A scruffy-looking dorf herder

Day 4: 1300 words. Goal met with room to spare.

In which our hero catches a Venipede. Awkwardly. And has a mildly angsty chat with Cheren. And I chicken out of a sex scene (what's the point of writing dirty fanfiction if I'm just going to chicken out of the sex scenes?!). And I've started a little on the next but I know where that's going so it's a decent stopping point for tonight.

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The guy who asked me out last night... I probably overreacted. So I'm going to contact him a few times over the coming weeks to be polite and friendly and let him know that I'm not really looking for romance but I appreciated the conversation.

In the meantime, I'm going to look for a D&D group to join because I really need IRL friends before my faith in humanity atrophies and I turn into Cyrus and try to destroy the universe because people scare me.

Day 2: 550 words between 1 and 2 AM this morning, 775 words this evening, along with some minor tweaks and such that I didn't count closely. 1325 total, which more than made my goal.

In which our hero angsts, learns by eavesdropping that he's lousy in the sack, angsts, gets told off for talking to N again and accused of preying on N's seeming mental instability, angsts, and catches a Pidove.

Hey, look, I actually can draw.

... Except for that ear. But otherwise, I'm pretty happy with how he turned out.

Someone who never played 5th-gen: "He looks like an ecofag. And effeminite." (misspelling theirs)
Someone who has: "That's... a pretty good description, actually."

I have been up since 8:30 AM bouncing off the walls. I did not go to bed until 3 AM last night, so I'm kind of wondering what devil I unwittingly bargained with for all of this energy.

Thus far today, I have:
- Applied for jobs
- Searched for summer housing
- Hung out in the student union until I was bored
- Walked around campus twice
- Walked around local businesses hassling for job openings
- Archive binge on Black Adventures
- Wrote a (locked) LiveJournal essay about how Ghetsis is the single most evil character in all of Pokemon canon or fandom-- he abuses his son, kicks dog-types, and has terrible fashion sense-- and I'd still ride that like I stole it
- Went to the library and hassled about volunteer hours
- Did some work on a GLINDA update for the first time in weeks
- Decided the next GLINDA update wasn't going to work unless I retconned in the Veilstone City part of the story that got skipped first, because a lot of the plot I was hoping to work on is set up there and I really need a break from all the talking heads to draw some damn Pokemon
- Did some sketchwork for the recovery of the Veilstone City arc
- Got on Platinum and level-ground Boudicca from her low twenties to her low thirties.
- Made a fancy dinner

Aaaaand I'm waiting until after 8 PM to call Mom and wish her Happy Mother's Day because Dad probably took her out for dinner or something.

I am sorta starting to understand how party!Elliot feels in this scene

At some point, someone on Fandom Secrets made a post about shiny Pokemon. This got me into the mood to fire up my Pearl version and try that PokeRadar "chain" method again (GLINDA can't use chaining because you don't get PokeRadar until post-game, plus it's kind of cheating). I had a little success with Geodudes, but a lot of failure. Then this afternoon while I was coming home from class I figured out what I was doing wrong and how to stop.

Long story short, two blue Ralts in about an hour and a half of farming. And still going. Gonna have blue Gardevoir and it's going to be AWESOME. (might do some trading with GLINDA later so I can get Pokerus on my Pearl pokes)

ETA: And here's something to make my icon relevant.