Uh, sorry I haven't been around?

[hells_half_acre]

I just want to make a blanket apology for anyone waiting for me to work on or post something... I've been slacking off HORRIBLY this month... really to a ridiculous degree.

I'm planning to force myself to be more productive in June, so hopefully that'll change.

At the beginning of May they switched me to another project at work. It's a project I've been on before and I absolutely hate it. It's basically the worst. So, in order to not be depressed about that, I decided to go on a Teen Wolf fanfiction binge... and yeah, I'm still deep into that. Again, to a ridiculous degree.

New fandoms are a bit like drugs to me, in that once I start reading, I tend to not want to do anything else ever...and any time that I'm not reading, I'm thinking about reading. So, yeah, I haven't really had the mental capacity to switch back to SPN mode and think about fics that I said I'd write or resource projects that I should be working on, because ALL MY FREE TIME is spent on my fanfic addition.

On top of the stupid work project that bums me out and leads me to a life of "drugs"... my upstairs neighbour has decided to stop being considerate to anyone else in the world. She's currently being evicted, but still has another month (at least) before she's moving out - so until that happens, I'm trying to sleep through pretty much 24/7 partying by people who seemingly NEVER SLEEP. Needless to say, I've been having trouble getting any real rest, which kind of leads me mentally incapable of doing anything else BESIDES reading Teen Wolf fanfic... or maybe that's just my excuse.

Anyway, like I said, I'm hoping to turn things around in June. I've got a new novel idea and I want to write that "Sassy" fic. I also kind of want to write a Merlin reunion slash fic...but we'll see if that ever happens.

So yeah, I'm still alive - I just have a crappy job and a fanfic addition problem. :P

Comments

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figure a lot of people are probably taking some time off after the finale - or at least, that's what I tell myself. It might be that LJ is starting to lose people to other fandoms/platforms.

And yes, I'm really hoping that whoever moves in next will be better. My upstairs neighbour wasn't THIS bad before, I mean, she still had the more-than-occasional loud party/drunken-friends-being-idiots, but the playing music at all hours and seemingly never sleeping is new.

In anycase, I just have to wait her out another month. I bought earplugs, but the problem with those is A)they're uncomfortable for me to sleep in, and b)I don't hear my alarms in the morning. :P

[metallidean-grl.livejournal.com]

I think LJ is just losing people. More than half my flist is basically MIA. I'm not sure why. Life is just getting busy, or something, I don't know. But it has been very quiet, and lonely.

Anybody new moving in upstairs has to be better than the neighbor you currently have, right? Fingers crossed. It's just too bad she is so inconsiderate. I can see how earplugs would be a problem, especially if you sleep on your side. Totally understand about not hearing the alarm. Oh, the troubles we have to go through living in apartments.

[hells-half-acre.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't know if everyone is migrating over to tumblr or not - or if the people on my flist just happen to be drifting away from fandom and are just not as active anymore. Tumblr is fun, but it's not conducive to the kind of things that LJ is good for, so I really don't see it as a threat - it's better for things like fanart, rather than discussion or fic.

Anyway, who knows.

And yeah, between the neighbour and the earplugs, I'm either getting too little sleep or too much. :P

[metallidean-grl.livejournal.com]

As far as fandom, I think it is a combination of both factors. Some people are drifting away from fandom. I have seen several fans, people within my flist, that were not happy at all with S8, and thus, have dwindled in posting and commenting. And then other people are going more toward Tumblr, because of the fun of it all. I like Tumblr, lots of pretty stuff, but I agree with you, it is not as conducive to discussion or fic.

I would say you are probably getting less sleep, unless, of course, before all this happened you were also getting less sleep, then, I guess, it hasn't made that much of a difference.