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I slept moderately well last night, just not as much as I was hoping. I had trouble falling asleep, and then I was awakened early by a spam phone call on my cell phone (late enough that going back to sleep seemed a bad option but still early).

( Last night's game session )

I never got around to the pork shoulder yesterday. I’m thinking that I might cut it up before the cleaning lady comes today and store the pieces in the refrigerator until I’m ready to cook. I need to look around to see what we’ve got in terms of flavorings to add. I’m not sure we’ve got anything that all three of us can deal with— I know Scott bought a new flavor of barbecue sauce, but I can’t handle that, and Cordelia might or might not be willing to eat it. I’m not sure if we’ve got anything else pre-made.

My knee is more tender to touch today than it was yesterday, but I’m not having trouble walking.

I wrote about nine hundred words yesterday, mostly on my phone (and mostly during the game session). I’m annoyed with myself about it, though, because I started a new section that sets up a bunch of completely new things. I just want the story to end, you know? I don’t have time for another twenty thousand words. I may just chop it off at the end of the previous section and put in an author’s note that says that I’m working on a sequel. The previous section doesn’t actually resolve anything, just kind of opens a door to the possibility that something might happen.

I had fruit on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week without any impact on my IBS. If I’d done that in May or June, I’d have really regretted it, but I seem to be back to being able to eat what I want without that sort of repercussion. I think that, when I have prolonged periods of anxiety, I will have IBS issues no matter what I eat but that some things will make that worse. I just can’t actually test what will affect me unless I’m in a prolonged period of anxiety at the time. Looking at May and June, it took two or three weeks of anxiety for me to start having problems. I didn’t have this sort of trouble before my lumpectomy in 2015 because I didn’t have more than two weeks between biopsy and surgery. I didn’t have it during radiation therapy. I’m not actually sure why I didn’t. I just know that I didn’t.

Looking for AO3 advice here…

I have decided that I’m just going to end this Amber AU with the vague possibility of impending change and let everything I’ve written after that point be sequel material.

Now I’m trying to figure out how to tag this and what to mention in notes. Mandor’s in one chapter, 1300 words out of 33000. I didn’t tag for him. Should I? How do I tag for the fact that my first person narrator monologues (introspection) a lot? Right now, I just mention it in an author’s note. Do I need to warn people that Merlin has kids if they never appear in the text but are a plot point?

Right now, my tags are: Revenge, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Shapeshifting, Alternate Universe - Dark, Angst, Ambiguous/Open Ending, POV First Person, and Captivity. I’m warning for rape/non-con. I wanted to tag for dark!Merlin, but that autofilled, and I’m 100% sure that the other stories with that tag are referring to a different character and canon. I’m not sure I want this fic lumped in with those, but I feel like that might be information a potential reader might want. Author’s note or use the tag anyway?

There’s an offscreen death of a canonical character who doesn’t actually appear in the story. Does that need a warning? I’m not sure it should go to archive warning level, but maybe another author’s note? If I use the archive warning, I think people might assume that one of the characters who appears in the story will die.

But my author’s note is really very long already. Will anybody actually read it?

I’ve got everything in a draft on AO3. Twelve chapters. I need to check the FAQ for Iddy Iddy Bang Bang to see if there’s a prohibition on posting early or when exactly I’m supposed to post.

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Anybody interested in an unabridged book on CD copy of Little House on the Prairie? I haven’t tried playing the CDs, but none of them have visible scratches, and Cordelia was always very good about keeping those in their sleeves (mostly because Scott and I were the ones taking CDs out and putting them away during the years when she cared about Little House).

The book is read by Cherry Jones, and the case also lists someone named Paul Woodiel. I think he did music at the points when Pa was playing in the story.

I’m willing to pay shipping in the US, but for anywhere else, I’d need the recipient to pay shipping.

Claimed.