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therentyoupay · 1 year

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Hi, I was just wondering if technical difficulties is abandoned?

I hope you’re doing well!

*drops in after 5 years and 4 months with a technical difficulties chapter update*

*disappears*

cover art made by @angel-gidget ♡

03/08/23. HELLO, HELLO, HELLO, ALL, LONG LONG LONG TIME, NO SEE. ♡ Can you believe it? When I first published this story (first to tumblr, then to ao3), I had just moved to Japan! When I posted ch. 7, I was still living in Japan, and would stay there for another 7ish months... and in the 5 years and 4 months since posting the last chapter, I have moved to three different cities in the United States and started a Ph.D. program. (I am currently halfway through my PhD program!!!!!) What a wild ride. Also, we lived through the pandemic?! And I bought a house! Over the summer! The market was vicious.

So, then how did I get the inspiration/time/energy/motivation to write Ch. 8, you ask? Marvelous question. I lied down in bed last night to go to sleep "early" and ended up reading an utterly hilarious play-by-play commentary on Bad Books, Good Times of a popular fantasy novel series—and I'm not quite sure what it was about "poorly written books explained by hilariously clever book lovers" but I suddenly had a craving for fanfiction, so I opened up my Books app on my phone, and my eyes fell upon a sudden recommendation for my downloaded copy of technical difficulties. And I thought, "Am I suddenly and weirdly in the mood to jot down some notes to start Ch. 7 right now? By golly, I think I am."

4.5 hours later, I'd written the whole damn thing from scratch on my phone in my Notes app. (Messily! Half-assed! But I wrote all of it down!) I then spent another 6.5 hours today filling in the gaps and "editing." This chapter (and the one that will follow it) has been in my head for more than half a decade, but I just haven't had the space to get it out until now!!

I think one of the most beautiful parts of getting a PhD is how completely it blows your perfectionism tendencies utterly to bits, and one of the really interesting byproducts that has come up in my acdemic writing is just how quickly I can crank out decent-enough writing (skill-building!!). In my case, I think so much of it has to do with just being able to word vomit fairly well while not trying to fix anything until the whole damn thing is basically done. So, I applied that knowledge here! Behold!

This isn't to say that I'll be writing the final chapter anytime soon—I may be on spring break right now and may have had a stroke of Writing Inspiration in the Wild™ last night, but I'm still finishing my last semester of classes and learning advanced Python and working on my milestone paper for my doctoral program and preparing to present at my next conference in June and preparing my proposal for my dissertation next fall. BUT! The important thing is that I will post the last chapter of this story (and all my other stories)! Eventually!! ;)

No BETA for this chapter because I gotta THROW this out onto the internet and get back to coding, so bear with! I may do minor edits for it in the near or distant future. Also, please note that I have not watched any episodes of Miraculous Ladybug after the finale of Season 1, so this fic is very much a ~time capsule~ from the past. If there is any additional lore that might otherwise apply to the plot of this fic, please know that I don't know about it, and I am keeping myself selectively ignorant on all matters of Miraculous Ladybug season 2 and beyond until after I finish this story the way I originally intended. ♡ Woo!

as for, tumblr, sadly, to be honest, I'm never really online anymore! I'll respond to comments here on ao3 ASAP, though. ♡ LOVE YOU ALL, THANK YOU. ♡♡♡

#roarlikethunder #miraculous ladybug #therentyoupay fic: technical difficulties #marichat #ladynoir #adrienette #ladrien #love square #therentyoupay fic update!!#i hope you're doing well too!!#therentyoupay anon

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aonoryuhei · 1 month

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feeling so very aimless today so small life update @ _ @

ummm all i have literally been up to is a sad little cycle of wake up -> uni -> anguish (jk lolz... maybe) -> sleep... which was FINE except the past two weeks i have been hit by the infamous Spring Semester Burnout and the timing is booty.

so many developments have been slowly happening with lab stuff but honestly i don't wanna think about it!!!! i have my annual evaluation on wednesday and i haven't finished the silly/minor edits to my presentation because every time i boot up powerpoint i literally feel my soul leaving my body... i also don't know how that meeting is gonna go down but i'm trying soooo hard to not sweat things i have no control over (somewhat working. mayhaps). TAing has been an insane amount of work too and i have so much to say about it BUT i'll save it for the end of the semester

other than that um.... i keep forgetting to make dental and doctor appointments LOL the only times i go out are to the supermarket or like. target (i got some nice new clothes yippee). i DID go out for happy hour once with some of my cohort and it was nice..! very tiring and my one singular drink hit me so hard i didn't finish it but i'm glad i made the effort to go. other than that umm i went to some random place with my parents on friday and saw cows 🐄🐄🐄 they were sooooo cute!!!!! they're so curious, they would stand up and look at our car when we passed by hehehe and there were lil babies!!! we also saw a raccoon that was hiding just SO badly and a deer!!! with a baby!!! it did a very majestic leap over a fence.

my maka figure FINALLY arrive on thursday. y'all don't know the STRESS and ANGUISH this girl caused me.... bc why did USPS say she was delivered monday night!! TO AN INDIVIDUAL? and for days i was freaking out trying to find her and file a claim with them online BUT THE REPORT WOULDN'T GO THROUGHHHHH. just when i had almost accepted that she had gotten lost or stolen my dad saw her in our mailbox 🥹 literally fell to my knees when i opened the box like YES! MY DAUGHTER!!! AT HOME!!! thank da heavens

and ya that's basically it!! my dad also got me a smartwatch and i've been liking it... i walk a lot more at school than i thought i did lol. but also this thing has a measurement called "body battery" and bro i have not had a single day over 40% LMFAOOO idk how it calculates that but it feels real to me... been like endlessly fatigued the past couple months and idrk why but w/e cant deal with that rn!! anyway cya love ya etc etc see u in a month perchance when this semester ends

#diari

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astro-studying · 1 year

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- Tuesday, Jan 24, 2023 -

I haven't had time to be on here much so here's a quick update:

The spring semester started, this is now week 3 of classes! I'm retaking calc1 this semester since I didn't do too hot last semester, and I'm also taking an into computer science in C++ class, an observational astronomy class, and a philosophy class on human nature.

So far everything's good! I missed 3 CS assignments this weekend though so now my grade is sitting at a solid 29 T . T

My philosophy class is really interesting and engaging, so I'm actually thinking about a philosophy minor. Maybe a double minor in that and CS. Astrophysics uses a lotttt of computers these days so that will be Hella helpful to know.

Last week, I also had the pleasure of touring the flight facility at NASA Wallops with my school's chapter of the Society of Physics Students (which for ease's sake I will now be referring to as SPS), and it was so incredibly amazing!!!

Anyways, so far so good with everything; I'm already doing Way better in calc this time around, and my other classes are interesting too!

~☆~

I'm thinking I'll try to do a 100 days of productivity to keep myself on track and not let myself fall behind, so let this be day 1!

Today I am going to:

Finish my module 1 math homework

Read through the CS assigned text

Start studying for my chemistry clep

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