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[joyfulseeker]

My god, I don't know why I go to anon-memes occasionally. It always leaves me feeling desperately sad and like I should probably never write again. And they aren't even talking about my stories! WHAT. was I thinking. Too thin-skinned for the internet, I guess

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[altri_uccelli]

poeelektra and I were a matter of YARDS from Kaner when he scored that goal!!! And then we stood up and bellowed Chelsea Dagger with the rest of the 21K people at the UC. It was aaaaaaaaawesome.

*shudders* the anon meme. :( The first time I found myself being disembowelled there my reaction was to want to stop writing, and to take all my fic down. It's sort of unutterably horrific to know that that shit's being said behind one's back. I've managed to stay off it since then, though I've had some close calls when I was depressed and thought 'I just need to know what people really think of me,' like the shit-talk is more real or valid than people enjoying the fic.

There are writers in this fandom who have a way of creating a reality that remains incredibly vivid in my mind, and I know I'm forgetting a bunch, but here are some:

addandsubtract's band AU concentrating on falling apart which has insinuated itself even more into my psyche because it's got a soundtrack that tears me apart, particularly the tracks that are the songs Patrick and Jonny write/sing in the fic. SO MANY FEELS WHEN I LISTEN TO THOSE SONGS.

notamagnet's space battle AU What Time's Been Stealing, in which Kaner and Tazer are in an elite squadron of fighter pilots. I think this might be locked on LJ? It's not on AO3. I'm not sure why. It's like what you said above, you just want to live in it for 500K more words.

staraflur's frat AU don't taze me, bro

grim-lupine's werewolf AU Instincts

nebulia's always-a-girl-Kaner series starting with think we fell in love

There are lots more fics that I love just as much and reread, but there's something about these--the vibrancy of the world-building, maybe?--that make me not want to leave. It's partly the strong sense of place and setting, and partly the way that the characterizations are woven into it.

[joyfulseeker]

YAYYYYYY for your witnessing of the powerplay goal! Man, I'd love to see a game live this season. I know some people are going to one of the Sharks/Hawks games this season, and maybe I'll try to get in on that.

Oh man, staraflur's frat AU is so so amazing! Definitely brought me solidly into this fandom, for sure (which is a weird thing to say about an AU, but...). Sometimes I like to go back to read it just for the party descriptions, and then, in the sequel, for the way Jonny and Patrick touch each other. SO GREAT. SO MANY FEELINGS.

I actually reread grim-lupine's Instincts and nebulia's always-a-girl-Kaner AU JUST THIS WEEKEND and they both remain so so so great! I requested more of the always-a-girl AU in home_ice's feedback meme because always-a-girl AUs are totally my jam and oh man I'll be SO EXCITED WHEN IT ARRIVES. When I reread Instinct, it reminded me that hahhhhhhh this story is totally why I started snippeting a werewolf!Jonny story like a year ago, because I just so desperately wanted to stay in that story longer.

Ahhhhh, thank you for the story reminisces! FANFIC THE BEST.

[altri_uccelli]

Also, THANK YOU for the linaerys rec...I read Stories sticking to your skin three times today. Sooooo lovely.

And I was psyched to see those little future bits of nebulia's girl!Kaner series that she linked in the home-ice meme!!!!