#i wrote pages and pages on it (now also on my ao3 as liveblogs)

[mejomonster]

Back to looking through 光渊 on weibo. I'm gonna be insufferable when it airs again <3

[cobra-creampuff]

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Media I Loved Last Week + Progress Report

My favorite thing I listened to last week was Jambi by Tool. Thinking blackhands thoughts. Thinking only blackhands thoughts. Although to be fair, I've been on a metal/progressive kick recently anyway. 10/10

My favorite thing I watched last week was The Menu. I don't know what to say, man. It just... was my exact shit in almost every way. I loved it. I loved everything about it. I said I was disappointed there was no cannibalism during my liveblog, but I was being facetious. No notes. 10/10

My favorite thing I read last week was everybody's got their limits (nobody's found mine) by oopshidaisy on AO3. I hadn't realized before writing this that it was by the same author that I've recced on one of these posts before, so I subscribed to them then lol. Anyway, blackhands time loop + unreliable narrator + narratively ambiguous ending but the reader Knows. Usually I don't go for time loops much, but after reading this one I went looking for more (and was left unsatisfied; this fic is like the fairy food of time loops). 10/10

I didn't write anything down in my journal, word count wise, but I wrote 737 words on Curse The Messenger. I am now officially behind on my work writing assignment lol. Unhappy with both of these things tbh.

[theplaguebeast]

A Long Ramble On My Experience Reading Nothing But Fanfic For Over A Year

So, my entire Adult Journey Through Fandom (as opposed to my Teen Journey Through Fandom, which started around 13 and petered off when I was 19) began because summer 2019, after I moved back in with my grandparents and left the state I’d spent the last ten years in behind (along with almost all my possessions excepting my cats, my wolf pelt, some clothes, and some misc stuff including the entire Lord of The Rings series in paperback) I went to Archive of Our Own (AO3) on my shitty phone that didn’t actually function as a phone because that costs money, and went to the Fallout 4 section (because I have played that game to DEATH AND BACK, modded it to death and back too) and started reading. Because it was literally the first fandom I could think of.

And then, one day, as I was reading Piper/f!SS I thought ‘What’s another Media I Have Consumed’ and for whatever reason, Legend of Korra came to mind which is wild because I watched it when it came out and then NEVER touched it again. I did wind up rewatching it after reading probably around 100 Korrasami fics, but I watched it BECAUSE of the fics.

Then, and I think I hopped onto this because a bunch of writers who wrote Korrasami also wrote them, I fell into Clexa. And I’d watched.... like five seasons of The 100? IDK, whatever it was that season-dumped on Netflix in like 2017. And WHOO BOI did I stick around there for a LONG TIME. We’re talking 90 pages of my AO3 history (20 fics per page yo) of JUST CLEXA.

Thru a similar mechanism I started reading Supercorp, and here is where I come back into my ‘I don’t even GO HERE’ tendency, because you see I still have not seen a single episode of Supergirl but you bet your ass I have read literally about a hundred fics for it.

Then, again, via authors-who-I-liked-writing-for-other-fandoms-than-how-I-found-them I read a hefty pile of SwanQueen (which, RIP y’all OUAT fucked y’all huh?) and that’s a show that I had really honestly TRIED to watch but guys... The only thing going for it really is that it’s the better Live Action Beauty And The Beast and that’s sad on a number of levels.

Then Pitch Perfect caught me up and I HAVE seen the first movie (and jesus if that het romance wasn’t shoehorned in) but also ONLY the first movie but that didn’t stop my consumption of those fics.

At some point I strafed thru the Glee fandom and rediscovered Faberry which I don’t recall ever actively shipping Back In The Day but you BET YOUR ASS I thought they were both SUPER GAY when the first couple seasons were airing, which is also the last time I watch it at ALL.

And from there, AGAIN this has ALL happened because I kept checking out other stuff written by authors I like, I started reading Sansa-shipping Game of Thrones fics. Now here is a Very Important Thing to Know: I started with Sansa/Margaery, and you might have seen earlier my discovery that I fell into reading other Sansa ships via Sansa/Ellaria/Oberyn.

Before that point, even as a teenager, I shipped ZERO heterosexual couples. NONE. NADA.

Also, I had not watched Game of Thrones past season 4. (Some of you may be aware I watched and liveblogged watching the whole series recently. Do not do this thing.) I still spent seven months reading almost exclusively GoT fanfic. I’ve bought the books. I’m in MULTIPLE discord servers for GoT fan shiz. 

And I also fell into checking Other Works By This Author I Like, except now, because I will read a fic featuring Sansa with literally anyone because it’s interesting to me, I started also reading het ships.

And so I wound up reading A Bunch of Zutara, and I had seen Airbender back when it aired and also... at some other point. But I did not rewatch it when it came out on netflix because holy shit Korra retroactively makes me so mad about both series now that I really think about Katara okay guys? Because I’m not okay. I’m mad. Whatever.

Somehow I wound up BACK in the Once Upon A Time fandom, by the way, but this time with Rumbelle (remember when I mentioned Beauty and the Beast earlier? HI) and man it’s interesting to see two sides of a fandom like that lemme tell ya.

And now, to the present, where I’m reading Bethyl fics for The Walking Dead, which I saw like three seasons of and mostly remember as ‘that show with the zombies where I got mad that no one could ever actually catch a fucking break for more than five minutes’ which is, for the record, WHY I stopped watching. And the extra funny thing is that I didn’t really author-hop for that one I just went ‘hey i know vague things about this IP let’s read stuff’ and Bethyl was just... the first ship I clicked on? And now I’m fucking Team Delusional and I DON’T EVEN GO HERE.

