I can find what I need in the online catalog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And when I can&apos;t find anything, even with those resources and over 20 years of research know-how behind me? Either I take a different direction where I can find more info, or I whole scale &lt;i&gt;make things up&lt;/i&gt;. It&apos;s fiction, after all.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dec. 23: any media you enjoy but didn&apos;t get into the fandoms?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mostly comedies, I have a hard time connecting on the fandom side (I enjoy the gifsets and the memes but I don&apos;t partake if you know what I mean).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve also really gotten into shows that have zero fandom presence so that drifts. Best example was a show called &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1842530/&quot;&gt;Unforgettable&lt;/a&gt; (started in 2011, with Poppy Montgomery) with a detective who hyperthymesia and can remember everything she&apos;s ever experienced; I liked it, the supporting characters were interesting, but there was no fandom for it and I wasn&apos;t robust enough at the time to start up on my own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dec. 24: What&apos;s the best piece of writing advice you&apos;ve ever gotten?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All first drafts suck. So write the first draft, let it suck, and then go back and make it better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dec. 26: Out of all the characters you&apos;ve ever written, which one is your favorite? Which one has surprised you the most? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love Natasha Romanoff in all her incarnations. Be she a five-year-old adopted by Bucky Barnes in modern-day New York, or as a 75-year-old near-indestructible spy. She&apos;s fascinating to bring to life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surprised me the most, I&apos;d say, more recently, Viktor Nikiforov. He&apos;s surprised me in the directions I can take him, and to see where he ends up going in my AUs while based on the canon character.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=343822&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:50:48 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Hands of Clay 34/37: Mood Indigo</title>
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  <description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/2143266/chapters/40179242&quot;&gt;Hands of Clay 34/37: Mood Indigo by Mhalachai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 40px;&quot;&gt;James Barnes leads a busy life as a single working father in New York. But when his childhood best friend Steve Rogers falls back into his life, James will have to re-learn what love, friendship and and family are really all about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/2143266/chapters/40179242&quot;&gt;Chapter 34: Mood Indigo on AO3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;In this chapter&lt;/em&gt;: The fallout of Natasha&amp;rsquo;s illness, and James struggles to keep it together to help his little girl. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Notes&lt;/em&gt;: There has been so much research. I know too much about medical things, and not enough. Also we get to have some really fun cameo appearances from other MCU characters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can&amp;rsquo;t write much here without giving away points of the story, so sufficed to say: This one nearly did me in. But it&amp;rsquo;s all uphill from here &lt;strike&gt;(as if things could get much lower for Bucky)&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me know what you think and thanks for reading!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This chapter&amp;rsquo;s soundtrack:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/0CmftpbG4ig&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=343626&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2018 22:48:26 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ask Me Anything December #8a and #8b</title>
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  <description>For the &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/341088.html&quot;&gt;Ask Me Anything December meme - Day #8a&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;How much of the story do you know before you start writing it? Do you use outlines?&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/71464.html&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My writing style can best be described as &amp;ldquo;organic&amp;rdquo;.  Before I start writing, I usually have a pretty good understanding of what I&amp;rsquo;d like to explore in the story, what the character&amp;rsquo;s journey will be, and what the end will look like. I  have a very broad outline in my head, but does any of that ever get written down? No. Mostly because I find that the big details stay with me, and the smaller ones shift and move as I&amp;rsquo;m writing anyway, so I aim to be more fluid with my story direction. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What that ends up looking like in longer stories is that pieces are imagined in broad strokes. For example, the chapter of Hands of Clay I&amp;rsquo;m currently writing was always in my head as &amp;ldquo;[Character] goes to the hospital.&amp;rdquo; I knew how the beginning of the chapter should go, but that was all, and I am now 10,447 words deep and it&amp;rsquo;s all coming together in its own way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/341088.html&quot;&gt;Ask Me Anything December meme - Day #8b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Optimally, how many times does your work go through the revising process? &lt;/em&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/71464.html&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What revising process I tend to re-read and revise as I go. When it gets to the actual writing part, I&amp;rsquo;ve usually spent a lot of time on the planning part, so what gets written I know will fit into the broader story arc. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think a lot of my approach to revising comes from my days working for a newspaper, where any story revisions were one and done and you were moving on to the next thing &amp;ndash; that meant you had to write the story the right way the first time.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=343519&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2018 01:44:11 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ask Me Anything December #7</title>
