2011: a year of fandom

[saucydiva]

I wrote up a master list for my fic. Doing so has caused me to reflect on this past year.

I have never done the fandom thing before. And life was good!

But then Road Trip happened, and everything changed.

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[stillscape]

This show inspires us to do the weirdest stuff, does it not? Not that I would know anything about any of that.

I am trying to remember how exactly craponaspatula got involved in "Dear Friend," and I can't remember the exact details. I think I just said "This part needs a picture!" I do know I couldn't tell her what I wanted illustrated until she read part 1 of the epilogue, and when I finally did there was a lot of virtual flailing. As I think there was when I told you where the epilogue was going. And then everything kind of spiraled out of control. I wish I had asked you, or someone, to help out with the monster fic sooner; it might have wound up being slightly less monstrous.

I have written something like 133,000 words of fic since July (good lord), and somehow, no one in my real life has noticed.

[saucydiva]

It's amazing how easy it is to hide these things with a minimal amount of effort.

Remember when you were writing "Dear Friend" and I would leave huge insane flail-y comments on your stuff and then you became my friend anyway? It was pretty excellent.

[stillscape]

Remember the time I sent you ten thousand really specific questions about Ben's mayoral tenure and then was like "Let me tell you my head canon about Leslie losing her virginity!" and then I immediately had mild freakouts about writing angst for about a week and kept sending you parts of two chapters at once, and then you became my friend anyway? That was also pretty excellent.

[craponaspatula]

I can't remember how it came about, either. You and I had been messaging about non-fandom related stuff for a while at that point, I think? However it happened, I'm SO GLAD IT DID. Hooray for spiraling out of control.

I have no idea how you hide it because I have been almost caught about 1,000 times in the past, oh, 10 days or so while BF has been here. How you manage with someone who actually lives in your house year-round is beyond me.

[stillscape]

I don't do it while he's in the room, basically.

[craponaspatula]

You make it sound so easy.

[stillscape]

I also have a different LJ that he knows about, which I have had since before we met, and which he knows I use to follow other communities that are of explicable personal and professional interest. I cleverly use the same layout scheme for both journals so if you are not really paying attention, they look the same (although the icon for my other journal is not Leslie and I should probably change that).

[stillscape]

Oh, I still have those messages. We were talking about Matthew Weiner's kitchen because I saw an NYT photo gallery of it and immediately thought "that person on the internet whose name I don't know yet would appreciate this."