Clearing the docket, as it were.

Welp. Dropped out of all my exchanges today. Writing is getting difficult in a way that's troublesome, and on top of that I think I've been using it to dissociate from real life too much. I'm going to finish up the two fic I owe for equalityauction sometime before the end of the year and might poke at some other things for my own amusement in the meantime, but I think I'm going to take some time away from fandom otherwise. Maybe I'll finally read through the huge volume of books I've been meaning to get to for years.

In other news, I've started watching Ken Burns' Baseball. I'm on the second "inning" of the now 10-part documentary and I have to say it's fairly excellent so far. Very engaging, comprehensive, and well-curated, with a variety of masterfully interwoven perspectives. Not as scathing as I might personally prefer in regards to some of the race issues of the mid- to late-eighteen hundreds, but at least it hasn't shied away from them, either. In any case, I'm confident that by the end I'll have an entirely new field of knowledge to apply on trivia nights, if those are ever a thing again.

I'm also re-watching Suits, in the hopes that an old favorite fandom might inspire me a little bit or bolster my confidence. While my love of the early seasons and the dynamic between Mike and Harvey remains strong — not to mention the true glory of watching Gina Torres prowl around being awesome in fabulous dresses — it hasn't sparked the creative energy I was hoping it would. At least the banter and homoerotic subtext is still just as delightful as it was the first few times I watched it.

I hope everyone else is doing well.