anghraine | Entries tagged with achievements

I'm not having a literal party because that would suck, but I passed my defense today!!!!!

The department officially congratulated me as "Dr. Elizabeth [Redacted]" and it feels weird and fake, but I'm still happy. :)

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Don't Stop Me Now (Queen)

I’m not a proactive person at all, so getting all my class’s materials for the week posted before 7:30 AM on Monday feels like a major accomplishment.

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: The Miracle (Queen)

The game is 15 years old, so I wouldn’t assume anyone cares, but the Legendary Defender of Ascalon title I just got requires that you reach the maximum level for the entire game (20) in the tutorial zone, in which the highest level creature for most of the zones is level 5, and in any zone is four level 10 bosses.

You can get quests that spawn higher level creatures, but only at level 10, and only once a day. Also, they only scale up every few levels. I’ve been intermittently working on it for months and didn’t even try for years, since I’m honestly not very good at games, though I love them.

So getting it at last is pretty exciting for me :D

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: The Grand Illusion (Styx)

In honor of finally!!! getting the Legendary Defender of Ascalon title after fiFTEEN YEARS, a thing for my favorite location in any video game ever: pre-Searing Ascalon from Guild Wars: Prophecies.

~~Never forgive, never forget.~~

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen)

I know it’s a 15-y-o game that most people don’t care about any more, but I am so close to getting Legendary Defender of Ascalon in Prophecies for the first time ever. !!!!!

Tagged: #and i almost clicked the wrong person and left after ALL THIS #but anyway #i decided to start going for it in ... may i think #and it takes so much! esp when you don't have the time for serious grinding! but i've never done it and i have so many ascalon feelings ... #and now i only have one level to go if i can just manage one more

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Now I'm Here (Queen)

Today: showered etc, loaded and ran my dishwasher, got more mats brushed out of my hair (halfway done!), returned a call for a follow-up appointment, and got my voicemail set up in three minutes after five years of putting it off.

Tagged: #i'm going to post materials for my students too #and then idk #i very very seriously need to work on this thing for my committee but also... meh

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Blow Me (One Last Kiss) (P!nk)

I reblogged this post about a then-recent D&D session and added:

asfkjdk;fads I asked the DM about my character’s ancestral city, which her forebears were driven from several generations earlier, and he let me come up with all the details about the city in the past and present and its backstory, and said it was all cool and he would add it to his notes.

:D :D :D :D

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Princes of the Universe (Queen)

In response to this post, squirrel-wolf said:

Yay! That's excellent!

rapidashrider said:

Those are all important things so I’m chuffed for you :D

jubaah said:

Yeah!!!!

I replied:

Thank you!!!

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Jump (Van Halen)

I’m still incredibly, terrifyingly behind on everything, but I showered etc, cleaned off my desk, and paid my laboratory bill, which makes me feel accomplished, anyway.

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Do You Believe in Love (Huey Lewis & The News)

tree responded to this post:

holy crap, that's a huge amount to accomplish. on days i manage to shower, the shower itself is usually my One Thing i get done that day. so for what it's worth, i think you're doing a h*ckin' good job.

I replied (on Feb 12th):

Thank you!! It feels like such a mixture of "wow, I did so much" and, well, not, so I appreciate it :)

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Uptown Girl (Billy Joel)

It seems ridiculous, but—

I feel sort of accomplished by the fact that I:

got up at 8 AM
posted materials for my class
played a Guild Wars mission with my mother
drank tea
ate breakfast
answered a student email
posted instructions/announcements for the week in Blackboard
showered
brushed some of my hair
brushed all my teeth
took my medications (bipolar meds & asthma ones & supplements)
tried to return a call

There are other things that I not only need to do, but should have finished at absolute latest last week, and meanwhile, my brain is like “okay, but we brushed a mat out of our hair for the first time in six weeks”

Tagged: #even my best friend is like 'but you're so high-functioning' and meanwhile getting my shit together enough for basic hygiene is just #this ordeal #and has always been! #because a) getting my shit together enough to do much of anything is a very steep climb #esp things with more than one part to them #and b) sensation is Bad #except peeling the skin off my lips. which i do for no reason but have never managed to stop. #but nearly everything else is high intensity red alert #ugh #i should be doing more things than this! but a lot of days i don't manage this much so ?????????

