It has been a fraught week already, so here's some nonsense.

Starting to think that what my fics really need is footnotes.

please make way on the timeline, cattle coming through

Guess who failed 4 Wisdom rolls and got a bit squiddy.

Reposting this in an attempt to shame myself into writing.

BG3 is primarily a tool for putting hats on little guys, and then putting the little guys in Situations.

Jean Valjean was a very good boy at the cardiologist today and has confused the vets by somehow managing to have REDUCED the bulging in his left atrium in the last 3 months. He's still got a dicky heart, but it's the right size again 🙃

Still very slowly trying to write this fic.

Started a Durge run. I love him, your honour. #bg3

I spend a lot of time worrying about the logistics of evil empires. I also feel strongly that women should get to be gross baddies. These two things together mean that I once tried to write an #Angbang fic from the perspective of a lady orc general. Sadly this is as far as I got.

Today we are, for reasons, posting 11-year-old #Angbang fic. Is there still a market for this? Do people still want Middle-earth villains in situationships? Will I ever go back and finish that one where Sauron teaches Melkor the joy of sex? So many questions. archiveofourown.org/works/81993071

Do I post a chapter of a fic in the hope that the handful of comments and kudos I possibly get might motivate me enough to finish it? Or, to avoid abandoning it half-published, do I just sit and stew on it with the hope that I will manage it under my own steam?

Fun fact: I never actually finished the very first #emmrook fic I started. Then I cannibalised a lot of it into my other fics (mostly Botanomancy). But here's some stuff left over!

I'd like to take a moment to apologise to Professor Emmrich Volkarin of the Mourn Watch for writing him as Necromancer Bingo Little.

Some of my earlier fanbindings. Lots to improve on but we're getting there!

I'll never finish writing this stupid fic for this stupid ship I've shipped for *checks notes* over 20 stupid years but this bit still cracks me up. #glorestor

Happy Wintersend to all you Nevarrans! My wife made Mama Volkarin's hazelnut torte again and it was even better than last year (even with the bit the cat ate). This baby can fit so much apricot brandy in it!

A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in towns and cities. This #LGBTQHistoryMonth, archivist Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Pictured: Javert, a criminal who just took several enormous mouthfuls of the Nevarran hazelnut torte my wife spent all afternoon baking. Ignore his protestations that he is an officer of the Law. He's been hanging around with felons and has fallen from grace.

*Jethro Tull's "Hunting Girl" playing in the background on repeat*

Gave Rook a little bit of guyliner. Will anyone else notice? Probably not, but I think it gives him a little bit of something something.

Me: I don't need to buy any more blind boxes. Also me: I need whatever TF this thing is.

The real plot hole in Dragon Age: the Veilguard is the journal entry where Emmrich talks about writing lesson plans, when any real teacher knows he's been using the same slides for the last 20 years.

Rook in the bathroom at the fancy ball frantically googling "How do I ask my husband to step on me?"

Distressing day at the vet's, so have this random bit of fic.

Stickers have arrived!!

Got myself some stickers 💀💀💀

The fanbind collection continues to grow.

also, as is tradition, we will be soliciting some unsolicited solicited duck pics on Tues 6 Jan for next year's #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay. so, see you then. if you give a duck

Updated the dining table centerpiece for the season.

Seems like a good time to once more show off this guy who hangs out on my desk.

Do you remember this? Back in 2019 *this post* caused quite a stir on social media.

The Mourn Watch bag ekes ever closer to perfection.

archiveofourown.org/works/74603301 Great news! They got to finish.

Also here's a Jack Aubrey Special from the man who canonically brought you five minutes of hand puns until someone else in the party had to tell him to shut up.

Great news! I bought a Cricut.

It's a beautiful day. We just dropped new merch for the first time in a year. merl-shop.co.uk (and, yes: we ship internationally!) 🧵

Emmrich is allowed one (1) swear and he will deploy it with surgical precision.

Screams cries throws up etc etc #emmrook

Me: I will write some jolly cosy softcore smut with no real plot Also me, inexplicably, in the last 48 hours: I will insert 1000 words of angst into the middle of it

Today, I have constructed Book! One step closer to binding my own godsawful fanfic in the manner it deserves.

Probably never going to finish this #EmmRook fic so have this bit of something.

Me: I'm done writing EmmRook fic. Also me:

i'm glad the poor sickly victorian child could have a vacation.......

There's no way I can write an entire fic about it but I have an #emmrook concept where Rook and Emmrich take a nice little family holiday somewhere but in order to get there they have to go through a bunch of places that don't like skeletons moving around (understandable)...

Hannnnds. #emmrook #emmrichvolkarin

deliberately avoiding the latest Alien Earth episode to keep alive the dream that this might finally be the episode that the xenomorph enjoys a soothing visitor experience to The Museum of English Rural Life

A terrible thing, to want to write more fic, but not enough to actually come up with an idea that would warrant an entire story. (Yes I'm talking about EmmRook I'm never not talking about EmmRook.)