gwyn | Yuletide noms and assorted other things

I nominated some things for Yuletide, even if I'm not sure yet if I'll participate (I'm really having a lot of trouble with it the past few years, because the pool of stuff I'm interested in keeps shrinking since they allow crossovers in the count, and my fandoms are filled with people who write like 50 words in my fandom as part of a huge collection with 500 other fandoms). I used my third slot for a friend, but now I'm kind of wishing I hadn't because I was hoping someone else might nominate Fast Color (the amazing 2018 movie with Gugu Mbatha-Raw that's a really fascinating take on superpowered women), but it ~~doesn't look like anyone's taking up my request.~~ Eee, someone did! Yay, something I can request!

Anyway, I nominated:
Better Off Ted
Phil Myman
Lem Hewitt
Ted Crisp
Veronica Palmer
(I would love it if anyone who's seen this added some characters)

Kings
Jack Benjamin
David Shepherd
Ephram Samuels

Selfie
Henry Higgs
Eliza Dooley
Charmonique Walker
Freddy

I actually have ideas I could write for a couple, although whether I could be lucky enough to get assigned someone who'd want them is always the question. I was hoping someone might nominate 12 Monkeys, too. Three nominations is just...really not a lot. Especially when the pool is constantly shrinking.

In other news, I've had a bunch of cool books to work on lately as well as some fun fanfic to read. It's just such a...relief sometimes to work on stuff that's really well written and the characters really draw me in. But it's also been a good excuse--the being busy part--to not work on my own fanfic, and I started finally getting back into writing Reverie but then stopped. I need to start again. That stupid thing has languished for over a year, and it's very hard to motivate myself to get back in when even the few people following the WIP stopped reading. It could vanish and it wouldn't matter, I think. (It's also hard because it takes place in Wakanda, and Chadwick Boseman's death made it so painful to keep writing my fantasy world of a place where T'Challa is still with us.)

I keep taking COVID tests and they keep showing negative, but I've felt like garbage for a few days now--but it's not high enough level to be a cold, and it's not low enough level to just be tired or something. I wonder if I picked something up at a restaurant, but whatever it is, it's just sort of...there.

Speaking of restaurants, the West Seattle Bridge, which was shut down two and a half years ago with no warning, the day after Washington's stay at home order was given, was reopened Saturday night on the 17th. I can't even tell you how happy I am about that--it was just such a freaking ordeal to go to medical appointments or even just to see people (all my friends live north of here) because you had to drive south and then north again and it involved all these drawbridges that were frequently up, and all the roadways were clogged with cars and buses because they weren't built for the sudden influx of traffic. Road rage has kind of become the order of the day, because everyone hated how hard it was to get out of here, and for some reason, the going out of here was harder than the coming in. I had dozens of trips to make for my eye care, and have had a lot of medical appointments at my clinic, and I would be filled with dread for days leading up to having to go out. They also shut down the bus near me during the pandemic, so driving was often my only option. But now we are reunited with Seattle and it feels so good.

minim_calibre and I drove down to house o' meat (Outback) the other night so we could use the bridge. it was glorious--three minutes to I-5! Whee!