back to fandom?
Nov. 19th, 2012 04:16 pm
So the Show From Hell closed a week ago, thank fuck, and then last week was kinda insane at my real! and now only! job, but this week is Thanksgiving, so while I have some office work to take care of, and then I'm heading up to the usual Big Family Shindig, I can...sort of relax? Ish? Point being, I can actually start thinking about my round of seasonal fandom challenges that I need to actually create at some point.
Secret Mutant -- I have an idea, and last night I made an outline and started writing. Hilariously, though I matched on three different pairing requests, the one I'm writing is the gen request. So yeah, no one will actually read this fic, but what the hell, the prompt really grabbed me so I'm going for it. I'm...not entirely sure how thrilled my recipient will be, because all of her other prompts were INCREDIBLY FLUFFY and even this one had a fluffy edge and, um, I don't really do fluff. Especially not in XMFC. But I do write fic with reasonably optimistic endings, at least, so hopefully that will suffice. (My original idea for this prompt was WAY BLEAKER than the new idea I settled on last night. So that's progress, right?)
Yuletide -- I committed my personal cardinal sin of Yuletide this year, and offered a fandom I'd already written for Yuletide before (because I didn't have enough fandoms that I actually wanted to write, and got desperate). So of course, of COURSE, that's the one I matched on. I mean, on the plus side, I'm already very familiar with the fandom, and though I offered "any" on characters, she specified...the character I always write about anyway. So it won't be hard to get back into that headspace at all. On the minus side, I kinda feel like I've already said all I have to say about this character, so coming up with something new and interesting to write fic about will be...challenging. Urg. I'm tabling that one until Secret Mutant is written (or until a random plotbunny strikes, whichever comes first).
Festivids -- of course I landed a recipient who put NO DETAILS WHATSOEVER in the requests and hasn't written a letter. So she has a list of six fandoms, and the only one I'm familiar with is the one we matched on. So that's all I've got. A source. Granted, it's a source I'm quite excited about vidding, but I have NO IDEA what she wants AT ALL. So this is a total shot in the dark. I spent an hour or so today trawling YouTube for an arrangement of the song I thought I'd use that felt right to me, but no luck -- all the versions I found (it's an old jazz standard) were either WAY too slow, or so hopped up and jazzy that it no longer suited the source. I can HEAR in my head how I'd like an arrangement of the song to go for this vid, but I can't find it in real life anywhere, so that idea's borked. But while searching through my iTunes for something else to use instead, I found...something else to use instead, that I can already see the vid so ver vividly in my head and it kinda makes me want to cry. So that's what I'm going for. It's a song I've seen (very good) vids for in a couple of different fandoms already, which makes me hesitant to use it, but I do think I'm going to be twisting it into something much darker and angstier than it seems on the surface, so hopefully interesting idea will trump overused song?
Other fandom -- I've been keeping up with Downton Abbey (which BROKE MY HEART) and Elementary, which I've been really really enjoying because I'm a total sucker for Holmes and Watson in any incarnation. Creatively, I'm still keeping Queen's Gambit shelved until inspiration returns (and probably until seasonal challenges are done with); I've got a Doctor Who vid bunny that's eating me alive but don't want to devote the time to it until I've GOT the time to focus on it, and a half-written post-series Ponds fic that I've been working on in fits and starts. But again, whenever I've got an actual deadline coming up, I feel guilty focusing on anything else creative until that's sorted.
I really missed fandom while my RL exploded, guys. I'm trying to come back now. And I've pretty much accepted that I'm just never going to have the headspace/energy to deal with responding to any comments that have gotten backlogged over the past few months. I HATE leaving comments unreplied-to. It makes me feel like such a shithead. But I've got to just...let that go right now.
I'm glad to be living in NYC again, I'm reaching out to my RL friends here again, I'm finally able to really dive into my job at the Kids' Theater Co. and I'm quite enjoying it despite the stress. So it's not been all bad, and I think it's getting better. I just need to find my life-fandom balance again.
Secret Mutant -- I have an idea, and last night I made an outline and started writing. Hilariously, though I matched on three different pairing requests, the one I'm writing is the gen request. So yeah, no one will actually read this fic, but what the hell, the prompt really grabbed me so I'm going for it. I'm...not entirely sure how thrilled my recipient will be, because all of her other prompts were INCREDIBLY FLUFFY and even this one had a fluffy edge and, um, I don't really do fluff. Especially not in XMFC. But I do write fic with reasonably optimistic endings, at least, so hopefully that will suffice. (My original idea for this prompt was WAY BLEAKER than the new idea I settled on last night. So that's progress, right?)
Yuletide -- I committed my personal cardinal sin of Yuletide this year, and offered a fandom I'd already written for Yuletide before (because I didn't have enough fandoms that I actually wanted to write, and got desperate). So of course, of COURSE, that's the one I matched on. I mean, on the plus side, I'm already very familiar with the fandom, and though I offered "any" on characters, she specified...the character I always write about anyway. So it won't be hard to get back into that headspace at all. On the minus side, I kinda feel like I've already said all I have to say about this character, so coming up with something new and interesting to write fic about will be...challenging. Urg. I'm tabling that one until Secret Mutant is written (or until a random plotbunny strikes, whichever comes first).
Festivids -- of course I landed a recipient who put NO DETAILS WHATSOEVER in the requests and hasn't written a letter. So she has a list of six fandoms, and the only one I'm familiar with is the one we matched on. So that's all I've got. A source. Granted, it's a source I'm quite excited about vidding, but I have NO IDEA what she wants AT ALL. So this is a total shot in the dark. I spent an hour or so today trawling YouTube for an arrangement of the song I thought I'd use that felt right to me, but no luck -- all the versions I found (it's an old jazz standard) were either WAY too slow, or so hopped up and jazzy that it no longer suited the source. I can HEAR in my head how I'd like an arrangement of the song to go for this vid, but I can't find it in real life anywhere, so that idea's borked. But while searching through my iTunes for something else to use instead, I found...something else to use instead, that I can already see the vid so ver vividly in my head and it kinda makes me want to cry. So that's what I'm going for. It's a song I've seen (very good) vids for in a couple of different fandoms already, which makes me hesitant to use it, but I do think I'm going to be twisting it into something much darker and angstier than it seems on the surface, so hopefully interesting idea will trump overused song?
Other fandom -- I've been keeping up with Downton Abbey (which BROKE MY HEART) and Elementary, which I've been really really enjoying because I'm a total sucker for Holmes and Watson in any incarnation. Creatively, I'm still keeping Queen's Gambit shelved until inspiration returns (and probably until seasonal challenges are done with); I've got a Doctor Who vid bunny that's eating me alive but don't want to devote the time to it until I've GOT the time to focus on it, and a half-written post-series Ponds fic that I've been working on in fits and starts. But again, whenever I've got an actual deadline coming up, I feel guilty focusing on anything else creative until that's sorted.
I really missed fandom while my RL exploded, guys. I'm trying to come back now. And I've pretty much accepted that I'm just never going to have the headspace/energy to deal with responding to any comments that have gotten backlogged over the past few months. I HATE leaving comments unreplied-to. It makes me feel like such a shithead. But I've got to just...let that go right now.
I'm glad to be living in NYC again, I'm reaching out to my RL friends here again, I'm finally able to really dive into my job at the Kids' Theater Co. and I'm quite enjoying it despite the stress. So it's not been all bad, and I think it's getting better. I just need to find my life-fandom balance again.
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