soccer

Blargh, my kids drive me crazy sometimes. Q spent the winter obsessed with trying to play ball sports in the living room - we had to take away everything that was remotely ball-like, I mean, I had to confiscate his foam polyhedral dice because he just couldn't stop kicking and hitting and throwing them - and we signed him up for soccer this spring and he will. not. play. Well, okay, the first week it turned out he was sick, and last week he *did* join in after awhile and got pretty into it, and I thought, great, we're set, but this week he spent the entire class standing next to me again, refusing to even go near the class. JFC, kid, I was barely willing to have to stand around outside for 45 minutes for you to *play* soccer, it is SO FUCKING FRUSTRATING to have to do it for you to NOT play soccer.

fic post: more Check Please, and also podfic

Sooo I wrote this giant Check Please story. 35000 words, which I'm honestly kind of psyched about - like, I feel like I managed the pacing pretty well (although it was super-simple, structurally) and that's halfway to a novel? Go me? Anyways:

Exeunt, Pursued By Heteronormativity.
Shitty/Lardo, Jack/Bitty, Shitty/Lardo/Jack/Bitty OT4, Lardo eventually gets gender-neutral pronouns, there's a road trip, there's a bear. Probably if you care enough about Check Please to want to read this, you don't need me telling you about it here, but here I am anyways.

Also also I got podficced again! I haven't listened to it but it's my dialogue-only Girl Genius story so... it's probably pretty short? As always, it amazes me that anyone wants to do this for my fic. You can hear it here.