#bad buddy fanzine

[thatgothsamurai]

So here's a little preview of two artworks I made for @badbuddyfanzine ✨

Only few days left until pre-orders close on April 15! Go get ur copy and help send our love to brothers and sisters in Palestine❤️💚🤍 More info 👉 here

[mirmoria]

These fics about dissaya and pat slowly warming up to eachother ARE GETTING TO ME. THEY'RE PULLING OPEN SOME TRAP DOOR OF TENDERNESS IN THE DEEPEST PITS OF MY CHEST AND TURNING ME INSIDE OUT you have no idea.

maybe it's the way most of them read like a homophobic family finally finally warming up to their kid's sexuality and partner, slowly forming a normal healthy parent-child relationship with both of them.

Also. I AM IN DIRE NEED OF A BAD BUDDY SPRING SNOW EDIT(the lovely runner ost by 10CM, yes). Save me domestic patpran save me.

Cant believe I am losing it over bad buddy (this is a weekly occasion) (this week was just a little extra special 😁😁😁) (I'm so mentally unwell about them) (I saw an edit and started dropping real liquid tears) (it's the way they look at eo w so much love,I think)

I'M SO EMOTIONALLY ATTATCHED. its been THREE years. THREE. Like WTF LET ME GO ALR.

[hereforlou]

Here's a preview of one of the illustrations I made for @badbuddyfanzine - a Bad Buddy fanzine for Palestine!

There's time to pre-order until this Monday (April 15th) and everyone who pre-orders has a chance to win a printed copy of the zine. A lot of really talented writers and artists were part of this project and all donations will go to people in the WANN community, so please consider donating if you can.

Pre-order your digital copy of the zine now!

[fiercynn]

bbs friends, i'm super excited to announce that @sciencebluefeelings and i are co-modding a digital bad buddy fanzine to raise money and awareness for palestinian liberation! the digital zine will be published on april 16 and will feature new fanart, fanfic, and fan poetry from seventeen different contributors in the fandom.

please follow our tumblr @badbuddyfanzine or our twitter for updates we'll be making over the next few weeks, including more information about why and how you should support palestinian information, an intro to we are not numbers, the youth-led palestinian organization that the zine is raising money for, how to pre-order a zine if you wish, and who our contributors are. and please share to get the word out!

[mahuhumaling]

second snippet of my work

in @badbuddyfanzine, out this Tuesday! the total word count of all my long-form free verse poems are 2,133.

as i said in the writer's spotlight, it rewards a close reading. the more details you notice, the more you'd hopefully appreciate it. 🥹

to pre-order: badbuddyfanzine.tumblr.com/preorders 🍉

[faillen]

Bad Buddy Fanzine for Palestine!

The @badbuddyfanzine is fantastic project to support We Are Not Numbers (WANN), a youth-led organization based in Gaza that employs and empowers youth in Palestine to tell the stories of Palestinians beyond numbers, and fight for their liberation.

There's one day left to preorder the fanzine 👉🏾here. Pre-orders close on April 15th at 11:59 PST.

And here's a little preview of my fic for the zine (which features some amazing illustrations by @cinnamonseadragon)👇🏾

Pre-Order!!

Questions? Check out the FAQ

[oddmawd]

Hello! I just wanted some clarification as to why earning some income off of fanfiction is this horrible unethical act.

Do fanarts and zines also apply under this copyright infringement and if so, why are those works allowed to make some profits but not fanfiction? To me it seems like a double standard, especially because I seriously doubt anyone making either fanart or fanfic are claiming that the characters and story are their own original works. Blatant plagiarism and profiting from it is one thing but receiving some income because someone really likes a fan work is another.

I understand that in extreme cases, authors can sue, like you mentioned Anne Rice but in most cases, the authors tend to be chill with fanworks? They know it encourages engagement and hell, some of those big scary publishing companies that you seem to be wary of actually scout fan artists and writers to bring on board for their next projects.

And it's not brought up often in these arguments but Anne Rice herself became lenient towards fanfics of her original work in the last couple years before her death, even apologizing for her behavior then.

