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.

[ursula]

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

[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.)