Costa Rica highlights part 2: critters that aren't birds
Jun. 10th, 2025 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
( soooo many photos )
Also, The Boy's photo gallery is here, and if you see my photos are cool, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Big thing I did today was clean the bathroom; I got the steam cleaner out and everything. It's been needing a go with that for a while, but I REALLY didn't want to get it out when it was still hot XD XD XD Humidity woulda killed me then!
Also put my new pins and badges up on my pin banner - still gotta take the older ones I took down away, but I'm avoiding that. Mainly because I need to reorganise the shelves so that the thing they're stored in is easier to get at, etc. etc, and I'm trying to uh. Not start any more reorganisation projects until after I've dealt with the ones that're in progress...
Decided to make room for some of my new prints by taking down some of the ones that've been up for ~15 years, but I haven't actually put them up yet because I'm out of goddamn sticky dots. -_-;;; I'll probably pick some up tomorrow, or the day after if not. Should be tomorrow, though, planning on going shopping with Mama. (I thought, when I got my new pj pants, I didn't need new pj tops as well. I was _wrong. Sigh.)
...but for now I gotta go to bed because whoops it's late and Mama prefers to shop in the morning, before the crowds. (I do not blame her! Just. Ugh, mornings.)
Today (Tuesday)
Yesterday
Sunday
Writer: Len Wein
Pencils: Paris Cullins
Inks: Dell Barras
Why has Angie Revere been stealing from Ted Kord? All will be revealed!
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Writer: Doug Moench
Pencils and inks: Jim Aparo
Knightfall prelude.
Robin tries to teach Jean-Paul Valley how to be an effective crime-fighter.
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...Just the preps, I haven't started on the actual edits yet XD But I have a roadmap and an extensive list of actionable steps, and I'm glad I do. Working offline using Pomodoro, like I mentioned the other day was super effective.
A disadvantage, I suppose, is that I can't have conversations back-and-forth in GoogleDoc comments, which is something I dearly enjoy doing with fanfic (either as beta-reader or beta-readee!). I think maybe it's just too much, on a turnaround of 40k words at once. Also because I needed to let it rest, folks might not be so interested in a reply 6 months later on a reaction they don't remember having about a story they fuzzily recall 😅 Having said that, I did write to folks after chopping their feedback into the roadmap, to thank them again and share a general reaction to their reactions :D
( Stuff to ponder )
It took me 17h41 to go through all 7 beta-readers' feedback. (Thanks again everyone for offering, I am so grateful :D). I'm going to have a brief interlude now (well, brief is the plan XD). Ideally, I'd like to use that time to write something original but SHORTER so I can bask in the self-indulgence of inventing fun worldbuilding, which I loooove doing. But on the other hand, Wind Breaker Volume 22 just came out and drove me insane with the OT5 vibes so I may have to write something for that instead XD
I 100% intend to break down the work and take regular breaks when I start actually following the roadmap, if only to make the structural changes then giving it a bit of space so I can make sure the major changes didn't break something else important. I expect overall it'll likely take longer than the 17h41 prep time, so I better pace myself! I think I should learn very interesting things throughout the process. I'm already thinking about what to be careful about in the Soul Thief story, when I get back to it.