Fannish natter
Jan. 6th, 2023 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lucymonsterToday, for reasons too dull and convoluted to be worth recounting, I experienced the mortifying ordeal of rediscovering one's teenage fanfic. I daresay it's done me good. From now on, if I'm ever tempted to get sniffy about Kids These Days with their issuefic and their thinly veiled self-inserts, I can remind myself of the time I published angsty teen-mental-health-crisis fic about fucking Haldir from Lord of the Rings and eat some nice, nutritious humble pie.
(Thank goodness I used to change pseuds so often. Fifteen-year-old me is not untraceable, exactly, but you'd have to work bloody hard and the payoff would be shit.)
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I think I'm probably done tinkering with mycandyheartsex signup? I've taken a radically different approach this time: instead of my usual maximalist requests, I've whittled myself down to just three teeny-tiny rare ships/gen combos. I think it's the right call. I wanted all the things I was originally planning to request, but these are the ones my heart seems to be most set on right now. Two of my three fandoms already have offers, too, so it's possible I won't even be a pinch hit!
It feels bizarre not to be requesting anything Reylo-adjacent. Have I literally ever done an exchange without requesting something Reylo-adjacent? There was Rare Male Slash Exchange one time, I guess. I can't think of anything else.
I've already written 1.5k of fic for [redacted]'s [redacted] request, too, after vowing to myself that I was going to keep it lowkey. So that's equal parts 'yay I can still write!' and 'oh fuck the plot has only just started'.
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I've been in a reread/rewatch mood: [redacted] for Candy Hearts, Rings of Power for my boy Adar, a bit of Murderbot, dribs and drabs of old fanfic from years ago. The thought of consuming anything new-new is just exhausting right now, but I'm holding out for Shadow and Bone S2 in March, and OFMD S2 whenever they release it in Australia. I feel like my attention is all over the place, and I'm honestly kind of enjoying it - I'm usually so monofannish, despite my best efforts. It's a rare thrill to have more than one fictional world alive in my daydreams at once.
(Thank goodness I used to change pseuds so often. Fifteen-year-old me is not untraceable, exactly, but you'd have to work bloody hard and the payoff would be shit.)
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I think I'm probably done tinkering with my
candyheartsex signup? I've taken a radically different approach this time: instead of my usual maximalist requests, I've whittled myself down to just three teeny-tiny rare ships/gen combos. I think it's the right call. I wanted all the things I was originally planning to request, but these are the ones my heart seems to be most set on right now. Two of my three fandoms already have offers, too, so it's possible I won't even be a pinch hit!It feels bizarre not to be requesting anything Reylo-adjacent. Have I literally ever done an exchange without requesting something Reylo-adjacent? There was Rare Male Slash Exchange one time, I guess. I can't think of anything else.
I've already written 1.5k of fic for [redacted]'s [redacted] request, too, after vowing to myself that I was going to keep it lowkey. So that's equal parts 'yay I can still write!' and 'oh fuck the plot has only just started'.
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I've been in a reread/rewatch mood: [redacted] for Candy Hearts, Rings of Power for my boy Adar, a bit of Murderbot, dribs and drabs of old fanfic from years ago. The thought of consuming anything new-new is just exhausting right now, but I'm holding out for Shadow and Bone S2 in March, and OFMD S2 whenever they release it in Australia. I feel like my attention is all over the place, and I'm honestly kind of enjoying it - I'm usually so monofannish, despite my best efforts. It's a rare thrill to have more than one fictional world alive in my daydreams at once.
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Date: 2023-01-08 12:13 pm (UTC)And isn't that a neat thing? I mean, sometimes I'm just overwhelmed by Opinions, where people go like LOVE THIS 101%, or SHITFUCK WHAT WERE THEY THINKING, and I'm like, "Yeah, but what about just engaging entertainment? Characters with an ambiguous moral compass, or none at all, and they're still trying to get along with Things and you're along for the ride?" I'll get back to you when I got my grubby hands on the show. :D