Hot, hotter, hottest

[wiseheart]

We had 38 degrees today. Oh, merciful God, it was HOT! It's still 32 degrees outside, although they promise one somewhat easier day on Friday. We'll see - and feel, I'm sure of it.

Nonetheless, I was somewhat crafty today. I've started filling the lavender sachets, now that I can hope for more raw material. Seven are filled and sewn closed, seven more to go, depending on how many lavender I get tomorrow... and perhaps even later on. But that was about the full amount of my activities today.

Other than that, we ate leftovers, watched some telly and rested a lot. Mum feels marginally better, even though said margin is really, really narrow. But we keep up hope. The heat doesn't help, of course; all our joints are suffering from it.

I even did a tiny bit of writing - still just jotting down ideas that might or might not be used in actual stories, but building up a solid background is important for me. I need to know those things, even if nobody else is going to ever hear of them.

Speaking of writing: I've been swamped with PMs from FF.Net, in which so-called visual artists are offering to turn the one or other story (mostly "Timescapes, though) into a comic or make illustrations to it or whatnot. I steadily ignore them, but I do find the whole thing slightly odd.

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[bk_forever]

They want money for art, and are just fishing for clients. I have blocked over 150 of them, and I am NOT being polite, several of them have tried harassing me because I told them no and blocked them. They don't actually READ anything. The comments they make about my stories have nothing to do with the actual stories. I've reported a bunch of them to the site, but whoever is in charge is doing nothing. I get up to 6 a day and I'm fed up with it. If I didn't have actual readers there, I'd stop posting there.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I've stopped updating my stories on FF.Net, since no real readers have shown up for ages. At least on AO3 I sometimes get a kudos or two. Some of my stories have more chapters than even hits, sadly. :(

As for the so-called "artists", the funny thing is, even their wording is almost the same. I think they copy and paste the same platitudes from each other. I'm simply ignoring them and from time to time delete their messages.

[bk_forever]

Yes, they do a lot of copy & paste, and a lot have multiple accounts under similar names. Most have blank profiles, or a list of sites where they can be reached, and many have started asking really stupid questions, trying to get a conversation going so they can offer their services. They have no understanding of what fanfiction is. It's so irritating, I'm waging a private war against them. They have no place on a fanfiction site.

[meathiel]

As of tomorrow we'll get these temperatures as well and this time it's to last until Wednesday. Ugh.

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Yep. The same 'bot' is working through my stories with offers. Like you, I just ignore them. Your temperatures are, literally, killers. It's a balmy twenty-four here, but feels several degrees cooler because of a quite blustery wind. One particular gust actually stopped me in my tracks when I went for my morning walk.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

My sincerest condolences. :(

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounds like a strong wind!

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

I don´t know about comics, but a lot of fanfiction I recently read got inquiries about possible translations to Russian.

[just-jenni.livejournal.com]

Those so-called visual artists are all over Tiktok too, bothering people. It's a scam, of course.