a conspiracy of cartographers

Hey hey did you know: the Wei Wuxian vid I've been fistfighting for many weeks is FINALLY DONE. It's to Dessa's 5 out of 6 because of course it is. I think I'm really proud of it?? I've absolutely stared at it too much. Enjoy :D

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So in the back half of last year I very slowly watched The Untamed, and enjoyed it, and then didn't think about it for a while, and then in February I started doing a rewatch and now I CARE, I CARE SO MUCH. I am maybe writing fic; I very much already made this vid about how much I love Lan Wangji's face, and also how much he loves Wei Wuxian's face! (Same, dude, same.) It's to probably the most basic song choice I could've gone with, but we all need to follow our hearts.

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Possibly in an effort to feel anything like joy after long holiday retail shifts, I spent the last three days making a vid about how absurdly in love Aziraphale and Crowley are! Behold their faces/my ongoing emotions about them/etc.

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Hahaha I got my hot little hands on Good Omens files and made this vid in literally four days! It's kind of about being mad at God, and it's a lot about finally being able to vid my Good Omens book feelings, because I've never met a book-to-screen source where I don't immediately attempt to vid my book feelings, I guess.

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NEW GOOD OMENS FIC, it only took me several weeks, this is definitely the first of several at the very least.

Everything Else Is A Substitute For Your Love, Aziraphale/Crowley
"You can't have been a demon," Aziraphale said. "No one used to be a demon. Why would you say that?"

Crowley wakes up an angel again and everything is terrible, enjoy!

(Next up: Aziraphale has lots of gay sex throughout history! But not with Crowley, one doesn't sleep with the enemy! God I'm excited to write that one.)

(Also I need some Good Omens DW icons, but in the meantime I'm just using my old Saxon Is Your Man icon and laughing to myself.)

Almost a week after its release, this afternoon I went to see Endgame!

( THOUGHTS & FEELINGS )

Uh please feel free to have feelings back in comments, I'm sure I've got more where this came from.

So, as a general rule, I am very bad at consuming audio-only media. For a while the only podcast I'd ever listened to was Welcome to Night Vale, and this mostly worked because I treated it like Twilight Zone NPR: good radio to have on in the background while also cleaning/cooking/etc. Basically, if there isn't a visual component, my brain doesn't process the info very effectively, I miss entire sentences, it's just not a great way for me to take in a story.

Last July, while I was recovering from top surgery and really didn't want to do anything but lie around with my eyes closed, Amiel had me start listening to The Adventure Zone. (Listening to the McElroys do anything while recovering from major surgery isn't necessarily something I recommend, btw, as laughing helplessly while wounded is kind of painful. Worth it!) TAZ really had everything stacked against it, both because it's a podcast and because I'm literally in three semi-regular D&D campaigns and frankly who has time to listen to other people play D&D. But I had the time, so I listened to the first couple arcs and was mildly charmed and entertained. Then I lost steam, as I do on podcasts, but I idly picked up the graphic novel of the first arc, and ... dang, y'all, it had been written when the show was much further along, and it was good. The characters felt like solid characters rather than the series of silly decisions one makes when first feeling out a campaign; there was a moment near the end when it really landed an emotional beat and I realized that this was how the story could feel; it was in a medium I can actually give my full attention to, so I did, and I loved it. "Well, fuck it, now I want to know what happens next," I said, "so back to the podcast, I guess."

Anyway, it took me fully eight months, but I've listened to all of The Adventure Zone's Balance arc now! (I absolutely need to listen to the finale again, because even while fully 1000% invested, I still caught myself going "ooh someone just said a cool one-liner, where are we and what is happening" because my brain is so fucking terrible at audio-only processing.) I really really really loved it, and now I appear to be [a] watching every playlist of animatics on YouTube, fully recommend inhaling tea laughing at the animated Jenkins bowtie and voice joke; [b] frantically listening to all the live shows because I need to have every possible bit of Balance canon before I can write some fic (is it about Taako's found family? you betcha; is it called Cake Or Death, IT IS NOW); [c] willing to yell about it with anyone, come to me in the comments, give me your recs or your feelings, I know I am years late to the party but it still seems like a great party.

For New Year's Eve I convened with many local friends, all of whom had drawn up D&D characters, and we chose characters at random in order to play an all-night campaign. My first character got red shirted and died in literally the first thirty seconds; my next character, a pixie barbarian named Tankerbelle, survived the night and was incredibly fun to play. Now we're making brunch, and will probably play yet more D&D!

For Yuletide this year, I wrote Exorcist fic! Batter My Heart, Marcus/Tomas. I loved writing it, and I want to write so much more Exorcist fic now. (Like, WHAT IF I WRITE THIRD SEASON, is more or less where I have landed on wanting to write more Exorcist fic, of fucking course I have.)

Happy new year, pals <333

Happy December 25th! Under the virtual tree I still have a mystery Yuletide Madness gift, and I woke this morning to a lovely little offering:

The Most Worth It, which is, indeed, Worth It fic -- Steven and Andrew go on three dates at three different price points, Steven is enthusiastic, Andrew slowly comes around, it's adorable.

This morning I did small family present exchange with my parents, and this afternoon we're ... going to take a break from the usual Christmas tradition of Muppet Christmas Carol and/or Love Actually to instead watch The Mask? and maybe Muppet Treasure Island? Apparently once a year is too often for the same movies over and over eventually! In the meantime, I'm tearing happily through the Yuletide archive and compiling a small recs list.

<333 hope y'all are having nice quiet days.

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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?