Some general updates

[likealeafonthewind]

Sometimes I think about posting more often but I don't, in all honesty, have much to say, lol. I've been rewatching Guardian with a couple of folks (we're going slowly this time around); thinking about picking up vidding again so I can make a Ye Zun vid, a sappy Weilan vid, and an angsty Weilan vid (yes, I've thought enough about this that I already have some concrete ideas; the problem is that my vidding software is on my old laptop and I think I have to uninstall it from there before I can install it on my new one); and watching BTS performances (I also indulged myself yesterday and bought a physical copy of their album, the concept photos are so soft).

Anyway, writing updates!

520 exchange: Went live on Monday! I got the most amazing gift from kitshunette - Wherever the tide takes me. It's artwork + plot for a Pacific Rim AU which I adore (I look for those in pretty much every fandom I'm in). Please check it out if you haven't already.

My own offering was: Human Courtship Rituals, As Witnessed By A Member of the One and Only Cat Tribe for Blue. As you can guess, it's a fic about Weilan from Da Qing's pov. I had so much fun writing this fic.

....I feel terrible about this but I am very very behind on reading the 520 fics. I don't know if this happens to anyone else but my reading in a fandom tends to drop significantly when I start writing in it. I think it has to do with having trouble pulling myself out of my own headcanons and stories enough to immerse myself in someone else's? It's harder with long fics than short ones which sucks because I generally love long fics.

wipbigbang: I submitted my snippets yesterday for the art claims so *fingers crossed* that my fic will get picked up by an artist. The fic itself is coming along slowly. But it's looking like it's gonna be over 20k words when it's done.

Alien invasion fic: Still stalled. I actually know what's supposed to happen next, I just keep putting off writing it.

Other fics: I have an idea for a Weilan fic inspired by BY and ZYL's new shows, though I haven't watched any of them so it's really just the premise of the new shows and not the shows themselves. I started writing a Hades/Persephone fic based onbonibaru's prompt at the bunny farm. I had the urge to write a really angsty canon tie-in fic earlier today but that passed.

Comments

[phyrry]

We're doing another sprinting push Tuesday evening, if that'll help with the alien invasion. ;)

I have stopped reading Guardian fic unless it's from someone I'm already subscribed to. I can read in a fandom or I can write for it but not both, and I've been enjoying writing these folks too much to let that go.

[likealeafonthewind]

I'll be there! Hopefully it helps but if anything, I'll at least get some writing done for one of my wips.

[solo]

I'm so looking forward to reading your Da Qing POV story! But like you, I'm far, far behind and probably won't catch up properly until mid-June. And it's not even because I'm doing something fannishly useful like writing, it's just that the exchange reveals came just at the time when my job gets a little bit crazy before shutting down for the summer.

I totally understand, though, how it's hard to drag yourself from your own headcanon into someone else's... and then back! So reading someone else's fic doesn't just slow you down because of the time you spend doing it, but also because of the time you have to spend getting clear about your own framework again. Well, that's what it's like for me, anyway.

[likealeafonthewind]

Yes, that's exactly what it's like for me too! It's hard to get into someone else's characterization and writing and then have to get back into my own characterizations and remember where I was going with my fic.

[tinny]

I am so slow reading in Guardian right now, too. But I can't do everything, and my fannish experience in this fandom is so different from any of my previous fandoms, I'm just boggling and taking things the way they come. :)