Now that I have finished all the flashes for November I am mad at work on December flashes
Advent Calendars are popular these days (I personally have one for Wine, Shortbread, and Tea this year)
So you can think of this year’s December flashes as my own personal flash fic Advent Calendar. You get to open a new one every day.
That means 24 days of flash fics beginning December 1. And yes that also means I intend to stop with December 24. I will likely take the final week of the year off, but you never know. And of course those 24 flashes are in addition to my AO3 Winter Wonderland (2021) story.
Again this means I simply do not have time for other updates at this point.
Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto) 
November 16, 2021 at 3:56 am
Oh you spoil us!
Very very much looking forward to this. Take all the time you need after and on updates. We’ll be waiting!
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November 16, 2021 at 6:52 am
thank you 😀
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November 16, 2021 at 7:03 am
Wow! Wow! Wow! X infinity♾!
You lazy🥖loaf! Lol! Your ability to gift us with your words never fails to amaze me!!
I’m going to look 👀 forward 🎁🎁 to the counting ⏰down with your flashes 📸, even if I’m not looking forward to the holidays 🛑🙈themselves!
You truly amaze me. 😃😀 Reading your Spirk gives me a smile😁 anytime I read 🤓📖 it!!!
I think 🤔 I’m 😵💫 dizzy from all the emojis. I don’t intend to make you dizzy too, but my interpretive dance 💃🏻 of glee couldn’t be sent to you as a comment. Lol!
❤️💚😘🖖 XOX
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November 16, 2021 at 7:30 am
I am looking forward to it too so I am glad you are excited!
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November 16, 2021 at 7:34 am
So in other words….translated, that means…..
You’ve been and still are writing your a** off for us.
And you … REGRET HAVING ONLY ONE A** TO WRITE OFF FOR YOUR COUNTRY….I mean, FANS! (Since obviously you’re writing for way more than your own country.)
So – you finished your last 6 for November that you already thought you just wouldn’t get done because of panicking to get 24 STRAIGHT DAYS (well, maybe not so “straight”) OF DECEMBER HOLIDAY FLASHES.
May I just say I’m sooooooooooooo disappointed you couldn’t do more. I mean, I have laundry you could come do, an entire storage room of stuff that needs sorting through that I just can’t seem to get done. If ONLY you had ONE MORE BACKSIDE TO WORK OFF, you could come do all that too. In your spare time. And you know, the common cold hasn’t been cured yet either (just ask Spock and McCoy) so why haven’t you tackled that one, lazy butt? You have the perfect opportunity to make liars out of them!
I just know you are the only fanfic writer that actually apologizes to their fans because you actually have to work a job and have an offline life and stuff to do so you can’t do more for US.
When you already write more than anybody else in the first place, even without an advent season.
You are a crazy, over-achieving person. That’s what we love about you. Please keep it up! And we’re all wild about all of it.
Even if my storage room remains a mess.
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November 16, 2021 at 7:48 am
LOL!!!
Yes, yes, I did finish those last 6 November flashes and I am crazy proud of them too. I hope and think you will all love them.
I do apologize because having been in the not enviable position of following a story that NEVER gets updated despite promises from the author up the wazoo, I KNOW how crushingly disappointing it can be to never see the end of a story. So I hate that. And I hate doing it to others.
The good news is I am off work all next week. The bad news is we are hosting TG 🦃 at our house this year again (we paused last year and had at sister’s house because Ma couldn’t travel well then) with six of us total and I have some work to do to get the place and the food ready. But I will still have time to get some of those Advent flashes done next week. I have already the first two scheduled and plan to work on the third today.
Anyhow, yes, it’s going to be another epic year, 🙂 I enjoyed sticking to one story last December but admittedly I loved the flashes every day even more so that’s why we return to those this year.
