mike's unreasonably messy to-do list

Jan. 15th, 2026 09:19 pm
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books i’m reading


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books to read


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books on hiatus


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fics to update


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fanfics to rewrite


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fic events


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one shots to work on


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taking a step back

Jan. 15th, 2026 09:05 pm
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so i've been kind of thinking about it for some time now, and i think i need to take a long break from the internet. meaning, i might check my dreamwidth once a day, but that's it. i'll still use discord, just not as often. and i also will write here and there using ellipsus.

i bought the first six books of heaven's official blessing and i want to read more anyways. i need to get into a new fandom, and i'm really excited to read these books.

i might try to set a schedule. maybe i'll start by maybe posting once a day, if not maybe i'll just post when i have something to say (which... i always do).

something else: it would be kind of fun to treat DW like a proper journal. i might share pictures of travels and miscellaneous things. i also want to maybe keep a reading journal, i have one somewhere in my room that i haven't touched yet.

i'll also write my live reactions to the books i'm reading!

after i post this, i'm going to make a masterlist of things i need to get done. i do have a list of events i've signed up for but i kind of want to compile a large to-do list. i also have a private entry that contains journal entry ideas too (you can't see it since it's for me, but it's nothing exciting).

so... yeah that's it i think.

snowflake challenge 08

Jan. 15th, 2026 07:00 pm
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day eight of the [community profile] snowflake_challenge! a bit late but it's fine. click here to see all of my snowflake 2026 posts! ✧*。

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

[community profile] snowflake_challenge challenge #8: Talk about your creative process.

hmm... this one i'd have to really think about, since i'm a huge pantser and i tend to just wing all of my fics. in my previous snowflake entry, i mentioned that a lot of my fic ideas are based off dreams. which is true! my joscarl fantasia au was actually based on a dream i had about the manhwa, the queen's knight.

but let's talk about the process. which... isn't a lot, to be honest.

my writing process )

a productive writing day

Jan. 15th, 2026 06:22 pm
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i posted about this on fandom.ink, a mastadon server that i'm giving a try. it's very quiet and i enjoy it a lot. not much traffic. but since it has a 500 character limit i might as well talk more about my writing here.

i found | miklan & byleth


for [community profile] ficwip's genuary jubilee event, i wrote yet another fic of miklan and byleth as a duo. this time the prompt was found family, which is one of my favorite platonic tropes. i found is kind of a shorter fic than i wanted it to be, but i'm really proud of how it ended.

it has a simple ending, and it's a quiet conversation between miklan, someone who has never really had a family, and byleth, someone who has a father to protect her.

miklan feels out of place in a lot of my fics. he's a bandit, thug, criminal. byleth is the opposite; she delivers justice, whether it's in the name of the goddess or underneath edelgard's banner. i kind of imagine that i found is an AU where, for the longest time, byleth and jeralt were still mercenaries long before byleth met the three house leaders.

i imagine that at one point, byleth was the one who found miklan years ago, wounded and on the brink of death. hence where the title of the fic comes from, which is also named after an amber run song.

miklan is sometimes difficult to depict in situations involving family. i imagine that he hasn't felt the love of a mother in years, and so love is a foreign concept to him. when byleth tended to his wounds when she was nine years old, i feel like miklan, at the time, suspected a trap. that byleth would patch him up and kick him into the dirt. miklan is a cynical person, he always has been, and i do think he wouldn't have trusted byleth if he were older.

since this story takes place during the pre-timeskip, i kind of imagine that miklan is around his mid-20's and byleth is 21. even though it's been over a decade since they first met, miklan is still not used to the mercenary life. he's used to raids, theft, murder. he isn't used to honor codes or protection. sure, he's a brilliant leader and he does care for his crew, but do they care about him?

that's the question i kind of wanted to answer in my other miklan/byleth fic.

someone to hate | orphjosrick


i posted chapter two of my orpheus/joseph/frederick fic, someone to hate. it's a slow burn, and i will admit, this chapter was a little slower than i'd like it to be. it explores more of how frederick feels about joseph, about how orpheus's behaviors are making frederick feel uncomfortable and replaced.

joseph, who i'm portraying as autistic (using my personal experiences and symptoms), is very observant. i imagine that frederick thinks that he might be too observant.

on the other hand, frederick can't blame himself for being captivated by joseph. in this fic, joseph is frederick's new housemate. orpheus suggested that joseph could fit in with frederick.

but it's later revealed that joseph and orpheus are collaborating together on orpheus's novel, identity v (yes, this is a little tongue-in-cheek easter egg). joseph takes photographs for the novel, while orpheus writes it.

frederick, a musician, isn't sure where he stands.

he's been orpheus's best friend for over two decades, and now it feels like the relationship is slipping. but is it?

i'm pretty happy with how chapter two turned out. and i'm also pretty excited about writing chapter three.

i found | miklan & byleth

Jan. 15th, 2026 11:09 am
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fandom: fire emblem: three houses

pairing: miklan anschutz gautier & my unit | byleth

rating: G

warnings: no warnings apply

word count: 850

AO3 link: link

“mik, you’re my family, and we’ll take care of you. you don’t need titles or powers. we love you no matter what you come with or lack. it doesn’t make you any less my brother.”

byleth found miklan when no one else was searching. written for week 2 of ficwip's genuary jubilee.


