Fandom Update
Aug. 8th, 2011 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peroxidepirateAs many of you already know, I've resigned from moderating at Goldenlake. I haven't been on the board that much recently, and I'm really feeling the shortness of time, the long hours I'm working, and so many places (fandom and not) I'd like to direct whatever energy remains. I'm not leaving Pierce fandom entirely, and I'm sure I'll wander on over after I eventually read Bloodhound. Plus, one way or another, I'll try not to lose touch with my wonderful Glake friends! But I need to step back for a while.
Meanwhile, I'm slowly working my way through Star Trek: The Next Generation, and loving it with as much intensity as I did in the early 90s, when I saw it all the first time. I keep meaning to put up reaction posts to individual episodes, but so far I haven't because... well, I'd rather watch the next episode than stop to write about the one I just saw. *grin* I'm still on the first season, and delighted to be fangirling something with this much canon to enjoy.
I'm still enamored with Doctor Who, too, in all of the incarnations I've seen. The second half of S6 starts up pretty soon, and I really would like to watch some classic Who, too. Also Torchwood: Miracle Day, which I must figure out how to get sometime soon.
Then, I've started Fortune and Fate as commute reading, and might have to track down more Sharon Shinn after that. And/or the rest of the Tomorrow series. Definitely the second and third Hunger Games books. And Will Grayson Will Grayson in paper-book form, since I loved it so much as an audio-book.
So you see the fangirl is not going to get bored any time soon.
Tangentially, I'm out of inspiration to write anything at all. I don't even know if I'll do NaNoWriMo this year. I need to recharge the creativity with no pressure on myself to meet deadlines or participate in events. I'm also missing the process of editing and refining what I write, so I might put some time into editing and/or expanding some of my recent fics. Anyway, I don't feel like I have writer's block, exactly -- just like I need a break, like I'm not ready to create anything else just now.
All of this means I'm dropping into fandom!lurker mode for now, if I'm involved in fandom(s) much at all. Eventually something will grab me strongly enough for me to return to searching out fandom communities and hunting down and/or writing fic... it always does! I just don't know what, or when.
Until then, this journal will be primarily "friends only," and about my day to day life (dogs, running, cooking, my friends and family). If I don't have you friended and you'd like me to, drop a line. If I do have you friended and you're not interested in that stuff, defriending amnesty is in full effect.
Meanwhile, I'm slowly working my way through Star Trek: The Next Generation, and loving it with as much intensity as I did in the early 90s, when I saw it all the first time. I keep meaning to put up reaction posts to individual episodes, but so far I haven't because... well, I'd rather watch the next episode than stop to write about the one I just saw. *grin* I'm still on the first season, and delighted to be fangirling something with this much canon to enjoy.
I'm still enamored with Doctor Who, too, in all of the incarnations I've seen. The second half of S6 starts up pretty soon, and I really would like to watch some classic Who, too. Also Torchwood: Miracle Day, which I must figure out how to get sometime soon.
Then, I've started Fortune and Fate as commute reading, and might have to track down more Sharon Shinn after that. And/or the rest of the Tomorrow series. Definitely the second and third Hunger Games books. And Will Grayson Will Grayson in paper-book form, since I loved it so much as an audio-book.
So you see the fangirl is not going to get bored any time soon.
Tangentially, I'm out of inspiration to write anything at all. I don't even know if I'll do NaNoWriMo this year. I need to recharge the creativity with no pressure on myself to meet deadlines or participate in events. I'm also missing the process of editing and refining what I write, so I might put some time into editing and/or expanding some of my recent fics. Anyway, I don't feel like I have writer's block, exactly -- just like I need a break, like I'm not ready to create anything else just now.
All of this means I'm dropping into fandom!lurker mode for now, if I'm involved in fandom(s) much at all. Eventually something will grab me strongly enough for me to return to searching out fandom communities and hunting down and/or writing fic... it always does! I just don't know what, or when.
Until then, this journal will be primarily "friends only," and about my day to day life (dogs, running, cooking, my friends and family). If I don't have you friended and you'd like me to, drop a line. If I do have you friended and you're not interested in that stuff, defriending amnesty is in full effect.
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Date: 2011-08-09 07:20 am (UTC)*BIG HUG*
Loooove yooooou.
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Date: 2011-08-10 10:31 pm (UTC)I thought about stepping down for a while, actually, but... I couldn't do it sooner. I needed it to be because I'm moving on to other fandom/avocational interests, not because I'm giving it up due to depression or work commitments or overall life suckage.
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Date: 2011-08-10 10:46 pm (UTC)That totally makes sense.
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Date: 2011-08-09 11:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-10 10:35 pm (UTC)XOMG, I love Wen so much! Jasper has won me over too, though it took a little while. Though at first I shipped Wen and Karryn because they started out with fantastic chemistry, arguing like the leads in a 1930s romantic comedy. :)
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Date: 2011-08-11 01:50 pm (UTC)I think I had this discussion with Lisa when the thing first came out! I nearly ship them as hard as I do Kirra/Mayva.
Though I do love Jasper. Excuse me. *cough* Jasper Paladar, what with Shinn's full name obsession. Wen and Jasper together make me laugh in a very good way.
Oh, and the audio for this one is considerably better than the Joe Barrett readings for the previous two. This woman does a good range of voices, even if she does occasionally slip and pronounvce Jasper, "JARspar", all fake-English accent.
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Date: 2011-08-09 03:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-10 10:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-11 12:37 pm (UTC)If you don't mind me asking, when did you make this decision? I completely understand your reasoning for doing so. Your frequent presence will and is surely being missed at this second, but it's also gladdening to know that you aren't disappearing completely.
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