So while I understand the concern for lawsuits, I just don't see how writers and artists are "late stage capitalist dicks" for earning an income off fanworks that are clearly stated and implied to be the original works of the author and not their own.

typically i'm a "never assume malice where ignorance can serve as an explanation" kinda person, but YEESH, it's hard not to perceive hostility in this one boys, here's why:

1) i never called writers and artists "late stage capitalist dicks," and putting that phrase in quotes to make it seem like i did tells me you're not here for productive communication...that intentional misquote showcases either a blatant attempt at weaponizing intellectual dishonesty OR a lack of reading comprehension on your part, one i doubt i can correct through anonymous tumblr asks

2) "why are fanzines allowed but fanfics are not?" presupposes what you think my position on the matter must be, but i haven't expressed my opinion on fanzines, let alone voiced a double standard in favor of them...this is (once again) a blatant attempt at putting words in my mouth and/or a complete misread, intentional or otherwise, of what i actually stated...and in fact i said in a comment that fanart ALSO exists in a legal gray area, so you didn't do your research very thoroughly if those are the words you're trying to put in my mouth (solid attempt tho, 6/10)

3) i ALSO didn't call anything unethical, as you claimed in your comically hyperbolic opening line...i called selling fanwork illegal. morality and legality are not the same thing, so whether your mistake regarding the differences between legality and morality is the product of ignorance or malice, the fact remains that it's yet another blatant misread of what i said, good job there buddy, you're batting a thousand

i could dig further into the bad-faith rhetoric oozing from that ask (the sheer hyperbole and melodrama of it + the litany of loaded questions are an immediate sign it wasn't sent in good faith), but i think i've made my point LMAOOOOOO...but to sum up, i have very little interest in engaging with you when you're talking in SUCH bad faith and with such an antagonistic tone...you're misrepresenting SO MUCH so blatantly and with such confidence, it gives me zero confidence in your desire to actually learn or explore these very interesting issues...you just wanna argue and twist my words, and i'm not gonna enable that bad behavior by giving you more to twist

but look bruh, i get it: you're feeling insecure and defensive over a comment about being careful about monetizing your fanwork, and you took a post about the concept of capitalism and its impact on the arts so personally you confused comments made about capitalism itself for comments about you as a person...but this hostility is NOT a commensurate reaction to what i said and i'm shocked you think otherwise, and if you want to have this conversation, we can...but only once you learn to argue respectfully

TL;DR: i doubt your ability to engage in good faith so i'm not going to respond earnestly, as it'll be a waste of my time...reread my posts after you've had time to release this defensive energy...engage with what i said, not with what you THINK i said...have a nice night and best of luck to you

[todaywetackle]

Masterpost of Homestuck Mods Games, and Fangames [MIRROR POST]

-mirror since adam might delete his wordpress soon- U_U -done with lov and permission-

Disclaimer: I will only be listing mods I think are decent or high quality. Theirs alot of fan content for homestuck out there, and while what is good might be subjective I owe it to the readers of this blog to only list the best for example if you just have a mod of a character going nya for nepeta it won’t make this list. With all that being said- It’s a work of love this list. So maybe go look at my let’s play channel, and my homestuck playlist! Or give me a tip here! This list is in alphebetical order. Lastly this compilation may have broken links, projects that don’t work anymore, I will do my best to keep updated but if not this page is creative commons attribution, feel free to copy and paste it around just credit Olive P, and Adam Snowflake for it.

One more thing: Their won’t be any vrchat, wallpaper engine, or minecraft content on this list. Because of the expanded variety, and nature of those apps/games. Just know it’s on those platforms if you’re interested.

Also I may have missed very good mods or content, but I’m one person (mostly haha d.i.d joke) and did my best to compile what I could.

On with the list

Official Games

Friendsim [A friendship simulator with the hiveswap trolls]

Hiveswap

Namco High (download) (alt link) (my really old let’s play) [abandonwair] (completed lets play of another youtuber) [features characters outside of homestuck, but for homestuck: Davesprite, Terezi, Jane]

PesterQuest

Fangames

A Young Man Stands in his Bedroom [itch.io]

Befriend us! [alt itch.io link]

Paradox Lost [Fanzine]

Puzzlestuck (requires adobe) [download flash here it’s retired] [rip flash how you can still play flash games tutorial]

Pesterchum App (tutorial on how to still use pesterchum -coming soon-)

The Midnight Crew fangame (itch.io)

Homestuck the genesis Project

Homestuck Desktop Buddies (itch.io)

Homestuck Friendsim 2 The unofficial sequel

Homestuck Strife Project (itch.io)

Snakestuck! (itch.io)

MODS

Don’t Starve Kanya

Don’t Starve The Signless

Don’t Starve Karkat

Don’t Starve Homestuck Items

GMOD [Homestuck Playset] (video 1) (video 2)

GMOD Homestuck Trolls

GMOD Homestuck Playset 2

Monster Prom: Homestuck Encounters

Monster Prom: Pesterquest John

Shimeji Homestuck Broswer Friends! (Little animated Homestuck characters that crawl across and interact with your desktop browser) Also! Regarding Shimeji and others. Please please please! Be careful and look carefully at the download buttons on these sites! Giant green or red buttons that say “download” are usually not it, but rather hyperlinks smaller in blue or black further down the page. Those types of ads are malware. Be careful!

