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Apr. 23rd, 2026 09:29 am
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New words this week : 9,949 words which is a little surprising. I thought it was going to be another slow week, and I guess it was not!

WIPs worked on this week : 2, with 1 new WIP

I thought this was going to be another week with lower wordcount because I did not feel like I had much writing time, thought looking back I did have one big day (2.4k) that I think helped boost my total quite a bit. I'm so blindingly exhausted that my memory is garbage right now.

The Old Guard

food truck au : 7,611 words which brings the total to 133,418 words and we're still going on the smut. I originally had it planned as a single chapter and figured it'd be on the longer side, but it would still be fine to post as one. We're at 22.5k and I think I've got another 1-2k to finish it off. Whew. ALSO. I think I finally have a title for it, which I have been worrying about because I usually have a title by this point.

au of food truck au : 2,511 words which brings the total to 2,511 words and it's inspired by something from food truck au that I really want to write and doesn't fit in that fic. So, I've just been throwing words at it in a separate doc, first to try to get it out of my head, and then because I think (and my beta agreed!) that it might be fun to post as a little "extra" for food truck au. The way it's written now is shaping up to be a whole new fic of its own, which I do not want to write, but I think that I am going to reshape it as a pwp so that'll keep the wordcount fairly constrained.

Search maintenance

Apr. 22nd, 2026 09:19 am
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Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

WIP Wednesday

Apr. 15th, 2026 02:11 pm
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New words this week : 7,448 words which is up a little from last week. Writing is still a struggle, but I think I'm getting back on track.

WIPs worked on this week : 1, with no new WIPs (yay!)

And I managed to keep my focus to a single fic. Life is still full of nonsense, I'm still exhausted, but at least the words are coming a little easier than they have been recently. I'll take the win.

The Old Guard

food truck au : 7,448 words which brings the total to 126,207 words and the first half of the smutty chapter is written! I think it's probably going to be it's own chapter, because it's 12k, but I want to write chapters 11 and 12 entirely before I make a final decision on where to break them up. I hope it'll work okay as three chapters. I'm once again worrying over how long this fucking thing is going to end up being.
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