Snowflake challenge, days 2-4

[hamsterwoman]

Back from our trip (good critters, good traffic, sad lack of zebras, a surfeit of little boys), and catching up on the last couple of days of Snowflake:

Day 2: In your own space, share a favorite memory about fandom: the first time you got into fandom, the last time a fanwork touched your heart, crazy times with fellow fans (whether on-line or

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[hamsterwoman]

Aww, sad that you lost touch with your first fandom friend. (I suppose it's possible you'll reconnect somehow in the vast reaches of the internet... There are several people from the days of LJ's prime whom I'm really sad to have lost touch with, and always hope they'll magically reappear on another platform, or come back...)

Though obviously, I'm very glad you stuck around fandom and I eventually dove in (via Tumblr), since that's indirectly how we met. :D <3

<333 (It's all the magical power of K Konnektions :) But, yeah, I trace my presence on LJ pretty directly to TOR.n, both logistically and, like, thematically.

Maybe this year will be the year I read the rest of the omnibus you gave me. :'D

Whenever you feel like it! Or the Taltos volume you found, since that can be read right after Jhereg with no issues whatsoever, being chronologically first. If and when, I definitely hope you liveblog/text at me as you go along! :D

Because it just ... needs to exist. :D

Right?? In retrospect, given that Yuletide had quite a few Murderbot stories and a handful of Hexarchate stories, and there were crossovers in each, I'm a bit surprised is HASN'T been written yet! Guess the universe is just waiting for you to do it :)

[cyanshadow]

I admit, now that I've actually remembered her existence, I'm kind of tempted to toss an email her way someday, just to see if anything happens. :D ... Though that would mean I'd have to start actually checking that particular email, which I currently do maybe once every six months. XD

I definitely hope you liveblog/text at me as you go along! :D

Of course! That's part of the fun. :DD

Guess the universe is just waiting for you to do it :)

XDD We'll see. :D

And I suspect that the two are tonally different enough that there might be a relative minority of people who've read and become fannish about both? (Especially given ah... the content that seems to be the primary draw for at least half of the Hexarchate writers. XD)

Oh, speaking of Hexarchate fics -- have you read my gift yet? My Yuletide author pulled off a really nicely done Cheris/Alaia, that managed to be simultaneously sweet and Shuos-y. :D

[hamsterwoman]

Though that would mean I'd have to start actually checking that particular email, which I currently do maybe once every six months. XD

I do know this pain/dilemma, haha! (Could you set up a forwarding rule or something?)

(Especially given ah... the content that seems to be the primary draw for at least half of the Hexarchate writers. XD)

LOL, OK, yeah, fair point! The tonal mismatch is definitely there... I do know a lot of people who've READ both, but you could well be right about feeling fannish about them.

Oh, speaking of Hexarchate fics -- have you read my gift yet?

I have! :) (I'm not fully caught up on Machineries fic from Yuletide -- still somewhere in the middle of K's Miki fix, but have read a couple of the shorter ones, including that one). I enjoyed the Shuos family times and games -- and you're right, it's definitely both sweet and Shuos-y :)

It, and a couple of other fics, do drive home for me the fact that apparently the Cheris relationships I want to read fic about are, in order: 1) Cheris & Jedao, 2) Cheris and the servitors, and 3) maybe Cheris and Neja, or in general Cheris & her Mwennin heritage. (Possibly Cheris/Nerevor might've been on this list, but after how things ended for Nerevor, that just makes me too sad to think about...)

[cyanshadow]

(Could you set up a forwarding rule or something?)

Ooh, quite possibly!

Also, lol, it occurred to me to go dig up what I think was her ff.net profile (since I recalled having author-favorited her) and, hilariously enough, one of the things she mentions in her profile (last updated 2004 :P) is that she'd recently created an LJ ...

... the link to which is forever lost to the ether after one of ff.net's crusades to delete everything that looked like a link from author profiles. XD ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(though who knows whether she's even around anymore after the various LJ-pocalypses ...)

2) Cheris and the servitors, and 3) maybe Cheris and Neja, or in general Cheris & her Mwennin heritage.

Yessssss. :D

Although it's funny, because one of my recent realizations via working on my write-up for Ninefox Gambit is that while my liveblog indicates I was initially more interested in Jedao ... by the end of the first book, most of my interest had shifted to Cheris.

Or, the Cheris-and-Jedao hybrid, I guess, since who knows if we'll ever hear the full answer on how much of which she is as of the end of Ninefox. :P

I'm definitely not opposed to the idea of reading more Jedao fic, but I think I'd actually be more interested in seeing Cheris-alone fic (post-Ninefox) than I would in Cheris & Jedao fic set during it. Which is ... not at all the direction I expected my interests to go in. :'D

still somewhere in the middle of K's Miki fic

... Thanks for reminding me that I need to sit down and read that too. :D