what the hell, fifty weeks?
Wait, it hasn't actually been fifty weeks since I updated this, has it? What have I been doing all this time? (...apart from trying to survive my last few quarters before the sweet, burning bliss of graduation?)
My participation in Yuletide this year was suprisingly dissociated from the community as a whole (for example: I COMPLETELY FORGOT to make my santa letter public on my dashre journal after I wrote it, and I didn't even notice until, like, yesterday, so lisan never even got a chance to read it. That, my friends, is total humiliation and embarrassment in digital form), but I nevertheless managed to get my fic in, and received a lovely piece of Mushishi not-quite-gen to brighten up my Christmas (despite the letter failure--lisan, you're amazing! :D).
Winter into Spring is the piece. It's a sweet story with a surprise pairing, and made all the more enjoyable by its kickass Ginko voice. I'm humbled and delighted, and most incredibly thankful for the wonderful present. Thanks again, lisan!
I ended up spitting out Fevers and Mirrors, one of the two Mirrormask pieces in this year's challenge, the writing of which was at once incredibly fun and paralyzing. I thought at first that working in Gaiman's world would be hard, but really, the scariest thing? Valentine's accent. No joke. I couldn't even cheat like I did with Mary in '07 and not have him talk for most of the fic.
Anyway, having that AO3 account has made me surprisingly happy. It's not quite as tidy as, say, an archive like the original Yuletide, or even for that matter ff.net--but then, it's not an evil empire, either. (<-- NOT SAYING THAT YULETIDE IS AN EVIL EMPIRE, JUST FF.NET--damn you, ambiguous sentence construction!) I think I'm going to be moving my fic over there in the future, and probably reposting a few things there as well.
Speaking of fic, I put a few more Clover things up on ff.net a few months ago. Also have a nice shiny 40k Yuugiou thing ready to post...somewhere. Soon.
Oh, man. I don't want winter quarter to start in two days. But then, it is the second to last, so. Yay?
Rec list of awesome for ST:XI soon to come.
Also have been going back into the distant past of this stupid journal and weeding out the most embarrassingly juvenile entries. I'm trying to adopt a 'these are positive and necessary pieces of writing which allowed me to grow as a person and work through various issues' attitude, but mostly they're just making me want to kill myself with a rock. Hopefully most of the slough will be sloughed in the very near future, and I can sally forth with some semblance of reconstructed pride.
My participation in Yuletide this year was suprisingly dissociated from the community as a whole (for example: I COMPLETELY FORGOT to make my santa letter public on my dashre journal after I wrote it, and I didn't even notice until, like, yesterday, so lisan never even got a chance to read it. That, my friends, is total humiliation and embarrassment in digital form), but I nevertheless managed to get my fic in, and received a lovely piece of Mushishi not-quite-gen to brighten up my Christmas (despite the letter failure--lisan, you're amazing! :D).
Winter into Spring is the piece. It's a sweet story with a surprise pairing, and made all the more enjoyable by its kickass Ginko voice. I'm humbled and delighted, and most incredibly thankful for the wonderful present. Thanks again, lisan!
I ended up spitting out Fevers and Mirrors, one of the two Mirrormask pieces in this year's challenge, the writing of which was at once incredibly fun and paralyzing. I thought at first that working in Gaiman's world would be hard, but really, the scariest thing? Valentine's accent. No joke. I couldn't even cheat like I did with Mary in '07 and not have him talk for most of the fic.
Anyway, having that AO3 account has made me surprisingly happy. It's not quite as tidy as, say, an archive like the original Yuletide, or even for that matter ff.net--but then, it's not an evil empire, either. (<-- NOT SAYING THAT YULETIDE IS AN EVIL EMPIRE, JUST FF.NET--damn you, ambiguous sentence construction!) I think I'm going to be moving my fic over there in the future, and probably reposting a few things there as well.
Speaking of fic, I put a few more Clover things up on ff.net a few months ago. Also have a nice shiny 40k Yuugiou thing ready to post...somewhere. Soon.
Oh, man. I don't want winter quarter to start in two days. But then, it is the second to last, so. Yay?
Rec list of awesome for ST:XI soon to come.
Also have been going back into the distant past of this stupid journal and weeding out the most embarrassingly juvenile entries. I'm trying to adopt a 'these are positive and necessary pieces of writing which allowed me to grow as a person and work through various issues' attitude, but mostly they're just making me want to kill myself with a rock. Hopefully most of the slough will be sloughed in the very near future, and I can sally forth with some semblance of reconstructed pride.