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Showing posts with label everyday life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label everyday life. Show all posts
Sunday 16 September 2018
Nerd Church - The Writer Diaries: 7 Radical Ways To Defeat Writer's Block
Staring at the blank page (...or screen...) we've all been there.
You need to write the thing - but the thing just doesn't seem to want to be written.
You have the Dreaded Writer's Block.
But Writer's Block ain't welcome around here!
I don't put up with Writer's Block (that pushy little so-and-so) - and neither should you!
Friday 14 September 2018
Friday Fics Fix - Draco In A Bow
'“Okay, so look, so, Harry's birthday, yeah? Is soon. And the thing is, he's sort of... well, he doesn't need much. In general. And in... not general he can buy anything he fancies himself. So I kind of don't know what to get him. Except... I know that he fancies you...”'
It's my birthday tomorrow (15th Sep)!
And as such, I'm totally picking a birthday-themed Drarry fic this week. Because birthday.
Yes, this is total Mindless Self Indulgence.
Sunday 9 September 2018
Nerd Church - Creativity Takes Time (...And That's A Good Thing)
Practice makes perfect. Well... it doesn't. But it makes it better than it was when you started!
Unfortunately, when it comes to creative stuff - the process is slow.
Some people, somewhere, are the lucky one in a billion who can create a masterpiece with no practice or preamble. (Lucky so-and-sos.)
Wednesday 5 September 2018
Month in Review(s) - August 2018
August... August can shut the f**k up.
Which isn't August's fault, y'know, as a month.
But it isn't anyone else's fault either.
And sometimes it helps to have something to anthropomorphise your fear and anger at - y'know, aside from Parkinson's Disease itself.
Sunday 2 September 2018
Nerd Church - Work/Life/Blog/Whatever-Balance Is Hard! (Especially When You Have Cats)
Do you ever feel like there's just too much sh** going on?
Like, you got your work or school stuff, then you got your life/personal stuff, then you might have some other stuff to do with hobbies or passion projects or... welp, blogging!
Sunday 26 August 2018
Nerd Church - The Slow Process of Learning To Stop Straight-Passing
It's been about two years since I came out as Sexually Fluid.
And I'm so much happier in myself.
The process of letting myself 'act Queer,' though?
That's still very much on-going.
So since it's my coming out anniversary, and also Pride Cymru weekend - and I'm Welsh and Queer - I figured I'd talk about it a li'l bit.
Sunday 19 August 2018
Nerd Church - Exam Results Advice (That's Also Pretty Good Advice For Life)
You want some advice for getting your exam results that also applies to many, many, other sections of life? Of course you do!
(Well, you do now. #JustGoWithIt. #EnjoyTheRide.)
Sunday 12 August 2018
Nerd Church - How Do We Decide When To Forgive?
Whether you're director James Gunn, YouTuber Jeffree Star, politician Boris Johnson, or the Archdruid of the Gorsedd*, you've made mistakes in your past (or present.)
Lord knows I've made plenty of mistakes in my life. And I'm guessing you have too, dearest nerdlets.
We're human, after all.
*What, you guys don't have an Archdruid?!?! Welp, Welsh people do. 😅
But how do we decide when someone is worthy of our forgiveness?
How do we decide who is forgiven and who isn't? Do we have double-standards?
Sunday 5 August 2018
Nerd Church - Poor Towns and Ponderings
Look, the place I live in isn't rich.
Some people may call it poor. Some people may even call it a dive.
But it's OK. It's a lot less rough than a lot of the other places around.
The town my grandparents live in is a dive, with the best will in the world, I can't deny that.
Wednesday 1 August 2018
Month in Review(s) - July 2018
Where did July go?!
Like... I know sometimes time goes quick, but really?!
I think it's the heat.
I spent most of the month slouching around the house, trying to cool down, and being a generally not-nice person to be around.
Me + heat = grump monster! Lol.
Labels:
comics,
crime,
diversity,
everyday life,
fanfiction,
fiction,
Friday Fics Fix,
historical fiction,
LGBTQ+,
micropoetry,
mini-review,
Nerd Church,
review,
superhero,
wrap-up
Sunday 29 July 2018
Nerd Church - Meta Nerd Church
(Meta = about, or self-referential/self-aware.)
I've written over 150 Nerd Church posts since I started this series in February 2015.
Yes. That's how long ago I started Nerd Church.
(Please don't look at those first posts... it's not good! 😅)
Sunday 22 July 2018
Nerd Church - Self-Care Is Vitally Important In Hot Weather
...of course, Self-Care is vitally important generally, but you get what I mean.
If you're in the middle of a heatwave like we are in the UK, then your Self-Care game needs to be sharp.
Friday 20 July 2018
Friday Fics Fix - Westeros-by-Sea
'“I, er, can I try some?” Theon finally asks some twenty minutes after they come in, interrupting their chatter.
“Sure. There’s the changing room, knock yourself out.”
Theon disappears inside it with a stack of things.
“Well,” Mance says, his tone of voice suddenly dropping lower, “whatever happened to him sure as hell wasn’t a walk in the park.”'
I loooove it when fanfics experiment dammit! XD
And when I randomly find fanfiction that puts Game of Thrones characters in the modern-day, AND in my beloved Wales?!
Wednesday 18 July 2018
2018 Fanfiction Reading Challenge Update #2
This is a challenge set by Caro @ Cat on the Bookshelf, and you can find out more about the rules etc. in my sign-up post.
This quarter I read 96 fic-chapters.
Combined with last quarter's 63, that's 159 fic-chapters. (I hope. That's what the calculator said anyway.)
Wednesday 4 July 2018
Wednesday 20 June 2018
Dammit!
If you have a Friday Fics Fix on your feed readers (or whatever you're using,) ignore it.
Damn thing published itself while I was writing a draft! Argh!
(I literally mean it published itself. I was effing typing at the time! Argh, my luck!)
Sunday 17 June 2018
Nerd Church - Embrace Procrastination (Ft. #Science)
I'm procrastinating right now.
There are about five different things that I need to do at the moment. And I'm not doing any of them.
Instead of sorting out various work stuff, or writing the Friday Fics Fix post that I (hopefully) posted last Friday, I'm writing this.
Sunday 10 June 2018
Nerd Church - What's the Purpose of Purpose?
Apologies in advance for the existential crises that I may very well spark with this post.
I think I'm on like my fifth or sixth quarter-life crisis, so... yeah.
If you're someone who gets freaked out by existential 'what am I doing with my life?' stuff, consider this your warning!
I've never really wondered about what my life's purpose is - my life's purpose is books.
I've never doubted that I'm on this planet to read and write.
I don't doubt it any more than we doubt as a species that we're on this planet to breathe, eat, and sleep.
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Month In Review(s) - May 2018
May. May was hectic.
Some good stuff happened. Some not-good stuff happened.
Such is life I suppose!
Labels:
comics,
contemporary,
crime,
DC,
disability,
diversity,
everyday life,
fanfiction,
Friday Fics Fix,
mental health,
micropoetry,
mini-review,
Nerd Church,
really mini reviews,
review,
wrap-up
Sunday 27 May 2018
Nerd Church - Reactive
My new favourite thing* is YouTube reaction videos.
Not of the clickbait-y type. (Y'know, where either the original video or the reaction is like 'you'll never guess what happened next!' or has some sort of cheap/misleading title? Those ain't my thing.)
*Well... one of my favourite things, I'm a complex person dammit!
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