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  <description>For the &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/341088.html&quot;&gt;Ask Me Anything December meme - Day #7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question today is from &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://dimestore-romeo.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://dimestore-romeo.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;dimestore_romeo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; :&lt;strong&gt; I&apos;m not sure if it&apos;s wip or rip, but its an old favourite nevertheless! How did you picture the rest of the plot for Hel&apos;s Bones turning out? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah, &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/1961022/chapters/4241784&quot;&gt;Hel&apos;s Bones&lt;/a&gt;, my one story that&apos;s been jossed to many times by canon that I might actually just say &amp;quot;screw it&amp;quot; and go with the original plot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Link: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/1961022/chapters/4241784&quot;&gt;https://archiveofourown.org/works/1961022/chapters/4241784&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which is this, so if you&apos;re not wanting spoilers, head out. But anyway, here&apos;s the big reveal:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hel, daughter of Loki and Angrbo&amp;eth;a, is the Soul Stone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;cut-wrapper&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;span-cuttag___1&quot; class=&quot;cuttag&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-open&quot;&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-text&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/343102.html#cutid1&quot;&gt;Putting in a cut because this really, really got away from me. also warning for a lack of coherence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class=&quot;cut-close&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;div-cuttag___1&quot; aria-live=&quot;assertive&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strike&gt;and that&apos;s what I did on my summer vacation &lt;/strike&gt;that&apos;s how that was going to turn out - I still like it better than bringing in Hela as an Odin child and making her evil - even if Thor 3 is one of my favorite movies :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=343102&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 01:05:03 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ask Me Anything December #6 (a day late)</title>
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  <description>For the &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/341088.html&quot;&gt;Ask Me Anything December meme - Day #6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question today is: What piece of writing are you most proud of? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m proud of most of them for lots of reasons, but I think as a whole piece, I would say that&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/886492/chapters/1708944&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Widow Maker&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; stands out. I wrote it before we knew anything about what the canon was going to do with the Winter Soldier (series started in 2012, and Widow Maker came out in July 2013), and I was mostly working off an amalgam of Black Widow&apos;s comic background and stuff I wanted. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I like about this piece is that the action just keeps coming at the reader, and there are lots of twists and turns, some for which I use common tropes and then others where I flip the script so there&amp;rsquo;s a bit of questioning on what Natasha will choose to do. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, in this series, I do a slow introduction to the Stargate Program so anyone who&amp;rsquo;s coming in from the MCU won&amp;rsquo;t get caught up on the crossover world, at least I hope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plus this was my first time writing Bucky (and this was before the Captain America: Winter Soldier reveal of Hydra) and I got to explore his character a bit, what someone who was in and out of cold storage but didn&amp;rsquo;t have their memories entirely erased would do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plus the prequel&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/1004733/chapters/1990879&quot;&gt; Baba Yaga&amp;rsquo;s Children&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was a fascinating experience to write &amp;ndash; I had written children POV stories before, but this was my first big foray, and in trying to connect it to who Natasha Romanoff became, that was a really fun challenge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=342935&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:18:58 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ask Me Anything December #5</title>
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  <description>For the &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/341088.html&quot;&gt;Ask Me Anything December meme - Day #5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today&apos;s question is: Why do you write? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two reasons: I have all these stories in my head and want to share them with everyone, also to get them solidified into one actual story instead of the multi-verse of tangents and off-shoots and AU storylines. I find that once I write something down and publish it, all other tangents crumble to dust and I&amp;rsquo;m set on a particular &amp;ldquo;canon&amp;rdquo; for my stories*. Sometimes it&amp;rsquo;s a relief.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also I crave validation from others and want everyone to like me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Over the years I&amp;rsquo;ve heard readers criticize authors for forgetting details of their own stories and yes this is why we should all have a story bible but I bring this up because I find it fascinating how I can have an encyclopedic knowledge of the tiniest details of the shows I watch and books/fics I read, and have forgotten almost all details about a story I wrote two years ago. So I get it, both sides.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tl;dr - can&apos;t &lt;em&gt;not &lt;/em&gt;write. have tried. didn&apos;t take.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br type=&quot;_moz&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=342408&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:34:38 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ask Me Anything December #4</title>
