Sunshine Challenge prompt one

[turps]

My appointment went well yesterday. I was picked up by the minibus, just me and two volunteer drivers in it, and brought home in the car. I did get a bit worried going as they were late but suspected they'd got lost on the estate trying to find my house as the numbers are in no logical order. Which is what had happened, but I was still there on time.

I'm back in three months with no change in compressions as my legs haven't gone up or down. The actual measurements have changed in that they've got smaller at the bottom and bigger at the top, but that evens out. My lympth nurse says it's because the fluid has been pushed up but then has stuck, which is probably due to flying and the heat recently. So it's a case of just doing what I've been doing and see where we are in three months time.

I joined sunshine_challenge and prompt one is to do some fannish housekeeping. You can see the post here



I have to admit I'm horribly disorganised about such things. I was looking at my user info yesterday and it was easily 5 plus years out of date. As for things like tags, ouch. I'm lucky if I remember to use them at all, and in fact thinking back I'm sure the only ones I've used consistently were ones for weight loss surgery and Christmas, and that second one was just because I got sick of looking for addresses so is only used once a year. I'd say I'll do better, but well, I know myself and know that isn't going to happen.

But I did I tidy up my user info a bit, added some new interests and fannish loves, took some away and had a little bit of a change around. I still need to redo my icons, because I have none for my current interests and really should have one about Lush and cinema going considering how often I talk about them. To that end, I renewed my paid account yesterday so I have access to more icons for a while. Now I just need to be brutal and delete more of Mikey so I have spaces. I also added a link to my insta as I use that a lot. That's not locked and anyone can follow but it's not actually fannish as such, more my rl and day to day stuff.

I only post fic to A03 now, so that was easily sorted and my transformation works policy has been sticky posted for years, so I don't completely fail at everything.

So to fannishly sum up. Hello, welcome! I like reading my flist and commenting. While I don't write as often as I used to I still enjoy it, and alternate between writing for The Musketeers, Umbrella Academy, MCU -- only Winterhawk right now -- and bandom. I've very much an OTC person and not OTP, and going by my current fandoms that's Aramis, Klaus, Clint and Mikey. And wow, that's a foursome I'd enjoy.

I watch and enjoy a lot more tv than I post about, and am eagerly looking forward to the new Queer Eye episodes being released soon. I've got an Odeon cinema unlimited card which means I go to see a lot of movies and sometimes talk about them. Though I'm very easily pleased film wise so I'm not exactly a good critic.

I don't mind lurkers at all and don't keep a note of who comments and how often. I enjoy any kind of comment -- well, as long as it's not negative -- and 99% of the time will answer. If I don't it's because sometimes things fall through the cracks and is totally me and not you.

Comments

[shadowhive]

I’m glad it went ok. I feel you with drivers getting lost. For the longest time we’ve had delivery drivers being sent the wrong way since the old entrance got closed off years ago

I’m the same as you there most of the time. I’m bad at updating info and stuff and using tags at times. And eep having to lose Mikey icons

That would definitely be in an interesting foursome

[turps]

That's the problem with sat navs. They're fantastic, but so often take people routes that just don't exist. I don't know who the hell designed our estate, but the numbers are all over the place. Unless you've been before or live here you will find it hard to find a specific house.

I'm the worst at tags, and really bad at updating stuff. When I looked at my profile it includes some shows I couldn't even remember watching. So they got deleted.

Wouldn't it just? Talk about a mishmash of eras and universes.

[sylvaine]

*shrugs* I don't think you fail at anything for not using tags. Personal choice! And yay for updating the user info \o/ that one is so easy to miss because, well, it's kind of set and forget, isn't it!

[frausorge]

I'm glad they didn't make you late! And I hope your legs will keep improving now that the flying exertions are behind you.

Go you getting all current and spiffy. Here is a neck porn icon to celebrate.

[turps]

Sometimes I wish I was more organised with tags because a good tag system is handy. But eh, I muddle through somehow.

The user info is easy to miss. Before yesterday I hadn't looked at mine in forever. It even had a link to my old website that went down many many years ago.

At least it's a bit better now. And maybe will get updated again in 2025.

[turps]

I have to admit, we got there closer to my appointment time than I was comfortable with. But at least I would have had a good excuse.

Neck porn. Hmmmm, excellent!

[turlough]

Hopefully the rest of the summer won't get as unreasonably hot as last year so your legs will have a chance to progress. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!

Go you for getting your user info up-to-date! And good luck with the icon clean-up! (fandom_icons is a good place to look for new ones. Lots of tags :-)

[ephemera]

Digital spring cleaning is one of those things it's so easy to forget!

[turps]

It is easy to forget. My user info was just there and it never crossed my mind to check. Especially so as my core group of friends has barely changed so they knew me already.

[turps]

The heat really does play havoc with my legs and fluid retention. I do enjoy the sun, but sometimes it just gets too hot.

Oh, thanks for the icon link. I'm going to take a look over there, that is after I force myself to actually delete some icons.

[glitteryv]

Ooof, I hear ya bout trying to keep things up-to-date. As much as I hate doing it, I try to sit down every so often (like, say, once in January and once in October) and go through my profile. Sometimes it's hella painful to let go of things and sometimes, it's perplexing, LOL.

Funnily enough, the thing that I always gets stressed about is potentially deleting icons. Adding them is no trouble (though I aim to have more stuff that I'd actually use vs. just pretty things), though.