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

[letterblade]

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 involved in active fannish discussion and general geeking/squeeing, outside of a few in-person friends, for years.

I miss it.

At any rate. I'm going to be trying to make use of this journal again. For fandom stuff. As was its intent. I also need to scrape together an update of my fic archive, as it's been several years. (Which means I need to re-acquaint myself with the slapdash PHP code I put together to streamline the indexes. Here's hoping I remembered comments.) In the meantime, I'm considering uploading to Archive of Our Own. Because that's an archive that I like and actually seems to be active. Skyehawke used to be my secondary archive, but I haven't used that in a while. I also can't quite decide whether to put up everything at AoOO, or just the stuff that I'm proud of and/or is popular. (i.e. do I bother with all my old FMA drabbles and crap like that?)

I defaulted on kink_bingo this year, because as the deadline was coming up, I was feeling overwhelmed with the concept of being involved with fannish stuff again. And not having much luck writing something. And I wanted to give myself an excuse to not sign up next year and get pummeled by the challenge again (as happened the first year I did it.)

And...yeah. Fandom. Of course, the two fandoms I'm currently most interested in either don't exist (Xenosaga) or seem to have faded considerably with time (Kingdom Hearts). Such is my luck.

I have things to attend to. :D

Comments

[sixthbrightest.livejournal.com]

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

I've really started to love AO3 myself. Up to you whether to put up everything or the stuff you really like; I put up two "enh" pieces and they seem to be liked ok, so.

At the very least you should add the DMVs and other Myst work, because right now there are only 5 pieces and 3 of them are mine. It would be great to see someone else putting stuff up there and making the section look a little less empty.

I hear you on fandoms being quiet or nonexistent. I'm currently craving to write Myst and KotOR, and MC is small-land for writing (plus the community is conservative and I feel like my sudden desire for Aitrus/Veovis/Anna is SO not in the taste of most of the fandom), and KotOR has grown quiet with age (although I am hoping as the MMO starts to come out there will be more excitement). And of course, my earliest fandom has been totally superseded by the existence of its newer remake! I think it's the curse of the internet, as well as its advantage, that you can get so many disparate people together in a fandom, but because there are so many options and ways to connect nowadays, communities can drop out of existence/fade to nothing fairly quickly.

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

*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.livejournal.com]

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.

I'm wondering if part of the Mystfic thing was age of exposure? I have to admit, I was 8 when Riven came out and I got exposed to it. At the time I was all "aww Atrus and Catherine! aww" and I had never even considered shipping anything else. But about 2 years later I hit the whole liking-people thing, and I was starting to figure out that I liked girls. So even around 10 part of me was like "so Veovis is so jealous that Anna is stealing Aitrus" (because if I liked girls then clearly Veovis could like boys), and then part of me was like "you know, he also sort of seems to like Anna", and then my brain jumped to "so clearly they should ALL DATE". So I think I developed at OT3 habit at 10. *facepalm*

(Also, rereading BoT now is not helping. I swear there really is subtext, and not just because I'm looking for it. And it makes me want to smash everyone's head and go "but GUYS you could have FIXED THIS SO EASILY.")

But yeah, I think because Myst was such an *early* fandom for many people, (like pre-teens or early teens), no one considers shipping anything beyond the two major canon het-ships. I will still probably write drabbles and short shipping Veovis with Anna, Aitrus, or both. I just feel like I should mostly put them on AO3 and that I should expect to not get many readers and to probably be un-betaed.

Earliest fandom was the original Battlestar Galactica. I grew up on grainy VHS tapes of it for as long as I can remember, and I can distinctly recall at 5 or 6 writing short 1 page stories and pretending I had a Viper. So I grew up with "my" version ingrained, and naturally hissed at the reboot. Now with the reboot, everyone thinks Starbuck is a girl and Boomer is a girl and a Cylon and not black, and ugh ugh ugh I feel unloved. and the tiny TOS BSG community is all about the Apollo/Starbuck slash, so I feel that the ships I would write in it would be unread anyway because one is het and one is femmeslash. (Because there needs to be bridge-officer/fighter-pilot space opera femmeslash, in the BSG universe or in others!)

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

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...

Huzzah! for developing an early OT3 habit. :D One of my childhood things-that-I-read was Elfquest, so I think I kind of subliminally absorbed the idea pretty early on. (It's actually lampshaded in canon, when a wise elder asks one leg of the primary love triangle if it could be settled as a triad, and he just laughs and shakes his head, because he and the other guy Would Not Work Out. But this is not to say there aren't other triads/moresomes floating around.)

Ahhh, yeah, I can see why that is a fandom that gets no love, with how popular the reboot is. (I have seen neither, though I'd like to see at least some of both at some point.) And most of what I know about the original is through fandom osmosis, which is to say that Apollo and Starbuck are married.

I agree with the awesomeness of space opera femmeslash. So agree.

...damn it, I think you have awakened an unknown craving!

[sixthbrightest.livejournal.com]

Invite sent :)

I think you're right about how fixed the Myst canon is, and that definitely affects it. Oh well, I will just have to fight the good fight, be the only one doing it, and keep posting at AO3. Between Myst non-het and BSG classic femmeslash, I think I am just doomed to being the sole champion of rare pairings.

Yeah, now I'm wanting to go looking for those novel notes where I was working on a space opera, because there was a main pairing in that universe that was femmeslash. If you find any good fandoms for it let me know, I could definitely use some.

[sixthbrightest.livejournal.com]

OK so I just got the invite code now, so if you want it, give me an email address and it can be mailed over?

[ursula]

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

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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 (http://www.broomstick.org/fandom/fns.html). 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.livejournal.com]

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!

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Someday, perhaps, Alan Rickman will do a charity phone-calling thing, and someone will hopefully pay for him to sing the Doom Song.

Femslash is not very loved, alas.

... I note, vis a vis your discussion above, that I'm working on an original web serial that is nearly-all-female space opera, probably with femslash. I haven't started writing in earnest, but I'm still hammering out the tech and world. That and Wonder City seems to eat all my Responsibility To Keep Writing In A Timely Way right now.