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.