It takes a lot of time to find something decent and also free. Better to settle in this case.

Could have an improbably training academy. I have made very little progress on development of the universe. Do you have symbiote-related suggestions?

Mr. Shat-upon is pretty smug, too. It might just be an avant-garde director thing.
NOT is very useful on AO3, but I never bother to use it. I just remember it exists.

It's not an issue. I just prefer to grab things off the free table for you. They are more meaningful due to their stochasticity.

Have fun in the woods.

I could make some suggestions. But then, I find cruising the store for new free books to be one of the best parts of the experience, so perhaps we have different tastes.

I have some thoughts: The Akatsuki are allied system lords. Itachi volunteered to host a Tok'ra symbiote so he could become an infiltrator, and was surprisingly good at pretending to be a megalomaniac (Sasuke doesn't know what a Tok'ra is). I can't decide whether I like the Sand village better as natives of a different planet, as free Jaffa, or as Russians. Not a symbiote-related suggestion, but Tsunade disappeared through the Stargate with her assistant when it was discovered decades ago and hasn't been seen since.

With a sample size of 2, I think we can confidently say that avant-garde directors are smug. Unless you can think of any counterexamples. It is confounded with them both being white dudes, but I can't think of any non-white-dude avant-garde directors.
I used the NOT function last night, but even when I was looking through only fandoms I might want to read, I didn't find anything that looked good that was specifically about a survival scenario. I found a few awful-looking survival fics, but I'm not that desperate yet. I think the Enemies to Lovers tag is just too crowded with other garbage.

...I didn't think that stochasticity was a prerequisite for meaning. Rather the opposite, actually.

I came back from the woods. No internet out there. Too many small birds.

It seemed unusually full of self help books about becoming skinny, which was off-putting.

Pretty much exactly what I had originally thought, back when I was thinking about it. Hadn't considered Tsunade. Good idea.

M. Knight Shat-upon isn't white. He's just smug.
You could cruise the tag cloud for survival-related tags to add to your search. Or just settle for garbage.

Nope. Stochasticity adds an important element of fate. Fate is inherently meaningful. That's why good experiments are randomized.

Did you eat them?

I'm nervous about my committee meeting and it's given me a neck ache.

Don't you sort by genre? Ignore the self-help books. Follow the river.

Don't tell me you don't have any ideas if you already have ideas! Now I've wasted time reproducing the basics of your story when I should be using the brain power on my own. Is there anything you actually haven't decided yet that I can help you brainstorm?

Is he not white? Huh. I guess I had never looked him up, and assumed whiteness b/c smugness. You learn something new every day.
Maybe I should start with survival and give up on the Enemies to Lovers tag. Maybe it's the problem. Maybe I'm the problem.

If my fate is to get a tiny book, then so be it. At least make it a good tiny book, okay?

Do not eat small birds! Only eat large birds! Small birds are friends!

Ooh, nervous aches are the worst. You could decide in advance that you're going to kill your committee, and then it doesn't matter what they think of you.

I sort by free.

It was a long time ago. I'd forgotten. All I can think about is my neck ache.

He's Indian, I think.
You are the problem. Go back to the woods and write your own survival story.

Nope. Gonna pick through for the worst possible tiny book.

Large birds don't slide down as easily. *eats bird*

Best thesis defense is actually not best thesis offense. Besides, it's only a meeting.

If you do it right, you can sort within free. You need to know the secret techniques.

Well, then, I suppose I'm glad to remind you. I feel a growing panic at the thought of finishing my November project, mostly because I don't think I'll be able to re-achieve the same tone. Or quality. My quality is always worst at the beginning of the month and best around the 20-day mark of November.

Yes, he appears to be.
I resorted to reading my own stories last night. It's what I always do when I'm unsatisfied with what AO3 has to offer. Then I get mad at myself for never finishing or editing anything.

I will accept any offering you give me, but I might grumble about it. Consider yourself warned.

No! I resist the urge to *eats bird*. Always!

If it's only a meeting, maybe convince your subconscious there's no need to be nervous?

Learning the secret techniques would take even more time. I am terrible with phones.

It was useful, yes. Have you considered starting twenty days early? Or just ignore the tone problem and tell yourself you'll edit it later. Never edit it. It's not like you were going to publish it anywhere, right? Make that Future Anessa's problem.

Read Women and Weasels instead. I am reading The Molds and Man. We can compare them.

Nope. *eats bee*

Nope. Subconscious: *eats bee*

It's not that secret. In Ibooks, go to Featured, scroll all the way to the bottom, click Free Books, scroll to your genre of choice. At least that works for me.

That would require writing for 20 days when I'm not being held accountable, which we have proven in the past is impossible. I will have to deal with the wrong tone and lack of quality, and then kick myself later.
Wow, the period of my life when writing made me feel good and accomplished seems to be over. I've hit the period of my life where writing reminds me that I never follow through with what I start and am not a good enough writer to live my childhood dreams. This is an unpleasant revelation.

You have no idea how little I want to read Women and Weasels. Or, rather, how little I want to read it as an actual book, rather than as a source of meme comedy to be opened to a random page on a whim.

Did your subconscious take control of your mouth, or does it have its own mouth specifically for *eats bee*?

Astounding academic insight: Did you know that a 15-page term paper is actually very short and easy if you write one page per day over 15 days, instead of writing all 15 pages in one day? I feel like I've discovered a forbidden secret. Is this what they call a "life hack"?

Sounds like a secret to me. They don't hide non-secrets at the bottom.

Oops. Make sure to get some good boots for maximal kicking power.
Eh. That sounds like another problem for Future Anessa.

I am hurt by you not wanting to read my gift to you. Hurt.

My subconscious *ate bee*. It was like an RP response. It had a mouth for RP purposes.

Um. I don't think that sort of thing happens. Don't say that out loud. Please stop.

Unable to bamboozle committee today. They seem to want progress and I am currently able to offer in-progress, which is not quite the same. Will work to improve my bamboozlement rather than turn in-progress into progress.

But now you have the secret and you have the power. You also have The Secret, because you couldn't avoid the self-help section.

Future Anessa has a lot of problems. Current Anessa also has problems, because my past writing already exists.
Don't you ever feel that way about your writing? You don't edit either, so don't you ever get that sense of, "Wow, this could be so much better"?

You buy a person a meme, you have to deal with them treating it like a meme. Sorry, them's the rules.

You can't RP with your subconscious. It's not an OC. Kind of the opposite. You're the OC of your subconscious.

It may be happening right now. Can't stop won't stop. Productivity mode activate.

But you're so good at bamboozling! Did you give your committee sandwiches? A person can't pay attention to your progress while eating a sandwich. Have you tried using weasel words to make in-progress sound like progress?

Today I learned that Michael Shanks was 27 (!!!) when he started playing Daniel Jackson (!!!). 27 is within my dating range. I could have dated season 1 Daniel Jackson. I could have been one of his offworld flings. Somehow he always seemed so much older.