Roundup for Week 01 of 2023

Sat, 07 Jan 2023 04:51:13 GMT

These posts are my weekly 'round up' of the things I've been up to this week.

During this first week of the year, I've been looking back on this little tradition of mine. I never ever thought I'd keep it up so long, I've never been a big 'blogger', but apparently I've found my format.

I started in September last year, but it feels like I've been at it longer than 3 or 4 months. Perhaps because of the vast array of fandom happenings in that time.

My early posts were on pillowfort only 🤔 Interestingly enough I got no engagement there. Its part of why I recently decided to abandon my pillowfort 🤷‍♀️

There was also an epic shit ton of twitter wank in those early days. I was deep in the discourse over there, so much so that if I was into the same stuff on the fediverse I'd probably be breaking the rules of my instance 😂

I don't miss it.

Reading

Sweltering by WhoopsOK
The Disturbia Series by leonidaslion

Disturbia is long as fuck, but as usual I read to the exclusion of all else and disappeared for only 3 days.

Do people still write those ongoing, chapter by chapter epic fics? I don't read WiPs, and I don't often read even complete epics, so it's not something I'm aware of.

Writing

Added a little to Seventeen Months, not a whole lot tho, I was too busy reading.

Watching

I've started my Outlander rewatch. I love this show so fucking much.

Fandom

Everyone's Snowflaking right now. I don't snowflake but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

Social Media

If you're feeling a bit lost during/after the twitter exodus, there's a community for that: Twitter Refugees

Website Updates

Added the Ghosts Don't Sleep series.

Been fucking around a lot with the out-of-the-box capabilities of 11ty. Collections are powerful AF and I'm realising I don't have to hardcode all the monotonous stuff like lists of fic or recs. All I need for a lot of stuff is a file that's entirely frontmatter and a snippet of templatey stuff and boom, perfectly formatted lists of things ❤️

I'm also working on writing an RSS file from scratch, and doing that manually seems ridiculous after all the automagical stuff but I'm not ready to try and make it do that yet.

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