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  <description>For the &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/341088.html&quot;&gt;Ask Me Anything December meme - Day #4 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today&amp;rsquo;s question comes from&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://dinosaurswearingdior.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://dinosaurswearingdior.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;dinosaurswearingdior&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;: are you a shaniac or a boogara or a mix or neither?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m a Boogara in my love of mysteries and of true crime and of deep-dive research, of finding intricate new ideas to solve puzzles, and in the belief that sometimes, in some places, an energy remains after the people involved are gone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m a Shaniac in that I don&amp;rsquo;t believe in actual ghosts or demons, but think it&amp;rsquo;s possible that maybe cryptids exist. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also props to Shane for going whole-assed on the Hotdagga, that&amp;rsquo;s my kind of frenetic creative energy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Height-wise I&amp;rsquo;m a Shaniac but that&amp;rsquo;s a different conversation all together)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here, have my classic episode of Buzzfeed Unsolved: The Strange Disapperance of D.B. Cooper:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/oHSehKtDyoI&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br type=&quot;_moz&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=342145&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2018 19:52:43 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ask Me Anything December #3</title>
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  <description>For the &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/341088.html&quot;&gt;Ask Me Anything December meme&lt;/a&gt; - Day #3 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today&amp;rsquo;s question comes from &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;jjhunter&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; : What do you carry with you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Literal answer:&lt;/em&gt; Phone, headphones, chapstick, $40 in cash, a bookstore loyalty card, and my house keys&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Philosophical answer: &lt;/em&gt;Loneliness. I have a hard time understanding social interaction and people really mean in any given social setting. I have a hard time making friends; I get the social signals all wrong and am either too clingy or too aloof, and it ends up with me sitting by myself too tired to try again. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And having said that in all its depressing glory, I try not to let that define me. I get up, go to work, perform all the obligatory social interactions (how was your weekend?  Any holiday plans? Etc.) and live my life. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt;, I&amp;rsquo;m ok with &lt;em&gt;alone&lt;/em&gt;. Lonely hurts sometimes, but alone is within my control. Alone is, I can go out and see people and then leave those people and be home&amp;nbsp; and knowing exactly what&amp;rsquo;s in my personal space and be in control of my own destiny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also I carry with me the lingering repercussions of childhood poverty and low socio-economic expectations, but I&amp;rsquo;m saving that particular topic for my autobiography.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=341841&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2018 18:34:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ask Me Anything December #2</title>
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  <description>For the &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/341088.html&quot;&gt;Ask Me Anything December meme - Day #2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question today comes from&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://schneefink.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://schneefink.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;schneefink&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: What are your favorite kinds of AU and why? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Crossovers, obviously, but we&amp;rsquo;ll come back to that.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In a move that will come as no surprise to anyone who has read my collected works, domestic AU and found family AUs top out my list. I also love messing with details in any universe just a little bit, so for Yuri on Ice, it would be a ballet AU where Yuuri stuck with dance instead of skating.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;For the former, it has to do with building relationships (which is what fanfic is all about and I will fight a body on this) and exploring more about the characters themselves. Also found family is wonderful and the best part of crossovers&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun:yes&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;is saying &amp;ldquo;well of course these characters are already connected it makes perfect sense the set-up is all there in canon so let&amp;rsquo;s just go with it shall we).&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The little detail swap AUs have to do with minor tweaks to how a character&amp;rsquo;s life and path turned out, and looking at how they will still make these deep relationships with others even though some parts of their life turned out differently.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;But going into the way-back machine, I cut my teeth writing crossover fanfic, and it has a lot to do with my love of remix culture &amp;ndash; taking the really cool elements of two (or more) things and smooshing them together and making it work. Because when you can figure out how to make it work? (Like how to put together Anita Blake and Harry Potter and make it work?) that is an amazing feeling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=341512&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2018 18:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ask Me Anything December #1</title>
