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I got my figure skates stretched out in front, and wow, the pain is a lot better! Still working on them - I want to try to get the heels pinched in at some point, and I might need more arch support - but definitely an improvement. My coach and I are working on choreo for the local holiday show; I chose one of the background tracks from Yuri on Ice :)
Finished a grant review at work. It was harder to review than the one I was asked to review last year but gave me some ideas on what to include and make sure to explain for if/when I eventually write a grant in this field.
Discovered that someone started a rhythmic gymnastics podcast! I've only listened to one episode so far, but the hosts seem nice.
I am 25k into a Morrowind fic focused on characters who don't appear in the game (or if they do, in somewhat different form because it's been a long four thousand years). It started off as a couple of scenes of hair kink and has now grown an entire plot, including some politics. I do not feel at all confident writing politics, but I'm currently reading a three hundred-year-old Japanese biography of a politician written by one of his concubines, so maybe that will help? The biography keeps making me laugh because even in translation, the Tale of Genji influence feels obvious, but of course it's about real people, so all the fawning over the Shogun and such is a bit funnier than when it was about Genji.
In other games, I have been playing Cats and the Other Lives. You play as a lovingly animated pixel-art cat having some adventure and investigating mysteries in the wake of her owner's death. I'm enjoying it so far, although I'm a little puzzled at how much the game is lagging in some scenes. The cat feels quite satisfyingly catlike; there's a laser pointer chase scene that was a lot of fun.
Finished a grant review at work. It was harder to review than the one I was asked to review last year but gave me some ideas on what to include and make sure to explain for if/when I eventually write a grant in this field.
Discovered that someone started a rhythmic gymnastics podcast! I've only listened to one episode so far, but the hosts seem nice.
I am 25k into a Morrowind fic focused on characters who don't appear in the game (or if they do, in somewhat different form because it's been a long four thousand years). It started off as a couple of scenes of hair kink and has now grown an entire plot, including some politics. I do not feel at all confident writing politics, but I'm currently reading a three hundred-year-old Japanese biography of a politician written by one of his concubines, so maybe that will help? The biography keeps making me laugh because even in translation, the Tale of Genji influence feels obvious, but of course it's about real people, so all the fawning over the Shogun and such is a bit funnier than when it was about Genji.
In other games, I have been playing Cats and the Other Lives. You play as a lovingly animated pixel-art cat having some adventure and investigating mysteries in the wake of her owner's death. I'm enjoying it so far, although I'm a little puzzled at how much the game is lagging in some scenes. The cat feels quite satisfyingly catlike; there's a laser pointer chase scene that was a lot of fun.
