No one ever suspects the librarian...

 Hmmm, what random seasickness cure can Akitoki give Kagome? Sea prunes?

*Googles*

... huh, turns out some people swear by prunes as a cure for seasickness and other forms of motion seasickness. Let that be a lesson to me not to question the wisdom of (Akitoki) Hojo.

I feel like I'm finally making some progress with my IY AtLA AU fic. Taking a break from most other social media has definitely helped me to focus on writing.

So far, I've got rough drafts of the prologue, chapter 2 and chapter 3. Chapter 1 is still being written because I take even longer if I try writing things in chronological order. :p I'm still tweaking the outline but I've at least got a rough idea of where all this is going.

Then again, the first couple of chapters of Echoes took an absolute age and I still managed to stay on top of updates for the most part once I lost my head start. I think it just takes me a long time to plan things out. Unfortunately, I'm the kind of writer who struggles to write so much as a drabble without an outline.

Ramblings aside, I'm very keen to start posting once I've got the first few chapters ironed out. I've really wanted to write a fic about the relationship between Kagome and Kikyou for donkey's years and this is a great opportunity to do that. Of course, there will be plenty of opportunities to expand on other things that I wish had received more attention in canon, as well as more ladies being awesome and some Inu/Kag romance. Possibly some other romances too because Kagura and Byakuya flat-out refuse to be straight whenever I write them and I'd rather not have the only LGBT+ characters be villains. Plus it's mostly about the main cast so it might get a few more comments than my previous attempt at a long fic. :p

I might as well put the rough draft of the prologue up here, even though it's going to be re-written and DW is still a bit of a ghost town these days. Maybe I should try posting my fanart to a couple of comms to see if I can garner any interest....