Mab's Mad Musings

First off, thank you digthewriter for sending me a wonderfully corny Halloween card!

*squishes you to death* *reanimates you*

Second, I have succumbed to a major tempting bit of fanfiction that takes place post Blood of Olympus in the PJO & HoO series. I'm way too excited by this and the prospect of getting to tag my fic "BoO HoO spoilers".

But as the series only ended last week, I have nobody to talk to about all the things, and I'm intimidated by tumblr. Have any of you f-listers read all the books? Anybody able/willing to talk/beta for me? The fic I'm writing will be a bit fluffy, a bit filthy, and canon inspired.

Thought I'd try here first before braving the treacherous waters of tumblr!

I can totally handle my inlaws for about a week... It's been a week as of yesterday and I'm here for two more days. *headdesk*

So I escaped for about 4 hours earlier today and drove to a coffee shop where I could write and do mod/beta/fandom things without my kids climbing all over me.

I got back about an hour ago, after realising I'd been gone as long as I had. I picked up some duplo (baby lego blocks) for the toddler and 12 year old to play with together, figuring the blocks can live here and they can play with them when we visit again. So I bring the blocks into the living room after unloading a bag of groceries, the toddler is glued to my leg at this point. And Father in Law pushes pause on some podcast he's sharing with husband and Mother in Law and gives me this look of annoyance while I open the blocks for the toddler to play with.

"I'll just be a sec, and then we'll take these upstairs and you can get on with your thing".

I swear to god... I feel like everytime I walk into the room, if I don't show interest in whatever academic thing they're watching/listening to/discussing, I'm not welcome to be in the same room. Like ... they didn't notice my four hour absence and would have been happy if it had been longer.

I know I'm reading into it a bit, but it totally feels like that's how things are. I'm most comfortable hanging out in this tiny closet with my laptop, microphone, and kindle than I am anywhere else here. I've smoked nearly an entire pack of cigarettes in the past day while "out" avoiding this place, and I quit smoking ages ago...

Okay.. rant done. It will be over soon. Just a few more days and next year I've already made plans to only be here three days and then escape to London to hang out with Writcraft.



The other reason I'm posting is because I have a podfic that I need a quick beta listen on. It's only about 20 minutes long. It's not a happy fic, and is a bit dark, but it's not a destroy your soul sort of thing either. Anybody want to help me out with that? The cover art for it is AWESOME and I can't wait until it will post for the hp_podfic_fest!

All sorted

I'm going to be recording a podfic for an upcoming fest in which one of the characters speaks with a pretty thick Irish accent. It's important to the plot, so I really do need to work something out as far as getting the point of the accent across (hopefully without distracting people from listening) and so I'm calling for help.

Basically, I'd love it if somebody with an Irish accent would record themselves reading this character's lines and share it with me. I'll have better luck mimicking than trying to develop an accent myself.

If you can help, or know of somebody who might be able to, let me know in the comments (screened).

Thanks!

ETA... Tentatively sorted. *fingers crossed I can get it right with help!*

Damn... Life has been busy lately.

I'm planning to write up another weight loss/fitness update soon. (If you're not on my weight loss filter and want to be, let me know in a comment or by PM)


I've been working hard at getting my daughter enrolled in high school and making sure she gets all the support that I can get for her. I'm looking into a summer program for kids her age that addresses social anxiety in a therapeutic/group sort of fun setting.

She's mentioned that she wants help with overcoming her shyness. This weekend my mom took her to see Maleficent and they ran into three girls she's been friendly with since kindergarten, one of them she counts as her best friend, but mom told me she just froze up and couldn't really talk. That she wanted to, but later told mom she's afraid of saying the wrong thing and sounding dumb. :( These are all girls I know personally too and they aren't the judgy-pushy types. They're all proud feminists and are receptive to hanging out with Gwen. It kills me that it's so hard for her, but I really have to swallow it down and just support her in finding her own way. I can't fix it for her. And really, there's nothing wrong with being introverted. I just worry that it might begin to overwhelm her to a point where it is not healthy. *sigh* parenting is hard!





I broke my vow to not participate in writing for fests this year and claimed a prompt for Glompfest at serpentinelion It will be my third time participating. This has always been one of my favorite fests to write for and I'm really pumped about the story I'm working on. That said... Anybody willing to alpha read/cheerlead for me while I write it? (sorted) I'm hoping to get it all done this month, since I'm on a mod vacation from hp_darkarts. If you are willing, let me know either in a comment, PM, or email. Qumabh@gmail.com



Hrm... what else.

I've not had much time at all for reading/commenting and that makes me sad. I'm hoping that once school is out for the summer, I'll have more time again. I do have several recs I need to finish writing and post them here and on my tumblr.

I've been hard at work on podficcing chapter nine of Turn this month. I finally finished the 2nd round of edits and sent it to saras_girl for pre-listening. One more round of edits when I get it back and it will be up and posted. Chapter nine is the longest one yet. Nearly 3 hours!

I'm getting really excited for the Harry Big Bang at harrybang! We're making plans to fancy up the comm and start pimping hard! Our next Author spotlight is coming up on 10 June and if you're not already watching the comm, I encourage you to start!

All right. That's all for now. I don't want to talk your ears off.

I'm recording a podfic for horror fest and it's ready for a beta listen. It is a dark story and I'm willing to give more details to anybody interested.

If you're interested in helping me out, please leave a comment below. (I'll screen them) and we can exchange information.

Thanks!

All settled. Thank you.