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  <description>For the &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/341088.html&quot;&gt;Ask Me Anything December meme&lt;/a&gt; - Day #1!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question today comes from &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://kass.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://kass.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;kass&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;strong&gt;Tell me things you love about Yuri on Ice?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                Oh, I love so much about Yuri on Ice:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;How Yuuri and Viktor are both seen to be living with mental health challenges and it doesn&amp;rsquo;t define them nor diminish them.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How their dedication to the sport (both the athleticism and the artistry) is so realistic.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How Yuuri as an unreliable narrator made Viktor seem to slightly sinister in the first few episodes and it was a delightful evolution for the viewer to go back and connect all the dots. Just fun storytelling.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How supportive Yuuri&amp;rsquo;s family and friends are of him, even when he feels as if he has failed them or let them down.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Makkachin.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How Viktor and Yuuri both call each other out on their behaviour and talk through things like goddamn adults. Also, how they both make mistakes and own up to those mistakes.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How by the end, Viktor can see a future for himself (with Yuuri, yes, but also for himself).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Also how there is so much left open for interpretation that we can fanfic AU *anything*&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; What do you all like about YOI?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=341364&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 23:24:36 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ask Me Anything December</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;In the spirit of getting to know all the new folks, I&apos;m going to be doing a truncated December ask meme starting on Friday, so feel free to drop a question into the comments below and I&apos;ll queue it up!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Topics I&apos;m particularly chatty about: Marvel stuff, Yuri on Ice, any of my fanfics (completed, wip, or rip), any of the old fandoms, the cultural zeitgeist of Buzzfeed Unsolved, Vancouver or BC, Sherlock Holmes, true crime.... and anything, really.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Ask away!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 7: &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://kass.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://kass.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;kass&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/341364.html&quot;&gt;Tell me things you love about Yuri on Ice?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 8: &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://schneefink.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://schneefink.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;schneefink&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/341512.html&quot;&gt;What are your favorite kinds of AU and why?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/321908.html&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 9: &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;jjhunter&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/341841.html&quot;&gt;What do you carry with you?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 10: &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://dinosaurswearingdior.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://dinosaurswearingdior.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;dinosaurswearingdior&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/342145.html&quot;&gt;are you a shaniac or a boogara or a mix or neither?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 11: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/342408.html&quot;&gt;Why do you write?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/71464.html&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 12:&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 13: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/342935.html&quot;&gt;What piece of writing are you most proud of?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/71464.html&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 14:&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 15:&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 16: &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://dimestore-romeo.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://dimestore-romeo.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;dimestore_romeo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/343102.html&quot;&gt;I&apos;m not sure if it&apos;s wip or rip, but its an old favourite nevertheless! How did you picture the rest of the plot for Hel&apos;s Bones turning out?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 17: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/343519.html&quot;&gt;How much of the story do you know before you start writing it? Do you use outlines?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/71464.html&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 17: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/343519.html&quot;&gt;Optimally, how many times does your work go through the revising process?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/71464.html&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 18: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/343822.html&quot;&gt;the one that got away (fic or fandom)&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/321908.html&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 19:&lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/343822.html&quot;&gt; How do you come up with names and story titles?