happy sigh

[aria]

Hi, anyone newly subscribed! Say hi if you desire :D

I'm honestly delighted that I have had to do skip=60 to read back through what everyone has written since the last time I checked. Also, there seems to be an active Thor/Loki DW comm now? so all my dreams are coming true?? (Fun fact, I still think of Harry Potter and Doctor Who as my longest-running fandoms, because when you're a young teenager everything feels like it takes forever but I was only truly immersed in HP fandom for about four years, and similarly everything feels very high-commitment when you write 50k about something two summers running, but for all that I was also only really immersed in Who fandom for about three years. Meanwhile: started having Thor feelings the summer the first movie came out, here we are seven years later and not even how thoroughly I don't care about Infinity War can actually quell my feelings.) In any event, I am sad that tumblr is tanking in the sense that I'm going to miss the easy doses of good fanart, or gifsets if I want something low-maintenance but still fannish. And on the other hand, journaling is 1000% my social fandom interaction of choice and I am pretty overjoyed DW has life in it again.

Fannishly I am:

- over 1000 words on my Yuletide but not remotely near done with it; I signed up before I got a new job that is less part-time this month than I expected, but I have enough of my Yuletide done that I think I can manage without defaulting

- reading through my two Shame Shelves, as I have dubbed the bottom two shelves of my book case, wherein live all the books I still need to read; I finally felt like I was in an emotional place from which I could securely finish NK Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy, and yesterday I finished The Stone Sky, which was so good, SO GOOD, and when I was done I gently set it down next to me and sobbed into my hands for several minutes -- highly recommended if you're prepared for how unflinchingly brutal it is

- admitting to myself that, given the number of times I've loopingly rewatched both with thewrongkindofpc, I am no longer just casually watching either Buzzfeed Unsolved or Worth It; the three separate fics I appear to be writing might also be a clue that this is an actual fandom of mine now. I have never had an rpf fandom before! how does one even cope with these real humans constantly generating new canon!! (one presumably copes with the fourth wall by locking all the fic the fuck down or getting a sock for it.)

- sloooooowly writing the Will/Hannibal fic of my heart; every scene takes a billion years because Will Graham is extremely difficult to write accurately, but I really love what I have so far, especially how deeply spot-on bizarre I have managed to make the dialogue

Anyway how are YOUR Yuletide fics going?

Comments

[aamcnamara]

That TRILOGY that ENDING yes omg. Jemisin stuck the landing so hard.

[aria]

IT WAS SO! GOOD!! we really need to yell about it in person soon <3

[aamcnamara]

Yes! <3 (psssst Lion in Winter scheduling)

[skygiants]

I WAS JUST GONNA SAY

[aria]

Ohhh I just realized that one flaw in DW comments is that I can't tag both of you! So in case you're not obsessively checking this thread for a reply to Laine: Yes! My December is SO BUSY but I am definitely around and not working the 29th, and may also have Ollie visiting, could we do it then?

[aamcnamara]

I...will have work the 29th and 30th. But I could come into Boston for the evening and crash with someone?

[bluestalking]

lion in winter O_O

[aria]

Yes! My December is SO BUSY but I am definitely around and not working the 29th, and may also have Ollie visiting, could we do it then?

[polarisnorth]

Is this something I could get in on or a tradition for the three of you? (No hard feelings if so, it's just been ages since I watched that movie with a fun group.)

[ellen_fremedon]

I have zero words on Yuletide except for a page of meta noodling. My recipient wants something about the character I grok the least, about an aspect of her character I had literally forgotten even existed and still have no thoughts about after a complete canon review. /o\

[aria]

Oh noooooo that sounds DEEPLY unideal, I hope things work out decently <3

[ellen_fremedon]

They also SPECIFICALLY said they weren't interested in stories set during the one period of canon that I have story ideas about for that character :( :( :(.

(At least I think they did? The storytelling in that part of canon is somewhat non-linear and I think I could get away with interpreting it to allow the story I think I could tell. Or just with saying that optional details are optional and giving them the content they didn't ask for in the timeframe they don't want, probably from the POV of one of their least favorite characters.)

[eccentric_hat]

It's so nice to see more activity around DW! My Yuletide fic is...well, if the attempt to craft a plot goes pear-shaped, I have a scene written that's just barely long enough and cohesive enough that I could call it a vignette and post it, so that's a comforting safety net. I'm hoping to get the plot into shape, though.

[aria]

It really is! And I'm glad your Yuletide has a safety net at least -- mine is very much at a point where it's enough words but very obviously not a full story.

