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I managed to fix the Aerith cosplay with my extremely amateur skills and plan. Thankfully, everything was done in the back, so it's not noticeable how wobbly my stitching was LOL. Since I was hand sewing, I'm not surprised about how it turned out. This made me realize that I should really learn how to use a sewing machine one day. I think sewing would be a fun hobby for me to learn. Having little to no knowledge about it made me so stressed, but I'm glad it wasn't disastrous. 

I also started posting that FFVII fic to ao3 that I was working on. There is a curse upon me that always makes me fall for rarepairs, so it's about Cloud/Vincent. I need to kick my own ass to finish the other chapters and post them. I've been trying to use my getyourwordsout pledge to encourage me to work on it often, but sometimes my brain just isn't with the program. This fic is basically my interpretation of how they get together post-canon though. I will get my thoughts out about them if it kills me.

In other news, I think when I'm less busy, I might post more about my vkei-related interests. I'm surprised I haven't yet, because that's like a good 90% of what music I listen to. I've been meaning to listen to more Plastic Tree lately, and instead, I've been looping one (1) song from them. It just... scratches my brain right.

It's so funny how productive I am when I'm back to procrastinating. Spring semester started yesterday, and suddenly today, I got that fanfic outline done. I should probably be getting a head start on my class work, but I only have one class to worry about so... surely it's fine... I actually feel pretty confident about writing it now though. I have a plan! It was giving me a lot of dread, because I keep worrying about getting it done in time for a ship fanweek. I don't have a lot written yet, but I have been pouring out notes into my word vomit section of my doc. I always do that with dialogue ideas, otherwise they will disappear into the abyss that is my psyche forever. With dialogue heavy scenes, I like to plan that out ahead of time anyway.

I kind of fell out of the rhythm of Snowflake, but I finally got to some challenges that I was interested in. I'm not sure how many I will do from here on out due to time issues. Interacting with others has been fun nonetheless! One of these days, I'll get around to writing some of my 50 fannish entries, too.

Also— I completely forgot I need to choose prompts for an Enstars fanweek. It was hilarious that Happy Elements decided to royally fuck up their writing again, right after I already advertised a new fan event lol. I'll stick with it, because fanon is always more enjoyable anyway. We should enjoy the characters how we see fit (which will be with more care than middle-aged men who only care about money in the first place). 

I'm getting my tattoo tomorrow, so being productive then is going to be out of the question. I have to go to class, make sure I have time to eat, then be stabbed for 2-3 hours. I always get really bad tattoo "flu" after, but maybe I can scribble out a silly little fic draft...

I always get a fic idea set in canonverse when I'm still kind of in the phase of getting into something. In this case, it's happening to me with FFVII. I can technically still write it because I've played the original (and read/watched other parts of the compilation), so it's not like I don't know what happens. But I'm stuck on a plot point in my outline, which is important to know since a lot of traveling is involved. Basically, I need to know where Cloud is going lol (it's set post-canon/after DoC). I'm hoping that I get inspired by a particular place/character/thing while I'm playing through Rebirth. I also just like making little references to canon things I liked. I'm losing my mind a little bit though, because I wanted to have a more finished outline by now. I haven't been home to play for a week, and I can't continue my playthrough until Sunday orz