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Taking a break from, uh, reading about the CIA doing atrocities (it's actually a really interesting book, though) to throw together a SOTP because why not!
State of Me: Hanging in there. The start of the year is always my busiest time at work, and once again I have a huge deadline looming next week for one of my programs. Last year, we got easily 60% of our applications right at the deadline (and last year that meant, like, 175 new apps in one day) so I am officially Not Excited about the near future. I'll get through it, it'll just be a pain. Otherwise feeling pretty okay, though, so that's nice.
Rosie: Ahaha, what didn't fall apart for her since the last time I wrote one of these? She's been having a really hard time since Nick vanished, but I've been...super impressed with myself and the arc I've been doing with it (though I'm probably the only one who's followed every single beat of it since, you know, I'm the one writing it in the first place). It's led to a lot of really great character exploration, a lot of her realizing the cracks in things that already existed even before last summer, and because of that trying to define what it is she needs and wants (and what she doesn't any more). I think she's in a much better place than I might have anticipated when I first started thinking about how I wanted all of it to go.
A while back I got the idea to kind of...close everything out with a canon update, the results of which I think are going to make her a lot more centered and sure of herself. I'd been hoping to get that apped and the post written this month, which obviously didn't happen, so now I'm shooting for either February or March depending how soon work calms down. Nothing like realizing you end up as two different people back home (look, her canon is weird and that's not even the weirdest part of the canon update) to give you perspective on how your life is going in Darrow.
ALSO I got a terrible idea for one final salvo in the "the children of Petros High are little shits and no one should love them" subplot that's always somewhere in the background when it comes to Rosie, so that might be happening closer to graduation. Which, she's graduating! Finally! This fall she'll be at Barton and everything will be...different, hopefully? Yay for college.
Darlington: In a remarkably good place right now. He got his ancestral manse as a gift from Darrow (that's not hyperbole, it's very much a manse and it was built by his great-great-grandpa), he and Alex are ridiculously happy, things are good. Because of when he arrived and transferred in to Barton, he graduated at the end of the fall term this year, so now he's working more at the museum and probably taking on a full-time role this spring--probably some kind of research position, maaaaybe curatorial, but I'll have to consult with my resident museum professional to figure out a plausible role for him.
He also very much still has the remaining vials from the batch of Orozcerio he made last fall, but after fighting with Alex about using it in East Hallow without permission, it's safe to say it's been locked up and he's not allowed anywhere near whatever cabinet it's stored in. At least until the next spooky Darrow emergency. Maybe.
Ruth and I have a plot for Alex and Danny that we're already putting into gear, which I'm very excited about--it should be a big change for them both, but in a way that works, I think. I'm still trying to decide if doing a small canon update for him now is better than waiting to see what the second book brings me, but I'm not feeling pulled in one direction over the other, at least right now. Ruth and I are also planning a joint reread of Ninth House next month, which should help to reinforce his voice for me, and that'll be great.
State of the Queue: Harrow from the Locked Tomb books has been kicking around in my head for ages, and I'm very slowly rereading her canon and hoping to get my ass in gear with an actual app in the next little bit. I have the journal, the PB, the theme song (I know I'm sold on a character when I figure out their theme song, and I don't know why), I just need to do the app already. SOON.
I also keep going back and forth on Scarlett Clark from They Never Learn, who would be...a bit of a departure from my usual, but kind of delightfully so? She might work best as a temp character, though it's not like she doesn't have staying power in a place like Darrow. Having an actual queue is weird, guys, I just want to have enough time and space to play everybody.
State of Me: Hanging in there. The start of the year is always my busiest time at work, and once again I have a huge deadline looming next week for one of my programs. Last year, we got easily 60% of our applications right at the deadline (and last year that meant, like, 175 new apps in one day) so I am officially Not Excited about the near future. I'll get through it, it'll just be a pain. Otherwise feeling pretty okay, though, so that's nice.
Rosie: Ahaha, what didn't fall apart for her since the last time I wrote one of these? She's been having a really hard time since Nick vanished, but I've been...super impressed with myself and the arc I've been doing with it (though I'm probably the only one who's followed every single beat of it since, you know, I'm the one writing it in the first place). It's led to a lot of really great character exploration, a lot of her realizing the cracks in things that already existed even before last summer, and because of that trying to define what it is she needs and wants (and what she doesn't any more). I think she's in a much better place than I might have anticipated when I first started thinking about how I wanted all of it to go.
A while back I got the idea to kind of...close everything out with a canon update, the results of which I think are going to make her a lot more centered and sure of herself. I'd been hoping to get that apped and the post written this month, which obviously didn't happen, so now I'm shooting for either February or March depending how soon work calms down. Nothing like realizing you end up as two different people back home (look, her canon is weird and that's not even the weirdest part of the canon update) to give you perspective on how your life is going in Darrow.
ALSO I got a terrible idea for one final salvo in the "the children of Petros High are little shits and no one should love them" subplot that's always somewhere in the background when it comes to Rosie, so that might be happening closer to graduation. Which, she's graduating! Finally! This fall she'll be at Barton and everything will be...different, hopefully? Yay for college.
Darlington: In a remarkably good place right now. He got his ancestral manse as a gift from Darrow (that's not hyperbole, it's very much a manse and it was built by his great-great-grandpa), he and Alex are ridiculously happy, things are good. Because of when he arrived and transferred in to Barton, he graduated at the end of the fall term this year, so now he's working more at the museum and probably taking on a full-time role this spring--probably some kind of research position, maaaaybe curatorial, but I'll have to consult with my resident museum professional to figure out a plausible role for him.
He also very much still has the remaining vials from the batch of Orozcerio he made last fall, but after fighting with Alex about using it in East Hallow without permission, it's safe to say it's been locked up and he's not allowed anywhere near whatever cabinet it's stored in. At least until the next spooky Darrow emergency. Maybe.
Ruth and I have a plot for Alex and Danny that we're already putting into gear, which I'm very excited about--it should be a big change for them both, but in a way that works, I think. I'm still trying to decide if doing a small canon update for him now is better than waiting to see what the second book brings me, but I'm not feeling pulled in one direction over the other, at least right now. Ruth and I are also planning a joint reread of Ninth House next month, which should help to reinforce his voice for me, and that'll be great.
State of the Queue: Harrow from the Locked Tomb books has been kicking around in my head for ages, and I'm very slowly rereading her canon and hoping to get my ass in gear with an actual app in the next little bit. I have the journal, the PB, the theme song (I know I'm sold on a character when I figure out their theme song, and I don't know why), I just need to do the app already. SOON.
I also keep going back and forth on Scarlett Clark from They Never Learn, who would be...a bit of a departure from my usual, but kind of delightfully so? She might work best as a temp character, though it's not like she doesn't have staying power in a place like Darrow. Having an actual queue is weird, guys, I just want to have enough time and space to play everybody.
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