First week: Done!

[temris]

Tomorrow is Friday, and it will mark the end of my first week at my new university. It went by as I expected: me being shy to ask to join the class' chat group (which I still haven't managed to join in), professors asking us to buy expensive books, my butt aching after sitting at the wooden seats, and I'm coughing -- probably caught a cold again! 🤦‍♀️

But, in many ways, I realized I've also changed a bit. In my high school, I mostly was silent in classes, but now I realize those classes were about things I wasn't very interested in, or I wasn't very good at. I find myself constantly engaging in classes now that they're centered around things I enjoy: language and literature! I also try to voice up my opinions even in things I don't think I'm very good at.

I also try to open conversations with anyone near me. It backfired once already (when I tried to explain the school's material sharing system to someone) but I'm trying to gather up my courage as often as possible these days, I'm not going to give up.

On Saturday there'll be online classes and I still don't know how that operates... 😭 And the handful of my classmates I have the contact information of, they also didn't know. We are going to be in shambles this weekend.

Anyway... In other news, I tidied up the story I'm writing a bit more. Before doing that, I tried to get my attention to something else to clear up my mind. I've been thinking about an WW1 AU for Chris/Leon for months, and I went and wrote a little starting point of a fic last week. (I'm now blocked at a point, so after that I went back to my original story HAHA :D) I hope I can finish that one before the year ends, because I think it has really good potential. Initially, when I had thought of it the first time, I think I checked if there were any fics like that, and I believe there might be some? Not sure... I don't want to read any, because then I usually think I might accidentally draw too many inspirations from those works.

Comments

[hexmix]

i'm glad your classes are engaging, that's a promising start! i think that not giving up trying to talk to new people is very admirable, especially because it's something you're worried about. i hope that it gets easier for you as you get more used to your classes too; that's a lot of new things to worry about all at once, after all.

also wanted to wish you luck on your fic! i also can't say that i've seen any WWI AUs across the board, let alone for Chris/Leon. i think that sounds like a real interesting idea for a fic though & i bet it would be fun to write! :) (it is reminding me of the game Conscript a bit; it's a WWI survival horror game that was very clearly influenced by Resident Evil, which is why i was reminded lol.)

[temris]

Thank you so much for your good wishes! ✨

The starting point for the fic was a really fun experience, thinking what kind of backgrounds both would have and all that. I have another idea for an original story that's partially taking place in that era (more so post-WW1) so it will also be a good practice for that.

I actually had Conscript on my wishlist, and it's on sale this week on Steam -- unfortunately it's too expensive for me living in Turkiye since it's using USD 😭 When I initially had this AU idea, it was one of the first games I've seen and I was so interested. Because fr it could work amazing as a concept!

[hexmix]

oh nooo, hopefully there will be a bigger sale on it soon! they used to have a demo up, which is how i was able to play it, and it had a fair little chunk of the game on it, if it's still up and you wanted to give it a try! that really sucks though, i'm sorry :c

[temris]

OH thank you, I'll try it !! ^^