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All of the amazing art and fic I received as gifts during Battleship Exchange 2024! I love them all!!!!!!!!!!!

魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
*希望飞到你的身边 [ART] by xinger88
“如果我能飞去你我就离开自己世界入你的。”

*想象回到你的身边 [ART] by xinger88
“请相信我永远不想离开你。”

*花有重开日 [ART] by xinger88
生命在死后重新开始。

*Catastrophe of Color by starandrea
Wei Ying got his first dragon feather when he was very small: he remembers another boy handing it to him on the street in the dead of winter, when he was cold and hungry and couldn’t believe the happy feelings that came with it.

*The Mountain That Was Not a Mountain by donutsweeper
Yiling was a burgeoning city nestled at the base of a mountain that wasn't there.
And there were many stories about that.


Star Trek: Lower Decks
*星际猫咪 [ART] by xinger88
在行星中我们看到自己。

*Don't Goose Me, Bradward by galaxyofroses
“Can someone remind me what the deal is with this planet again?” Rutherford asks. “Specifically, the geese?”


Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
*Ships of Heaven [ART] by xinger88
天地勇敢地一起去没有人过去的地方。

*Podfic: 'laughing with a mouth of blood' by pilcrowtudinous by itscooltokoorero (pilcrowtudinous)
Pelia coughs again, dramatically, yanking a handkerchief from her pocket and covering her mouth. She goes to speak but coughs again, and this time, Christine sees a giant red stain on the hanky.


Stranger Things
*What Comes Next by plutonianshores
Steve has a migraine. Robin has a proposal.

Read things! Write things! Crochet a basket*!

(*hahahaha remember when I thought 'maybe I got TOO MUCH yarn for the corner-to-corner blanket? That was definitely not true. The part where I was confused about how triangles work was definitely prescient, though. I almost had ENOUGH yarn, except then I changed my mind about the shade of blue I wanted to use, so now I'm waiting for my yarn delivery to arrive before continuing on. And so, another basket! Baskets are the best!)

Enthusiasm: high!

Output: low!

Luckily, battleship is a team sport. ALSO! I cast my eyes upon the stats for round 1, which included the total number of works posted during the round. Then I went back and counted how many people are on the team. Based on my simple math skills, my two posted works are sliding in juuuuuuuust under the average, which is very exciting to me!

(Exactly where I like to be during any team event! Shelter under that bell curve, heck yeah!)

Things To Do Today:

1. Battle the ships! Write some fic! Lurk in the discord to see pictures of cats!

2. Summer adventure reading! Pick some more books! Read them!

3. Crochet ALL the things! Try not to start another project! Three is plenty already!

... I'm forgetting something

... OH RIGHT IT'S A WORK DAY, I SHOULD DO WORK

...hmmmmmmmmm

It's time for Battleship Exchange 2024!

Things I remember about how to play Battleship Exchange from my one (1) year of experience:

*it was fun!

*it helped to sign up with a friend! (aka a built-in audience for any and all writing shenanigans I managed to create)

*it motivated me to write some things!

I do realize none of those are about how to play. Because I can't actually remember much about that??? It seemed very complicated before it started, and then it all was much clearer once it was happening, but it went very quickly and much of it was a blur of writing and laughing about tags.

(PS: there are FAQs with much more useful information on the linked page)