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ME: I'm in a great place! My medication seems to be doing its job, so I feel good. I kind of hate my job but I don't anticipate that being much of a problem once the next semester at school starts, since I'll be spending less time there. If it ends up being to much to juggle, working and going to school, the job is actually going to be the first thing to go, because school is the priority and because I could spend the time I do have free working on real estate stuff. RP-wise, I'm in the best place I've been in, in months. Maybe longer. Right now, my inbox is hella full but nothing is extremely old and I'll hopefully be catching up again within the next few days. I've managed to stay on top of tags and get back to things in a timely manner recently, and I have all my reqs for December started. I'll be focusing on January reqs in the New Years Eve post.

buffy summers CURRENTLY: Buffy is in a funky place since Spike got married and told her that he was expecting a baby. Not just because of that, because she has been going through a depressive streak for quite some time now, but that's a contributing factor. She wants to be happy for Spike, and I think that a part of her truly is, but at the same time, watching Spike move forward with his life makes her feel that much more inert in hers. I think it might be time to get her a therapist so that she can talk out some of her issues. I thought that getting her out there, meeting new people and building connections might help, but I realized that I don't want to make that the only factor that betters her depression. Having a good support system is important, but it's not the only thing that matters when you're trying to cope with depression. I don't want to say that all she needed all along was some good friends to lean on. She has a great friend in Spike, and it's not that he's not enough, it's that she hasn't dealt with her shit. She still has to work through a lot of the trauma that comes with being the vampire slayer, and more than anything, she needs to learn that being the slayer doesn't have to be her entire life. She's always been afraid that was the case, and when she was younger, she actively fought against it. As she got older, she stopped trying so hard, and without the Scoobies around to remind her of her humanity, in Darrow, she sort of stopped trying altogether. FUTURE: Has a birthday coming up in January! I'll probably do an EP for her. I don't know yet if it'll be a vampire slayer type of EP or a Buffy around town somewhere type of EP.

steve rogers CURRENTLY: Steve has had a nice couple of months of dating and falling in love with Lucy. And that's very sweet, but I think it's time to shake him up a bit. Sam's disappearance will play a part in that, I'm sure. It'll be timed to early January, and the actual threaded part of it will probably be Steve and Natasha sparring and not talking much about their feelings. Or maybe having a surprising heart-to-heart. You never know with those two. After that, though, I still want to bring some action back into Steve's life, give him a reason to use the shield. I have to think of something, possibly to do with HYDRA. It's about time that they up their game in Darrow, so maybe they'll try to orchestrate something for Steve to stop? I don't know, maybe he'll just bust up a base and they'll hit the self destruct button on their evil lair and there will be explosions and shit. I'm so bad at plotting, you guys. So bad. FUTURE: Something action-y!

luke glanton CURRENTLY: Sometimes I worry about Luke because I do the least with him, but at the same time, he isn't an especially high maintenance character. So he's just there, mostly, being happy with his son and his girlfriend. He and Eden have been official for a little while now. I think about shaking him up every now and then but I'm not even sure how I would go about doing it. He wouldn't want to do anything to mess up the life he has in Darrow, so if he were to get in trouble, it would have to find him somehow. FUTURE: I want to tag him around more and build up his connections in the city. I'm hoping that his little family will start to grow, or that at the very least, he'll make some friends.

peter parker CURRENTLY: I have sucked so bad with Peter. I need to change that. I need to EP him as Spider-Man, doing Spider-Man things, or something. The problem is, like I've said before in this post, that I'm terrible with plotty stuff. But he's not a character who should just be quietly moving along, it's just that with as absent as I've been in the past, that's the way it's gone. He'll be turning eighteen soon, I'll want to do something for that, but I'm not sure what. FUTURE: For right now, I guess I'll focus on threading him more and making friends and such.

queue KATE BISHOP: I can't wait, I can't wait, I CAN'T WAIT. I want to play Kate Bishop so bad. Depending on how soon I can accomplish reqs for December and January, she'll either be coming at the end of January or the beginning of February. I haven't decided on a canon point yet, but I'm leaning heavily toward a later point in Fraction's Hawkeye. Possibly as she's driving out of Los Angeles forever. ASAMI SATO: I initially was hesitant to add Asami to my queue because she and Kate have so much in common. Rich girls with bad guy fathers who kick ass. But I think that Asami's world is so different that I could make it work. They also aren't extremely similar in personality. She'll probably be coming in February as well, if I can manage it. It depends on how demanding school is by then. She'll be pulled from the end of the series, because I don't want to lose the development/closure she achieved with her father. That might make it weird because according to the Powers That Be, she'd already have fallen for Korra at that point, but I'm not super worried about it. I think it'll be more difficult for Asami that Korra doesn't remember how their friendship has grown than that Korra might not reciprocate romantic feelings.