1) Intro to Sociology was successfully dropped, not long after I got home from taking the first class. That setup (the extremely packed schedule plus a super strict teacher) was not for me.
2) I've had some mild financial bullshit with college, but hopefully it's well on its way to being all sorted out.
3) All of my Speech homework for this week? I accidentally did last week 😂 Honestly, much better than the other way around.
4) In less college related news, I finally got my car back from the shop 😠It took more than a week to get my internal fans fixed, but I am not dealing with summer around here without AC. Especially for thirty minute drives and little to no shade parking.
5) I finally finished properly outlining my first story for Sot69 this year 👀 I am pleased with what I've come up with and how I'm getting the characters into position! I'm really looking forward to actually writing it now 😃
2) I've had some mild financial bullshit with college, but hopefully it's well on its way to being all sorted out.
3) All of my Speech homework for this week? I accidentally did last week 😂 Honestly, much better than the other way around.
4) In less college related news, I finally got my car back from the shop 😠It took more than a week to get my internal fans fixed, but I am not dealing with summer around here without AC. Especially for thirty minute drives and little to no shade parking.
5) I finally finished properly outlining my first story for Sot69 this year 👀 I am pleased with what I've come up with and how I'm getting the characters into position! I'm really looking forward to actually writing it now 😃
Oh yeah...
May. 15th, 2025 08:40 pmToday is the final day to vote in the 2025 Summer of the 69 Theme Poll!
There are currently eleven "front runners", with two tied for first place; I'm honestly not planning to vote myself this year, since everything is so close, but I guess we'll see if the poll gets any more votes before tomorrow morning.
If all the ratios stay the same through the end of the poll, more votes or not more votes, I'm going to go ahead and do double themes for the last of the "middle ten". IIRC, the bottom rung of themes last year had a lot more in it than this year currently does, though I'd have to double check.
So yeah! That's how things are over there right now.
There are currently eleven "front runners", with two tied for first place; I'm honestly not planning to vote myself this year, since everything is so close, but I guess we'll see if the poll gets any more votes before tomorrow morning.
If all the ratios stay the same through the end of the poll, more votes or not more votes, I'm going to go ahead and do double themes for the last of the "middle ten". IIRC, the bottom rung of themes last year had a lot more in it than this year currently does, though I'd have to double check.
So yeah! That's how things are over there right now.
Sot69 Theme Voting
May. 1st, 2025 11:21 pmRemembered a deadline and took a break from writing another Dreamwidth primer to instead get the 2025 theme poll for
summerofthe69 finished and posted. There are forty-four possible themes to choose from, and voters also have the ability to decide if the fest should have twenty-three themes this year, instead of the previous standard of thirteen.
I've got two possible plunnies that I'm sitting on for this year; I'm going to try and get them outlined over the next month, and then when theme voting closes on May 15th, I'll see which themes I can shoehorn the stories in to 😜
Even odds that I'll skip posting the voting link around tonight; it's only half an hour until my clock flips over to midnight anyway, so.
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I've got two possible plunnies that I'm sitting on for this year; I'm going to try and get them outlined over the next month, and then when theme voting closes on May 15th, I'll see which themes I can shoehorn the stories in to 😜
Even odds that I'll skip posting the voting link around tonight; it's only half an hour until my clock flips over to midnight anyway, so.
To do: Community advertising
Apr. 9th, 2025 06:48 pmArrrrrrgh, I need to advertise
moodthemeinayear and
summerofthe69 on Dreamwidth and not just Tumblr...!
Okay. Quick break to play a little Legends: Arceus (Enamorous is a huge pain to capture), then I'll go a-postin'. I can do this. I can beat my executive dysfunction about this.
Edit: Me, after twenty-five frustrating minutes of running around fruitlessly after Enamorous, without getting in so much as a single hit: "Okay, fuck this noise." *logs onto Pokémon Home* *finds someone willing to trade game-approved Enamorous for a Bloodmoon Ursaluna* *thinks about it for all of ten seconds before making the trade* Much better.
Then I offered up a shiny Eevee I'd migrated from Pokémon Go for a new Bloodmoon Ursaluna, and got one in under ten minutes. That felt a little bit like cheating, not gonna lie, but I don't regret it.
Okay, time to move some Pokémon around, then finally it'll be Posting Time.
Edit 2: Posting is done for tonight, along with some Mood Theme Bingo Cards 👀
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Okay. Quick break to play a little Legends: Arceus (Enamorous is a huge pain to capture), then I'll go a-postin'. I can do this. I can beat my executive dysfunction about this.
Edit: Me, after twenty-five frustrating minutes of running around fruitlessly after Enamorous, without getting in so much as a single hit: "Okay, fuck this noise." *logs onto Pokémon Home* *finds someone willing to trade game-approved Enamorous for a Bloodmoon Ursaluna* *thinks about it for all of ten seconds before making the trade* Much better.
Then I offered up a shiny Eevee I'd migrated from Pokémon Go for a new Bloodmoon Ursaluna, and got one in under ten minutes. That felt a little bit like cheating, not gonna lie, but I don't regret it.
Okay, time to move some Pokémon around, then finally it'll be Posting Time.
Edit 2: Posting is done for tonight, along with some Mood Theme Bingo Cards 👀
Poll closed!
May. 15th, 2024 11:45 pmThe 2024 Theme Poll for
summerofthe69 is officially closed! I ended up making a single tie-breaker vote, and even that was pretty close for me. I have a great fondness for elements of the first runner-up theme, but the theme I chose over it is a new one for this year, and I think will ultimately be interesting to write about.
Of course, there were a bunch of other ties, including two for first place, two for second, and three for third, but I feel reasonably confident I'll be able to decide their places in the schedule without too much of a headache.
Ahhh, I can't wait to announce the winning themes! I may do so as early as tomorrow, but possibly not until Friday. Definitely not tonight, though, as I had work today and want to sleep 😅 (Also it's technically only ten minutes until Tomorrow anyway, but whatever.)
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Of course, there were a bunch of other ties, including two for first place, two for second, and three for third, but I feel reasonably confident I'll be able to decide their places in the schedule without too much of a headache.
Ahhh, I can't wait to announce the winning themes! I may do so as early as tomorrow, but possibly not until Friday. Definitely not tonight, though, as I had work today and want to sleep 😅 (Also it's technically only ten minutes until Tomorrow anyway, but whatever.)