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November 16, 2021 at 8:25 am
1. “crushingly disappointing” – see? That’s why I will always follow your stories. You get it. Almost every.single.writer I’ve seen address this issue inhabits the idea that “you get these for free. We owe the reader NOTHING. SUCKS FOR YOU NAH NAH.” I’ve found literally NO other fanfic writer who respects their readers/fans like you do. Most don’t AT ALL. I’ve been mocked, ridiculed, trashed for telling writers- “Our reading time has value too.”
Those writers WANT us to be emotionally invested in their stories. And then trash us for actually BEING invested in them and wanting/needing a conclusion. I have at least TWO massively beloved (by me) fics that have “update promises” all over them to this day but haven’t been updated in at least 2+ years with no sign of ever being concluded. Massive cliffies too. And they’re STILL posted with the apologies.
So I actually, AGAIN, got tears in my eyes the second I saw your words “crushingly disappointing.”
2. Man, I remember Thanksgiving week, 4 years ago. After writing Requiem. I don’t ever wanna go through that kind of thing again. I cried more that week than I had in several years put together. And I’m a crier. (Yeah, it’s my own special kind of PTSD. I was still a baby in the written part of the fandom.)
So – Happy Thanksgiving Week next week to us all. And may there be no tears. But a lot of love and laughter now that we can more easily get together after that first pandemic year.
Or…at least, may there be no tears.
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November 16, 2021 at 9:13 am
Yes you and I have discussed that one story that’s now been left hanging over a year. I give up that it will ever be finished and it’s such a shame with all that beautiful art.
There was one story where the writer posted one of two chapters. That’s what it said. So I was fooled into thinking they had a plan and it would be updated and finished fairly shortly. It was an excellent first chapter and though I didn’t know anything about the person who wrote it I took a chance because as I said, they seemed to have a plan. That second chapter was never ever posted. That person disappeared never to be seen again. It’s not like they posted to another fandom because they lost interest in ours. Just nothing. For the longest time I kept the bookmark just hoping but it was never to be and I finally deleted that bookmark.
So yes, I most definitely do know. I have lots of stories of unfinished fics I was invested in. It sucks and yes there is no respect for the reader. None. And anyone who wants to argue with me about it, have at it.
I am hopeful it will be a relatively nice Thanksgiving. There will be tears as this is the first without Ma but I think it will be all right. Here’s hoping!
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November 16, 2021 at 10:22 am
That is so true. 😥❤️
The only thing that makes those pensive times bearable is the knowledge she is no longer in pain.
We already knew my dad had days to live, our last Christmas with him. At least the entire closest family came for dinner, and we all loved on him. And his mind was still sharp, so he was aware of everyone sharing love with him. But he was in deep pain.
So every Christmas I hold to that one truth. I know where he is, and he is no longer in pain.
Just our hearts are.
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November 16, 2021 at 10:28 am
Yes at the end she was in pain and I am glad she no longer is. And I truly believe she is with us in spirit. And I think about how many years we were fortunate to have her with us for each and every holiday. I treasure that.
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November 16, 2021 at 10:25 am
Oh – and I forgot. The other thing is – your loved one would never want you to be sad and miss them in a way that ruins a holiday (or really, any day). Remember them with love, yes, they’d want that. But never the sadness.
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November 16, 2021 at 10:30 am
I 100% agree with this. Though there are sad moments where we miss them, they would never want us to live in pain and mourning and not find joy in whatever ways we can and celebrate times such as holidays. I agree so much
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November 16, 2021 at 10:32 am
Hugs to all this holiday season!
The last Thanksgiving, three years ago, my Dad was with us, he was home on hospice and couldn’t really participate in Thanksgiving. However, he was alert and surrounded by myself, my husband, and his three grandkids, who he had seen graduate from high school and start college. He was loved and he passed the Sunday, three days after Thanksgiving. It’s a difficult time of year missing those that have left us, but it’s important to carry the happy memories in our hearts as their legacy!!!
❤️❤️❤️
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November 16, 2021 at 10:39 am
Yes indeed
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November 16, 2021 at 4:15 pm
so excited!
I can’t wait for all the flashes and the story!!
I do have a story idea now just need the time to write lol
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