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Tired, but I don't want to nap yet, as I may even be tired enough to do wonderful crazy things. I squeezed out 400 words of actual plot last night, by dint of letting the narrative obsess over the sight of its own strings; they're probably terrible and certainly not enough but it was a big step in spite of the brevity. (then, if you remember, I had one day a while back when I felt like I'd done a lot of important work with the text and its sum total was sixty-one words, so.)

Might have to nap. bah.

eta: Took a run with Grendel - not sure if that was prior to or instead of nap.

Meant to say, the other thing I did last night was hit yet another of my preexisting walls of stupid; I suck at male OCs. Srsly nearly all my OCs are ~~lesbians~~ female characters. This is irritatingly relevant because I am required to make reference to Agathy's boyfriend. Agathy's boyfriend is a non-character, which wouldn't matter in this case except that I'm not sure of his first name. I know his last name because his sister is a character, but his first name has always been a blur and the best I have to go on is, get this, the guy Agathy is dating in my Sims 2 game. Whose mother is Lara Croft. My Sims games get a bit strange sometimes ;___; I named all Lara's children after levels in the original Tomb Raider, so I don't really want to copy the name over arghfuck.

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Hoorah for writing success!

I suck at male OCs. Srsly nearly all my OCs are lesbians female characters.

This. Oh, this so very much. Only my female OCs are more or less developed, my male OCs seem to be stuck as cardboard cutouts from tvtropes D8

*is giggling at OC problem* Which one is it? If it's not either a particularly famous game level or something that could come from somewhere else, you could pass it off as a big coincidence.

Mine tend to be bland 'straight men' to the women (and sometimes genderqueer characters) who get to have all the fun, kill all the dragons, etc. :)

I don't read tvtropes much - it does my head in. I don't want to categorise every last damn thing!

Khamoon. Which is part of the name of two different Tomb Raider levels, the City Of and the Obelisk Of. It is also an odd name to drop into a fic, though in this particular fic names are a somewhat screwy issue anyway. (eg. Ascott and Canary; their first names are used but only once each, and in a couple of places I have allowed them to be referred to as 'the bird-women' - I should maybe change that to 'bird/women', odd punctuation use is odd - in spite of never identifying Ascott as a bird because it is too fucking obvious.)

Trufax, Inception gave me a real hankering to build maze-houses in Sims 2. Sadly I can't reinstall my old neighbourhood as such as I don't have all the necessary xpacs, but I could do something. I've not yet built a house in Sims 3, only modified an existing one. hmmm.