[ SECRET POST #3062 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3062 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

What's something you've been secretly proud of yourself for recently?

Or not secret-secret but that you're not able to tell others about for some reason, like it feels like bragging or showing off?

[fingalsanteater]

how many kudos my fics have been getting lately, even my older stuff has been getting more kudos lately.

and my wrestling fics have been extremely well-received and heavily commented on and kudos'd.

[(Anonymous)]

I think my latest story is extremely well written and more in character than anything else I've read about the pairing. I'd never say that of course.

[asecretchord]

^^^

This. Word for word.

Except, I AM saying it. :-)

[loracarol]

I'm almost halfway done with my mom's super-duper late Christmas present blanket! I "just" need to actually crochet the other nineteen rows, do the edging, and sew in the tails.

But! I'm halfway there!

[(Anonymous)]

got up early this morning and went to pick up dim sum and coffee and brought it back for my roommate

tryin to be a good roomie

[(Anonymous)]

Becoming less of a pushover. I got hung up on the other day, and whereas a year ago I would've been like "fine, I won't call back", damn straight I called back. I'm done with being the person who apologizes when someone walks into me.

[(Anonymous)]

Dude, you go! I need to work on this too. Time for me to stop being a goddamn pushover.

[kaijinscendre]

I have not gained back much weight which is crazy considering I've been terrible about working out regularly.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm doing an internship in labwork and recently I've discovered that I'm twice as fast as my tutor at pipeting whole plates. He called it "scary", inwardly I'd rather say "efficient".

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty impressive, OP. So long as 'efficient' also translates to 'accurate'.

[elaminator]

Trying to cook more? Not anything big, pretty much 'I'm going to make tacos instead of heating up a can of soup', but hey. I want to start baking.

And I'm still proud of the weight loss (still exercising!) because I fucking love eating and it is a miracle that I haven't gained any back. Clothes shopping is fun again, woo.

[herpymcderp]

Cooking is annoying when you first start out, but awesome once you start to get good at it. You realize how crappy packaged food tastes in comparison to the freshly prepared version.

Also it winds up being cheaper in the long run.

[elaminator]

I believe you, but my inexperience and the time such things take put me off. I guess it's like everything else in that once you get into a routine, it isn't a big deal.

The internet has helped, though. I have a lot of things I'd like to try.

[(Anonymous)]

I reread some of my old fic I never posted recently, and they weren't bad at all. Was quite proud of myself.

Not that I can ever tell anyone.

[fingalsanteater]

I love when I reread my fic and am like "Actually, this doesn't suck at all."

[(Anonymous)]

Do you ever get that thing where one day they seem great, and the next it seems horrible?

[fingalsanteater]

Yeah. Mostly when I'm still writing the fic, though. Like, with one I'm writing right now, the excitement of the idea has rubbed off and I'm trying to get the idea to page in a way that pleases me. Two days ago, what I'd written was acceptable, but the more I write, the less acceptable it becomes. But, I know it'll clean up the more I manipulate it, so I know this feeling of "this is horrible" will pass.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I do.

I usually get the "holy crap this sucks donkeyballs" feeling while I'm writing and shortly after, even when I've edited and beta'd fic to within an inch of its life.

The "hey, this wasn't that bad after all!" feeling comes on rereading, to the point where I feel deeply conflicted. Was I being unnecessarily harsh on my writing the first time around (probably) or am I less critical of it on rereading, i.e. being complacent? If I hated the fic at the time, how do I ever recognize whether anything I'm writing is any good during the process? How do I write anything new when I've clearly used up my creativity quotient on this fic?

And then I circle back to "everything sucks donkeyballs" again.

[feotakahari]

I'm getting way better at gauging when I'm sick enough that I'd have trouble getting home if I stayed at work or school any later. This is a mixed bag, because trying to keep up with all my schoolwork is making me sick a LOT. I'm sure my bosses are fed up with all the work I'm missing, but I'm already struggling in my classes, and I can't afford to take care of myself right now.

[(Anonymous)]

I get up at a reasonable hour, I actually cook healthy food instead of getting take out, I've been going for walks...

[(Anonymous)]

I've been blaming myself harshly for not continuing to work out through last winter and this spring, and worrying that people who knew that I'd planned to run a half marathon this summer would shake their heads and go tsk when they saw that I gained a bunch of weight and I'm in no shape to even run around the block. Even my otherwise-awesome dad has been pointedly counting the days since I last went to the gym.

So I went back today because you have to start somewhere, and discovered I can still do a 15 minute mile on the treadmill, which last spring was something like my holy grail. I'm thinking it might not be too late to train for a fall 10K this year.

[(Anonymous)]

Every day for the past week, I've gotten up in the morning and walked at least a thousand steps before doing anything else. I don't know if it's doing anything for my mood or energy level (several days of that have been during a particularly nasty period, so my baseline is off), but at least I start off my day feeling like I've gotten something done.

[thezmage]

Well, I've already posted this to Facebook, but I got someone to trade me a Meloetta today, and so now I've got a complete pokedex.