for awhile, we had no fear
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reflectedeveMy ex asked me this weekend whether I'd finished my Yuletide story. No indeed, but it's moving along. (Though I will say - knowing that there's a relatively concrete neuropsychological reason why I struggle so much with time management does not magically solve the problem!)
This fall has been a lot. The hibernation urge is strong as we move into winter. That said, I haven't been entirely unproductive!![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
femslashex reveals went up yesterday:
something like fire (Star Trek: TOS, T'Pring/Uhura, G)
Drawn in response to a request for "Amok Time" reimagined, with Uhura as T'Pring's chosen champion. For ... reasons. (Gay reasons.)
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charming, nonetheless (DCU, Harley/Ivy, G)
No Prince or Hero could pass the high wall of brambles, though many tried and failed. Only a Fool’s kiss could wake this sleeper - whether a fair maiden, a wicked fairy, or in some way both.
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It was a fun exercise in drawing for fandoms I've been meaning to for ages, and never gotten around to. I should really do more TOS art (how were these my first??); the retro sci-fi costuming is so much fun! Also I've been loving all the canon Harley/Ivy comics I keep catching glimpses of on tumblr ... every once in awhile I feel so genuinely grateful for the way some segments of culture really have changed (or started to) from the norms of even a decade ago.
My own gift was this lovely little Sailor Moon S interlude, A Little More Time, bySugarFey - a depiction of Haruka and Michiru (with a little Setsuna) in between the two major arcs of that season. I've been having a lot of resurgent Sailor Moon feelings this year, and I was so delighted to get this gift. It's just the right mix of sweetness, hotness and angst!
It's very strange how thoroughly out of the habit of reading fanfic I am lately, even though I've participated in so many exchanges this year. I'm always excited to read my gifts, when I get fic, and writing now and then is a delightful and tantalizing challenge, but ... IDK. I do think Yuletide will be different (even though I never manage to read more than a fraction of the archive), because it's very much its own thing. So much variety! Such novelty! And reading the archive is just a favorite holiday tradition, of course.
The malaise is probably a combination of the fact that I don't have a "main" fandom, that the ones I'm most interested in lately are fairly rare, and that I mostly want to listen to audiobooks while I draw (or ride my bike, or do almost anything else). I should find myself some podfic. I'm sure there must be some for The Locked Tomb, at least?
I'm especially excited formultifandomdoodle. I would love to have more all-art exchanges; I crave ALL THE FANART even more than I used to. I go looking for some after almost every book I read lately (the genre ones, in any case). If I didn't hate running things like this, I would totally start a book fandoms fanart exchange.
This fall has been a lot. The hibernation urge is strong as we move into winter. That said, I haven't been entirely unproductive!
femslashex reveals went up yesterday:something like fire (Star Trek: TOS, T'Pring/Uhura, G)
Drawn in response to a request for "Amok Time" reimagined, with Uhura as T'Pring's chosen champion. For ... reasons. (Gay reasons.)
for
charming, nonetheless (DCU, Harley/Ivy, G)
No Prince or Hero could pass the high wall of brambles, though many tried and failed. Only a Fool’s kiss could wake this sleeper - whether a fair maiden, a wicked fairy, or in some way both.
for
It was a fun exercise in drawing for fandoms I've been meaning to for ages, and never gotten around to. I should really do more TOS art (how were these my first??); the retro sci-fi costuming is so much fun! Also I've been loving all the canon Harley/Ivy comics I keep catching glimpses of on tumblr ... every once in awhile I feel so genuinely grateful for the way some segments of culture really have changed (or started to) from the norms of even a decade ago.
My own gift was this lovely little Sailor Moon S interlude, A Little More Time, by
It's very strange how thoroughly out of the habit of reading fanfic I am lately, even though I've participated in so many exchanges this year. I'm always excited to read my gifts, when I get fic, and writing now and then is a delightful and tantalizing challenge, but ... IDK. I do think Yuletide will be different (even though I never manage to read more than a fraction of the archive), because it's very much its own thing. So much variety! Such novelty! And reading the archive is just a favorite holiday tradition, of course.
The malaise is probably a combination of the fact that I don't have a "main" fandom, that the ones I'm most interested in lately are fairly rare, and that I mostly want to listen to audiobooks while I draw (or ride my bike, or do almost anything else). I should find myself some podfic. I'm sure there must be some for The Locked Tomb, at least?
I'm especially excited for
multifandomdoodle. I would love to have more all-art exchanges; I crave ALL THE FANART even more than I used to. I go looking for some after almost every book I read lately (the genre ones, in any case). If I didn't hate running things like this, I would totally start a book fandoms fanart exchange.
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Date: 2021-12-08 09:59 am (UTC)Me too! And I've been enjoying all the MCU-related TV shows, just...not feeling fannish I guess.
And yes, all the Harley/Ivy actually mainstream official stuff is great, though a little weird considering how long comics held out against any popular character being gay.
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Date: 2021-12-08 03:23 pm (UTC)It is weird! The fondest wish of my comics fan heart for so many years was to see queerness among long-standing characters, rather than just new ones invented with that in mind. (Not that I didn't enjoy those, but in the '00s especially, I didn't trust that they would stick around or get the complex development that established characters had.)
I'm not following any cape books regularly at the moment (though I keep seeing things I'd like to pick up), but I keep getting the impression that the big corporate interests have turned their attention so completely to screen media, and there's been such an influx of new creative blood into the comics side of things, that we have a bunch of queer creators with similar history/sensibilities to mine getting to play almost freely and canonize/make explicit their own long-time interpretations. I'm finding it cathartic, even though my own most deeply-held OTP seems likely to remain subtextual.