some fannish stuff, I think
this space has been mostly personal lately, so I will now attempt to put some fannish content here. the next post is bound to be personal again, since I'm having religious thoughts.
to start with, I have to admit that I haven't really been reading/watching/inhaling much new canon. I've been staring down at the full plate of possibilities, but lately I'm finicky. In the past two weeks I've watched one more 'new' Teen Wolf episode (still haven't watched all of 3a, though I've read the spoilers and consulted wikia for some details).
I tried the Welcome to Night Vale thing, but it didn't draw me in at all. At ALL. It rubbed me the wrong way from the start and I can't put my finger on why, though I suspect it's the format? I'm not giving up on it completely because it seems to have all sorts of awesome elements and most of you are singing its praises for being unique and diverse. Also, my circle and dash are filling up with delightful squee and I want very much to understand and participate in said squee, because it's SQUEE and I live for it: to me, enthusiasm and passionate love dull all the sharp edges and confusing corners of fandom and make it the best place on earth to be, hands down. For me, FIAWOL and going by experience, that's the way it will always be for me. So the squee is important. I just need to find more of it to inject into my daily experience.
(there's squee in my current fandom but it's not nearly as high-pitched at the moment and I miss it omg)
other shows and fandoms:
I watched a couple of eps of Once Upon a Time s2 on Netflix and enjoyed them, but I didn't get heart-racingly excited. My favorite characters are Belle and Mr. Gold, but I'm not overinvested. I'm interested in a female character (y'all are probably all spoiled, but she was a surprise to me so I'll keep it under wraps) who just showed up in my watching, but not enough to keep plugging along without frequent (and long) rests between episodes.
I really like POI and I'm missing out on a lot of great fic and vids (there has been a recent flood of them and my fingers are itching to consume the works, but...) by not being up to date in canon, but neither Netflix nor Hulu Plus are carrying the eps. I could pay two bucks an episode (not gonna happen) or I could attempt to don an eyepatch and peg leg again and transfer the eps from hard drive to thumb drive to xbox in order to watch them on my tv the way I want, but for the moment I am too lazy (really, this is my only excuse!) so I will refrain.
ditto Elementary (wrt the availability), except that I haven't even seen ONE episode of the show. which is really really odd, when you think about it. I should be practically shaking with the need to consume this media given its premise, characters, and fannish squee quotient. *shrugs and kicks dirt, looking away with a shamed face*
Um, I watched a rockumentary (only it's probably not called that since they are a boyband! it's probably called a doc or 'video diary' or something else) about One Direction. :D? And I may have read one or two of the fics about them on AO3. I only have one person in my DW circle who talks about them, and the rest of you are either oblivious or really judging me right now, but whatever. They're adorable. *gazes at them from afar with a tiny smile on my face* (however, I don't see myself getting into the fandom. RPF has its ups and downs, and the ups usually make up for the downs, but the downs are horrible and I don't know if I can handle that right now, mental health wise, so I'm avoiding any attachment.)
I can't think of anything else I've looked into or enjoyed that wasn't ALL DEREK HALE, ALL THE TIME. Once the new season of Sherlock airs, I'm sure I'll go off the deep end for awhile, but for now practically all my free time is wrapped up in Teen Wolf.
Which brings me to the writing thing. Oh, how I angsted these last few weeks, especially with the due date for TW BB creeping closer every day. This morning while reading my circle I saw![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
gorgeousnerd say, I was done writing bandom. Not done in the fandom itself - I'm still as reblog happy as ever and reading the fic whenever I can get it and still thinking of branching out in a fanart direction - but my longer projects lately haven't turned out the way I wanted, and I figured the well was tapped dry. That was how I felt! TW fandom is huge and it seemed that all the stories that could be told had already been told at least ten times. Everything I tried to put on paper was familiar in that 'well, I think I just read this story the other day. I'm actually just regurgitating the same fic, except that [author] did it better the first time! fandom has sapped my creativity, fanon - as much as I love it most days - has warped and discolored the way I see these characters, and I will never write an original word again! I have nothing new left to say about these characters!'
Well,gorgeousnerd just wrote two more stories in her fandom of choice, and yesterday I wrote nearly 10k of a brand new TW fic, words I am fiercely proud of. So there, writers block. Take that.
Randomosities:
torquerebooks.com has now been around for 10 years. I remember blinking in awe when they started up, wishing them well, admiring their moxie, but secretly thinking they wouldn't make it. /o\ SURPRISE. I love it when my cynical side is proved to be wrong. :) Get 20% off your entire purchase w/ coupon code "10years"
So it seems it's once again that time of year: YT noms. Apparently there are changes again, and not everyone is happy, and there is quiet grumbling and (haha, of course) some not-so-quiet grumbling, too. YT would not be the same without the wank, don't you think? It's inevitable, no matter what anyone does. As usual, I will not be participating directly due to pressurenervesperfectionismanxietyOMG, but I look forward to browsing through the stories once they're posted.
teenwolf_daily is looking for coders! I'd step up if I thought this good mood and level of productivity would last, but... yeah. Can't count on that.
um, I thought I had very little to say, fannishly, but apparently that was a lie. whoops.
to start with, I have to admit that I haven't really been reading/watching/inhaling much new canon. I've been staring down at the full plate of possibilities, but lately I'm finicky. In the past two weeks I've watched one more 'new' Teen Wolf episode (still haven't watched all of 3a, though I've read the spoilers and consulted wikia for some details).
