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Jun. 24th, 2021 03:54 pmI've been thinking about trying to use Dreamwidth more. It's been... probably more than a decade? since I completely abandoned my Livejournal, and I never bothered figuring out how to export stuff to Dreamwidth. (Given that my Livejournal covers my teen and college years, and my emotional state back then was incredibly fraught, plus I typed like The Internet Back In The Mid 2000s in it, I can't say that this is much of a loss.) But I'm not sure I really get long-form blogging any more. (I'm not sure I got it back then, either, but the internet was still young enough back then that it didn't really matter.)
It's probably a bad time to try and start up anything new, given that I'm currently in the middle of the busiest time of year for work, but if I can get it to stick as a habit now, maybe it'll actually stick. Not sure what I'll actually blog about, so if you're reading this, chances are you're about to get a bunch of thoughts about absolute nonsense.
I've managed to hack out a surprising amount of fanfic over the past week, given how busy I've been, but it is 100% me writing things for the dumpster fire account where I keep all of the stuff for the canon/OC pairing that I can't quite seem to escape writing. I keep telling myself that, on the plus side, I'm probably more than a million words in on these two at this point, and my writing has improved IMMENSELY over the past three years, so in theory it's great practice for one day going back to trying to write original stuff, but that theory only holds water if I ever actually manage to write about something other than them. But since the 20th, I've managed to get about 14K on assorted fics into a good enough shape to post, so that's... well, that's something.
Art's been hard the past... I'm going to say month. I probably need to spend some time just drawing from reference, or going and actually using that discounted Skillshare subscription to learn some new art skills, because I'm feeling a bit stagnant.
I'm not really ready to dip my toes into the fandom (other than throwing the occasional piece of fanart out into the void), but I've recently been enjoying Dimension 20 a great deal. The long-form Actual Play shows and podcasts are really hard for me to concentrate on, but Dimension 20 seems to have the right level of editing and right arc length for me to actually finish watching seasons of it.
And hey, it's not like I'm actually in the fandom for the thing I'm currently creating lots and lots of content for; most of the people there seem to be at least a decade younger than me, and it is... often hard to relate to them. Like, I'm usually fine on a one-on-one basis with specific individuals; it's when it's the entire fandom as a whole that seems to skew college-aged and younger that I start to have... issues. That, and my favorite character is much reviled by the fandom, while several fandom faves are characters I cannot stand, so it's just much easier to sit in my little corner and create content that, for the most part, stays out of the fandom tags on Tumblr and Instagram. But I guess that's part of curating one's feed on those sites; only following those things that are actually bringing joy.
It's probably a bad time to try and start up anything new, given that I'm currently in the middle of the busiest time of year for work, but if I can get it to stick as a habit now, maybe it'll actually stick. Not sure what I'll actually blog about, so if you're reading this, chances are you're about to get a bunch of thoughts about absolute nonsense.
I've managed to hack out a surprising amount of fanfic over the past week, given how busy I've been, but it is 100% me writing things for the dumpster fire account where I keep all of the stuff for the canon/OC pairing that I can't quite seem to escape writing. I keep telling myself that, on the plus side, I'm probably more than a million words in on these two at this point, and my writing has improved IMMENSELY over the past three years, so in theory it's great practice for one day going back to trying to write original stuff, but that theory only holds water if I ever actually manage to write about something other than them. But since the 20th, I've managed to get about 14K on assorted fics into a good enough shape to post, so that's... well, that's something.
Art's been hard the past... I'm going to say month. I probably need to spend some time just drawing from reference, or going and actually using that discounted Skillshare subscription to learn some new art skills, because I'm feeling a bit stagnant.
I'm not really ready to dip my toes into the fandom (other than throwing the occasional piece of fanart out into the void), but I've recently been enjoying Dimension 20 a great deal. The long-form Actual Play shows and podcasts are really hard for me to concentrate on, but Dimension 20 seems to have the right level of editing and right arc length for me to actually finish watching seasons of it.
And hey, it's not like I'm actually in the fandom for the thing I'm currently creating lots and lots of content for; most of the people there seem to be at least a decade younger than me, and it is... often hard to relate to them. Like, I'm usually fine on a one-on-one basis with specific individuals; it's when it's the entire fandom as a whole that seems to skew college-aged and younger that I start to have... issues. That, and my favorite character is much reviled by the fandom, while several fandom faves are characters I cannot stand, so it's just much easier to sit in my little corner and create content that, for the most part, stays out of the fandom tags on Tumblr and Instagram. But I guess that's part of curating one's feed on those sites; only following those things that are actually bringing joy.
