Chicklets

Pretty sure one is a hen! We were worried they were both roosters. Today I'm teaching them to dig for bugs. Brought them over to the more foresty section of the yard by the compost, with all the nice soft dirt, and made a hole with a stick to get them started.

I think what I like most about chickens is just how happy they are about everything. Even when they're being hateful monsters they just seem so pleased about it. And when they're sunbathing in a hole they look more content than a dozen cats.

I'm really looking forward to getting eggs again, buying eggs really bothers me these days. I realize mammals are more intelligent and deserving of sympathy, but I don't have a pig, I have chickens.

Also, my pawpaw isn't dead despite me-not-being-around related abuse, which is great because I've been babying the thing for years now. It seems like plastic does stop UV light, so hopefully it'll grow now.

Expect something childmurder games related later today.

Fic

Taikyoku Ch6 up on FFN. With this, I've posted over 400,000 words there in total! In unrelated milestones, Homestuck fandom on AOOOOOOOOOOOO has passed the point where the archive works properly, although not yet the point where you have to jump through too many hoops to see all the fic. (That'll be at 2000+, when it's no longer possibly to set it to oldest first to see all the stories hidden in the default setting.)

SPerl Ch2 similarly uploaded. I have the beginning of the next chapter, but I really need to reread the early comic to get a better grasp of how things go.

Fox Games Not particularly satisfied with it - the branch point happens with virtually everyone dead, which makes things too simple, but I was trying to make the minimum changes. Even still it's not a true alternate timeline since it requires two changes rather than one. And there's the inevitable issue of trying to write for a character who I perceive as terribly inconsistent. It leads to the awkward feel that I'm writing her both too nicely and too harshly.

I may have to give up my pretty 111. The Homestuck category has irked me enough I was thinking of posting the Eridan/Feferi thing anyway.