Fierce Rawthorne

A trip to the ~New Age~ store on Friday after my dad and I retrieved my sister from her summer camp reminded me of my love of shiny sparkly rocks, and while I bought a few things at the store, the prices were a little too steep to obtain many shiny sparkly rocks. (I used to have a nice-sized rock collection when I was a teenager, but most were lost when we cleaned out the old house when my dad sold it - I did save a few things and they're scattered throughout my house, sorry to whomever has to organize when I die.) Then I remembered eBay exists! So I spent most of the weekend bidding on many sparkly things, and losing about 90% of the auctions I entered - mostly because I only bid a couple bucks on most of them, so everything else I'm still bidding on I fully expect not to win in the end. And let's be real, I'm sure I'll forget like half of what I did win, and will be surprised when packages start arriving in a few weeks. I think I might move some of the Funkos I have in the living room (a few of the Clone Wars ones) into the Funko display I have in the bedroom, weeding out some of the SW:ST ones while I'm at it, then put the rocks on the living room shelf.

I had four straight days off work, which might be the longest stretch I've been out of the office since I did a Friday/Monday off in March. We still only have two student workers and both of them usually have other work/responsibilities during the week. Next Tuesday I'm taking my sister to the Museum of Science & Industry for the day, so I'm off then, too. I bought a membership earlier this year but haven't gone yet. Hopefully traffic shouldn't be too wild getting to Chicago.

Oh, fandom5k!! I wrote:
robot chicken vs celebrity bear, Clerks/Clerks II/Askewniverse: Dante/Randal, small children, convenience store shenanigans, vague mid-life crises
something left of us, IT Chapter 2: Bill/Mike, post-movie California, finding comfort in each other

I did find it very funny to realize that twenty+ years after seeing Clerks for the first time, I managed to write the longest Dante/Randal on AO3.

After sitting down with the goal to actually finish off my fandom5k story this weekend, I have a rough draft! As always, it was one of those things where I thought "oh god can I really bash out five thousand words for a pairing/fandom I've never written before?" (other than a random 600 words of a WIP I jotted down of a different pairing a few months ago), which became "okay I'm at five thousand and here's my list of scenes that still have to be finished", which turned into "finishing this particular scene is probably going to put me at 7,500" (and it did), and that was when I knew it was going to be yet another 10k-er.

Now that it's done and I need to let it sit for a while without looking at it, I can turn my attention to Cobra Kai note-taking! (I could not make my brain do exchange fandom, Venom, and CK all at the same time.) I'm a little stalled out on all my Venom WIPs so they can be on a break for a bit as well while I let my brain work out where they need to go. I watched The Karate Kid last night and realized I'd never seen the whole thing all the way through, just bits of it here and there probably when it aired on television when I was a kid. The fact that there was absolutely zero character work done for any of the villains was sort of fascinating. (Which also makes CK all the more fascinating because it does all the Johnny Lawrence character work that TKK doesn't do.)

Games for the baby baseball team we frequent start tomorrow! I don't imagine my dad and I will stay more than a few innings since it's a Tuesday night, but provided it doesn't rain, it should be nice to sit outdoors for a while with a hot dog and a beer.