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Monday, 13 January 2020 08:33 pmChallenge #2
In your own space, talk about your fannish history. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Looking back at my fannish history is interesting, at least to me. I think it's healthy to look back at where you came from. Not to bash past-Feck or anything but to honestly appreciate what growth and successes have been along the path. I saw a Tumblr post recently about not putting down your younger self, so that's probably where tonight's mood is coming from. Normally I have no problem pointing out all of my mistakes.
I don't think I'll complain about the good mood! It's a nice change.
So, Past-Feck came into fandom purely as a consumer, reading as much Dramione and Zutara as she could put her hands on. I think I left reviews? Not as often as I try to now but definitely when I got to the end of whatever binge-read I was doing. I think it was reading my first Blutara fic (where Zuko lost his voice and had to build up trust with Katara non-verbally) that made me think "It would be great to be able to do something this cool one day myself!" Dunno when after moment exactly that I started writing, but I can tell from my dinosaur of a FF profile that I started posting about half a year after I created the account. Which is a lot sooner than I remembered! Go baby-fan Feck!
My first authoring fandom was Avatar, which I still end up coming back to at some frequency. Once a Zutara shipper, always a Zutara shipper. I did a fic event with teams most recently and I think it was the running gag with them how quickly I could turn the prompt into something Zutara or Katara-slash-Zuko-character-centric. Ah well. I'm a simple person. I see a great redemption arc with visual and thematic mirroring, I stan it for life (is that how you use stan? See, I'm getting old now)
I diverted super briefly into Yu-Gi-Oh! because I really liked the early manga and OG "season zero" plotlines. But my fic was a fem!OC centric deal and someone called me out for writing a Mary Sue. Like, they were right but it totally killed my vibe and my want to be a part of the fandom even to this day. All I wanted was to write some lowkey OFC x Kaiba nonsense! I was hurting no one! Apparently I'm still bitter, too (:
Fandom dropped off my radar for my first year or so of undergrad right up until I stumbled into reading again. Not that I wasn't a part of consuming fandom - Vampire Diaries literally took up my entire Thursday night - but I wasn't creating anything until I took it upon myself to fill in the gaps of the at-the-time incomplete The Hollows storyline with a self-indulgent premise of Rachel Kicking Ass and Also Maybe Smooching Her Mentor as well.
That kept stagnant until my END year of undergrad when I started what would become the longest piece in my library to date, Prove It. And from there on I kept a pretty good click of new ideas, oneshots, multi-chaps, and events. Actually yeah, that was the start of me being bold enough to both participate in and coordinate events! I'm proud of the little Divergent swaps and prompt events that I ran. They let me get my sea legs to have the confidence to take over for the Reylux (Star Wars) squad and now to be boosting and/or coordinating the Star Wars Multishipper events that are open to a much, much larger section of fandom.
I've been quieter in the past 12 months over all, 16 if we're being honest. But that's also in line of when I started the job that I actually liked and started commuting a feckload more. So I'm trying to give myself more of the benefit of the doubt over the slowdown. Oh! And buying a house! So my responsibilities, like, tripled and my productivity slowed to match. I'm OK with that!!
The next steps moving forward are to act on my list of priorities, stop getting upset when smarmy (jerkish) people complain about no updates on whatever WIP they wish I had time for, and to allow myself to relax again with fandom. I've got some lowkey "for me" oneshots that I've been working on in my free time. I've signed up for the Chocolate Box event to get outside of my comfort zone with a Star Trek: Discovery friendshippy prompt. And I think that's a good place for my fandom life to be heading towards c:
In your own space, talk about your fannish history. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Looking back at my fannish history is interesting, at least to me. I think it's healthy to look back at where you came from. Not to bash past-Feck or anything but to honestly appreciate what growth and successes have been along the path. I saw a Tumblr post recently about not putting down your younger self, so that's probably where tonight's mood is coming from. Normally I have no problem pointing out all of my mistakes.
I don't think I'll complain about the good mood! It's a nice change.
So, Past-Feck came into fandom purely as a consumer, reading as much Dramione and Zutara as she could put her hands on. I think I left reviews? Not as often as I try to now but definitely when I got to the end of whatever binge-read I was doing. I think it was reading my first Blutara fic (where Zuko lost his voice and had to build up trust with Katara non-verbally) that made me think "It would be great to be able to do something this cool one day myself!" Dunno when after moment exactly that I started writing, but I can tell from my dinosaur of a FF profile that I started posting about half a year after I created the account. Which is a lot sooner than I remembered! Go baby-fan Feck!
My first authoring fandom was Avatar, which I still end up coming back to at some frequency. Once a Zutara shipper, always a Zutara shipper. I did a fic event with teams most recently and I think it was the running gag with them how quickly I could turn the prompt into something Zutara or Katara-slash-Zuko-character-centric. Ah well. I'm a simple person. I see a great redemption arc with visual and thematic mirroring, I stan it for life (is that how you use stan? See, I'm getting old now)
I diverted super briefly into Yu-Gi-Oh! because I really liked the early manga and OG "season zero" plotlines. But my fic was a fem!OC centric deal and someone called me out for writing a Mary Sue. Like, they were right but it totally killed my vibe and my want to be a part of the fandom even to this day. All I wanted was to write some lowkey OFC x Kaiba nonsense! I was hurting no one! Apparently I'm still bitter, too (:
Fandom dropped off my radar for my first year or so of undergrad right up until I stumbled into reading again. Not that I wasn't a part of consuming fandom - Vampire Diaries literally took up my entire Thursday night - but I wasn't creating anything until I took it upon myself to fill in the gaps of the at-the-time incomplete The Hollows storyline with a self-indulgent premise of Rachel Kicking Ass and Also Maybe Smooching Her Mentor as well.
That kept stagnant until my END year of undergrad when I started what would become the longest piece in my library to date, Prove It. And from there on I kept a pretty good click of new ideas, oneshots, multi-chaps, and events. Actually yeah, that was the start of me being bold enough to both participate in and coordinate events! I'm proud of the little Divergent swaps and prompt events that I ran. They let me get my sea legs to have the confidence to take over for the Reylux (Star Wars) squad and now to be boosting and/or coordinating the Star Wars Multishipper events that are open to a much, much larger section of fandom.
I've been quieter in the past 12 months over all, 16 if we're being honest. But that's also in line of when I started the job that I actually liked and started commuting a feckload more. So I'm trying to give myself more of the benefit of the doubt over the slowdown. Oh! And buying a house! So my responsibilities, like, tripled and my productivity slowed to match. I'm OK with that!!
The next steps moving forward are to act on my list of priorities, stop getting upset when smarmy (jerkish) people complain about no updates on whatever WIP they wish I had time for, and to allow myself to relax again with fandom. I've got some lowkey "for me" oneshots that I've been working on in my free time. I've signed up for the Chocolate Box event to get outside of my comfort zone with a Star Trek: Discovery friendshippy prompt. And I think that's a good place for my fandom life to be heading towards c:
