piliofthevalley

There had been a part of him that thought it’d feel different. He’d half expected to wake up in a panic, with cold sweat dripping down the sides of his face. His heart would thunder against his chest from excitement or nervousness, and maybe he would’ve been frightened. Or happy. But all there was inside of him was a numbness, a hollow pit that was no different from yesterday, the day before that, or even last year. 
          
          There was nothing to signify that today was Reaping Day. Nothing that said hey, you’re going to die in a week. There was no fanfare, no nightmare. No foreboding sense of a clock finally running out. 
          
          Instead, everything was what it’d always been. The air was bone dry, and the skies were clear. Outside his window, the trees stood strong while the tall grass swayed in the sharp breeze. Lizards scurried up and down rocks, and cicadas hummed overhead, drowning out the chirping of crickets below. All of that and yet… 
          
          And yet Jon sat there in his room that really wasn’t his room, taking all and none of it in. 
          
          Only one thing was clear: he had a job to do. 
          
          [They Paid With Death, Chapter 5]
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          Hi, friends! So happy to say that my first chapter for They Paid With Death, a Percy Jackson x Hunger Games OC AU collab over on @Silmarilz1701's profile was released this morning! Super excited for you guys to meet Jon and Tabby, and all the other wonderful characters by the other writers!
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/408744167

New PJO applyfic just dropped from you know her, you love her, @TheRedSourPatchKid!! It's defo gonna be a fun ride! :D
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/413906784

feeling so much fomo because of the bts world tour ╥﹏╥

hello, i'm once again here to say how much i love the superhero genre. never mind the haters, supergirl was a work of art and i loved every second of it. am manifesting a conner kent reveal next year in man of tomorrow. when things slow down for me, i'm going to break into all the comics i've purchased in the past year. the tim drake compendium awaits me, along with the matt fraction batman, the new daredevil series, and a variety of randoms. 
          
          also started season 5 of supernatural a few days ago. i'm way too happy whenever castiel is on screen, especially when it's castiel with dean. 
          
          med school apps are going to spike up for me again next week... i'm in the calm before the storm... 
          
          anyway, that's been my life updates.

Hiya! If you haven't already seen it, I'm so excited to be apart of this Percy Jackson x Hunger Games AU collab being organized by @Silmarilz1701!!! The prologue was released earlier today, and it is an absolute must read!
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/408744167

med school applications are kicking my butt 
          
          but also shadowing a doctor this past month is like a full time job, and it's made me so excited for med school and everything after. everyone at the hospital is so stinking smart and i yearn to be their level of genius. 
          
          writing progress is slow, but it exists... barely... there'll be a chapter for at least one project of mine in july

Out of all the things they brought back, I was not expecting COMMENTS to appear back on the newsfeed. This is crazy. This was the OG reason why I was chronically online back in the day (I say even though I'm still chronically online); I used to sleuth through those comments for new reads. No stalker was as good as me lmao. These days, the sleuthing happens on Ao3 but seeing that update just took me back. 
          
          Unrelated note, this has been bugging me for at least a month and it is still continuing to bug me. I HATE how Google replaced their dictionary function with AI. When I want to define a word, I don't want to be reading through AI generated sentences. I just want the short definition and the list of synonyms. My quality of life has gone down so much from this small change, it's not even funny. 
          
          Anyway, unless my laptop and entire Google profile dies on me and deletes all EIGHT iterations of my med school personal statement, I should be able to do some writing this next week. Crossing my fingers!

there's a fic idea bouncing around in my head in that short period of time when Tim Drake quits Robin (not in the current Matt Fraction run which I'm still upset about, but before the whole War Games plot)... 
          
          if only i was smart enough to come up with a decent crime/mystery that needs solving

Just have to survive THREE more weeks before summer vacation is upon me... AND I SWEAR I'm going to write some fanfiction this time around because it's been so long since I've had the itch to do that but I want to do it!! 
          
          The main thing I want to write is Batman (and specifically Tim Drake), but there are also some PJO OC stuff I want to do. And I fully plan to continue chugging along with Ignoring History (my long-time Ranger's Apprentice AU) and Sea of Secrets (my Harry Potter OC fic) at some point but time is constantly escaping me. If inspiration hits, maybe I also try my hand at an applyfic (there may or may not be the introduction to one already sitting in my drafts for the right time...). 
          
          I'm saying all this now, but also I'm also in the middle of applying to med school right now so it may all just go out the window. Fingers crossed though!

the urge to hop on the applyfic bandwagon is strong… 
          
          i… must… resist…