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I am so bad at tagging on this system, but this is the June fandom meme, created by squidgiepdx and seen by me via muccamuck and nyctanthes.
As with all of these things, I will possibly drift off midway through . . .
Day 1: What's changed about your fandom life in the last 365 days?
What I'm most enthusiastic about watching is not necessarily what I'm talking about or ficcing. I watched Lucifer all the way through. Twice. Read some fic, was not inspired to write a word.
Actually posted four The Alienist fics and only one Alias Smith and Jones one -- although there is a second which I wrote for the advent calendar that I just haven't coded and put on AO3 yet.
Wrote an m/m fic for Yuletide, which is totally not my wheelhouse. (Like I've written one previous m/m for a 'zine and I was embarrassed enough by its badness that it's the only zine story from that fandom I haven't reposted to AO3.) Not the pairing of my heart, but a pairing I could absolutely see.
Realized that I would probably not participate in any more exchanges, because ficcing for me needs to be returning to the well for inspiration, not an obligation. An obligation that I kept setting aside my WIP novel to work on instead, and that is NOT a good thing.
Day 2: You've got your OTP, you have to throw a third into the mix (from the same fandom), creating an OT3. Who is the OTP, and in your opinion, why would they make a perfect third for them? Bonus question: What about adding a third to your OTP from a different fandom? Who and why?
So in the past 365 days, I wrote four fics for The Alienist:
two Sara/John -- the 'ship the show itself played up, and then broke my heart with
one John/Laszlo -- popular m/m pairing
one Laszlo/Mary -- this involved resurrecting a character who was murdered in the first season, but I did it with a sort of fairytale feeling and the commenters at least seem to think it worked.
I did think of taking the John/Laszlo and adding Sara in a sequel, to OT3 them. It is a popular trio in the fandom and it could work with the way I've set story #1 up. I just haven't had sufficient oomph to do it.
And when I think about writing historical fiction involving people who solve crimes in late 19th century NY, I think "maybe I'll just work on my WIP instead?"
( Read more... )
As with all of these things, I will possibly drift off midway through . . .
Day 1: What's changed about your fandom life in the last 365 days?
What I'm most enthusiastic about watching is not necessarily what I'm talking about or ficcing. I watched Lucifer all the way through. Twice. Read some fic, was not inspired to write a word.
Actually posted four The Alienist fics and only one Alias Smith and Jones one -- although there is a second which I wrote for the advent calendar that I just haven't coded and put on AO3 yet.
Wrote an m/m fic for Yuletide, which is totally not my wheelhouse. (Like I've written one previous m/m for a 'zine and I was embarrassed enough by its badness that it's the only zine story from that fandom I haven't reposted to AO3.) Not the pairing of my heart, but a pairing I could absolutely see.
Realized that I would probably not participate in any more exchanges, because ficcing for me needs to be returning to the well for inspiration, not an obligation. An obligation that I kept setting aside my WIP novel to work on instead, and that is NOT a good thing.
Day 2: You've got your OTP, you have to throw a third into the mix (from the same fandom), creating an OT3. Who is the OTP, and in your opinion, why would they make a perfect third for them? Bonus question: What about adding a third to your OTP from a different fandom? Who and why?
So in the past 365 days, I wrote four fics for The Alienist:
two Sara/John -- the 'ship the show itself played up, and then broke my heart with
one John/Laszlo -- popular m/m pairing
one Laszlo/Mary -- this involved resurrecting a character who was murdered in the first season, but I did it with a sort of fairytale feeling and the commenters at least seem to think it worked.
I did think of taking the John/Laszlo and adding Sara in a sequel, to OT3 them. It is a popular trio in the fandom and it could work with the way I've set story #1 up. I just haven't had sufficient oomph to do it.
And when I think about writing historical fiction involving people who solve crimes in late 19th century NY, I think "maybe I'll just work on my WIP instead?"
( Read more... )