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/71464.html&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 20:&lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/343822.html&quot;&gt; What repeated themes do you see running through your work?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/71464.html&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 21: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/343822.html&quot;&gt;What&apos;s your policy on remixes, podfic, and other transformative work?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/71464.html&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 22: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/343822.html&quot;&gt;Where do you turn when your research is coming up with nothing of value to the story?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/71464.html&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 23: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/343822.html&quot;&gt;any media you enjoy but didn&apos;t get into the fandoms?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/321908.html&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 24: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/343822.html&quot;&gt;What&amp;rsquo;s the best piece of writing advice you&amp;rsquo;ve ever gotten?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/71464.html&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 25:&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 26: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/343822.html&quot;&gt;Out of all the characters you&apos;ve ever written, which one is your favorite? Which one has surprised you the most?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/71464.html&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 27:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 28:&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 29:&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 30: &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/344102.html&quot;&gt;Do you visualize scenes when/before you write them? Or do you go by how the words sound in your head? Both? Something else entirely?&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/71464.html&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Dec. 31: What stories haven&apos;t you written that you would like to write? (&lt;a href=&quot;https://jjhunter.dreamwidth.org/71464.html&quot;&gt;src&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=341088&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 19:27:55 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Fic: Turn, Archer, and Heed the Wild Hunt: a Chronicles of Narnia/Marvel crossover</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;something I was working on last month and haven&apos;t posted here:  a Chronicles of Narnia/Marvel Cinematic Universe fanfic featuring Clint Barton and Susan Pevensie, because.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/16370504/chapters/38311646&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Turn, Archer, and Heed the Wild Hunt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;  a Chronicles of Narnia/Marvel crossover by &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/users/Mhalachai/pseuds/Mhalachai&quot;&gt;Mhalachai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Summary:&lt;/em&gt;  In the summer of 1983, Clint Barton goes to live with his new foster mom in the middle of nowhere, Iowa. Now he just needs to figure out how negotiate this new life&amp;hellip; and also what&amp;rsquo;s up with all the strange things happening in the night.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sub-summary&lt;/em&gt;: Susan Pevensie&apos;s whole life is a ghost story&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/16370504/chapters/38311646&quot;&gt;Read on AO3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=340852&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 00:43:07 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>an eva green appreciation blog (was: icons)</title>
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  <description>One of the things I really miss about the old LJ days was the icon communities. Today I finally got my hands on a copy of photoshop (legally, even) and knocked out a few icons to spruce up the icon library here on DW. And, frustratingly, I realized that I have misplaced all my old photoshop filters&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway so new icons and then there&apos;s this which I can&apos;t resize down to 100 pixels without losing too much detail:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/file/5112.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I need to go figure out if I stashed my old filters in Dropbox.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=340594&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <category>icons</category>
  <category>eva green</category>
  <category>photoshop really does live up to the hyp</category>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <link>https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/340362.html</link>
  <description>Honestly? I wish I could say I was surprised by the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/3/18123752/tumblr-adult-content-porn-ban-date-explicit-changes-why-safe-mode&quot;&gt;recent turn of events at Tumblr&lt;/a&gt;. But this happens frequently to fandom spaces. Just back up your stuff and let people know where to find you, I guess?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the only bright side to my day is that I&apos;ve been going through &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.tumblr.com/tagged/fanart/&quot;&gt;my fanart tag&lt;/a&gt;, ostensibly so I can see if I reblogged any art that might have &amp;quot;female-presenting nipples&amp;quot; (sidenote: &lt;em&gt;what the fuckery&lt;/em&gt;) and I&apos;m having quite the blast from the past.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway I put all my fandom locations up in my &lt;a href=&quot;https://mhalachai.dreamwidth.org/profile&quot;&gt;profile&lt;/a&gt; so tag and subscribe if you like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mhalachai&amp;ditemid=340362&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <category>crossposted to tumblr</category>
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