Hello fandom

[sophinisba]

I have had a week. FRIDAY has not meant this much to me in a long time. Yes I am tipsy in the late afternoon okay.

Anyway here are some things:

-I have only finished one paperlegends fic, but it was awesome. Destiny That Darkly Hides Us by nympha_alba is a wonderful long Arthur/Merlin fic takes place before and during WWI but in an AU where magic exists and is illegal. The language in this is fancier than what I usually like to read but it won me over pretty quickly with the LONGING and the ACHING. It is great.

-I am in the middle of reading The Ivy Crown by briar_pipe and it is also great. It is the AU-from-the-end-of-season-one fic you've been waiting for, full of plot and characters from Arthurian legend and Morgana being the strong, intelligent, and flawed center of her own story.

-Speaking of ladies and fic, my fellow Merlin femslasher has convinced me to join pornspiration, a comm for getting better at writing porn that will be kicking off tomorrow. Membership is moderated but they welcome people from any fandom and level of experience, and the mods would especially like to invite femslash fans to join in. There will be lots of different kinds of posts but if you're like me and you don't want people to critique your writing then it's okay to sit out those rounds and just play along in other stuff. It looks like it will be a fun and upbeat place and I hope I can find time to participate and I wish it were on Dreamwidth but hey.



-When I woke up yesterday morning I checked my mail and I had kudos and a nice comment from a fic from a couple Yuletides ago, one for one of those seriously tiny fandoms that barely get any readers/comments even at Yuletide, and it made me so happy. Also last week I got kudos on my first ever fic from back in 2005. I just love how easy having the they make it for people to find old stuff like that. I get feedback on older fics at the AO3 far more often than I do on LJ or Dreamwidth.

So then I was surprised right after that to read an LJ post saying it's too bad that people don't really read or feedback on the AO3 and comments saying it's too bad that the AO3 cares more about writers than about readers and that's why it's so hard to find old fic there. Because for one thing I think the AO3 works really well as a way of finding old or new fic, and also I don't get the idea that writers' and readers' interests are opposed. I mean, writers want to be read, they want their fic to be easy to find, right? And also I think of how easy they make things especially for people who use e-readers, to the point where if I see a big bang fic that's isn't posted there I think, gosh, that writer's being kind of inconsiderate toward their readers. Anyway, xparrot has a nice post about browsing and reading on AO3 (mostly about using the sorting buttons and tags to narrow down a search).

-Last week I finally made a good start on my podfic project for ladiesbigbang! I made some big mistakes but I still got a significant chunk done and it felt good.

-I have filled twenty out of twenty-five squares on my first kink_bingo card!!! I have until the end of September to cross off "silk, velvet, feathers, furs", "prostitution/sex work", "whipping/flogging", "obedience", and "consent play". I think it's kind of funny that I haven't come up with anything for consent play yet, considering how excited I was to get that square and the fact that half of my fills have been dubcon or noncon. I just haven't found anything that quite fits it in the way I want. (I thought about trying to do Gwen/Vivian with enthusiastic consent for the Happy Endings challenge at summerpornathon but it didn't work out.) I had pornathon fics picked out that I wanted to podfic for both that and obedience, but the authors either never de-anoned or didn't answer my podfic permission requests, so I'm still looking. There's another piece I started writing for pornathon that involves prostitution, so I should try to sit down and make that work. Silk/velvet/feathers/furs is another one that seems like it should be easy but hasn't happened yet. And whipping/flogging is not really my kink and I don't have any ideas. So yeah, I would take suggestions for any of those five, particularly if you know of good, relatively short fics that ought to be podficced.

-I watched the first two episodes of Parks and Recreation last night and another this afternoon. I like the main character a lot and it often makes me laugh but more often just makes me very uncomfortable. If you would like to try to convince me to keep watching I will listen. I would also take recs for other shows that are streaming on Netflix or other places on the Internet, especially the half-hour funny kind that I can watch right before bed. What I would really like to watch is more Community. That's coming back soon, right?

I finished the first season of Mad Men a couple days ago and was going to try to hold off on diving in to the second, but I think I will probably cave tonight.

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[sophinisba]

Thank you this is very encouraging! I think I am like halfway through the first season anyway so I will just breeze through the rest of that and look forward to it turning into more of my kind of show.

[chaila]

ALSO, if you want more recs, PONIES are pretty awesome. :D And widely available on Youtube. IJS. :D? It's obviously kind of silly, but it's often pretty clever for a kid's show and just shiny and sparkly and about girls being friends. <3

[sophinisba]

Ha ha okay that could be a thing for me too. Friendship IS magic, after all. I think of myself as someone who's not into cartoons but last year I watched Avatar: The Last Airbender on Netflix and that was great.