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reflectedeve) wrote2020-09-24 11:04 am
reflectedeve) wrote2020-09-24 11:04 am
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just like an amnesiac, trying to get my senses back
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femslashex assignment. It's exactly the sort of thing I want to be working on right now - the biggest challenge will be settling on one idea (and not overextending)!
Trying to turn my brain to Yuletide nominations is proving to be a little bit of a struggle just at present. (Honestly, I'm having a really hard time focusing on anything with more than surface attention. It's part of being out of steam for what a 5-alarm fire the whole world is and has been this year, and I hope I get a second wind soon.)
As usual, I have too many books I'm interested in offering and/or requesting. Screen media hasn't been doing much for me lately. Yesterday I turned on "Enola Holmes" for about fifteen minutes before having to turn it back off; it looks fun, but The Left-Handed Booksellers of London was far more appealing, even though I can listen to audiobooks for most of the day already.
Some of the things I'm considering:
The Arcadia Project (Mishell Baker) - I'd have to reread the trilogy at this point, as it's been a couple of years, but I wanted fic for it so desperately from the first and it'd be interesting to see how the pairing I was particularly invested in would feel if I took all three books together. I recall that the third one rather threw it out of whack.
Do You Dream of Terra-Two? (Temi Oh) - I haven't seen people talk about this one much, but I read it very early this year and it has a lot of my favorite things ... complicated kinda-found-family dynamics, ambition and dreams of a better future (in space!), screwed up behind-the-scenes shenanigans and problematic underpinnings, etc. The ending left lots of space to explore further. I wonder if anyone else would be interested?
The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club (Theodora Goss) - I found these books to be a little silly and overwritten, but overall delightful, especially in the meta-tastic ways they played with such a broad range of early speculative lit and contemporary historical references. There's so much left to play with, too. Laura and Carmilla's adventures! Diana ... growing up? Justine's association with Dorian Gray! And I quite hated Mary's ending and would love to see it reconsidered. Also, Catherine is absurdly hot and I'd shamelessly love to read her paired with several of her compatriots, tbh.
The Future of Another Timeline (Annalee Newitz) - so much alternate history to explore, and I want all of it. But also, I nominated it last year and was literally the only person interested, so maybe I shouldn't do that again?
Gamechanger (L.X. Beckett) - a sprawling sci-fi novel toying with a future that tries to solve a lot of our contemporary problems in interesting ways, and the people who work against/betray that, and the downsides to it; again, it leaves ample space for things to explore, but I especially want to read more about the complicated polyamorous family dynamics that we only get to see bits of. Again, a book I have literally never seen anyone else talking about, though, so IDK?
The Locked Tomb series (Tamsyn Muir) - I mean, this is a given, and I think nearly all the major characters have already been nominated by other people, so, yay. I have SO MANY IDEAS and I'm really excited to both offer and request these books. This is the one fandom I'm 100% sure about.
A Song For A New Day (Sarah Pinsker) - this book is ... rather closer to home than it was when I first read it, and exploring the struggle to rebuild a less repressive society after a pandemic is even more interesting to me now. But this was the OTHER book I nominated last year and literally nobody else was interested, so again, I don't know.
Sorcerer Royal series (Zen Cho) - these books are just such a SHEER DELIGHT. I know everyone's excited by the new novella, and rightly so, but I still want so much more about the characters from this series.
Wayfarers series (Becky Chambers) - I mean, always. If I have favorite books, these are them, and I still really want to read other peoples' takes on Sidra, Pepper, Tak et al. Also, I've written post-book Yuletide fics for the first two volumes, so clearly I should take a crack at the third at some point.
The Witch Family (Eleanor Estes) - Someone else nominated this childhood favorite a couple years back and I haven't been able to shake the notion ever since. There wasn't much in the way of interest last year, though. And I think there's all of ONE fic on the AO3.
Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men - hey, it's not a book! This is my enduring favorite podcast, partly for my pre-existing love of the X-books and partly for all the new-to-me material and ridiculous in-jokes and such. I would love to read a hilarious meta-fic featuring the Marvel comics universe through a Jay and Miles lens, where it's Always Inferno and Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau quite often saves the day, Shinobi Shaw is The Best At Sex (er ... just please explain to him what/how that works?), Dracula is ever-Sexy, X-Factor don't believe in using anything as pedestrian as a door, the Angry Claremontian Narrator is always ready to dramatically chide everyone for their terrible choices, and Namor just yells "IMPERIUS REX!" at every opportunity. Etc. The biggest problem, though, is that this is not a fandom that would work with only three nominated characters. You'd need Jay and Miles themselves, and that's already 2/3rds of your slots. And I don't have a ton of confidence in my ability to get other people interested; plus, with 200+ episodes, it's not exactly a fast/easy canon to get into.
