Six More Things That Are Overdone (Give me more)

 Hidely-Ho, Neighborinos.

That was weird... I'll... I will not do that again... 

Yes, I will.

Okay, little update first, then onto the actual post.

The writing challenge is going well. Haven't missed a day, even on days when I had shit going on, I still pulled a post out and got it done. A lot of the stories are kind of shit, but I still got the goal done, and it's giving me lots of ideas for longer things later. If you want to read the story things go here.

Now, onto the actual post! Told you it was a little update...

That Is So Overdone… Give Me More (Part 2)

1. “I’m okay, I’m okay” then promptly falls over. You lose points if they’re dead. I’m not here for death.

2. Snarky Butlers. If your butler is not snarky, I don’t care about them. Simple as that.

3. Mutual Pining. This is only a good thing for so long. If you drag out the mutual pining and never let the characters get together, it’s just going to annoy me. 

4. Unusual Friendships. Things like the neat freak and the slob. The ray of sunshine and the grumpy grump (this friendship trope is the exact reason I started reading Witcher fan-fiction). The jock and the nerd. Cheerleader and goth girl. Now, this only works if the friendship is also one where you can tell they love each other with no question. I also dislike this trope if they end up in a situation where, for example, the cheerleader goes off with the other cheerleaders and starts making fun of the goth girl, but in the end learns the meaning of true friendship. No. Give me the cheerleader that stands up against the other cheerleaders because that goth girl is her friend.

5. Unusual Terms of Endearment. Dear, darling, sweetheart, babe, and all of those are fine and dandy. But give me significant others that call each other weird things. 

6. Breaking stereotypes. My favorite example of this is Elle Woods. She is the stereotypical pretty, blonde girl that loves fashion and other “girly” things but then she is hella smart. And an absolute sweetheart. Give me a goth girl that giggles and squeals over cute animals. The jock who is friendly and smart. The nerd that can talk to girls... 

That's all for this go. Gotta go get something written up for that writing challenge. 

So, I'm Doing a Writing Challenge

 And I'm already failing. Awesome.

Anyways.

NaNoWriMo is this month. And I am not joining that. Cause I suck at it. Not setting myself up for that failure this year. 

Gonna set myself up for a different failure. 

Sorry. Bad mood. Trying to ignore it.

I love writing and reading AU (Alternate Universe) fics. Looooove it. Unhealthy obsession with it really. That includes Soulmate AUs. And over the years I have collected quite a list of them that I keep saying "someday I'm gonna write something with that". And now I'm going to. Even made a spreadsheet. 

I love spreadsheets... 

Here's the challenge part of this.

I'm going to (try very fucking hard) write something for as many of these AUs as I can, for various fandoms that I write in. I want to try and do one a day, but I know that will not happen. Between family obligations and homeschool stuff and my brain fucking hating me most days, I know I can't focus on this as much as I want to. But I am giving myself a little bit of an out. Not really an out. I'm not forcing myself to finish entire stories. As long as I get over 100 words, I will consider it done. Well, done enough to post on Archive of Our Own. And, maybe later, I'll go back and write more. 

This is really just for me. I need to find something to focus on that isn't Covid, politics, family shit, and homeschool. I'm really on edge and spend most days trying to talk myself down from panic attacks. And I hope that as I sort of complete these I'll have that little feeling of accomplishment and get myself in a better mood. And maybe other people will enjoy them. I dunno. 

Well, that's all.