Comments | aprilstarchild: I'm not dead! Also: my year-end post!

aprilstarchild

I'm not dead! Also: my year-end post!

Dec 28, 2016 22:19

HOO BOY YOU GUYS TYPING INTO THIS BOX FEELS....WEIRD.

LET'S DO THIS

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write_out December 31 2016, 23:29:08 UTC

Congrats on the fic! That's quite exciting! I'm happy you found a new fandom that you love.

aprilstarchild January 1 2017, 06:57:33 UTC

There's literally nothing quite like the experience of watching my hit count rise when I post something new. Dang.

What's funny is that I avoided the SU fandom for a good year because I'd heard shitty things about it. There's at LEAST as high a percentage of truly toxic people in SU fandom as there are in Sherlock (ironic as hell, considering how much the show is about different kinds of kindness and love and how forgiveness) but....they're not concentrated around a small group of people.

I found my little corner of people who ship things I like and like the characters I like; and I've got a tiny handful of SU fandom friends that are my age, and I'm suddenly a Fandom Aunt, which is a role I'm okay with. It's my turn and all.

glowing_fish January 1 2017, 00:03:45 UTC

How I came to Steven Universe ( ... )

aprilstarchild January 1 2017, 07:05:33 UTC

Not long after I first became obsessed with SU, my mom's health took a really terrifying turn for the worse, and I remember telling Seamus at one point that if my mom died, it would ruin Steven Universe for me ( ... )

Speaking of cathartic: glowing_fish January 3 2017, 16:01:26 UTC

There is an episode of Adventure Time written by Rebecca Sugar that would be cathartic, besides its so full of real, unchangeable grief, that it can't even be cathartic. I watched it and cried for an hour and then woke up and cried for an hour more. It was just like getting punched in the stomach with no relief.

glowing_fish January 1 2017, 00:04:14 UTC

Also, have you really not posted since January? I thought I had been reading at least a few posts from you throughout the year.

aprilstarchild January 1 2017, 07:05:48 UTC

Nope.

hermi January 1 2017, 02:40:47 UTC

I'm so happy for you on the fanfic! I've given it a try a couple times but can never get more than a couple paragraphs into it.

And yay for your very own laptop too!

aprilstarchild January 1 2017, 07:14:42 UTC

I'd only ever gotten that far too! I tried writing a Sherlock AU once upon a time and got stuck and gave up; and about a year ago I wrote some really short headcanon-y things and snippets of dialogue for a totally different au, and that was it ( ... )