Shimeji Homestuck Desktop Stuff Masterpost!

Homestuck Troll Shimeji Masterpost (Every Single Troll)

Sims 4: Homestuck Items Masterpost! (their may be bad links idk I never trust certain sites with the sims so get reallly good adblock)

[hankwritten]

Dayterror )( Nightdream

My contribution for the At Ease, Soldier charity fanzine! Go look at it!! With your eyes!!

Jane rode with the dead body for nearly thirty miles before realizing he should loot it.

Its clothes were much better than Jane’s flimsy dress, barely holding together and still covered in somebody-he-couldn’t-remember’s blood. They were sturdy and, more importantly, capable of fending off the icy drafts that slipped through the seams of the train car. As he swung the jacket over his shoulders an even greater prize dropped out: the dead man’s wallet. There was money and a driver’s license, and between those two Jane wondered why he’d even needed to hitchhike. After searching even further in the pockets, he found his answer: recruitment paperwork—but only partially completed.

“Deserter,” he spat.

The corpse offered no defense.

Jane shook his head.It was all so painfully un-American. To have the opportunity to die heroically for your country, to be brutally blasted to smithereens by the German U-boats and then have your war buddy scream your name at the sky…And to give that all up? It was difficult for Jane to fathom. Furthermore, the man had dodged death at the hands of the Nazis just to beef it from exposure in a rickety train car cruising through the Wisconsin winter. Wasn’t that just the Eagle’s droppings?

He flicked a thumb through the dog-ears of the paperwork. Such a waste…

His eyes stopped on a date. The day the dead man had been instructed to report for basic was tomorrow. Jane suddenly knew which station he wanted to get off at.

-

“MENTALLY UNFIT?” John roared at the recruiter.

He shouldn’t have used his angry roaring, but rather his inspiring and convincing roaring, so they might have let him retry the required tests. Unfortunately, as soon as he’d realized this, two army fatigue-clad bastards (no offense Dad) had grabbed him and dragged him screaming out of the station.

“YOU WILL NOT KEEP ME! I WILL FLY THERE MYSELF IF I HAVE TO! NOTHING WILL STOP ME FROM KILLING AGAIN, SO YOU HAD BETTER GODDAMN LET IT BE YOUR ENEMIES!”

His extremely reasonable request fell on deaf ears. As he tried to find purchase his boots slipped—each man gripping one of his arms a tough sonuvabitch, who wouldn’t let go even in the face of John’s usually pretty decisive strength. The faces of the other recruits in line flashed past John’s vision, those already approved, and he locked eyes ever so briefly with-

He was flung out onto the street. He lay there for a hot minute, staring up at a starless sky, raging against the indignity of it all. What did those maggots in there have that he didn’t?

Dammit. He’d have to try a different approach.

-

“You are a deserter,” Jane puzzled aloud. “Which is bad. But you deserted from the Nazis, who are also bad. Which makes your desertion…good?”

“I’m glad we agree…” the doctor said as he limped along, wincing with every word.

His leg looked bad, dragging a line of red through the white snow. It was easy for Jane to keep pace, watching him move, wondering again what to do. He hadn’t seen another human for a long time, ally or enemy, and the sheer novelty of finding a man half buried in snow - alive, of all things - was enough that he hadn’t shot on sight. He couldn’t exactly walk away now, could he?

The doctor grunted when Jane slipped his arm over his shoulder and helped him march along.

“…Danke,” he said.

“Do not call me a donkey. And I am only helping you so that you can turn yourself in.”

“Fah. Whatever. As long as I live through this.”

“Great! So you will do that. As soon as we find my squad. Which I have misplaced.” Jane looked straight ahead as the doctor glanced at him. “People around me keep dying under mysterious circumstances. Especially the people that annoy me.”

“Ha! I’ve used that one myself. Shall we promise not to annoy each other, then?”

