life like a sine wave

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A lot of things in life are stressing me out right now - one of my coworkers is leaving, which takes us from "understaffed" to "skeleton crew; internet pretendy funtimes are not as fun as they're supposed to be; the weather; my body's insistence on finding new and exciting ways to be utterly gross.

But I wrote fifteen thousand words of silly self-indulgent crossover fic, and it's the longest thing I've written since grad school and the longest fic I've ever written in my entire history of writing fic, and I am pretty damn proud of myself.