Trismegistus

Day 2

Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


On Day 6, I asked for squee in several very small fandoms. Some of them are so small they don't even have fanworks yet, but of those that do, here are some of my favorites:


Blake & Avery: Silently, Invisibly by DoreyG / 2142 words / Rated G
"So," Blake said, an expression of pure outrage rising on his face. it was subtle, most would've thought him merely annoyed, but I'd known him for long enough that I could tell the signs. "They're trying to blackmail you too, then."

Gensou Suikoden: A Cloak of Green by rabidsamfan / 3,703 words / Rated G
Immortality gives you a long time to think things through.
A long time to dream.
Even if the dreams aren’t always your own.`

Injection: the last of a line by starstrung / 4318 words / Rated G
The conversations they have in that room, with each other, set his mind spinning. The cosmos seem to revolve in the palms of their hands, and all of human achievement is theirs to evoke.

The King and the Clown: Enough by hopefully / 759 words / Rated T
Gonggil thinks Jangsaeng could use a little company.

Onmyoji: Scent by glitterburn / 43,514 words / Rated M
Challenged to create the perfect scent for an imperial contest, Hiromasa unwittingly enlists the aid of a demon. When he attempts to replicate Seimei's scent, Hiromasa learns that seduction is the same as possession…

Silver Diamond: What Is Left Behind by takadainmate / 5743 words / Rated T
Thrown into the desert, Touji and Narushige, and Kou, must survive alone, with neither water nor direction.


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Day 13

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Reply to Yuletide fic comments this year: The pace of RL picks up at the end of each fiscal year and by December, with its multiple holidays, birthdays, travel, and all the associated prep, it's just crazy. I like the idea of writing YT treats or doing Fandom Stocking, but they aren't really feasible. Grabbing a few moments for YT replies probably is, so I'm going to focus on that this year.

Post a fic a month: My perennial resolution, which I came closest to keeping two years ago. This year, I'm switching things up. If I don't have anything complete to post to AO3, I will at least post a WIP to Dreamwidth. Every. Darn. Month.

Learn 40 new tunes: To play at sessions, etc.

Read 100 books: Another annual goal, which I've thus far managed to meet over the last decade. This is my public announcement that I plan to keep the streak going!

Master basic conversational Bangla: I'll take this one slow and steady, but over 12 months, I will get there.





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Day 11

In your own space, talk about your creative process(es) — anything from the initial inspiration to how you feel after something’s done. Do you struggle with motivation or is it a smooth process? Do you have any tricks up your sleeve to pull out when a fanwork isn’t cooperating? What is your level of planning to pantsing/winging it? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I don't lack for inspiration. The stories I have in my head are such sweeping epics, and there's always more to tell. Where I stumble is in formulating and writing the connective tissue that links the major pieces together--because you have to have a lot of solid, even-keeled story to make those big emotional highs stand out. The best writers can get their readers interested in the former the former, so when the latter comes it, it comes out of nowhere and clocks them.

Unfortunately, I have to wing it, because I'm really bad at plotting things out and I have difficulty moving on to the second sentence until I have the wording of the first exactly the way I want it. In practice, this means I spend months sitting in front of a mostly blank screen and obsessively rewriting the scenes I have thought out to produce a finished piece. That's why I find challenges and fests so useful--without the hard deadlines to turn out a complete story, I tend to...not.

One of the things I've been working on for ages is trying to write things down--ideas or inklings--and move on without completely fleshing them out and getting the wording just so. I've made slow but appreciable progress. I can now produce about 200 to 500 words in the time it used to take me to write 30, and I've gradually been able to write longer stories in the same amount of time as a result.

Write or Die was somewhat helpful for this, but I stopped using it when its first incarnation disappeared. These days, I've been experimenting with putting on an album--I find post rock stuff works really well--and just writing until the end of the final track. This puts a hard-and-fast endpoint on my writing, and I don't get discouraged looking at the clock every few minutes.

Some particularly good recordings for this are:
2:54 - 2:54
Esben and the Witch - Older Terrors
Glasgow Coma Scale - Enter Oblivion
Marriages - Kitsune
Myrkur - Maredit




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Doing my best to catch up on all of these today.



Day 9

Commit an Act of Kindness. In your own space, share what you’ve done, talk about what you’ve done, or simply leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I commented on several fanfics and thumbs-upped a ton of reviews on Librarything.

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Day 6

In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wish-list if you feel comfortable doing so. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Check out other people's posts. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.

1. A good source for manga raws and closed-captioned J- and K-dorama episodes beyond what Youtube makes available.

2. More Blake & Avery fic. On this point I am a broken record. I don't mind.

3. People to squee with over my other niche-of-the-niche fandoms: Warren Ellis' Injection, Akitsuki Koh's Ouchou no Romanse and Yukimura novels, anything Naono Bohra, anything Sugiura Shiho, Onmyoji, the King and the Clown, Gremio/Botchan from Suikoden I. If you are out there, please don't be shy!

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Day 4

Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them. Afterwards, leave a comment in this post with the equivalent of "I did it!"

And done!

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Day 1

In your own space, talk about your Happy Place—the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Grammar - Particularly for second languages. Conjugating verbs, declining nouns, learning how to add prefixes, affixes, suffixes, and the regular ways words transform and fit together is soothing.
Irish traditional music - Particularly fiddle, flute, and pennywhistle. Playing and listening.
Reading - This one should go without saying.
Tarot - I own an obscene number of decks. I love how they encode information from so many systems, and the way the images function on a level that words can't capture.
Walking - Ironically, when the majority of my writing gets done (albeit in my head).

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