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Feb. 5th, 2019 11:38 pm1. I don’t remember if I made an official proper I’m-not-dead-and-I-moved-to-Dreamwidth post. But I did! I still check my LJ flist once every few months to read posts by people who didn’t move over, but I’m pretty much Dreamwidth-only now.
2. With the death of fannish tumblr, I’ve started trying to be less of a lurker. I’ve been checking Dreamwidth (and LJ before that) the whole time! I’ve been reading your posts if you’re on my flist/reading page! I just ...never comment, especially in recent years, but I’m making a concerted effort to be more social (both online and IRL). But if you rec’d a book/TV show, I probably checked it out at some point. If you made a post about your life, I may even have started writing a comment and then forgot about it and left it in a tab for three weeks, and then found it, and then gave up and closed the tab without posting. But I’m trying to post more and I’m even making a post! Here! Now! This post!
3. Recently, I’ve been experiencing the transition from “fandom young” to “fandom old” pretty starkly. Not that I’m saying I’m old - more that when I first found online fandom, everyone in fandom (and especially all the BNFs) were older and wiser and I lurked and learned from people. And now I’ve been around long enough that when I follow a BNF and realize that (1) they’re younger than me, or (2) they have less knowledge of fannish history than me, it’s very eerie because the dynamic is so different. I mean, I lurk either way but the way I react to their fannish output differs wildly from before. This is all to say that when tumblr did The Thing, it was very weird for me to realize how many people on tumblr post-dated the LJ/DW glory days and didn’t automatically think of DW as the next gathering-place.
4. I wrote a fanfic for Yuletide! For the Wrinkle in Time movie, which I loved and previously posted about. This was my first Yuletide experience, but I saw beatrice_otter’s prompt and super wanted to write the fic. Partway through writing it, I realized what I really wanted was to make someone else write longfic on the same subject matter and that writing is as hard as it ever is, but I persevered!
Fandom: A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
Title: The New Normal
Pairing/Rating: Meg Murry; Calvin O’Keefe; Gen/Pre-Relationship; General Audiences
Summary: After everything that happens, it’s a week before Meg goes back to school and she just wants everything to go back to normal.
Link:You can find it on AO3!
5. I recently started working on a Nirvana in Fire fic that, once again, I realize is something I’d rather make someone else write longfic of for me. The problem is that research is hard, and trying to figure out what life was like in 500 AD China for normal people is also hard. This is like when I thought I could write a Regency romance novel (for fun and profit) because I read so many of them and immediately couldn’t handle the basics of figuring out what people did in Regency England for everyday things. (I mean ... I spent forever trying to figure out what people in Regency England wore for underwear, if a woman was likely to wear a dressing gown at nighttime around the house, if a barn in the middle of nowhere would have had addresses, how people figured out directions to addresses, what kind of directions a kidnapper might give for a dead-drop in a ransom note ... and then I just gave up because I’m bad at research and have a short attention span.). But maybe, eventually, I will post a NIF fic here where Lin Shu died during the Chiyan battle but poor Mei Changsu who was just a random peasant who can see ghosts starts getting haunted by Lin Shu’s ghost until he agrees to help Lin Shu carry out his massive sprawling complicated revenge.
2. With the death of fannish tumblr, I’ve started trying to be less of a lurker. I’ve been checking Dreamwidth (and LJ before that) the whole time! I’ve been reading your posts if you’re on my flist/reading page! I just ...never comment, especially in recent years, but I’m making a concerted effort to be more social (both online and IRL). But if you rec’d a book/TV show, I probably checked it out at some point. If you made a post about your life, I may even have started writing a comment and then forgot about it and left it in a tab for three weeks, and then found it, and then gave up and closed the tab without posting. But I’m trying to post more and I’m even making a post! Here! Now! This post!
3. Recently, I’ve been experiencing the transition from “fandom young” to “fandom old” pretty starkly. Not that I’m saying I’m old - more that when I first found online fandom, everyone in fandom (and especially all the BNFs) were older and wiser and I lurked and learned from people. And now I’ve been around long enough that when I follow a BNF and realize that (1) they’re younger than me, or (2) they have less knowledge of fannish history than me, it’s very eerie because the dynamic is so different. I mean, I lurk either way but the way I react to their fannish output differs wildly from before. This is all to say that when tumblr did The Thing, it was very weird for me to realize how many people on tumblr post-dated the LJ/DW glory days and didn’t automatically think of DW as the next gathering-place.
4. I wrote a fanfic for Yuletide! For the Wrinkle in Time movie, which I loved and previously posted about. This was my first Yuletide experience, but I saw beatrice_otter’s prompt and super wanted to write the fic. Partway through writing it, I realized what I really wanted was to make someone else write longfic on the same subject matter and that writing is as hard as it ever is, but I persevered!
Fandom: A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
Title: The New Normal
Pairing/Rating: Meg Murry; Calvin O’Keefe; Gen/Pre-Relationship; General Audiences
Summary: After everything that happens, it’s a week before Meg goes back to school and she just wants everything to go back to normal.
Link:You can find it on AO3!
5. I recently started working on a Nirvana in Fire fic that, once again, I realize is something I’d rather make someone else write longfic of for me. The problem is that research is hard, and trying to figure out what life was like in 500 AD China for normal people is also hard. This is like when I thought I could write a Regency romance novel (for fun and profit) because I read so many of them and immediately couldn’t handle the basics of figuring out what people did in Regency England for everyday things. (I mean ... I spent forever trying to figure out what people in Regency England wore for underwear, if a woman was likely to wear a dressing gown at nighttime around the house, if a barn in the middle of nowhere would have had addresses, how people figured out directions to addresses, what kind of directions a kidnapper might give for a dead-drop in a ransom note ... and then I just gave up because I’m bad at research and have a short attention span.). But maybe, eventually, I will post a NIF fic here where Lin Shu died during the Chiyan battle but poor Mei Changsu who was just a random peasant who can see ghosts starts getting haunted by Lin Shu’s ghost until he agrees to help Lin Shu carry out his massive sprawling complicated revenge.
