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  1. It is Day 3000 of the nuclear winter, and I am preparing to go and stock up in advance of the coming Bomb Cyclone we are threatened with as of tonight.

    At least I have a case of wine on hand.

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      pippychick

      Wow… that’s cold! Brrrr! *shivers*

      Stay safe, and keep warm. I think I’d be walking around in a duvet… permanently. :( I hope you don’t have any trouble, lass. I hope no one does.

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  2. It is Day 3000 of the nuclear winter, and I am preparing to go and stock up in advance of the coming Bomb Cyclone we are threatened with as of tonight.

    At least I have a case of wine on hand.

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      pippychick

      :hug: 

      I heard from someone the other day that the snow in NY was bad, and they were worried their relative who’s visiting might not get home. I thought back to how you’ve described your weather over the years and replied it’s always bad there at this time of year, but now I’m wondering. How bad is it?

      *imagines a series of corgi corridors, twisting around the local neighbourhood*

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  3. A very Happy Birthday to our own CL Mustafic! Hope this year is good to you! :birthday: :bday:

  4. All right, so sadly it’s not happening at all for me on AFF (I’m not sure why, and I’ve given up wondering), and while I’ll never go back to certain other sites as myself, I’ve had no choice but to post there. it’s either that or lose my motivation entirely. There’s also a chance it might just be one slightly enthusiastic person, but…

    I got 45 kudos overnight.

    This is encouraging. :)

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      pippychick

      @CL Mustafic Thanks, CL :) Don’t worry about it. I know what it’s like to be a writer rather than a reader.

      My dissatisfaction here is aimed mostly at myself. I’ve always known this stuff was more of a popularity contest than a serious test of skill or talent, but like an idiot I just kept on deluding myself, year after year. I’ve got to stop doing it. At this point, it’s just approaching self harm. *shrugs* If I have to write without a response, I may as well do it without posting, and keep trying to do something else. Something different. Until I have something new.

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  5. All right, so sadly it’s not happening at all for me on AFF (I’m not sure why, and I’ve given up wondering), and while I’ll never go back to certain other sites as myself, I’ve had no choice but to post there. it’s either that or lose my motivation entirely. There’s also a chance it might just be one slightly enthusiastic person, but…

    I got 45 kudos overnight.

    This is encouraging. :)

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      pippychick

      @BronxWench Thank you, but I know you have time issues, and it’s not down to you personally to keep writers happy. :hug: I want you to read, obviously, but when you’re happy, relaxed, and ready to enjoy it. :)

      Without you, I go back to the beginning of November for the last word or two. And as a whole I think without you, the story has about six or seven reviews. I know it’s more than some get, and now I feel like I’m whining, but that doesn’t stop it feeling like a vacuum. Lately, I get to the point of posting, and then I think.. “Do I have to?” That kind of hurts, to be honest. But I think it’s because in fanfic the response is all. There’s nothing else to gain from it, from all the hours you put into it, from all the time you spend planning and plotting it. From all the work you do, because for large periods of time it is work. A long story like that is work. It’s not all excitedly tapping away behind the keyboard. It’s hard. *shrugs* When I’ve finished, and it disappears into the annals a response will be less and less likely. So if they aren’t there now, they won’t be there later. No one’s saving them up… except perhaps you. :wub: 

      Being that I won’t ever go back to AO3 as myself, regardless of how much I love the readers there, I think I might be watching the demise of my fanfiction writing career with this story. I’ll finish this one, but I don’t know if I’ll really have the heart to finish my other stories. I just don’t know. It just feels like so much work. Years of work. I should probably be concentrating on something else, while I’ve still got enough self belief to think it’s possible.

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  6. A very Happy Birthday to our own CL Mustafic! Hope this year is good to you! :birthday: :bday:

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      pippychick

      Happy Birthday CL! :twirl:

      Hope this year bring more great things for you, and more recognition of how awesome you are. :hug:

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  7. Ok… I am editing the next chapter. I’m a little late, I know.