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character playlists

Jan. 14th, 2026 07:23 pm
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i wanted to share some of my identity v playlists.

usually i'll listen to these when writing a certain ship or character, and sometimes i use them during roleplay (which i never get to do, since the RP community feels... dead if you're not in a fandom that requires real world actors.)

one theme (lol) you'll notice is a lot of my playlists will have the same songs or groups. i'm... really selective with music, and i can have the same song loop for over 12 hours straight. not even kidding.

anyway, here are some of my playlists.

antonio (the violinist) )

joker (the weeping clown) )

emil (the patient) )

Snowflake Challenge #7

Jan. 14th, 2026 05:36 pm
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two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

Challenge #7

LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.


1) I’m practical and have no patience for nonsense.
2) I have a large beauty mark right over my heart. I call it the “strategically placed mole”.
3) My homemade lasagna. I consider myself a good home cook in general.

fannish50 challenge 01

Jan. 14th, 2026 09:57 am
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a while back, i signed up for [community profile] goals_on_dw's fannish 50 event, and i will admit i forgot about it. but i did remember my goal, which is to talk about 50 fic or fic moments that i enjoyed writing. i might as well start off with the first!

i already made a [community profile] snowflake_challenge post detailing my top 10 fics i wrote, but this time i want to actually go through all of my fics and detail on some of my favorite moments that i've written.

i'll try to do this bi-weekly, maybe daily, but it depends on how i'm feeling and if i'm up to it.

anyway, for some context, this is my forensics modern AU and also my first long-fic that i've ever posted. it's also one that i'm rewriting entirely. joseph is a forensic photographer while alva is a physicist, and the two were paired up to figure out a case together.

ars moriendi


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snowflake challenge 07

Jan. 14th, 2026 08:54 am
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day seven of the [community profile] snowflake_challenge! a bit late but it's fine. click here to see all of my snowflake 2026 posts! ✧*。

two log cabins with snow on the roofs in a wintery forest the text snowflake challenge january 1 - 31 in white cursive text

[community profile] snowflake_challenge challenge #7: LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.

this is a little tricky, since i'm not necessarily a positive person in regards to myself. but i suppose there are some things that i find pleasant about myself!

what i'm proud of )

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Jan. 13th, 2026 04:11 pm
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(crossposting from tumblr because most favorite guilty pleasure trope ever actually described accurately <3 )

Notes on Torturing The Character In The Science Facility

  • my takes on this trope rarely if ever have anything to do with the character being “special” or being studied for powers they innately have, if they are special its something that was done to them
  • it’s about the medical trauma
  • it’s about the violation and lack of bodily autonomy
  • the “living weapon” trope, but the key characteristic is catastrophic functionality
  • i love, love, love the concept of “catastrophic functionality” in a person: character that can tank ludicrous amounts of damage and just Keep Going in virtually all circumstances barring outright dismemberment. They can keep going, so do they “deserve” rest and/or pain relief?
  • after a lifetime of having their distress treated as whiny and unreasonable, they have what would be a dangerously high tolerance to pain and exhaustion.
  • another key function of the Science Facility is to fix the damage Character takes, maybe using enhanced healing technologies or 3D printed organs or something. this leads to Character’s body being treated as relatively disposable cause “we can just fix them”
  • extreme version of this: Character can’t die even if they wanted to
  • people who work with Character are informed that they’re dangerous and arbitrarily violent, and their fear of Character makes it easier to justify restricting autonomy
  • It is TRUE, cause Character does not have tools to set boundaries or protect their body other than violence. vicious cycle of being perceived as dangerous and therefore denied autonomy, and being forced to use violence to defend autonomy
  • the restraints used to hold Character look like major overkill, which underscores how dangerous they are. LOVE this trope
  • character being desexualized to the point that their non-consent to touch, to being stripped down and examined, or to procedures is trivialized. There is no non-clinical context for their body, and the “clinical” framework eclipses any possibility for bodily violation to be understood as violent.
  • types of uncanniness: Character looks human but has some subtle inhuman traits or characteristics. (I’m obsessed with reflective eye shine, personally.) OR Character looks like they’ve been taken apart and put back together, like flesh pulled over a much more unforgiving and indestructible metal scaffold. OR Character gives off “undead” vibes; they’re just not quite alive in a way that sets off air raid sirens in people’s brains
  • Often, Character is dead and Came Back Wrong (varying levels of literalness)

anyways yeah. i never stopped writing this trope and probably never will. it’s a good one



nortpheus persephone au

Jan. 13th, 2026 04:00 pm
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okay so i was talking to my partner about this and it was just an out of the blue thought, but he encouraged me to write it which i plan on doing if my other WIPs don’t eat me alive.

