i have the constitution of a baby chihuahua and i think i've accidentally tricked you guys into thinking i'm more put together than i actually am!

okokok. biggest thing i can say is get to know yourself and your energy levels and plan around that-- for me, i know i'm not a morning person and unless i have a meeting to go to, i won't get up before 9am, i don't go to bed before 12a, i'm the most productive in the afternoon+eventide hours for homework, but i do chores in the mornings.

with my busier schedule last term, i would plan for days where i would shadow analysts, mark down when my classes were, and then plan homework+presentations into the space between (accounting for walking/driving/travel). i do start my homework+presentations at least a week in advance/as soon as i know i have it assigned/also assuming we've covered it in lecture, if i can swing it. and i'll also try to get it done in one day on the weekend. this semester, i was terrified of disappointing my advisor and needed to update him weekly about reagents i've been trying out, so that was a Very good motivator to get shit done.

i do have a hobonichi planner-- one a day page, a6 size! i try to make some time in the evenings to journal about my day, and in 2025 i'm going to be using some of the front pages to track steps, sleep, water, etc etc! on the actual day pages, i use the timetable on the left to track what i did that day/plan ahead. although i do have to admit, i'm not very consistent with using it because i don't feel like i have a lot to journal about and my google calendar reminds me an hour before an event. usually, i rely a lot on my phone reminders for grocery lists or miscellaneous things i need a mini alarm for (without setting an actual alarm). i also just jam a ton of notes into my phone, but hobonichi also sent out an adorable little notebook with 2025's planner, so i'm going to be handwriting it this year (maybe. phone's very convenient).

re: hobbies! i don't write until the clock hits 9-10pm, nor do i put on a show (currently indulging in House) until i've made enough headway in an assignment or i've finished rewriting a lecture (e.g. on wednesdays after lab stuff, i'll rewrite tuesday's lecture, on friday, i'll rewrite thursday's). this is why i'm so slow at writing LOL. it also helps that i am very good at guilting myself into doing non-fic stuff first, but i don't actually think it's very healthy to be mean to yourself,, so don't do that... anyways! hope this helped!

considering how slow i write/how busy i'm going to be over the next six months/the wips already staring at me, i would feel really bad making people pay me for a fic that would take me a hot minute to write 😣

what would you like to see? i might be able to squeeze it in 🩶

uno reverse card babey i am actually the biggest simp for YOU 💪😤🩶😘😈

hello dani ♡♡♡!!!! i wonder if you found it 👀 you know me pretty well, though, so i trust your judgement 👭🩶

wonderful idea! this is also good for me to know; there's such a fine line to tread between "well i want you to know Exactly what the scene sounds like/looks like/who has what expression on their face so let me just ramble" and leaving some of it up to implication. i keep trying to walk it, but i think i step into the former more often than not-- even though my fics aren't as long as others' all things considered. i am truly the most concise yapper to exist....

people are theorizing in here! of course, i can't tell you... 🤗 (this is so cute, i love that you're so eager! thank you!)

are we about to kiss right now? 😘 thank you so much! i've been feeling like something is "missing" so this is a wonderful little message and makes me feel so loved. the feelings i get from it are so visceral, too, omg ♡

sly~~ loving this descriptor. but, hey! reveals aren't over so... could be me, could not be me! i hope you've been enjoying all of the wonderful fics that are coming out of this fest!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33190615 pwp! one or my favs!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/9787586 i swear i read this years ago and liked it! i'm not sure it fits the bill, but surprisingly i don't have a lot of those reccs in my bookmarks (because i only started earnestly bookmarking what i liked sometime in 2022...)

this is going to sound a little dorky, but: read it out loud to yourself! try to imagine a conversation back and forth, how you might reply, what key words lead to what kind of responses (or questions!), etc.

usually, if i'm struggling with dialogue (or if i want dialogue to get across a specific plot point that won't work anywhere else in the fic), i'll write something that might not even sound realistic, and then i'll come back to it later. then i read it out loud and try to see if i can come up with alternate phrasings!

