Oh dear.

[ladybug_archive]

Gah, every time I try to work on the theme set for June, I wear out. I wrote several sentences and now I feel restless and bushed. As much as I wanted to use all of these themes, I wonder if I'll be able to. I may have to just pick a few over the month and keep all the others to just use whenever I feel up to it. Maybe it's just too much to try to do the themes every day for two straight months, in addition to all my other projects. I have The Denying Detective Perry mystery, I revived a YGO mystery, I'm expanding one of my ficlets for posting on FF.net, I have my One Minute to Zero fic that I finally got off the ground, and I'm doing my blogging and my freelance article writing.

It also doesn't help that this time I was writing May's themes almost right up to the wire, as opposed to when I did the set in February and managed to get them all done by about the middle of the month. I had more time for a breather. March would have probably been a good time to jump into another theme set, after the respite I had, rather than trying to immediately jump into this one now for June.

EDIT: ... Or I wonder if it could be a combination of that weariness and the actual plot of the theme set draining me. It is a rather depressing plot. Hmmm. I wonder what would happen if I took the plot of this particular blurb and wrote it as not being part of this takeover thing. Maybe I'll try that and see if I still feel the same exhaustion. I wrote a bit of my ficlet expansion and that didn't wear me down at all.

And out of utter curiosity, I read a short Hetalia fic tonight when it wandered onto my Friend's list via a community. I know the series is extremely popular, but I've always been baffled by how you can personify nation-states. Those feelings were not alleviated after reading the fic. If anything, I scratched my head and wondered all the more how it's done. It makes no sense at all to me. How can a nation-state be a person and have a house?

The only way I can logically interpret things is if the Hetalia characters are basically the "spirits" of the nation-states rather than the physical lands themselves. And maybe that is what's intended; I don't know. But it still felt very surreal.

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[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

Blah at the writer's block. I had that today--wanted to work on the next vignette for the collection but kept getting distracted... *hugs*

I never quite really grasped the concept of Hetalia, either...

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

**hugs.** It's not exactly writer's block with this, it's more of writer's strain. Very annoying either way, though. And I was avoiding working with it a few days ago when I did get ridiculously distracted.

I may watch an episode sometime for the heck of it, but I'll probably be left blinking in confusion at the screen.

[ladyamberjo.livejournal.com]

I have very little Hetalia-experience, as the fandom is one of those that send me shrieking out of the room, but as I understand it, it seems to swing between "ethnic stereotype person-shaped representation of a country," and "ethnic stereotype fictional UN delegates." I've only seen one episode and read a handful of the comics, but that's as much as I got out of it. Oh, and alliances between countries = marriage, so allied countries get to be all slashy and kawaii, and France is a pedophile or a rapist or maybe just a pervert. *Kanye-shrug* It infuriates the PC-police, though, so it gives me sadistic giggles, anyway.

Writing depressing stuff can definitely be more exhausting than writing cheerier subject matter...heck, even writing boring stuff can be more exhausting than writing for fun. I know I always felt like sleeping for a thousand years after finishing lengthy essays in college, but I can RP for hours on end.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Huh, interesting. I never heard of the UN delegate explanation. I was definitely aware of the ethnic stereotype part, though, which is one reason why I haven't been too overly interested. I am amused thinking of the PC police screaming foul, however. LOL.

Oh yes, boring stuff too. Blech.

Funny thing about me is, I can write hurt/comfort or even near-death without wearing down at all. But this other project, the "Modern Earth is ruled by a dark queen!" thing, seems to seriously strain me. But! I'm not giving up on it so easily!

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Thanks! You're very right; how I hate block and burn-out. Right now I have an overabundance of plunnies and not enough time to write them.

Yay, I'm glad you're excited! I know how it is to not have the time to get to stuff. I am behind on so many people's fics.