“Sounds good.” They kept trudging. “That thing you said about that guy waking up without a skeleton, that really true?”

“Proudly!”

“So you like to do weird, experimental stuff, yeah?”

A wicked gleam came to the doctor’s eye. “You have something in mind?”

-

“FOOL! You dare enter the lair of MERASMUS!? The last mortal that tried such a thing was forever cursed by READING, and the one before that was consumed by the ever downward spiral of GEOLOGY, and before that- wait where did he go?”

John had gotten bored of the wizard’s ramblings, so he’d wandered further into the castle. Certainly there had to be something in here that could help him with those bomber planes…

“No! Do not touch the Wand of Water-Based Basket Construction!”

John set it down.

“Cease! Unhand my Mug of Endlessly Resupplying Soup!”

Nope.

“You fool! You interloper! What do you think you’re doing? You think that YOU, a mere MORTAL, could wield the Giant Laser of Flying Creature Elimination?”

There we go.

-

“What- what was that?” Ludwig asked.

Cautiously, Jane withdrew his arms from over his head. “I have no idea.”

“All the planes just disintegrated!”

“I was getting pretty annoyed at them,” Jane mused.

Ludwig just stared at him for a strangely long time. “Mein Gott. You weren’t joking.” He grabbed Jane’s forearm. “We are going to be gods.”

“…Neat,” was all Jane could reply.

-

“And that’s why you’ll be a perfect fit,” the little woman in purple—John had already forgotten her name—explained.

“WHAT WAR AM I GOING TO BE FIGHTING IN?” John asked, scratching under his ever-present helmet.

“What? No, no war, we don’t want you to be a soldier. Well we do, but a Soldier Soldier. Capital S. We have a deal?”

“SURE.”

They shook hands. She said, “Welcome aboard Jane. I look forward to-”

“JOHN.”

“What?”

“MY NAME IS JOHN DOE.”

“But I thought…” She frowned, then pulled a photo from her clipboard, holding it up next to his face. After a moment, she replied,“oh. Huh. You guys look exactly alike. Darn. Sorry about that John, that was my mistake.”

As she began to walk away, sliding the photo that did look suspiciously like John back under its clip, his mind kicked into overdrive.

“WAIT. SMALL WOMAN. NOTHING WILL STOP ME FROM KILLING AGAIN, SO IT IS IN YOUR BEST INTERESTS IF IT IS YOUR ENEMIES.”

"Hmmm..." Her eyes gazed down at the board. "Hard to argue with that logic."

She turned back to look at him, and that smile was the most honest one he would ever see on her face in all the years to come.

"Alright, Soldier. Welcome to RED."

[mirmoria]

I'm currently rewatching BBTS. I have made observations.

First off, how come I haven't seen anyone point this out.

The bandmate. It's our boy Dunk ya'll. Everybody say Hi Dunk😘🥰😨😨🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🙏🙏

Next.

WDYYMMMM IT'S P-H-A-T PHAT AND NOT P-A-T PAT. WDYMMMMMM. this is insane.

Next.

This is from ep.6. So if you recall, that would be after their first kiss, when pran is trying to avoid pat PHAT♡, but before he joined pran on that trip and made up w him.

Watch pran use his guitar as a metaphor for pat.

Fr Wai. I cant with his sad gay musician ass either.

Next.

Ep.1 4/4

Look who's the pharmacist. It's the man the myth himself. Ok self-insert. I see you.

[fiercynn]

bad buddy fanzine: fic preview #2!

since i wrote two fics for the @badbuddyfanzine for palestine, here's a preview of the second fic, which is a patpran post-singapore fic called "can't wait to dream in color once again". but first, reminder that you still have time to pre-order before tuesday, april 16, and if you pre-order, you'll be part of the raffle to win a print copy of the zine!

pre-order your digital copy of the zine now!

(also, here's the preview i posted for my other fic in the zine, which is an inkpa canon-divergent au set while they're still in school)

ID: Image with text at the top and a graphic at the bottom. The text reads:

"Pat gets the airport right this time, and it’s everything Pran’s been thinking about during the last few stressful weeks of packing and closing up his life in Singapore. When Pran makes his way out of baggage claim, there he fucking is, standing with a sign that says “Mr. Dimples”, printed and laminated, and the goofiest grin on his face, and Pran feels like he’s falling in love all over again.