no notes on anything (because i'm bound to secrecy) but. i. don't think you should be getting a migraine reading anything??? unless you meant my stuff makes you guys Think/you like this feeling, in which case........ i'm pleased with that i think 😭?

oh, you remembered a wip line !!!! that's not the blocked out word, though 🙅🏼‍♀️ they hate each other but not that much~

can't say if you're right or wrong about the fic, so i'll see you at author reveals!

i wonder if mine's out! either way, this is so kind and i feel myself so lucky for this ask 🩶 can't wait for author reveals!!!

wait—ignoring all else for the moment! you saved them??? you liked them that much????? 🥹🩶 oh wow.... i'm simply so flattered right now. i can't say if my fic is out because we're not quite done with reveals, but! !!! wow! i hope you have a phenomenal day/night/weekend 🙏

i can't say for sure, but i'm curious why you think so! 🩶

can i tell you???? i don't know if i can 😭 uh, just think. peak honeybeams post 2022...! i've used this tag (ok, i've used half of this tag) before!

keep looking and let me know if you think you found something! (i'm so excited 🥹)

hey thank you so much!

mmm, i don't think so! i had a lot of fun with this one, but i have to write my thesis/i have a casework-writing class starting january! and the addition of another deadline would give me mad anxiety 😅 but i'll be writing some fun stuff (aphrodisiacs, vamps (separate fics lololol), maybe c&sw if i get inspired) anyways!

i liked the beginning but i wish it had some more bass :( love the lyrics though!

howdy! nope, i don't have an email associated with my account 😬 that's unfortunately an issue with this UI and i'm unsure if they're going to address it! so be careful not to forget your password... i may have made an account here without the little _ (legit cannot remember haha), but since there's no email needed to create an account, if i ever did there's know way to know and i don't remember the password to log in if it really is me...

</3 it is going for sure! heading into finals in just ~2-3 weeks, so i'm trying to get more [redacted, but i'm sure you can guess] fic done before then... my boss also sprang three new reagents to try for my thesis (plus the one we've got on back-order), so it's definitely............ going......! lotsa things to balance right now! hehe thanks for checkin in 🤍

my old spotify says the first bts song i ever liked was I NEED U on feb 9, 2017 🥹 i remember, very vividly, thinking about going to a HYYH concert in the summer of '17 (and really wanted to go!) but i didn't have anyone i knew who was also into BTS so :( that was also kind-of-ish the era where i was complaining to an acquaintance that save me was only available on youtube/some of their other albums were named in korean on spotify, taken off for a while, and then reuploaded later with all english titles. i was in a drought for a bit but i looped save me on youtube..... a lot... and went through a ton of bangtan bombs over the summer.

my Real Taekook Moment was this very, very specific squeeze but this was before i got into fic, though i'm going to be so real--i did not know rpf existed before bangtan. i'm 99% sure i was on tumblr looking at edits, saw jimin's name in a fic, went "you can ship real people???" and..... tada, here i am. thank you tumblr-link-to-ao3-rabbithole.

i love reccs (and i do so love h/c and slice of life in the fics i read)! with everything going on in my life, i don't often have time to trawl through ao3 for fics so... super down and adding this to my marked for later to catch up on when it's done 🤍🤍🤍 thank you!

this made me laugh, thanks 🩸🩶 the thing is, "no descriptive gore" just seems too vague—like, your audience (generally, and self burn) is a bunch of freaks, and we're all going to have different tolerances for blood in a trope that, generally, focuses on skin breaking and the act of consumption. my tolerance of descriptive gore in a sexy vamp fic, like excessively described body horror and splatterpunk, is going to be way different than someone else's hard limit of gore. in a trope like vampires, You Gotta Be Specific!!!

anyways i also had a blasphemous, and maybe a little gross (but sexy!), idea that they probably wouldn't like anyway, so i'm just gonna go all out in the next vamp fic by myself~

it seems very interesting! i think i can count on maybe one hand the amount of horror romance movies that have been popular/advertised--or, at least, ones i've seen, and we all know how out of touch i am with popular media--in the past few years (bones and all, crimson peak, warm bodies) so i'm always on the look-out! thank you for the recc!