Hello Resolutions, This Is Your Wake-Up Call
Well, well, well. It's bloody two thousand twelve and apparently, the end of the world is near. You know what this means...Jaesha must finish her damned WIPs before the world tumbles into chaos. What kind of person would I be if I left my readers hanging?
The very awesome and great tangwstyl wished for one of my fics to be finished as part of her Snowflake Challenge. I don't know why, but I kind of figured everyone had kind of given up on me because I post so infrequently. So, of course, when I see this post about my fics it was a slap on the rear (one of those cheeky kinds that makes you turn around and blush slightly). I need to finish them. I need to finish them so I can write new ones because truthfully, I had prohibited myself from writing/posting anything new while my three (well, four, if you count Gifted Euphoria) sat dusty on the shelf, waiting to be completed.
I made a rather bold statement in response to this wish. Both The Trouble With Keeping Promises and Dreaming of Christmas Trees would be finished by May 1st of this year. This is a huge undertaking for me considering my track record, but completely doable if I just get my ass in gear.
I posted a new chapter to TTWKP over the weekend. I've got the prologue started for DoCT and a pretty clear plan of how that story will end. Personal Attention...well, that one is tougher to come up with a timeline. PA never followed the plan I had in mind for it, so I almost feel like I need to reread it all to figure out where it is going next. Plus PA wipes me the hell out, all of that break up/make up/break up again/make up again business. It was so easy to write in the beginning and as the chapters moved along, I really just wanted to tear my hair out.
Additionally, I have some prompts that spikes_cj and dampersnspoons gave me a while back that I really am itching to write. A sequel to Truancy is in the works, plus a few new ideas. None of which will see the light of day until I make my goal with TTWKP and DoCT.
In other news, it appears that Creation Entertainment has finally come to their senses and has booked the Sci-Fi Grand Slam event for November of this year. They've confirmed James Marsters (of course, always subject to change) as their first guest. I haven't been to a con since 2010's Firefly/Serenity/Buffy/Angel/Dollhouse event in LA, which, while I enjoyed, was kind of a let down. It was so small. The best thing I can say about that event was that I got to see my girls: spikes_cj, oanimation, and ghostgirl13. I miss conventions. There is nothing in the world like being surrounded by people that get you. Doesn't matter the fandom, either, because at the end of the day you have your fan fetishes and I have mine and we're all just freaks having fun. Bring those fairy wings! Bust out that tri-corder! Got a tattoo of Numfar on your butt that dances when you jiggle it just right? Hell yeah! LARPing, fanfic, podcasting? Just call me Professor X, baby, and you can be Magneto.
Fuck, I miss fandom. Where is it going? Where has it gone? Seems like the Buffy fandom is dissolving like an antacid in Kool-aid. All around me, I see the other fandoms growing. I imagine what our fandom was like at its peak and I just can't fathom it. I came in at the very tail-end of everything. I think I posted the first chapter of TTWKP in 2006 and it was still a booming fandom then. Now...? We've lost so many of the great writers, the pioneers, the rule-breakers. Archives and sites have fallen, award comms have been abandoned. People have moved on.
It was great to see taboo_spuffy and spuffy_wonder revived over the past few days. I hope that we can continue making those communities grow and thrive. This is an awesome fandom. The people in it are awesome. I have made so many friends through Spuffy. It's enriched my life, opened me up and given me a reason to daydream. This is what great things are made of.
The very awesome and great tangwstyl wished for one of my fics to be finished as part of her Snowflake Challenge. I don't know why, but I kind of figured everyone had kind of given up on me because I post so infrequently. So, of course, when I see this post about my fics it was a slap on the rear (one of those cheeky kinds that makes you turn around and blush slightly). I need to finish them. I need to finish them so I can write new ones because truthfully, I had prohibited myself from writing/posting anything new while my three (well, four, if you count Gifted Euphoria) sat dusty on the shelf, waiting to be completed.
I made a rather bold statement in response to this wish. Both The Trouble With Keeping Promises and Dreaming of Christmas Trees would be finished by May 1st of this year. This is a huge undertaking for me considering my track record, but completely doable if I just get my ass in gear.
I posted a new chapter to TTWKP over the weekend. I've got the prologue started for DoCT and a pretty clear plan of how that story will end. Personal Attention...well, that one is tougher to come up with a timeline. PA never followed the plan I had in mind for it, so I almost feel like I need to reread it all to figure out where it is going next. Plus PA wipes me the hell out, all of that break up/make up/break up again/make up again business. It was so easy to write in the beginning and as the chapters moved along, I really just wanted to tear my hair out.
Additionally, I have some prompts that spikes_cj and dampersnspoons gave me a while back that I really am itching to write. A sequel to Truancy is in the works, plus a few new ideas. None of which will see the light of day until I make my goal with TTWKP and DoCT.
In other news, it appears that Creation Entertainment has finally come to their senses and has booked the Sci-Fi Grand Slam event for November of this year. They've confirmed James Marsters (of course, always subject to change) as their first guest. I haven't been to a con since 2010's Firefly/Serenity/Buffy/Angel/Dollhouse event in LA, which, while I enjoyed, was kind of a let down. It was so small. The best thing I can say about that event was that I got to see my girls: spikes_cj, oanimation, and ghostgirl13. I miss conventions. There is nothing in the world like being surrounded by people that get you. Doesn't matter the fandom, either, because at the end of the day you have your fan fetishes and I have mine and we're all just freaks having fun. Bring those fairy wings! Bust out that tri-corder! Got a tattoo of Numfar on your butt that dances when you jiggle it just right? Hell yeah! LARPing, fanfic, podcasting? Just call me Professor X, baby, and you can be Magneto.
Fuck, I miss fandom. Where is it going? Where has it gone? Seems like the Buffy fandom is dissolving like an antacid in Kool-aid. All around me, I see the other fandoms growing. I imagine what our fandom was like at its peak and I just can't fathom it. I came in at the very tail-end of everything. I think I posted the first chapter of TTWKP in 2006 and it was still a booming fandom then. Now...? We've lost so many of the great writers, the pioneers, the rule-breakers. Archives and sites have fallen, award comms have been abandoned. People have moved on.
It was great to see taboo_spuffy and spuffy_wonder revived over the past few days. I hope that we can continue making those communities grow and thrive. This is an awesome fandom. The people in it are awesome. I have made so many friends through Spuffy. It's enriched my life, opened me up and given me a reason to daydream. This is what great things are made of.