The Baby-Sitters Club (Netflix 2020) - now here's some screen media I did, in fact, devour earlier this year. So charming, and nostalgia through the roof! I totally want to read adorable first-crush/kiss/girlfriend stories about several combinations of the characters, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
Well, I have time to ponder, I guess. Hopefully I'll have more brain-space this weekend.
femslashex assignment. It's exactly the sort of thing I want to be working on right now - the biggest challenge will be settling on one idea (and not overextending)!Trying to turn my brain to Yuletide nominations is proving to be a little bit of a struggle just at present. (Honestly, I'm having a really hard time focusing on anything with more than surface attention. It's part of being out of steam for what a 5-alarm fire the whole world is and has been this year, and I hope I get a second wind soon.)
As usual, I have too many books I'm interested in offering and/or requesting. Screen media hasn't been doing much for me lately. Yesterday I turned on "Enola Holmes" for about fifteen minutes before having to turn it back off; it looks fun, but The Left-Handed Booksellers of London was far more appealing, even though I can listen to audiobooks for most of the day already.
Some of the things I'm considering:
The Arcadia Project (Mishell Baker) - I'd have to reread the trilogy at this point, as it's been a couple of years, but I wanted fic for it so desperately from the first and it'd be interesting to see how the pairing I was particularly invested in would feel if I took all three books together. I recall that the third one rather threw it out of whack.
Do You Dream of Terra-Two? (Temi Oh) - I haven't seen people talk about this one much, but I read it very early this year and it has a lot of my favorite things ... complicated kinda-found-family dynamics, ambition and dreams of a better future (in space!), screwed up behind-the-scenes shenanigans and problematic underpinnings, etc. The ending left lots of space to explore further. I wonder if anyone else would be interested?
The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club (Theodora Goss) - I found these books to be a little silly and overwritten, but overall delightful, especially in the meta-tastic ways they played with such a broad range of early speculative lit and contemporary historical references. There's so much left to play with, too. Laura and Carmilla's adventures! Diana ... growing up? Justine's association with Dorian Gray! And I quite hated Mary's ending and would love to see it reconsidered. Also, Catherine is absurdly hot and I'd shamelessly love to read her paired with several of her compatriots, tbh.
The Future of Another Timeline (Annalee Newitz) - so much alternate history to explore, and I want all of it. But also, I nominated it last year and was literally the only person interested, so maybe I shouldn't do that again?
Gamechanger (L.X. Beckett) - a sprawling sci-fi novel toying with a future that tries to solve a lot of our contemporary problems in interesting ways, and the people who work against/betray that, and the downsides to it; again, it leaves ample space for things to explore, but I especially want to read more about the complicated polyamorous family dynamics that we only get to see bits of. Again, a book I have literally never seen anyone else talking about, though, so IDK?
The Locked Tomb series (Tamsyn Muir) - I mean, this is a given, and I think nearly all the major characters have already been nominated by other people, so, yay. I have SO MANY IDEAS and I'm really excited to both offer and request these books. This is the one fandom I'm 100% sure about.
A Song For A New Day (Sarah Pinsker) - this book is ... rather closer to home than it was when I first read it, and exploring the struggle to rebuild a less repressive society after a pandemic is even more interesting to me now. But this was the OTHER book I nominated last year and literally nobody else was interested, so again, I don't know.
Sorcerer Royal series (Zen Cho) - these books are just such a SHEER DELIGHT. I know everyone's excited by the new novella, and rightly so, but I still want so much more about the characters from this series.
Wayfarers series (Becky Chambers) - I mean, always. If I have favorite books, these are them, and I still really want to read other peoples' takes on Sidra, Pepper, Tak et al. Also, I've written post-book Yuletide fics for the first two volumes, so clearly I should take a crack at the third at some point.
The Witch Family (Eleanor Estes) - Someone else nominated this childhood favorite a couple years back and I haven't been able to shake the notion ever since. There wasn't much in the way of interest last year, though. And I think there's all of ONE fic on the AO3.
Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men - hey, it's not a book! This is my enduring favorite podcast, partly for my pre-existing love of the X-books and partly for all the new-to-me material and ridiculous in-jokes and such. I would love to read a hilarious meta-fic featuring the Marvel comics universe through a Jay and Miles lens, where it's Always Inferno and Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau quite often saves the day, Shinobi Shaw is The Best At Sex (er ... just please explain to him what/how that works?), Dracula is ever-Sexy, X-Factor don't believe in using anything as pedestrian as a door, the Angry Claremontian Narrator is always ready to dramatically chide everyone for their terrible choices, and Namor just yells "IMPERIUS REX!" at every opportunity. Etc. The biggest problem, though, is that this is not a fandom that would work with only three nominated characters. You'd need Jay and Miles themselves, and that's already 2/3rds of your slots. And I don't have a ton of confidence in my ability to get other people interested; plus, with 200+ episodes, it's not exactly a fast/easy canon to get into.
The Baby-Sitters Club (Netflix 2020) - now here's some screen media I did, in fact, devour earlier this year. So charming, and nostalgia through the roof! I totally want to read adorable first-crush/kiss/girlfriend stories about several combinations of the characters, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
Well, I have time to ponder, I guess. Hopefully I'll have more brain-space this weekend.