Fannish territory issues
Scanlation came out for the latest Akatsuki no Yona chapter, 134.5. It's a fluffy bit of New Years filler in which nothing much happens, and yet...
I got jossed.
Yes, I have another Yona fic I'm working on that heavily involves some worldbuilding about how New Years is celebrated*, so yeah. I could probably work around this if I tried really hard to massage the timing of things. On the one hand, doing that might make me feel better, but on the other hand, maybe I shouldn't even bother? Like maybe I just shouldn't be fussed about it anyway?
I do get fussed about that kind of thing more than I should, like it'll probably be a blow to my motivation for continuing work on the story, and it just feels yucky. (Hazard of working with an open canon...)
In general I have these kind of territory issues with my primary fandoms; it's also one of the reasons reading fanfic can be a challenge for me (or "fandom I want to read fic for" is a very different category from "fandom I write in" or "fandom I love intensely"). I do think it would be good if I could just chill about that stuff, though. I actually have been trying to read some Akayona fic, just picking what looks interesting to me and bailing if I start to feel crosswise on it for any reason, but so far it's going reasonably well.
So what do y'all think? Attempt workarounds, or just say to hell with it with maybe a "hey this happened" author's note?
*In case anyone's curious about the said worldbuilding, I was already having the idea for this story and wove a couple of brief references into Not All Chains, but the headcanon is basically that New Years Eve is the night of the winter solstice and is also the holiday honoring the dead --- the logic varies by specific time and place, that the "death" of the year is a time to remember the dead in general, or that sunlight is the energy of life so that the longest night of the year is when the world of the dead is closest. And then dawn begins the new year and the celebration shifts into "new beginnings" mode. I joked to myself that it was like having Samhain and Yule back-to-back.
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I got jossed.
Yes, I have another Yona fic I'm working on that heavily involves some worldbuilding about how New Years is celebrated*, so yeah. I could probably work around this if I tried really hard to massage the timing of things. On the one hand, doing that might make me feel better, but on the other hand, maybe I shouldn't even bother? Like maybe I just shouldn't be fussed about it anyway?
I do get fussed about that kind of thing more than I should, like it'll probably be a blow to my motivation for continuing work on the story, and it just feels yucky. (Hazard of working with an open canon...)
In general I have these kind of territory issues with my primary fandoms; it's also one of the reasons reading fanfic can be a challenge for me (or "fandom I want to read fic for" is a very different category from "fandom I write in" or "fandom I love intensely"). I do think it would be good if I could just chill about that stuff, though. I actually have been trying to read some Akayona fic, just picking what looks interesting to me and bailing if I start to feel crosswise on it for any reason, but so far it's going reasonably well.
So what do y'all think? Attempt workarounds, or just say to hell with it with maybe a "hey this happened" author's note?
*In case anyone's curious about the said worldbuilding, I was already having the idea for this story and wove a couple of brief references into Not All Chains, but the headcanon is basically that New Years Eve is the night of the winter solstice and is also the holiday honoring the dead --- the logic varies by specific time and place, that the "death" of the year is a time to remember the dead in general, or that sunlight is the energy of life so that the longest night of the year is when the world of the dead is closest. And then dawn begins the new year and the celebration shifts into "new beginnings" mode. I joked to myself that it was like having Samhain and Yule back-to-back.
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