Comments | tsuki_no_bara: 30 days of babble, dec 20 - first fandom, and dec 21

tsuki_no_bara

30 days of babble, dec 20 - first fandom, and dec 21 - long fics

Dec 21, 2013 22:28

happy solstice! after today the days get longer. YAY.

today i walked a lot, acquired a camera (late birthday present) (it's red :D ), acquired a new phone (i was due for an upgrade) (as my dad says, i have now been brought kicking and screaming into the 21st century >.< ), bought some comics (astro city and saga) (i thought i just got a new saga ( Read more... )

vikings, 30 potential days of babble, hannibal, girl scout cookies, poison elves, writing babble

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kita0610 December 22 2013, 03:42:11 UTC

On the contrary, it's too EARLY for Chinese Food. After all, as a Heb, you are required to eat that on Christmas Day. It's like, in the CODE.

tsuki_no_bara December 22 2013, 05:26:17 UTC

and here i thought you'd tell me 10:30 was the perfect time.... my sister and i are indeed planning to see a movie and have chinese on christmas, as per tradition. :D

anonymous December 22 2013, 13:11:28 UTC

The only people who are allowed to tell you it's too late for ordering Chinese food are the people at the takeaway, cos, y'know, they might be shut.

tsuki_no_bara December 22 2013, 15:27:18 UTC

they're open until one on saturdays. :D i did ask if it was too late when i called, tho, just to be sure.

ephemera December 22 2013, 19:52:51 UTC

Didn't you know Matt through PE, and that's how we got to know each other, so kind of second-hand through that fandom?

Your long fics are things of impressiveness and joy ;)

tsuki_no_bara December 24 2013, 01:00:12 UTC

i knew him because of elfwood. the fact he read pe was an entirely random bonus. but i think my first contact with you was so i could sent him one of the trades for christmas.

aw, thank you. for all the whining i do, i'm glad people like them.

desertport December 25 2013, 09:48:31 UTC

I remember seeing PE comics at the comic shop in the 90s but always being too distracted by the X-books to give them a shot. Clearly I missed out! That fandom sounds awesome, and a little like my Gargoyles experience c. '96, only we had a form-based chat room and a listserv like the one you describe. Incredibly fun!

and he felt bad about it! so we re-virginized him.

Case in point. :D

re: longfic - So it sounds like you do it partly for the challenge and partly because you get drawn into the characters' lives. I just wrote a shorter fic and had kind of the same experience with the latter; the more I wrote, the more I knew about the characters, and wish I'd made time for a longer story before the deadline came due. (Yuletide, of course. It's like waiting for the last minute is a tradition with that challenge.) Did you start writing longfic with the process you describe, leaving a lot of time and writing small bits, or is that something you worked out over time?

tsuki_no_bara December 25 2013, 15:48:15 UTC

i admit i stopped reading pe towards the end because the overall plot arc was getting way too complicated and hard to follow, but it was fun and occasionally weird and funny and i really liked the worldbuilding and the art was interesting. (altho drew was waaaay too married to drawing excessively boobtacular women.) one of the trades even has a map. :D and the fandom was equally fun and weird and yeah, we decided to sacrifice a virgin at a con and how many people can say they've done that? and not gotten thrown out ( ... )