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Well, the good news is that it wasn't a very long slump, but the bad news is that this is how long it's taken me to fall off the writing wagon and to no longer be working on my novel. I'm still writing, but I'm back on fanfic, doing a time-travel fix-it fic for Jin Guangyao.

[Guanyin's Gift](https://archiveofourown.org/works/53696275)
With Jin Guangyao the main difficulty is to find a time in which he has any good choices available to him at all. So I had to go very far back *and* allow him to keep his adult memories and skillset.

I'm now belly dancing twice a week, which is lots of fun and has given me a new lease of life. But I continued to be frustrated that you could not get a nice coin belt of the right size for a plus size person, so I've started making them.



This is great for me, because I now have multiple belts that fit me and are interesting and unique. And I would like to make them available to other fat dancers who are presumably all also facing the same problem. But I can't make them as cheaply as the scarves that straight-sized people can buy on the internet for £3.99. £3.99 would not cover even the least amount of braid that goes on one of these, let alone the material.

I can't imagine selling them for less than £15 just to pay for the material and trimmings, and then who's going to pay for that?

On boat news, Son is coming to the end of his mooring in Northampton and is thinking of moving the boat up to Nottingham, where he has a small community of friends. So I imagine we'll be spending at least some time in late spring on the boat - getting him up the 12 locks of the staircase onto the Northampton arm of the canals, if nothing else. Expect more breakdowns, panicking and repairs to follow :)

Signed up to genprompt_bingo even though I find my mind slithers away from being able to comprehend the rules. This is the case with most of these communal challenge things. Hopefully it will become clearer once I practice a bit.

Possessions	Hey, it's that guy: Minor characters	Other parts played by the same actor	Civilisation	Graduation
Trapped!	Zombies	Consider This and In our Time	Noble Gases	Cosplay
Dreams, Daydreams, Wishes	The Heart of the Jungle / Forest	Wild Card	Winners and Losers	Furnishing the Home
Extraordinary	Surreality	The Oncoming Storm	Anhedonia (Lack of Pleasure)	Implacable
Trauma	Tajikistan	The Pursuit of Happiness	Sunrise / Sunset	Anthropomorphic Personifications of Abstract Concepts

I immediately launched out into making icons for the 'Hey it's some guy - minor character' square, as most of the characters I have loved have been villains or minor characters. But now I've committed myself to filling in either the top line or the line with Tajikistan in it, and the main problem with that line is that it has zombies in it. I hate zombies.

Edit on 4th July 2024 - nah. Why do I enter challenges when I know I will never finish them? I have decided that this is getting abandoned, so I am unsticking it from the top of my dash and forgetting about it.

Getting lured back to Tumblr by all the Untamed content over there. Mostly going through the blogs of Jin Guangyao stans and reblogging everything - basically being irritating to two websites at once. But this time I'm going to post about it here, so I don't just end up fading out again.

The Untamed/MDZS fandom must be the largest I've ever been in, and that includes the Tolkien fandom, and it is absolutely bursting with really great fic. Quite a lot of which is even Jin Guangyao centric. Of course I've done my usual thing of gravitating to a widely controversial character rather than nestling happily in the main pairing, which cuts down my reading choices somewhat. But I don't think I could ever be content shipping a pairing for which the canon had already come through. What is left for the fan writer to fix in those cases? Much harder to give JGY a happy ending, especially if you also want everyone else (except Jin Guangshan, he can die) to live and be happy too. But that's what makes it fun.

I'm currently in the middle of podficcing Shiome's Last of our kind, for which I can just about manage to produce a chapter a week. There are 14 chapters and I've done 8. So that should be finished in February. After which, I'm in a quandary as to whether I podfic Derillarch's Peony to Lotus series, or whether I attempt to finish the story I started writing months and months ago.

(That's 'The Will of Heaven', in which JGY comes back to life the same way WWX did, and must attempt to become Lan Furen while fooling the rest of the cultivation world that he is someone else entirely, or else deal with the consequences.)

There is so much good fic out there that it doesn't seem like the fandom needs mine. But there are not very many JGY centric podfics, so I do almost feel like I can make a bigger difference by podficcing than by writing, atm.