[thewrongkindofpc]

I have been adding a little bit every morning to the fic I VERY MUCH HOPE will manage to be a yuletide treat! Rn is is hovering around 8k and I still have a whole drug deal to write so WE SHALL SEE

[aria]

I BELIEEEEVE

[isozyme]

Hello I am one of the newly subscribed folks from tumblr! I remember reading your stuff avidly back on LJ when you were writing those amazing doctor who fics. It's good to be back!

[aria]

Yay, hello! V pleased you are here :D

[nicosilang]

WHAT IS THIS ACTIVE THOR/LOKI COMM I NEED TO KNOW FOR REASONS

[astolat]

hahaha THIS ME TOO PLEASE

[aria]

It is just called thorki, naturally, and seems to have an associated kinkmeme and be reasonably alive!

[aria]

It is just called thorki, naturally, and seems to have an associated kinkmeme and be reasonably alive!

[nicosilang]

Ooooh a two-fer! Thank you, and also see you there :D

[skygiants]

six days is totally enough time to write a Yuletide fic from scratch, right?

[genarti]

I SURE HOPE SO

[aria]

AHHHHHHHHH

I MEAN YES ???

[bluestalking]

:| :| :| definitely definitely definitely

[polarisnorth]

That is the best icon possible for that response.

[aria]

Deeeefinitely

OH NO WHY DID YOU SAY SIX DAYS, I WASN'T DOING THE MATH, AHHHHH

[scribe]

BEARS BEARS BEARS

Also welcome to RPF hell, muahahahaha. Even though it's been forever since I've been in an RPF fandom I kind of still think of myself as an RPF fanperson at heart? But yeah, they just, uh. Literally never stop generating canon. GOOD LUCK :D

[polarisnorth]

17 years and Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan are still totally married.

[fabaulti]

Hi! I've stumbled across you DW by mistake and then I realized you're the Aria. I remember reading Shatter a few years ago and crying, so I just had to leave a comment and thank you for writing that amazing fic and just for existing and being part of the fandom.
So thank you.

[aria]

Aw, hello! Thank you for dropping by and for saying such nice things :D

[la_dissonance]

omg your display name [finger kiss emoji]

my yuletide is 75% of the way to minimum wordcount, which is honestly further than I thought I'd get in one sprint. I may yet avoid an all nighter (:

buzzfeed shows! worth it!!! ahhhh. (I cope by never seeking out any information on what any of the irl folks are doing and just reading/writing episode tag or au fic. like at least worth it HAS episodes. imagine our struggles in bandom)

[aria]

Hah it's been that for AGES and I stand by it

Good luuuuck oh god I'm at least on the final scene of my Yuletide now but HOW LONG WILL IT BE, no one knows

(I ... if I ever post my Worth It fic, you maybe don't want to read it, I'm the sort of person who is like I Will Research All Canon At My Disposal And Use It In My Characterization, so you ... may find out things about them that you don't want to know?? Or you can just pretend I made it all up wholesale ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

[la_dissonance]

ahaha it's A Plan, I shall forget this comment ever happened and happily pretend you are making up any and every detail that is not immediately evident from watching the show \o/ (then again, I did make thewrongkindofpc tell me all about the stuff she learned from bb!steven's old tumblr, so like. I contain multitudes.) (although I, personally, will never incorporate that knowledge into a fic) (probably)

[alice_pike]

HOLY FUCK BROKEN EARTH THOUGH YEAH????? I just finished it a few weeks ago and I'm still !!!!!!!!! about it. I too just calmly closed it, put it aside, and bawled for a solid five minutes, I'm glad that's not a unique reaction. I have an rl friend who's reading it too, I can't wait for her to finish it. It's just...oh my god???? It's one of the first series I've read since I buckled down on the decision to actively move away from YA (they're quick, they're easy, there's always more of a fandom, so it's been a hard decision to stick to) and having Essun as a protagonist was just.....so fucking good, in that respect.

HP will always feel like my fandom, even if I haven't touched it since about 2008, and I think it's bc at the time I had no conception of what else fandom could be. I hadn't extended my interest in other things to fandom at that time--it was so isolated from everything else, probably just bc of fandom culture/platforms at the time, but once I started multi-fandoming, no other fandom quite had that all-encompassing feel to it.

Also SHAME SHELVES, lmao oh my god, my whole bookshelf is a shame shelf, calling it that might actually make me READ SOMETHING FOR ONCE.

[aria]

GOD THOSE BOOKS WERE SO GOOD!! And also a lot more ... hopeful than I was actually expecting? I loved loved loved how fiercely that ending believed in staying alive and in making meaning.

Your shame shelves call to you! I'd say "We can do it" but let's be real I bet no matter how many books we read there will always be more, WAITING.