Which is why he doesn’t really notice it right away, even when he’s reveling in the feeling of Pat’s solid, comforting arms around him, of Pat digging his nose into Pran’s shoulder and sniffing happily, of standing there for far too long, wrapped around each other, before they remember where they are."

The graphic at the bottom, which has a red, green, and white color scheme at the bottom, includes fanart of Pran with a microphone and the name of zine, "Don't Let Them Change Us: A Bad Buddy Fanzine for Palestine". /end ID.

[mahuhumaling]

an excerpt from my work

in the zine, one of my poems from the collection "ampersand." 🍉

"Don't Let Them Change Us" is coming this Tuesday!

if you haven't pre-ordered yet: https://airtable.com/appsodIGmTNXCcg5c/pagGVstsLLp21YfwQ/form

cc: @badbuddyfanzine

[silver-wield]

is there proof that the people behind the cloti zine are in cahoots with the cult? im concerned and sad and hoping that it's not true

following up on that ask i sent earlier. im hoping it's not true because the i worry for the data they have, not because i have a personal affinity for those people. i've heard some say it's a conspiracy but idk who to trust at this point bc the cult are just nasty but there are for sure bad eggs in the cloti fandom. so im really hoping that the claim is substantiated with proof if at all possible

Yes, actually, there is. I don't carry that kind of stuff though because idgaf, but there's been multiple things shown to me and stuff I've come up against first hand that made me wary of FH since I first joined the fandom. Not to mention one of the FH heads came at me personally before, and she's been seen having friendly little chats with Calli.

Sorry to say but FH is buddy buddy with them and now they have your personal info if you bought that fanzine.

[riverscuomohhh]

Rivers’ first solo interview from 1994

From Lyndsey Parker via facebook

I was the first person to interview Rivers Cuomo of Weezer solo (the band had done one interview together, for Strobe Magazine) in 1994, before #TheBlueAlbum came out 25 years ago. Rivers and I were both very inexperienced at doing interviews (this was for my fanzine, Porkchops & Applesauce) but I figured since today is that album's 25th anniversary it would be fun to share it now. It's kind of funny how back then Rivers was embarrassed about his heavy metal past!! I never was. There's some Pinkerton prediction at the end of this one...

LP: So you moved to L.A. about five years ago – was it to specifically pursue music?

RC: Yeah, definitely. I moved here with like, the intention of being a rock star. And I completely failed. So, after a few years of messing around with really bad style, I got my s*** together.

LP: What do you mean by “bad style”?

RC: Well, I don’t want to get too specific, because I’m completely embarrassed.

LP: Were you into metal, by any chance? I don’t look down on that.

RC: Yeah, but the people who read your fanzine might!

LP: Well, that’s their problem. But anyway, it was the ‘80s; that’s what was around on in L.A. then.

RC: Yeah, so I can’t really blame myself, since that’s what was cool at the time. Anyway, I got out of that and discovered songwriting. It’s kind of a different thing. So I got a Weezer-prototype band together with [future Weezer drummer] Pat [Wilson], and our bassist was Scottie [Chapman] who used to be in [Los Angeles indie band] Charles Brown Superstar. We were called Fuzz. We had just two shows, at the [Sunset Strip club] Coconut Teaszer on a Sunday night, in front of a grand total of about five or six people. After about two months we broke up, then somehow made our way to this.

LP: How did you get interested in music in the first place?

RC: Well, I always wanted to be a football player. Like, really bad. But as soon as I became a teenager, it became apparent that I was not going to evolve into a football player. My brother had a guitar, so I’d just sit at home and be depressed about not being able to play football, and play with his guitar.

LP: You’re better off!

RC: Yeah. Anyway, because I loved bands like KISS and stuff, I wanted to start my own band, so I got a band together with my brother and my friends, and ever since, I’ve been in bands – since I was like 13.

LP: Were there places for you to play in Connecticut?

RC: No, there weren’t any places at all, and there probably still aren’t. I think if we ever tour we won’t even stop in Connecticut, even though it’s my home state, because there’s just nothing there. We played parties, or at school, like in Battle of the Bands [contests]. We’d do Twisted Sister covers.

LP: Is that the kind of stuff you grew up listening to?

RC: I started off pretty cool. I think my first concert was Men at Work. I was really into them and the Kinks. Cool stuff. Then right around 7th or 8th grade, things really took a turn for the worse! All my teenage years sucked. Then I got a job at Tower Records and they kicked my ass and told me to listen to cool music. They enlightened me.

