Comments | wired_lizard: So I seem to have kind of forgotten about this journal...

wired_lizard

So I seem to have kind of forgotten about this journal...

May 17, 2011 13:56

Bleh.

In part, I suspect, because my recent fannish activity has actually been on LiveJournal. (The kink_las challenge that I've been involved in. Which seems to have stalled out for the moment.) And in part because I've been trying to diminish my fandom involvement. Apart from kink_las, I've barely written fic in a while. I haven't really been ( Read more... )

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sixthbrightest May 17 2011, 18:22:03 UTC

Your to-Dreamwidth bottom links aren't working, so I can't comment there. IDK if it is just for me or what ( ... )

wired_lizard May 17 2011, 18:42:51 UTC

*pokes links*

...oh, I know exactly what happened. Derp derp. Will edit entry.

Yeah, I noticed. Myst section is tiny. Xenosaga section is actually bigger, which is weird. One of the anime shows I've written for lately has nothing on the archive. I <3 populating obscure fandom categories! Is part of what drew me to Dreamwidth.

Would you be able to hook me up with an invite code, or shall I go through the general queue?

*small-fandom fistbump*

And yeah. Internet time for community life can be measured in months sometimes. And MC is tiny. (Gah, this is weird. I have this huge insurmountable wall in my head about writing shipfic in the Myst fandom; it just doesn't click for me, even if I can see where you're getting it in canon, which I kind of can. Veovis, you so special. Maybe I just really integrated the community attitude or something.)

What was your earliest fandom, ooc?

sixthbrightest May 17 2011, 18:53:48 UTC

I requested an invite code; because my account is fairly new, I didn't have any automatic ones yet. You could give me a day or two to see if I get one, or you could try the general queue, because I don't know how long they take to generate invites of either type ( ... )

wired_lizard May 19 2011, 19:21:03 UTC

Yay for invite! Thanks so much for requesting. :D arkady [dot] lizard [at] gmail [dot] com for email, please?

Though there are other fandoms I was exposed to that early that I don't have shipfic limitations on. Star Trek, for example. Though Myst is unusual in that, with very few exceptions (mostly in BoT), the story focuses entirely on a single family, so everything is either canon or wrong. So that kind of sinks in as a blanket limiter, along with the overall inclinations of the fandom ( ... )

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ursule May 17 2011, 18:47:07 UTC

Have you seen http://parallelsfic.dreamwidth.org/ ? Sounds like you could nominate Xenosaga, at least.

wired_lizard May 19 2011, 19:21:58 UTC

Ooo, interesting! Thanks for the link. I admit I'm a little leery of fic challenges, as I tend to flake the fuck out on them, but I'm considering taking one on...

heavenscalyx May 17 2011, 19:30:38 UTC

I quite like AO3. My fic is getting a lot more drive-bys, I think, there than it had been on my own site -- at least in part because to find my site, you really needed to be looking for Utena fic, and the other-fandom stuff was getting neglected. I should upload the HP fic Akycha and I wrote together sometime -- I bet it would find more love on AO3 than it did in the actual HP community. (I learned that not many people like Ginnyfics, particularly ones that pretty much tease Ginny/Harry and end up being not only [horror!] femslash, but Ginny/Hermione.)

sixthbrightest May 17 2011, 19:33:56 UTC

driveby comment: Ginny/Hermione sounds awesome. I don't generally partake in HP fic, but I've always thought it would serve both Harry and Ron right if Ginny and Hermione got together and left them to hang dry.

heavenscalyx May 18 2011, 03:21:47 UTC

Thank you! I always thought it would be logical...

In case you're interested in this bit of complete fluff (written as the sixth book, before Half-blood Prince came out), here it is. We wrote it for a friend who wanted something fun. We endeavored to deliver, while amusing ourselves with as many references as possible. It still gives me great amusement to realize we gave Snape a typical Gir (from Invader Zim) line. :)

wired_lizard May 19 2011, 19:28:53 UTC

Hee! Yay for people finding each other's fic.

And for what it's worth, Ginny/Hermione is probably the most popular femmeslash pairing in the fandom (at least back when I had a good handle on fandom demographics). That just doesn't say very much, given that this is a very het-and-slash fandom. :/

...now I am imagining Snape singing the doom song. Damnit!

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