swamp ophelia

ooops I missed posting yesterday. Well, yesterday was more of an attempt to write more evals and dozing in the car. After Miss R went to bed we did manage to finish watching Free Guy, which continues to be a meh movie. I'm glad I watched it first on the plane, because that's really the degree of engagement it deserves. I think I also kind of told Spouse the best parts, so what was left were the not-funny parts.

Oh, and last night was the usual comickers meetup, so I got to work on the citizenship comic for a bit, which was nice.

And today, I finished all of my evals, yay! I was mostly sustained by chocolate, though I also rewarded myself by buying some sparkling water. I've always been a flat water person my entire life, but starting last year I've been strangely enjoying sparkling water. I think what it is is that for hydration, I definitely want flat water -- it just goes down so smooth and I don't have to think about it. But since I don't drink alcohol or soda, sparkling water is like, a nice option for special occasions, when I just want some bubbles in my mouth. :3 In the process I found out that my state actually has a 5 cent tax on cans?? Technically you can get that money back when you take it to a recycling facility, but also, I just recycle it like normal, which means that the can tax is just a tax. Eh.

Sunday is going to be the taiko new year's performance, and usually we make onigiri to bring, but that always takes 3-4 hours in the morning, and I don't think we have time, since we'd have to leave at 8:30am or so. So I was thinking maybe I can make fried wontons? Or maybe some mochi? (Although there's going to be mochi-making at the event). Maybe I can make some rice krispies onigiri? Or maybe just buy a lot of oranges and senbei? Wait! We can bring goma-ae! That's Japanese *and* it keeps well.

Anyways, it's hitting me belatedly that it's Friday night. I should probably try to draw some more, but all I want to do is read some batfam fics and then sleep.

Oh! Some fics I read yesterday:

I enjoyed wetsocks' fics, they're short and cute: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Nicky_boy/pseuds/wetsocks/works?fandom_id=236208 .
- I especially liked the JJ one, where it's snapshots of Tim coming back to himself through a series of time skips as he shifts between himself and JJ. I just love the idea of JJ being integrated and accepted into the Batfam as much as Tim is.
- I laughed a lot at Turtles all the way down, which is told through a series of text chats, and is basically Jason accidentally getting Donatello as a temporary roommate. Jason is in peak form here, blocking Dick and Bruce at the end of every convo, etc. Tim and Donatello do a lot of hacking, and there's some great moments, such as where Donatello assumes that Batman is a Bat-man mutant, because *his* dad is a rat-man mutant, lol.
- And for the enjoyers of ye typical Tim Drake angst where he feels like he's unwanted and then everyone gives him hugs, there's this one, nice simple h/c catharsis

I also reread Draskireis' (Progress is) A Comfortable disease because they posted a new chapter. Basically a Tim who is 27 and has been saddled with WE for the past 10 years finally hits breaking point and decides to hop universes. He lands in a universe where he's 17 years in the past and his in-universe self is 10. He then proceeds to pretend to be Tim's uncle and blackmail Janet into letting him get custody of Tim. He also gets a therapist, steals from Lex Luthor, prevents Joker from existing, and does a bunch of plots. But he manifestly has major trust issues (which he's going to therapy for, phew), dissociates frequently, and he's also left behind a bajillion contingency plans in his old universe that is basically wreaking havoc. It's like ... feral Tim Drake except he's 27 and jaded. Oh, and now the in-universe Tiny Tim is also doing feral plotting, so it's like, ... oh no, there's 2 of them.