LP: What did you think of supposedly “glamorous” Hollywood when you first moved here?

RC: I didn’t really have any expectations when I came here, and I was really excited about the whole thing. Even the gross stuff is really exciting compared to the backwoods of Connecticut. Even the weird, strange, gross things in Hollywood were really exciting to me.

LP: What did your family think of you moving out here?

RC: They were all for me getting out and doing something. Of course, they would have preferred for me to go to school, but I really wanted to be a rock star. It probably wasn’t their first choice for me, but they were still supportive.

LP:Are they happy for you now, now that you have a record deal?

RC: My ex-stepdad is. I’m not sure how much my mom understands what it all means – not that I understand what it all means! I think she’d still like me to be in school.

LP: So, Ric Ocasek produced this album. How did that happen?

RC: Well, I like the Cars a lot, so I suggested sending him a tape. I guess he liked it, because a few days later our record company guy called us and said, “Ric’s coming to your rehearsal today.” We were all really nervous. And he opened the door and we see this guy, 7 feet tall with sunglasses, looking like an ‘80s rock star.

LP: Is Ric a cool guy?

RC: He is so cool! He’s so sweet and nice, and makes us all feel really comfortable.

LP: What was it like working with him?

RC: Just really mellow. He didn’t have too much to say. He was just kind of there as a backup, in case we got stuck. He made sure everything went smoothly. But it wasn’t like he messed with our sound too much; our demo tape [The Kitchen Tapes] is pretty much the same as the album.

LP: So it wasn’t Ric’s idea to have those new-wavey keyboards on “Buddy Holly”?

No! Everyone thinks that! The keyboards were on there before we ever talked to him. He hated them! I guess maybe he was afraid that people would think it was him.

LP: So, what plans does Geffen have for your guys? Are you going to tour?

We hope to tour, but it’s so hard to get on a tour right now. Everyone’s turning us down. We’ve been dying to tour for months now, but all the other bands want to tur with someone bigger than themselves, so they can play in front of more people. Nobody wants to go on tour with a completely unknown bands. We’ll probably go out on our own.

LP: What about a video?

RC: I think we are actually going to do a video for “Undone” in a few weeks. The best idea for it is us just playing in an empty, plain room, just one shot – no cuts or anything.

LP: Sort of like the Police’s “Roxanne” video?

RC: I don’t remember that one, but possibly! We didn’t get MTV where I lived until really late, like “Livin’ on a Prayer,” so I missed all the early cool videos entirely.

LP: I often prefer simple videos over today’s big-budget extravaganzas.

RC: I think ours will be very cheap! We’re not counting on getting on MTV at all. I’d prefer not to even have a video, but I wonder if it’s even possible to be successful without a video anymore. That sucks.

LP: I think the humor in your lyrics is really clever, but I’ve heard you hate being labeled “fun” and “quirky.” Why?

RC: I had no idea we were funny or goofy or whatever until people started talking to us. I always thought our music was really sad and kind of dark. And then everyone comes up to me and says, “You guys are hilarious!” I think our next record [Pinkerton] is going to have a lot less silliness on it. It’s going to be much more difficult to interpret it that way, because I’m consciously steering away from that now. I just don’t want to be perceived as light, or that we’re not really feeling it, because we really are. All the lyrics are borne out of intense feeling and necessity, and it’s a drag when people think we just whipped them off and don’t really care about it.

[gumnut-logic]

Favourite Character Meme

From @the-lady-razorsharp

Rules: Name your ten favorite characters in any fandom, then tag ten friends to do the same.

Okay...

Jim, John, Jack, John, Michael, John, Tony, and Virgil. Hmm, that’s not ten, but these are the only ones up there on a pretty much equal standing.

Jim Kirk - Star Trek: The Original Series & The Alternate Original Series. This is my original fandom. This is where is all started. The first fandom I encountered way back in 1986 (and yes, I am halfway through my lifespan, told you I never grew up :D ). He was in my first fanfic (which will never see the light of the internet because omigod bad - though you can see my second one - Goodbye, Spock - both of which were physically printed in my local club’s fanzine all those years ago). My history with ST is a little different to some. I entered through the James Blish books as at the time the show was not being shown on TV at all, videos were scarce and expensive and ST was not trendy, not at least until ST:TNG came to play a few years later (well, try four years, it took forever for anything to get onto this side of the planet back then). Fortunately there were books in libraries and I was an avid reader (and as a budding librarian, I had my ways :D ). So due to this, William Shatner wasn’t in the equation when I first met Jim Kirk. In fact, when I first saw ST:TMP I stared at the screen and asked what TJ Hooker was doing in the captain’s chair?! 