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Love of My Life (Queen)

heckofabecca responded to this post:

wooo you rock!

is this meme limited to like... fandom stuff

because "a bachelor's degree" is probably in my top 5 lol

I replied:

thanks! and no, it definitely can be original or life stuff

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Viva La Vida (Coldplay)

The meme crossed my dash, so: top five things I completed in 2020!

In no particular order:

For Legendarium Ladies April, an aesthetic post for my quasi-OFC Ithíriel, Elros’s wife in my headcanon
Another one for their (canon) daughter Tindómiel, first princess of Númenor
Another for Lothíriel of Dol Amroth (this one took some doing but was fun)
One for her first cousin and my #1 Middle-earth fave, Faramir
the gift of men, my Eldarion/Faramir+Éowyn’s daughter arranged-but-happy-marriage fic

I only just noticed that they’re all Tolkien! I had to do a ton of 16th/17th/18th-cent reading irl, though, so it was nice to get far away from all that.

Tagging:

heget,

heckofabecca, irresistible-revolution, garethsedwards,

incognitajones, and

tree—if you want!

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Dark Paradise (Lana del Rey)

Silliness over AO3 stats:

The first part of my Lucy Skywalker series (a linked series of genderbent f!Luke fics) has always been the most popular of the main series. It's less so in kudos, but definitely leads in bookmarks (the first, The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker, has 48 bookmarks [ETA 3/24/2024: now 53], while the second, The Imperial Menace, has 20 [ETA: now 24]), and The Imperial Menace has way fewer hits, too.

I guess it’s a positive that The Imperial Menace has nearly as many kudos as Adventures does: 242 for The Imperial Menace [ETA: now 288] to Adventures’s 260 [ETA: now 323]) despite significantly fewer people reading it at all. But still. And I do think Adventures is much more flawed in some ways (The Imperial Menace has its problems, but different ones that bother me less). So I’ve been low-grade HMPH even though I hated writing 85% of The Imperial Menace.

BUUUUT

After years and years, I got a burst of inspiration to go back to working on the third fic in the main series, The Jedi and the Sith Lord, in early 2020 (which feels like a lifetime ago and, also, yesterday). And I’m a lot happier with it than with any of the other Lucy fics, and wrote a ton of it all at once (I think it had two chapters when I went back and it now has 20).

AND!!!! It has way more hits than The Imperial Menace even though it’s also a sequel (maybe because it has a clearer if very short summary—“Lucy emerges from carbon-freeze as the captive of Darth Vader”—and also splits off from canon in a much more significant way). But it has a bunch more kudos than Adventures (325 [ETA: now 405]), more bookmarks, probably three times as many comments [ETA: now 289 to 51, though both are affected by my responses], and it’s like … FOR ONCE the thing that I personally like best and worked hardest on is also the one that readers like the most! Yay! :D

…like I said, silliness, but it is nice to get that alignment happening on a fic that I care a lot about.

Tagged: #also the collective lucyverse fics are now over 100k thanks to 'the jedi and the sith lord's 67k(!) #which i'm ridiculously happy about

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Manic Monday (The Bangles)

fINISHED IT

Tagged: #i might have to do some more... stuff on the middle exam depending on Things #but #third one is done and in!!!!

heckofabecca said:

WOOOO

cosmonauthill said:

Congrats!!

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Eurythmics)

I reblogged this post and modified it to:

If I ~~finish grading this batch of 16th-cent lit exams~~ ✔️
~~and email my students their creative writing feedback~~ ✔️
~~and~~ finish my 17th-cent written exam (before Friday)
and then write my 18th-cent written exam
… then I can write fic

Tagged: #down to the exams (which is either :) or T_T depending)