sleeplesspotato

Yesterday I thinned the kale seedlings -- I gently pulled up the ones that weren't doing as well as the others, cut off the wilting leaves and the root ends, and used them as an omelet topping. (I haven't tasted kale before afaik so I dunno what I was expecting; they tasted like clean grass, which is a good thing I guess?) I'm still a bit sad about having to thin the seedlings, but ultimately there can be only one (shameless Highlander reference) since I only have space for one adult kale plant. For what it's worth, the remaining survivors seem to be doing much better with less competition.

Of the many dill seeds I planted, only three so far have sent up these tiny stick-like sprouts. (They remind me of Pikmin, though not as much as the kale did at the beginning.) One is much taller than the other two and sometimes bends a bit near the top when the wind is too strong. I'm a bit disappointed since I specifically chose a bigger pot for them, but maybe there will be more sprouts in a week or so? These three look kinda lonely on their own.

Meanwhile, I'm wrestling a little with my enemies-to-lovers subplot in the Castlevania OT3 fic; like my seedlings, the relationships between my leads are growing at different rates and in different ways, and I kinda want to nudge the slower one (ie, between Trevor and Alucard) even though I know it's more of a slow-burn thing. My version of Trevor is somewhat different from the anime one; he's somehow more openly hostile to Alucard and I'm still figuring out why I'm writing him this way. It's kinda weird since Alucard is generally the more tsundere one of the three of them, both in my writing and in the anime. Anyway, I've been chugging along and meeting my relatively low daily word count; if I'm lucky I can sort out my thought processes and get some good material out of Camp NaNo that I won't have to change too much in later drafts.