Jim Kirk is your typical hero. Sacrifices himself to save the day, has great friends who would do the same for him, and a honkin’ great big starship to back him up. What’s not to like? :D

John Crichton - Farscape In the early 2000s before the new Battlestar Galactica changed sci-fi storytelling for good, Farscape was at the forefront. It bent the rules that BG later broke completely and that single astronaut stranded on the other side of galaxy found himself in a world nothing like the safe Star Trek he probably grew up with.

John Crichton is a geek, but a geek with spine and a good set of leather pants, long black jacket and a big gun to match. At heart he was a gentle scientist, but he was forced to adapt and kick ass. But through everything something in him stayed true and the world around him which at first found him simply a weak oddity eventually mapped itself to him. His weaknesses became his strengths, his associates of suspect motivations became his loyal friends and together they took on the universe.

And the leather, c’mon...

Jack O’Neill - Stargate SG-1 Oh, poor Jack. Stargate fandom was where I truly waded into fandom. I started really writing here back in 2003 (yes, I’ve been on FF.net that long). I met some fantastic friends through Stargate that had both me and them travelling thousands of miles to meet each other. It was also where I learnt to whump. As I said, poor Jack :D i wrote my first novel length fic in Stargate all 75,000 words of it. Took three months, most written by hand as I couldn’t type fast enough - by the time I finished it, I could touch type. 

Jack is the only character I can claim to still be older than me, just (it was a momentous year when I passed Jim Kirk’s age of 34, our characters are forever young, we are not). He is the goofy colonel, typical tough guy with a soft heart, but will of steel who always did what he thought was right, willing to make the necessary sacrifices just like Jim Kirk, and again with the team who would all do the same for him.

John Sheridan - Babylon 5 Okay, I admit it, I was a Scarecrow and Mrs King fan long before Bab 5 was even dreamt up. but the beard in season 4 that did it :D I’ve never written in this fandom, basically because it is pretty much a closed loop story and the actual show did a pretty good job of  venturing where fandom would have gone anyway :D

John was another military type with a strong moral backbone (would you believe that I’m not a military type, but all these guys seem to be - what that says about me, I don’t know :D ). Again he is soft around the edges hence the whole Delenn storyline. Maybe for me it is a combination of kickass, doing what is right and squishy insides :D

Michael Knight - Knight Rider I loved Knight Rider as a kid and in 2004 when I discovered the tiny little KR writing fandom online, I instantly fell in love. Real Life at the time was a bit of a challenge and KR was a haven for me. I wrote a lot of KR fanfic and it and the people I met in that fandom still hold a special place in my heart. Michael and Kitt saw me through some tough stuff and I returned the tough onto poor Michael. If I was feeling awful, he got it. I used my writing as a vent zone and managed to create something out of it. This was also the fandom that introduced me to RP. And yes, I RP’d Michael Knight, you can find my long abandoned journal here. I also managed a bunch of other characters including a several hundred year old version of KITT.

I really should say Michael and Kitt, because just like Kirk and Spock, one character isn’t much without the other. A hothead ex-cop who, once again, has a moral core to stand up for the small guy and drives a smart car, literally. The both of them together are quite capable of kicking ass. A not so typical buddy cop show with so many writing possibilities. I built up my writing skills in this fandom and eventually started writing original works (which were all brought to a grinding halt by the event of motherhood in 2008, thus followed the lack of writing for the following 10 years...until a month ago).

John Sheppard - Stargate Atlantis I’m mentioning this John because I fell into SGA quite hard about three years ago, but with the exception of one unfinished attempt at fic (which you can find on FF.net), i haven’t really written anything in this fandom. I like a bit of John and Rodney interaction and because I know SG-1 so well, and John is really just a younger version of Jack in many ways, it was inevitable.

John is military (again ::sigh:: ), but not military. He breaks the mold and tends to be just outside what he should be. Again a softy, not as confident or as steely as Jack O’Neill, but with his own code and strengths.

Tony Stark - Marvel Cinematic Universe Well, in all that writing desert, this is where I have been. There is enough fic in that massive fandom to keep an addict fed for years, literally, I’ve tried it. I have never written any Avengers fic. There is no need to, and really with young children, a job and a small business there really wasn’t time.