    Now let’s hope I don’t read through this and think: Oh, no. *gulps*

    Here goes...

  8. Ok… I am editing the next chapter. I’m a little late, I know.

    Now let’s hope I don’t read through this and think: Oh, no. *gulps*

    Here goes...

  9. It's been 3 years since I'm here but no one cared to follow me. -_-

    Kidding.. :lol::tongue2:  I know I'm not a writer. ;p 

  10. Happy New Year, everyone. May 2018 be your best year yet. 明けましておめでとうございます :happykitten:

     

  11. A very happy, joyous, and healthy New Year to you all—may 2018 be the best year ever! :hug:

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      pippychick

      And to you too, lass :wub:

      I hope things will calm down a little, and you’ll get to enjoy writing again in 2018. :hug:

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  12. Wishing everybody a happy new year!

  13. Enjoy your holidays, everyone! :D 

  14. To friends, fans, and everyone in between:

    Merry Christmas.  Hope everyone's able to enjoy it with family.

     

  15. Ok… I guess I will make a start on the next chapter. See if I can get it done for Christmas.

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      pippychick

      And… I’m not going to finish. Maybe Boxing Day.

      Went to the ASDA this morning. Picked up a monster turkey, free range, corn fed. No added chlorine…. yet. *sighs* *shudders* I may have to give up chicken if that ever happens, I kid you not. And I feel the same way about chicken as Clegane does. :( Maybe I could keep and kill my own. It’s a thought. Or just go vegan. Without chicken, there’s not much point in eating (or drinking) anything else animally.

      But the turkey… they greyhound has seen it. It’s as big as her. Her eyes nearly fell out of her head. I’d have got a smaller one, but they had three left and that was the smallest. :/

      Clegane, meanwhile, is just in the middle of being massaged into a gooey lump. But he’s about to spoil it by laughing, and he knows this, but it’s okay. Tormund has some plan to just carry on until he’s stopped resisting or something. I don’t know. It sounds more aggressive than it actually is.

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  16. “The Play That Goes Wrong” is utterly brilliant. I quite literally laughed until I cried. It was the perfect birthday present from my daft bugger, and I adore him forever! :wub:

  17. Ok… I guess I will make a start on the next chapter. See if I can get it done for Christmas.

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      pippychick

      If I ever get my hands on the dirty bastard who shoved a pint glass down the gents toilet, it’ll be a halloween story of sorts. But then, the same gang were thrown out the club, and kicked off a load of trouble outside. They were searching through the cctv for the police this morning, because they’d been throwing glasses at the takeaway next door and nearly hit someone. So maybe they will get prosecuted for a public order offence. We can hope.

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  18. Ok… I guess I will make a start on the next chapter. See if I can get it done for Christmas.

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      pippychick

      Ahh… at the risk of sounding selfish, I’ve fought my way here, through hordes of christmas shoppers, through horrendous traffic, through work that involved retrieving a broken pint glass from, well… less said the better. I’ve carried, spent up, spent over an hour trying to fit everything in the fridge, got covered in sellotape wrapping presents, and I’ve done it all in the ever present bloody miserable cold and pervasive sense of impending doom that is Brexit.

      I want to have my fun now, even if it is nearly two o’clock in the morning. I want to write. I need to. Before I have to wash my hands again for the millionth bloody time. *sighs*

      Besides which, I’m pretty much getting into character. Can’t you just sense it? He’s here! The moody git… he won’t be moody after this. And neither will I. That’s the point. Or one of them, at least. :)

       

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  19. Ok… I guess I will make a start on the next chapter. See if I can get it done for Christmas.

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      pippychick

      No… just an ordinary chapter. Albeit one where Clegane actually smiles a bit.

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  20. Anyone else ever just feel like pulling everything they have posted or is it just me?  I feel like it might just be me...  Hmmm...  Probably is...