I tried the Welcome to Night Vale thing, but it didn't draw me in at all. At ALL. It rubbed me the wrong way from the start and I can't put my finger on why, though I suspect it's the format? I'm not giving up on it completely because it seems to have all sorts of awesome elements and most of you are singing its praises for being unique and diverse. Also, my circle and dash are filling up with delightful squee and I want very much to understand and participate in said squee, because it's SQUEE and I live for it: to me, enthusiasm and passionate love dull all the sharp edges and confusing corners of fandom and make it the best place on earth to be, hands down. For me, FIAWOL and going by experience, that's the way it will always be for me. So the squee is important. I just need to find more of it to inject into my daily experience.
(there's squee in my current fandom but it's not nearly as high-pitched at the moment and I miss it omg)
other shows and fandoms:
I watched a couple of eps of Once Upon a Time s2 on Netflix and enjoyed them, but I didn't get heart-racingly excited. My favorite characters are Belle and Mr. Gold, but I'm not overinvested. I'm interested in a female character (y'all are probably all spoiled, but she was a surprise to me so I'll keep it under wraps) who just showed up in my watching, but not enough to keep plugging along without frequent (and long) rests between episodes.
I really like POI and I'm missing out on a lot of great fic and vids (there has been a recent flood of them and my fingers are itching to consume the works, but...) by not being up to date in canon, but neither Netflix nor Hulu Plus are carrying the eps. I could pay two bucks an episode (not gonna happen) or I could attempt to don an eyepatch and peg leg again and transfer the eps from hard drive to thumb drive to xbox in order to watch them on my tv the way I want, but for the moment I am too lazy (really, this is my only excuse!) so I will refrain.
ditto Elementary (wrt the availability), except that I haven't even seen ONE episode of the show. which is really really odd, when you think about it. I should be practically shaking with the need to consume this media given its premise, characters, and fannish squee quotient. *shrugs and kicks dirt, looking away with a shamed face*
Um, I watched a rockumentary (only it's probably not called that since they are a boyband! it's probably called a doc or 'video diary' or something else) about One Direction. :D? And I may have read one or two of the fics about them on AO3. I only have one person in my DW circle who talks about them, and the rest of you are either oblivious or really judging me right now, but whatever. They're adorable. *gazes at them from afar with a tiny smile on my face* (however, I don't see myself getting into the fandom. RPF has its ups and downs, and the ups usually make up for the downs, but the downs are horrible and I don't know if I can handle that right now, mental health wise, so I'm avoiding any attachment.)
I can't think of anything else I've looked into or enjoyed that wasn't ALL DEREK HALE, ALL THE TIME. Once the new season of Sherlock airs, I'm sure I'll go off the deep end for awhile, but for now practically all my free time is wrapped up in Teen Wolf.
Which brings me to the writing thing. Oh, how I angsted these last few weeks, especially with the due date for TW BB creeping closer every day. This morning while reading my circle I saw
gorgeousnerd say, I was done writing bandom. Not done in the fandom itself - I'm still as reblog happy as ever and reading the fic whenever I can get it and still thinking of branching out in a fanart direction - but my longer projects lately haven't turned out the way I wanted, and I figured the well was tapped dry. That was how I felt! TW fandom is huge and it seemed that all the stories that could be told had already been told at least ten times. Everything I tried to put on paper was familiar in that 'well, I think I just read this story the other day. I'm actually just regurgitating the same fic, except that [author] did it better the first time! fandom has sapped my creativity, fanon - as much as I love it most days - has warped and discolored the way I see these characters, and I will never write an original word again! I have nothing new left to say about these characters!'Well,
gorgeousnerd just wrote two more stories in her fandom of choice, and yesterday I wrote nearly 10k of a brand new TW fic, words I am fiercely proud of. So there, writers block. Take that.Randomosities:
torquerebooks.com has now been around for 10 years. I remember blinking in awe when they started up, wishing them well, admiring their moxie, but secretly thinking they wouldn't make it. /o\ SURPRISE. I love it when my cynical side is proved to be wrong. :) Get 20% off your entire purchase w/ coupon code "10years"
So it seems it's once again that time of year: YT noms. Apparently there are changes again, and not everyone is happy, and there is quiet grumbling and (haha, of course) some not-so-quiet grumbling, too. YT would not be the same without the wank, don't you think? It's inevitable, no matter what anyone does. As usual, I will not be participating directly due to pressurenervesperfectionismanxietyOMG, but I look forward to browsing through the stories once they're posted.
teenwolf_daily is looking for coders! I'd step up if I thought this good mood and level of productivity would last, but... yeah. Can't count on that.
um, I thought I had very little to say, fannishly, but apparently that was a lie. whoops.