Some fanart of Take Your Vampire To School Day, a delightful crackfic by @freshlyjuicedbeetles!

I'm fucking freezing.

It's been this cold before where I live, but for some reason my apartment feels a lot draftier than it used to. Maybe it's just me getting older, I don't know.

Anyway, my workplace is cold because the heater is a piece of shit, so I'm trying to distract myself from the urge to light a fire.

I have three goals for the year. One is to get the damn weinerfic past 850,000 words. Unless I actually finish the thing first, but I'm pretty sure that won't happen. I've got about 125k to write, so I've been slacking off this month and binging pro wrestling.

Second goal is to finish the Hellsing Liveblog, and the third is to liveblog Jojo Part 2, because it's muh favrit. I've wanted to do these for a while, but I've never been able to make the time for it, so I'm putting more emphasis on that.

However, I'm finding that that character ask thing I was doing in December was a really popular feature. I just did it because I was bored, but it started to take up more of my time, and I knew I'd have to shut it down before January, but this turned out to be a lot harder than I expected. I did a last call and I still got asks, I shut down asks on this blog and people sent me DM's. I reopened asks last week because I finished my writing goal for January and almost immediately I got an ask for this.

And I appreciate this a lot. I can't just do these 24-7 because I have other stuff to do, but there's clearly a demand here, and that's something I haven't felt in a while. It's been there, but I just haven't felt it, kind of like how I can't feel the space heater that's just out of range of my chair.

I started this blog roughly eight years ago, 8.5 maybe. I've been feeling like maybe time has passed me by, and tumblr and the DB fandom have changed enough and maybe I've grown obsolete. I knew it would be this way and that'd I'd need to move on at some point, but I don't really want to. And maybe I don't need to. This thing still serves its purpose, even if the crowd isn't the same crowd from 2015.

Dammit, I love this stuff. The big DB liveblog I did in 2019 left me wondering if there was anything left for me to say about this topic, but I still watch clips on YouTube, I still listen to DB music all the time, and I go back through my archives and find old fic chapters and longposts and catch myself thinking "Hey, this guy's pretty sharp." I got some negative feedback on Luffa the other day and that bummed me out but at the same time I couldn't find anything that I'd do differently. I'm basically like "sorry you didn't enjoy this but it's exactly what I wanted, so there's nothing I can do about it." This blog is the same deal. It may not be for everybody, but it's what I want, and there's still some interest in what some middle-aged nerd thinks about Piccolo or whatever. I'm riding that wave until it stops being fun. And if you're not down with that... etc.

So my plan is to resume answering character asks in March. I still have a lot of wrestling to watch, you understand. If you want to send them my way in the meantime, go for it, but keep in mind that it may be a while before I get to yours. And yeah, I guess that's it.