*pokes head up*
Haven't been much of myself lately, what with the Nonsense growing and spreading across the wasteland of the US government. I'm crankily tweeting and signing petitions, and then I try to just focus on doing what good I can in the community where I live. So it's mostly been work, sleep, blearily check Twitter, work, hug a local friend or two, and generally stumble around much like a person in deep mourning. Which I am, I guess. But I don't think I have anything new to say on this that hasn't been said. It's a shitty situation and we as a nation are running out of time and opportunities to stop it from becoming exponentially shittier. (Message/email me if you can't figure out my Twitter handle and you want it.)
So there's that.
It turns out that when I am in deep distress, I tend to return to very old, foundational fandoms for comfort. After 9/11, for example, I suddenly read all the Star Wars fic I could find. (And that was back during the height of Master/Apprentice, so there was plenty!)
Apparently right now I am reliving eighth grade and marinating in the Pern universe. The good (okay, better) parts, not the later novels where Anne McCaffrey was clearly being imprisoned alive or something so that they could continue to print out fanfiction of her work for cash money. (Seriously, after Nerilka's Story the prose style isn't even close to the same - the contrast is stark as fuck and in another universe I wrote a thesis or something about it, but whatever.) (They did this to a queen (?) in a classic Doctor Who episode --
ellen_fremedon will know the one I mean. ANYWAY.)
ANYWAY. I seem to be kind of telling myself Harper stories in my head? Robinton/Menolly/Sebell, because *of course* they are my original OT3? Would anybody read that shit if I even wrote it? Does anybody still have passionate feelings about Harpers? Does anybody care if I utterly ignore everything published after The White Dragon, and probably go AU from after Dragonsinger? Does anybody even know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, my brain is in full-on escapist mode. I'm doing the work of being a mindful citizen, but I'm also taking this time before we have to actually literally pick up pitchforks to have some fun and play with a thing that is giving my inner fourteen-year-old a bit of joy.
So there's that.
It turns out that when I am in deep distress, I tend to return to very old, foundational fandoms for comfort. After 9/11, for example, I suddenly read all the Star Wars fic I could find. (And that was back during the height of Master/Apprentice, so there was plenty!)
Apparently right now I am reliving eighth grade and marinating in the Pern universe. The good (okay, better) parts, not the later novels where Anne McCaffrey was clearly being imprisoned alive or something so that they could continue to print out fanfiction of her work for cash money. (Seriously, after Nerilka's Story the prose style isn't even close to the same - the contrast is stark as fuck and in another universe I wrote a thesis or something about it, but whatever.) (They did this to a queen (?) in a classic Doctor Who episode --
ellen_fremedon will know the one I mean. ANYWAY.)
ANYWAY. I seem to be kind of telling myself Harper stories in my head? Robinton/Menolly/Sebell, because *of course* they are my original OT3? Would anybody read that shit if I even wrote it? Does anybody still have passionate feelings about Harpers? Does anybody care if I utterly ignore everything published after The White Dragon, and probably go AU from after Dragonsinger? Does anybody even know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, my brain is in full-on escapist mode. I'm doing the work of being a mindful citizen, but I'm also taking this time before we have to actually literally pick up pitchforks to have some fun and play with a thing that is giving my inner fourteen-year-old a bit of joy.