i've been thinking about an identity v greek mythology au and specifically a persephone/hades retelling but with a twist on who plays which role ∠( ᐛ 」∠)_

roles & the story


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a twist on the myth


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anyway if anyone wants to yell about this with me please do!! i need enablers i mean friends to help me develop this further ahahaha…

prepping

Jan. 12th, 2026 10:59 pm
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My next paycheck is tomorrow, and it's going to be the pay from how much I worked on Christmas. So this is going to be a fat one. My hours later this month were cut, but doing some basic calculations tell me that the paychecks will be average, not terrible. This paycheck will likely carry me before the next mid ones this month. Hopefully my hours in early February will be decent, since my paycheck drops before the con lol. So tomorrow I'm going to buy my badge for Harmonycon, commission an artist for a badge, pay my personal bills a second time, pay household bills if they weren't already, and put some money aside property taxes later this year. Depending on how much money I have left after required stuff, I may donate to KHinsider since I didn't on Christmas.

I unfortunately haven't gotten my W2 for last year yet because my job's internal system for that changed. Really annoying, because I requested 4 days off for Harmonycon (Feb 13-15 and the 16th to recharge before work), and I'd like to have that return as "padding" for my lost hours, lol. I read on Reddit that the W2s for other employees will be posted around the 15th? So I'll check later this week. I signed up for email alerts, but I never heard of this site W2s are posted on. JFC, what happened to mailing or being in the employee panel?

I'm close to done on my site rebrand, but I'm having trouble ripping the bandaid off. I'm redoing my about page, and when I finish that I'll start my "offline tour" before I swap URLs, send out emails, and be free from now on. Harmonycon is an all ages event so I won't leave advertisements for my site there, but I'm considering printing stickers of my art to leave around the Hyatt for funzies. I'm debating on leaving a signature on them though, since I don't have an "all ages" platform now that DeviantART is in the shitter. OTOH, the Harmonycon Discord is mostly adults and older teenagers, I doubt there's going to be many kid-kids lol?

On that note, I popped in the Harmonycon Discord and saw someone from Sonic Expo there, which is something I'm starting to really enjoy about going to local cons. Obviously they're HUGE and have thousands of people, but local stuff will have recurring vendors and faces. An artists alley vendor at TFF/TFS was at Sonic Expo and recognized me, even. lol. After Harmonycon I'll request time off for TFF. Two cons in February and March makes me feel hectic but I need the minor stress to focus.

My inbox has been piling up. It's past 11PM but I have an afternoon-evening shift tomorrow so I can stay up late. I won't go to bed until I clear it out, lol.

EDIT: I AM DONE!!!!! FINALLY!!! When I was up I'm going to answer some Discord DMs, and hopefully send more out. I am not spending this year in hiding.

369 prompts bingo

Jan. 12th, 2026 09:37 pm
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this is based on my personal prompts list, and i decided to challenge myself into doing my own ficlet bingo. if you want, you can use this bingo maker to play along!






Mischief Sound Up Bridge
Try Learn Clothes Lemon
Opposites Letter Yes Skip
Shy Heart Work Possibilities

100ships table

Jan. 12th, 2026 09:01 pm
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posting the [community profile] 100ships table so that i don't forget anytime soon.

#01 – Adamant #02 – Snow #03 – Lion #04 – Spark #05 – Amber
#06 – Lust #07 – Bronze #08 – Mint #09 – Arctic #10 – Black
#11 – Moonlight #12 – Sunlight #13 – Blue #14 – Navy #15 – Tea
#16 – Neon #17 – Twilight #18 – Blush #19 – Wine #20 – Nude
#21 – Rhythm #22 – Brown #23 – Linen #24 – Ember #25 – Thistle
#26 – Cherry #27 – Orange #28 – Vanilla #29 – Bone #30 – Harlequin
#31 – Cadet #32 – Chocolate #33 – Peach #34 – Lead #35 – Cream
#36 – Sand #37 – White #38 – Crimson #39 – Pink #40 – Ocean
#41 – Dove #42 – Platinum #43 – Yellow #44 – Earth #45 – Midnight
#46 – Pearl #47 – Frostbite #48 – Pumpkin #49 – Electric #50 – Purple
#51 – Coral #52 – Salt #53 – Crow #54 – Rainbow #55 – Cloud
#56 – Flame #57 – Red #58 – Ash #59 – Rose #60 – Slate
#61 – Green #62 – Ruby #63 – Olive #64 – Lipstick #65 – Spice
#66 – Grey #67 – Denim #68 – Rust #69 – Flirt #70 – Sunset
#71 – Sable #72 – Desert #73 – Jade #74 – Sage #75 – Buff
#76 – Jet #77 – Plum #78 – Leather #79 – Liberty #80 – Metal
#81 – Sepia #82 – Lavender #83 – Scarlet #84 – Crystal #85 – Chestnut
#86 – Shadow #87 – Lemon #88 – Mystic #89 – Silver #90 – Coffee
#91 – Seafoam #92 – Lime #93 – Punch #94 – Pickle #95 – Champagne
#96 – Copper #97 – Bittersweet #98 – Honey #99 – Candy #100 – Gold
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