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      pippychick

      It may not be true for anyone else, I can only speak for myself, but what I’ve noticed is that when I feel that way, it’s usually everything to do with me, and nothing to do with anyone “out there” if that makes sense. Often, when I find the joy of the story again, the feeling passes. And I’m usually worse just after posting. It’s the nature of how we share our work, I think. It sends us off on a rollercoaster every time.

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  21. Anyone else ever just feel like pulling everything they have posted or is it just me?  I feel like it might just be me...  Hmmm...  Probably is...

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      pippychick

      Oh, Gods… Tcr, I feel like that at least once a week. So sorry you feel like it too :(  :hug:

      I don’t know what the answer is… just scrape through somehow, usually, until you feel better.

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  22. After all the crap lately, guess who is putting up the Christmas tree alone? Yep… because, well I’m not quite clear on the because. I took some poinsettia’s around to various neighbours earlier. My mother is under the impression it can be put off even further. Except it can’t, because later this week I will be good for nothing, what with work and various other things, like appointments and other activities. Her birthday meal is one. I haven’t done any christmas shopping. I’m looking at friday at this point.

    I’d write in rebellion, but all the words are flying around in my brain like shrapnel right now, and have been doing for a few days. I don’t know what this means. Maybe an extended break again. :( I hope not.

    I know moving all that furniture about seemed to finish me. I could barely move for two days… then I had to go back to work. I don’t know how to survive this week. I have to go out twice to eat. A dicey prospect on my medication, let alone with the lack of energy. I really don’t have a Christmas in me. 

    I know retreat isn’t the answer. I know it. But honestly this shit is just like stumbling and crawling around in thick, black smoke and the urge to just stay still is unbearable.

    I need space, and time, and something easy for fuck’s sake. Just one thing that’s easy. I am so tired of fighting this.

    Damn. I’m going to make myself a neat, orderly list. When all else fails, a list. Because giving in is not an option.

    *sighs*

    Please send jokes. Or cute pictures.

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      pippychick

      :) I love my dogs.

      Well… I’ve done the tree, and made a list of things. I’ve also made a shopping list.

      But now I’ve been made to pay for making a shopping list by way of a ridiculous argument followed by sulking and slamming doors. I give up.

      I’m just going to reread the fic, see if I can have the words arrange themselves in some kind of order again. Because seriously, I just can’t be here. I need something fun.

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  23. After all the crap lately, guess who is putting up the Christmas tree alone? Yep… because, well I’m not quite clear on the because. I took some poinsettia’s around to various neighbours earlier. My mother is under the impression it can be put off even further. Except it can’t, because later this week I will be good for nothing, what with work and various other things, like appointments and other activities. Her birthday meal is one. I haven’t done any christmas shopping. I’m looking at friday at this point.

    I’d write in rebellion, but all the words are flying around in my brain like shrapnel right now, and have been doing for a few days. I don’t know what this means. Maybe an extended break again. :( I hope not.

    I know moving all that furniture about seemed to finish me. I could barely move for two days… then I had to go back to work. I don’t know how to survive this week. I have to go out twice to eat. A dicey prospect on my medication, let alone with the lack of energy. I really don’t have a Christmas in me. 

    I know retreat isn’t the answer. I know it. But honestly this shit is just like stumbling and crawling around in thick, black smoke and the urge to just stay still is unbearable.

    I need space, and time, and something easy for fuck’s sake. Just one thing that’s easy. I am so tired of fighting this.

    Damn. I’m going to make myself a neat, orderly list. When all else fails, a list. Because giving in is not an option.

    *sighs*

    Please send jokes. Or cute pictures.

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      pippychick

      Two happy dogs… well, they’re happy if I say so. I realise the greyhound looks a little bit like a mouse. She’s bigger than the white one… honest ;)

      emma1.jpg

      jake1.jpg

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