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

[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.