2020 Writing Log, Part 32

- I edited Chapter 21, Chapter 22, Chapter 23, and Chapter 24 of Malice. I’m definitely emotionally invested in the story now, and I very much wish someone else would finish it for me.

- DarkAcey on Twitter (and on AO3) created a gift illustration for Chapter 23, and it’s amazing! I was blown away by this artwork, not to mention incredibly inspired. It’s such a life goal for me to be able to do something like this for other fic writers one day.

- Newly filled with motivation, I started writing Chapter 41. It’s going to take a while, and I’m (probably) not going to post it until the rest of the chapters are finished, but it feels nice to make progress instead of letting the story fade away.

- I edited my piece for the Press Start Exchange fanfic exchange one more time before posting it. It’s going to be a few weeks before it goes live, and I imagine I’ll return to it again before then.

- I posted a review of One Love Chigusa on my book review blog. The less said about this misogynistic mess, the better. It’s a shame that, of all the excellent work put out by the press, this is the book they decided to promote.

- I edited and updated the pages on the book review blog. This was tedious and took forever, but it’s good to do every year or so. I usually handle this in May, but better late than never.

- I created an icon and an announcement post for the Legend of Haiku zine, which I’m going to post later this weekend on social media. I’m starting to get nervous, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed that everything will be okay.

- ETA: The zine announcement post is now up on Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram!

- I posted a (very) short autobio comic for the first time in more than a year. I’ve gotten better at time-saving techniques, and I’d like to try to post more comics from now on, even if they’re not so great. The only way to get better at something is by doing it, right?

Commodification and Responsibility

On one hand, I agree with this sentiment wholeheartedly and have been preaching it since 2016.

One the other hand, I do think that, if you have a sizeable enough platform, you have a responsibility to use it wisely.

On my third hand - and this is the hand stretching directly out of my anxiety-ridden heart - I think it's scary how social media has blown issues relating to commodification and responsibility wildly out of proportion.

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I guess what I'm trying to say is that, while I believe it's important for people who have a large following on social media to be held accountable for their words and actions, the fact that a poorly considered offhand comment can become a matter of public discourse on an enormous international stage is frightening.