Snowflake Challenge 9
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dragonyphoenixIn your own space, brag about yourself. Tell us what things you've done that you're proud of; the things that make you the wonderful person you are. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I have two different categories of accomplishments and the first I'm still working on. Over a decade ago I left my programming career to write. My life was a perfect storm of badness: undiagnosed anemia left me with little energy, my uncle passed away and then my mother died, clinical depression had mucked up the way I looked at the world, and I hadn't kept up changes in code development. And my job ... they had no work for me to do but they kept me on and yelled at me, telling me I was lazy because I wasn't working.
I'm currently working in a mailroom and not making a living wage so I'm planning to go back to that career. Back in the day I coded GUI. I recently participated in a hackathon and realized how little I know about web development so I'm planning to study at a coding bootcamp. I'm dragging my feet because I do associate that old career with all kinds of badness but I've started pre-work for a bootcamp so I'm getting closer.
At the hackathon I explained my history and was told I was brave to be going back into that field, which is really helpful.
And now for something completely different but related sort of. When I left my programming career, I took up writing fanfic. They were two sides of the same coin. I left the job because it was part of the depression I was going through. I took up writing because it brought me joy which I really needed.
So, fanfic!
Linus Meets the Great Pumpkin: Halloween story written for my writing group where I got my favorite comment: "Aw, the Great Pumpkin ships Linus and Jill."
So in this past year I found The Untamed, a Chinese drama with cultivators, people falling off cliffs and zombie creatures called fierce corpses. It's a lot of fun. A number of my stories from this year are crossovers with this fandom. They're mostly fluff / light crack.
The first two are Leverage / The Untamed fics. I think I did an excellent job with the characters in The Demonic Flute Job. And I like the humor - which, OK, I wrote it so that makes sense - particularly the bit where Parker has to stop and think about whether normal flutes can call up the undead. That cracks me up each time I read it.
Where the previous story digressed to make jokes, Parker and the Locked Box is straightforward. She wants to open a box. It's locked with magic. Therefore she needs to learn magic. I like, for example, her description of Wei Wuxian: He spent a lot of time on the roof at night. She liked that about him. Most people underestimated how nice roofs were.
In The Demonic Flute Job, we met Lan JingYi. He just seemed like The Untamed character most likely to have unfortunate interactions with people from other dimensions / stories. In We're Gonna Pay a Call On, he crosses blades with Gomez Addams. I really like their differing perspectives on the fight.
When the Rabbits Defended Gusu borrows heavily on the idea of the killer rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. As I reread it, I had tears in my eyes over one of the disciples hunched over an injured bunny. Plus, overall ... aw, cuuute.
From cute to creepy, What Lurks Beneath Lotus Pier crosses The Untamed with the Cthulhu Mythos. It's hard to describe. I enjoy how things fall apart slowly but inevitably, but then is falling apart the right term? That does depend on your point of view.
I am close to finishing my Giles as the Big Bad of season 1 fanfic In a Corner of My Soul. I started posting in 2004 so I'm feeling accomplished there.
And finally a longer crossover with BtVS that I'm just starting: Seasons in the Sun. It started as someone else's idea: Wen Ning in Sunnydale. I, having too much time to think at work, ran with it. Here are some tumblr concept links. Basically just a bunch of fun ideas I wanted to put together as a story with a plot loosely tied around it. Assuming I can make a plot loose. We will see on that score. Wen Ning in Sunnydale I hope to get to at some point; currently writing Cordelia in cultivation land as a romance between her and Jiang Cheng.
I have two different categories of accomplishments and the first I'm still working on. Over a decade ago I left my programming career to write. My life was a perfect storm of badness: undiagnosed anemia left me with little energy, my uncle passed away and then my mother died, clinical depression had mucked up the way I looked at the world, and I hadn't kept up changes in code development. And my job ... they had no work for me to do but they kept me on and yelled at me, telling me I was lazy because I wasn't working.
I'm currently working in a mailroom and not making a living wage so I'm planning to go back to that career. Back in the day I coded GUI. I recently participated in a hackathon and realized how little I know about web development so I'm planning to study at a coding bootcamp. I'm dragging my feet because I do associate that old career with all kinds of badness but I've started pre-work for a bootcamp so I'm getting closer.
At the hackathon I explained my history and was told I was brave to be going back into that field, which is really helpful.
And now for something completely different but related sort of. When I left my programming career, I took up writing fanfic. They were two sides of the same coin. I left the job because it was part of the depression I was going through. I took up writing because it brought me joy which I really needed.
So, fanfic!
Linus Meets the Great Pumpkin: Halloween story written for my writing group where I got my favorite comment: "Aw, the Great Pumpkin ships Linus and Jill."
So in this past year I found The Untamed, a Chinese drama with cultivators, people falling off cliffs and zombie creatures called fierce corpses. It's a lot of fun. A number of my stories from this year are crossovers with this fandom. They're mostly fluff / light crack.
The first two are Leverage / The Untamed fics. I think I did an excellent job with the characters in The Demonic Flute Job. And I like the humor - which, OK, I wrote it so that makes sense - particularly the bit where Parker has to stop and think about whether normal flutes can call up the undead. That cracks me up each time I read it.
Where the previous story digressed to make jokes, Parker and the Locked Box is straightforward. She wants to open a box. It's locked with magic. Therefore she needs to learn magic. I like, for example, her description of Wei Wuxian: He spent a lot of time on the roof at night. She liked that about him. Most people underestimated how nice roofs were.
In The Demonic Flute Job, we met Lan JingYi. He just seemed like The Untamed character most likely to have unfortunate interactions with people from other dimensions / stories. In We're Gonna Pay a Call On, he crosses blades with Gomez Addams. I really like their differing perspectives on the fight.
When the Rabbits Defended Gusu borrows heavily on the idea of the killer rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. As I reread it, I had tears in my eyes over one of the disciples hunched over an injured bunny. Plus, overall ... aw, cuuute.
From cute to creepy, What Lurks Beneath Lotus Pier crosses The Untamed with the Cthulhu Mythos. It's hard to describe. I enjoy how things fall apart slowly but inevitably, but then is falling apart the right term? That does depend on your point of view.
I am close to finishing my Giles as the Big Bad of season 1 fanfic In a Corner of My Soul. I started posting in 2004 so I'm feeling accomplished there.
And finally a longer crossover with BtVS that I'm just starting: Seasons in the Sun. It started as someone else's idea: Wen Ning in Sunnydale. I, having too much time to think at work, ran with it. Here are some tumblr concept links. Basically just a bunch of fun ideas I wanted to put together as a story with a plot loosely tied around it. Assuming I can make a plot loose. We will see on that score. Wen Ning in Sunnydale I hope to get to at some point; currently writing Cordelia in cultivation land as a romance between her and Jiang Cheng.