Just Create - Headache Edition

[silvercat17]

What are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragement on?

Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype?

What do you just want to talk about?

What have you been watching or reading?

Chores and other not-fun things count!

Remember to encourage other commenters and we have a discord where we can do work-alongs and chat, linked in the sticky

Comments

[michifugu]

1. I want to re-write my Xenoblade 3 review because I feel I didn't do it justice & after replaying it I have a different perspective that feels a lot of people missed! I hope I can finish it this week....and not to mention I want to write another meta on my alt, just need some dopamine kicking in.

2. I don't follow a lot of challenge because busy, but I currently participate to March Meta Matters Challenge!

3. I dunno

4. Just finished watching BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! & Ave Mujica, it was wild ride so far.

[dianec42]

I submitted my conversation hearts "art" as an idea for a t-shirt for a group I belong to at work. WE ARE USING IT. Someone with actual skills has made it absolutely gorgeous. I will post pics when (if) the shirts actually materialize. (Hehe. "Material".)

I finally got around to adding a few more icons here. I need to upload more photos. We are experiencing First False Spring here and I have some nice pics of flowers and bees. The bees in particular are bringing me joy, although they are a tad hard to photograph.

The memory quilt is going absolutely nowhere. I am plugging along at the Deer Trail cross stitch. Cross stitch is like therapy for me: it's easy to pick up and put down, my brain is good at that level of detail, and it's satisfying to see progress.

[omens]

That is exciting about your t-shirts! Congrats!

[fred_mouse]

I am at the 'I hate it' phase on all my physical craft projects, not least because they all make my hands ache, or they are at a fiddly point that I'm not managing to get past, or both. I have, however, got really inspired on a virtual project that I'm hoping to do quite a bit on this week, because I won't be doing more than token bits on any of the physical projects, while I give myself time to remember why I'm making them.

[ryl]

I finished remaking my cat blanket granny square and started on a new cross-stitch project. It's only one color because I don't trust my chemo brain with anything complicated right now.

[dianec42]

Hugs! Menopause brain says hi.

[wyld_dandelyon]

I participated in FAWM again this year. FAWM is a song-writing challenge in February. Looking at cat surgery bills and other challenges to the budget, I sat down afterward and listened to the demos I'd made to see what I wouldn't be embarrassed to put up on bandcamp. I'd meant to do that sooner, but managed the Thursday before Bandcamp Friday, when Bandcamp passes on what is normally their share of any payment to the artists. It helped to have a deadline, I think.

In past years, my answer to the question "what's good enough as is or with only very minor edits" was only one or two songs, but although having a bunch of time to rehearse and a proper studio setup with a sound engineer with more skill at that than I have would have led to better recordings, to my surprise, this year there were a number of songs that sounded pretty good. Eleven songs, in fact.

I guess I leveled up while I wasn't looking!

I ended up staying up all night and putting together two short albums, one mostly of filk music and one of 4 protest songs. They're here if anyone wants to take a look (or more properly, I suppose, have a listen): https://wylddandelyon.bandcamp.com/ The first two are the albums, the other things on the page are singles.

I got to bed about 10 am that Friday, so I didn't go totally without sleep! And then, of course, I was useless for several days after, par for the course with the stupid long covid.

Then this weekend, while attending a filk event on zoom, I scheduled lyric posts and audio posts over on my Patreon. Patreon supporters will get to listen to some of the stuff that's not ready for Bandcamp, even with the liner notes warning that I'm sharing the songs almost in the moment of their initial creation.

Now I've got to get seeds into pots to hopefully have tomato and pepper and herb plants that I don't have to buy for my garden, and pay the last few bills for this month. I also want to keep working on the music. And maybe try starting to write fiction again, though the long-covid-brain might still not be up to holding a whole fictional world and characters and plot and all that yet.

Other stuff on my mind is the state of the world (horrifying and stressful); wanting to get peas and spinach seeds in the ground soon, since they're cold-weather crops; still mourning my little brother; and hoping the pathology for the mass they removed from my oldest kitty's neck isn't something horrible.

I'm not participating in any formal creative challenges right now, as the stuff I want to get done is challenging enough and there's no challenges I'm aware of that are happening at the moment that would serve to support that stuff rather than distract from it. (That's one of the things I love about FAWM--it supports stuff I want to be doing anyway, while making February social and fun instead of cold and lonely.)

That doesn't sound like a good ending to this post, but I'm sleepy and should go to bed! Figures.