Ha, I am glad I am accessible even when I am being dorky academic! Or just a dork in general, really.

For me, the hardest part is my tendency not to see the forest for the trees -- basically, I get hung up on little details and spend hours and hours researching tiny details in my story and worrying about getting them wrong and try to cram as many Cool Tidbits into the story as I can, and I tend to lose sight of things like the larger plot I'm trying to construct because of all the nitpicking I do. I think this is why I'm better at short-form fiction, because there are only so many details I can wallow in.

That icon is fanart of Russia/China. It is very very pretty fanart.