Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.

Good things about getting a fic exchange story done before the deadline:

• No worry about missing the deadline, unlike every fic exchange I ever did before this year!
• Plenty of time to proofread (did we just refer to a canonically one-handed character having hands, plural? oops)
• Lots of time to do extra gift fics for others
• Lots of time to catch up on that AO3 To Be Read list

Downsides:

• Can't show it to people or talk about it for WEEKS. gnargh.

So I'm not going to talk about the fic itself but since I'm here anyway, and procrastinating on some job application stuff I really should be doing: the fic I just wrote has once again got subject matter that overlaps with my own job, and while I didn't set out to do this I think part of me is always trying to process it. It's the same with my TROP WIP 'Shadow-Bride' and it's the same with my Babylon 5 WIP (on hiatus! not abandoned!) 'Set Fire to the Stars', although it's different work things in both of those. I end up writing about things I have dealt with at work by putting them into a fantasy sci-fi situation and working through them from there, and not even realising I'm doing it until partway through.

I'm being vague about what these things are, sorry! But they're also abstracted to a greater or lesser degree, and like I said there's different work things included.

I just find it interesting, really, that while I don't use fanfic to work through personal life grief or traumas or things that need working through (or if I do it's in a way I'm not aware of), I seem to do it with work stuff all the time.