Tony Stark is a geek with money. He has troubles, he’s socially messed up in places, but under it all he does his best. He cares, sometimes too much, and is willing to step up to do what is necessary. He is far from perfect and he screws up big time, but he continues to try. There is also a load of angst and whump attached to this poor character, even in canon. (I think the last movie sent me into shock, I really shouldn’t have seen it while recovering from appendicitis, it hurt). And he is not a soldier, he has made that perfectly clear.

Virgil Tracy - Thunderbirds Are Go And here we are today. About a month a go this fandom hit me like freight train and in the process revived my writing skills, created this journal and drew me back into fandom. I still don’t have time to write, but somehow I have.

Out of all the characters above, Virgil is the most different. He has an artistic side which I can understand, being an artist myself (no, I don’t play the piano or any other instrument, unfortunately). He’s a softy, he’s kind, a bit of a dork, he’s calm (much unlike all of the above), he has four brothers he would do anything for, is certainly well built for a cgi character...and he drives a big honkin’ aerotank :D Pairing him up with Scott leads to interesting conversations and the whumpfactor...I’m so sorry, Virgil. But I think at the core of it is the hero again. The Tracy boys go out to save people. There are no guns, no animosity, they are just trying to help because they care. And who couldn’t fall in love with that?

I’m not going to tag anyone, but feel free. it is an interesting way to share info about yourself :D

[tothelasthoursofmylife]

Camp Nanowrimo

You may or may not remember this post.

It’s August 1 now.

Get ready for a lengthy post nobody needs.

First of all, in my camp cabin were like twenty people - and only three of us (me included) actively wrote throughout the month of July.

And one of us three active ones was, well, a Writing Machine. (I’ve mentioned her before, I’m mentioning her now.)

Tony Stark should make a battle suit for her.

As you can see, this amazing fellow camper of mine managed to write over 50,000 words in 17 days and leaned back for the rest of the month.

I want the same superpower.

So, of us ActiveThree, I had the second-highest word goal. I set it from the initial 50,000 to 48,000 because I couldn’t write for the first four days of July, and, well 48,000 is already quite a high word count.

Writing Machine and the other active camper reached their goals.

And did I reach my goal too?

Like hell, I did :D

My stats aren’t as impressive as Writing Machine’s though.

Perhaps, I could have even reached the normal Nanowrimo goal of 50,000 words despite my health issue at the beginning of July if it wasn’t for two things.

As you can see, I didn’t write a lot from the 13th to 16th. And why? Oh, well...

Like really, the beginning of this chapter came so smoothly - and the rest was just “Aaaaaaaaaah.”

It was a miracle that I caught up. (Really, I didn’t expect that.)

For the last days of Camp Nanowrimo, I struggled to write around 1,500 words each day in order not to fall back. I could have written more, wouldn’t have really struggled if Reason 2 (a movie my sister and I saw) hadn’t occupied my mind. (And still, does.)

Well, I am happy to have survived this. And I am happy to have tried it. :)

Initially, I wanted to work on original stuff in July. But I couldn’t get enough research done until July 1 because of school. (And I am really anxious when it comes to my original stories due to various reasons.)

Also, well, prior to May/June, I was terrible at updating my FFs, so I focused on them instead.

Participating in Nanowrimo was a great experience. 

It made me write every day. I pushed me to write at least 1,000 words per day because I had a certain word count to reach.

It made me see how much I could write per day on bad and on good days and in general. It often surprised me how many or how few words I’d written at the end of the day.

It made me write alongside others. I’ve always wanted a writing buddy. And while our camp chat was rather tame, rather silent, it was still nice to know that others were going through the same as I. Normally, I write all by myself, so this was a nice change.

Also, the good thing about my Nanowrimo project was that I didn’t have only one project. When I struggled with one story, I could go to another to fulfil the word goal. This made me start/resurrect/continue things I haven’t touched in ages.^^ (AKA the stuff I’ve listed under “Upcoming FFs” on my FF.net profile page.) I hope that they will be eventually ready enough to be “upload-worthy.” ^^

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to write much for The Stars of the Night and Brave Enough though. I’ve only managed a bit. And my entry for a fanzine.

Now, to Chapter 17 of Watchdog of the Queen.

It made up a bit over 7,600 words of my Nanowrimo word count.

I am still not halfway through the chapter.

I am already dreading the editing.

I will try to finish it by the end of August.