This chapter is a straight up continuation of the previous chapter, and there's literally zero time skip, unlike most of my chapters in this fic. So much so, in fact, that what had originally been two separate chapters (Gilda fights Sunset, sleepover happens) had to be combined into one because the "Gilda fights Sunset" chapter was going to be too long. It was during the re-working that I realized this was actually the best way to do it and that the one naturally flowed into

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Not much to say about this one that the notes at the bottom of the chapter itself don't already say. Obviously, my health is much better and my sleep is improving to the point where I'm not having to take medication for it nearly as often. Work is going pretty good (I'll post about that at some point, it deserves its own post) and I've gotten HYPER into The Lost Tomb, which if you haven't read it is an absolutely brilliant masterpiece of sapphic science fantasy and so much of it makes my heart

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So I've said in my rather sporadic updates that I've been going through a lot, and I believe I've mentioned that the things that have been happening have been rather more draining on the ol' spoons than I otherwise expected.

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Yes! I am still plugging away at [REDACTED], it's just somewhat slow going due to life reasons. I'm starting to accept that I'm just never going to be as outlandishly productive as WandererD or n7punk, and I'm working on being okay with that.

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One thing I've grown to hate is my life going to absolute crap at the worst times and in ALL the ways all at once. I've lost so much every time it happens and in many ways never get back what I lose. Without going on a deep dive on this, I had life spin up it's, "Let's make Chrystal the main character of a Jim Butcher novel," engine and I'll often have no idea what I'll be losing until it's already a done deal.

This time, I lost my cat.

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So while I managed to get around the...not block ('cause I had plenty of material to write and was writing it, it just wasn't going anywhere) but...we'll call it a writer's logjam...and landed on the perfect narrative component for this chapter, it surfaced a rather painful incident from my childhood that...well, I'll let the story describe it, as I'm writing it down in the story now. It wound up serving as a fantastic segue into the major narrative plot of the next story

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Just a minor delay, last bit of this chapter is taking longer to get out of my head and on the screen than I expected and I keep scrapping what I've written since it strays so far from where I'm going with this while not going anywhere... If it were a matter of the tangent actually resolving a storyline, I'd keep it, but it just seems to be trying to wander away with the story.

Fanfiction Friday will be delayed for 1 week so I can get this chapter out.

I just spent the last 6 hours of my life a paranoid, shivering, pathetic mess! Worst crash ever, WILL NEVER recommend!!!

LLW is delayed until I can think in terms that don't involve FIGHT or FLIGHT!!!

I do a lot of my writing during downtime at work, and had I a full 5 days at work this week, I might have had LLW ch. 13 done by Monday. As it is, I may have to post it a couple days into March. That's OK, though, 'cause that'll still be in time for March's Fanfiction Friday poll.

In the meantime, I've got a daughter weekend, so writing time will be more restricted due to parental responsibilities. Writing will get done, though.

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So I'm doing my usual thing when I'm writing a chapter that I need to make sure I'm getting right by reviewing the text that came before it while listening to thematically appropriate music.

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