I need to REALLY DEEPLY HIGHLIGHT the fact that out of EVERY fandom I have listed, BEFORE I got into them I only finished/kept up with TWO of the shows and the one video game, ONE fandom has made me make myself watch the series it’s based on (and I’ll read the books as soon as they get here I’m not paying for fast shipping y’all), and EVERY OTHER ONE I know of from watching like three seasons on average. 

(This is not including the fandoms where I checked out like five fics, went ‘I’m bored now’ and left. There’s like five of those I think???)

So what I’m saying is that I get a basic understanding of a piece of media and then throw it away and go check out the fan shit because it’s more entertaining to see what everyone’s doing with the toys the media provides. Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice And Fire is a fucking anomaly on every single front, literally every other fandom I have, there is The Ship That Happens (well, OUAT gets two, but they’re not mutually exclusive so WHATEVER) and then pretty much every other ship ranges from ‘whatever’ to ‘fuck off’.

But fucking Sansa Stark, man. 

Anyways I’ve got 350+ pages (that’s over 7,000 fics yo) of AO3 history since June 19 2019 because quarantine changed zero percent of my lifestyle. If I can do math (debatable) that’s 15 fics a day every day, on average for nine-ish fandoms but the vast majority is GoT/ASoIAF.

Tune in fking WHENEVER when I finish the project my brain has decided will happen (THANKS HYPERFIXATIONS) where I’ve got the full data for all of this bullshit so I know how many words of whatever fucking ship I’ve read.

[duhragonball]

Theme Customization Notes

All right, I did some testing, and determined that if I add a page to my blog, I can only put 249 links on it.   If you do more than that, you can still save the page, but it automatically removes all of the links, including the first 249.

This is irritating, because what I wanted to do was to make a permanent page on this blog, such that you could click on it, see a list of numbers, and be taken the corresponding post I wrote about that episode of Dragon Ball or Dragon Ball Z.   I think I can still do this, but it looks like I’ll have to break it up into at least three pages, which seems kind of cumbersome to me.     

My mistake with this was in thinking that I could just edit the page casually, adding links one by one and hoping tumblr would be stable enough to save them for me.    What I need to do instead is write all this up in html in a .txt file, and that way I can paste links in and make sure everything is safe before moving on.  So I need to plan this out better, and I may as well write out what I want to do here. 

1. Make permanent index of 2019 Dragon Ball Liveblog.

Copy all links to posts, tags, etc.   

Probably need to divvy these up into “Dragon Ball 1-153″, “DBZ 1-199″ and “DBZ 200-291 + Movies”

It’d be nice to toss some images on these, if only to fill out the page a bit.  

2. Rewrite the permanent Luffa page. 

I wasn’t planning to link to each chapter, since AO3 already has it organized for me, but now it’s clear that this would be a real bear to do.    At least the damn thing isn’t 250 chapters ha ha... right?    Right?

I think the current version is just a brief synopsis of the story and links to the first 30-odd chapters, grouped into story arcs.    I probably did all that before I started cross-posting to AO3, so it’s all way out of date and redundant.  

A better use of the space would be to describe the character and premise in greater detail.   Who is this, what is this about, stuff like that.   The most popular Luffa content on tumblr is the screenshot of her scolding Raditz for not training his tail.    #2 is the one where Vegeta tells her about all the freaky-deaky D/s stuff he does with his hot alien wife.    #3 is probably that hot dog bit.    Some context is probably needed.

I’m thinking maybe a list of one-shot chapters as sort of the sampler platter for the big fic.   Off the top of my head, 1, 16, 21, 77, 82, and 100 all fit the bill reasonably well.   Also the one where she chugs a glass of raw eggs.    I forget which one that is.  Twenty-four-ish?   I’d have to check for others, which means re-reading my own work... ugh.

Break the story down into “sagas”.   I hate using the term, but this enormous bastard is almost big enough to justify it.  Anyway, this will make it easier for people to keep track of where they are, as well as appealing to the much-coveted Part-Skipper demographic.

Really, what would be helpful, to me at least, is to go through the tags and sort out everything.    Separate the fic proper from meta ramblings, Xenoverse posts, and reader feedback.  

3. Other stuff.

I don’t really have anything planned, but I feel like there needs to be other permanent pages on the blog, like it’s bonus content or something.   Like, maybe just a gallery of some sort, or some sort of easter egg type thing.    Not that it’d be hard to find, but I figure most people view blogs through their dashboard, so someone would have to go out of their way to click on whatever this would be.   

[farfromdaylight]

alright, i'm gonna try and poke my head in here once a day or so. we'll see how it goes from there.

for anyone who doesn't know: hello! i fell deep into the final fantasy xiv hole a few years ago. there will be spoilers but everything will be tagged with #ffxiv so feel free to mute. (my icon is my catboy, whom i love. catboi good.)

currently i'm doing nanowrimo; i'm working on a fic for the ffxiv big bang, after which i have some wolgraha to write. there's a lot of ff14 fic on my ao3, and a couple of ff7 pieces i wrote for zines.

also mutuals are free to ask for my discord if you don't already have it.

to do: tidy the theme (i have it slimmed down right now because i was reposting liveblogs to dreamwidth for archiving), consider fixing the tags page (tumblr, why did you change your tag links), idk probably some other stuff.

hmmm... am i coming back to tumblr? PERHAPS. i do miss a lot of things about tumblr, but at the same time i really miss the third party tools i used to make it easier on me, and they don't exist anymore, so.

anyway, i'll try to at least check here more often.