no more mister nice gaius!

My neglect of Dreamwidth strikes again. I think I much prefer commenting or posting to other comms than to my own journal anyway, but I've neglected that as well. But I'm not giving up on coming here sometimes and updating lol. So let's see how this format works for me:

What I've been...

• Doing: I've had a job since March and my contract ends in a couple of weeks. It was pretty busy early on to the point where I couldn't rest on weekends or holidays, but my workload right now is much more bearable. I've also continued studying German, although not as much as I should so I'm worried about my exams next month. Also, I'm finally trying to get my driver's license: I passed my theory exam back in December and I'm starting my driving lessons TOMORROW. Wish me luck.
• Reading: this year I've read Box Hill, Witches Abroad, A Spindle Splintered, Project Hail Mary, and 17776. Not that much, but I've been pretty busy otherwise.
• Watching: I've finally started my Classic Who watch and was so excited about it I made my own Excel sheet tracker. I've only watched 66 episodes so far, but I'm having fun. I'm also still constantly rewatching Blake's 7 with the GPSC gang, but I've given up on Emmerdale after almost a full year of watching it daily because it's really boring me to death lately. I'm also enjoying the miniseries Half Man, and watching CBS Beauty and the Beast for the first time.
• Writing: I haven't really updated on my writing in ages, so let's link everything I've written since Christmas 2024:
  • 5 Times the Department Almost Found Out About Us + 1 Time Someone Did, due South (F/K): this was my Candy Hearts fic last year.
  • Shooting Star, Blake's 7 (Zeeona): an angsty Zeeona-centric fic for GPSC's March Madness.
  • Allies, Blake's 7 (Servalan/Jenna): a double drabble for GPSC's MayPair.
  • A Loaded God Complex and Strike and Cure His Heart, Emmerdale (Robert/Aaron): two smut fics for the Emmerdale kinktober.
  • Orac-upon-Avon, Blake's 7 (gen): a humorous body swap fic for GPSC's Crack Fest.
  • Five Times Mack Tried to Get John Out of His System, Emmerdale (Mack/John): an unfinished shipfic.
  • Better Than Two, Blake's 7 (Dayna/Soolin/Tarrant): a PGP OT3 story, for GPSC's Secret Orac.
  • The Iolo Tal Affair, Blake's 7 (Avon/Tarrant): for GPSC's Tropes are Dope fest.
• Listening to: I've been trying to get back into listening to podcasts, but I've mainly listened to MBMBAM and The Adventure Zone: Royale. I need to buy better headphones and finally start listening to Blake's 7 audiostories. 

Hi again, folks!

My temporary job ended a few days ago, so it didn't last long (19 days) but at least it was my first experience as a teacher in a high school, so I learnt something. AND I got paid, of course.

I'm going back to my German classes soon, since I have the time, and as soon as I can I'll start sending my CV again... Hopefully I'll get another job soon. Pray for me!

Other than that, I just realised I didn't post when I finished my iddyiddybangbang fic. If anyone's interested, it's 17k with Blake/Avon, whump and BDSM:

The Hound and the Hare (17327 words) by ferenginars
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Blake's 7
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Kerr Avon/Roj Blake, Kerr Avon & Cally, Kerr Avon & Jenna Stannis, Roj Blake & Jenna Stannis
Characters: Kerr Avon, Roj Blake, Jenna Stannis, Cally (Blake's 7), Vila Restal, Original Characters, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Orac (Blake's 7), Zen (Blake's 7)
Additional Tags: Gladiators, Sadism, Masochism, Belts, Spanking, Choking, Emotionally Repressed, Worldbuilding, Face Slapping, Season/Series 02, BDSM, Whump
Summary: As the search for Doctor Docholli's location continues, Avon is forced to confront his darkest fantasies about Blake when a mission becomes more dangerous than expected.

Also, since it's October, I want to ask: is anyone doing participating in any writing, art or any other creative events? I've been thinking about trying Kinktober, but I also see people doing Whumptober, Goretober, etc.

How's everyone doing?

As you probably know now I've been dedicating this lockdown to watching TV shows I didn't have time to watch before. But lately that hasn't felt enough and I've started doing other things (fandom related) as I was feeling the urge to create besides just consuming fictional content. That means I've both done some drawing and some writing!

( fanarts below )

Fellow podcast fans, I don't know about you, but I'm pretty excited about what's coming in 2019 so far. The Whisperforge has announced at least 3 new audiodramas (if I remember correctly), and apparently the first one to be released is gonna be Caravan. The story and characters sound very appealing to me (a millennial protagonist who falls into a hidden world full of demons and vampires, and who joins a caravan of bounty hunters lead by a trans/nb cowboy) and at last the cast information has been published. While I only know 3 of the people listed, I'm very excited to hear all the voices and how they work together. Oh, and also, Evan Cunningham is the creator of the theme music, and after how much I liked the musical episode of The Bright Sessions, I'm expecting great music. Of course, Mischa Stanton is the lead sound designer, and they are really the best at it (they won 4 or 5 awards on the audioverse awards this year!). Are there any more new audiodramas you are excited about?

I don't know how many of you know about my obsession with French webseries by the Frenchball/Frenchnerd team, but I think that this time it's been very helpful for me to get addicted again. Since their most famous show, Le Visiteur du Futur, is gonna be made into a movie (a sequel, but apparently it's gonna be made so that anyone can watch, even if they don't know the show), I've been rewatching the show. The sad part is, for some reason season 3 is blocked on YouTube for several countries (I'm on a discord server and met an Australian fan who had the same problem). So, I'm having to watch them somewhere else, but with no subtitles. And what am I doing? I'm taking French lessons on Duolingo. Now, I studied some French in high school, but I've forgotten a lot, so this is making me remember what I knew and also I'm learning some new things. I've been taking lessons for 8 days now I think! Let's see if I can keep it going.

Finally, I'd like to talk a bit about icons. You see, I've only ever used LJ to post icons and participate in icon challenges, and I started in 2012. I managed to make some beautiful icons over the years, and I loved the community. Now that I'm on DW I've posted some icons here, but I still participate on challenges on LJ and I feel like the community is much more active there. It's weird, because everything else is pretty much dead on LJ and getting more activity here.   

 Hey! I'm finally making my first post here. I've been thinking about what I might post about in the near future, and I've had some ideas:

• Reposting stuff: I should repost the icons I made for lj (100x100), to have them here for myself but also for anyone who might want to use them. I'm also thinking I should repost some of the meta I wrote for Tumblr that people enjoyed (it's mostly about Macdennis).
• Fanfiction: it might be good to have a post with links for my ff.net and ao3 fanfiction.
• Recs: maybe someone would be interested in a podcast rec! I mostly listen to audiodramas so it would be mainly about those.
• Other new stuff: some personal opinions about fandom and what's going on with tumblr, and finally my Dragon Age theories.

As you can imagine (or know already) I'm pretty new here so if you have any other ideas of what might be interested to post here to start getting used to and enjoy Dreamwidth, let me know!