After the Calling

Sorry sorry sorry. My attention span was useless today. This is a short one. Well, for me anyway. For a number of reasons, the main one being I am a lazy lazing lazer. Part III is looking massive though. And Ten Years Prior is looking neglected.

Okay, I’m not going to make a habit out of teasers, because teasers are wrong and evil and cause global warming. At least that’s what Jax would say.  He wants it NOW!  Nevermind.  I was actually planning on updating Betray yesterday, and Ten Years tommorrow, but I did something so stupid to my pictures… so moronically idiotically stupid… I’m embarrassed just thinking about it. Let’s just leave it at me having to manually decompress like… 1000 pictures… because I fail. However, my weekend is turning out a little bit more busy, and a little bit less vegetative than I originally planned, so manual decompression can’t happen til tommorrow. But until then! I TEASE!

Coolsims just put out a new male hair that has made it absolutely imperative that I completely reshoot the next two updates for Betray to include it. This may or may not slow down the release of the next TYP, but definitely bring us to the conclusion that I’m a crank case (which I recently learned is someone whose ideal night out would include dinner, a movie, and a large pile of crystal meth. So eventually I am going to have to get out of the habit of using that label on myself and others, being that my own definition of it is quite different. But not until I reshoot with that hair.)

Alright, here is what is happening. Ten Years Prior is ruining everything. I was going to double update it in an attempt to finish it faster because I hate it. But since I hate it, I can’t finish it faster. Part VIII, I finished. Part IX is off running naked through the forest, high on shrooms or something, and I just can’t deal with that idiot right now. Despite my wanting TYP to be over and done with forever ago, actually trying to finish it makes me want to punch my computer in the face, so I needed to abandon it for a minute while I spent some time slamming my head into a wall. I really tried to do what I was trying to do but I just had to stop trying because I couldn’t do it.

What I am going to do, however, probably won’t work. It will probably confuse you. It will probably screw up everything, but if I don’t do it, I’m going to have to stab something, because Ten Years Prior has officially driven me insane.

In order to stem the insanity, I am resuming the main story while also finishing up TYP. If this is just really terrible form, and you all want me to just do one thing at a time, I can chill. Just putting out Betray All: Part I is making me feel better. I can glide for a minute on Betray All: Part I and chill out for long enough to force myself to finish TYP, which only has 4ish updates left to its name, and then a kind of epilogue thingy that extends the timeline a bit for more, possibly superfluous, background. BUT if it all is cool, I can continue to do dual updates until TYP is done and then go on about my merrily.

The problem is that I have taken pictures for Betray All up to Part III, where I’ve only taken pictures up to the pictures you see on the site for Ten Years Prior, despite many fruitless attempts to remedy that (seriously, I’ve taken not one TYP picture since my teaser post). Betray All is taunting me. TAUNTING ME. I’ve done too much. But now that I’ve done the much, I have to release the much – veritably striking it from my consciousness through its passage into the interneted strata – or else it will sit on my brain like a toilet seat and drive me loony and next thing you know I’ll be cutting off my ear and gifting it to prostitutes. Except I’m not an artist, and it’s already been done, so that act of crazy wouldn’t be history, it would just. be. crazy.

I’m sorry, I’m having a bit of a moment. I don’t want to be an adult anymore. And wordpress is glitching my face off. And Ten Years Prior is the death of me. And my laptop ate my Velvet Goldmine dvd, over which I’m having a slight emotional crisis. And I left my copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in another country and am willing to swim the Atlantic to go get it. And it has been brought to my attention that I a much better at first person fiction writing than I am at third person fiction, and this new awareness has basically ruined my life. RUINED MY LIFE. But feel free to tell me to reign in my lunacy. Really. Feel free.

DUAL UPDATE!! They are both abominably long.

I’m sorry guys, I… am… swamped. Literally, the swamp creature rose up out of the an angry pile of muck and crickets and sat on me. For no reason. Just to be evil. I mean, I am terrified of crickets. That is just spiteful.

I have a breather this afternoon and I’m working on updating. A massive massive update. Goal: Tommorrow. Expectation: Saturday. I have to take some pictures and do some edits, and I’m planning on stuffing two chapter parts into one… or releasing them at the same time. Or something. And I know I’m a wet sock with the emails and comments, just bear with me.

To whet your palate (or make you completely frustrated with me) A TEASER! I think?