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June Something #1 and #2
Jun. 15th, 2021 05:25 pmI decided to pick up the June Something! Late, but hey, better late than never? Going to try to do two questions a day to try to finish it on a Timely Manner but we'll see how it goes.
Day 1: What's changed about your fandom life in the last 365 days?
Honestly, the biggest thing has been a deliberate slow-down. I published 30 fics in 2020, almost all of which were very pre-pandemic exchanges (Yuletide + Chocolate box). In 2021 so far, I've written 3; 1 was a pinch hit for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
hurtcomfortex , 1 was an an assignment for the rural_dionysia, one was a continuation of a fic started in 2020. I will probably do at least a couple more, but for someone who was doing around 20-40 fics in a year for exchanges, that's a pretty large slowdown.
In part, I was planning on slowing down anyway - I'd burnt out a bit. I wanted to work on more on my own fic, some of which has been languishing for a while. (And some of which continues to languish, oops.) I wanted to finish the fics I'd started on for the equality auction. I had hopes of getting everything organized neatly. Not a lot of that happened, but I stilll have hopes it will! It seems terrible, but hey, I learned I need to give myself deadlines, because I'm pretty terrible at getting things done without them. There's reasons, of course, but the tl;dr I'll give in a public post is basically 2020 wasn't a great year, 2021 started rough (but is getting better), and depression is a bitch.
I also discovered exchange ...fandom? moves extremely fast. Within a couple months of stopping doing exchanges, I stopped recognizing a lot of the names that were signing up for things, as I was no longer going "ah, a new person who likes what I like!" I also noticed a lot of the fandoms I knew ceased to be, ceased to be as popular, or were just all new fandoms that I wasn't familiar with. So by the time I jump back in, I feel like I will essentially be a newbie again!
Edit: I misread this, and thought both couples were meant to be cross-overs. BUT I like what I wrote, so rather than re-writing it, I'm just going to go ahead and say this is just two cross-overs because I'm a dunce. You can kind of pretend the first one is the same fandom in an "alternate universe" sort of way? Maybe? *squint*
( Hadestown's Persephone/Hades with Chorus' Persephone )
( Tekken's Kazuya/Lee + Yakuza's Tetsu Tachibana as a third. )
Honestly, the biggest thing has been a deliberate slow-down. I published 30 fics in 2020, almost all of which were very pre-pandemic exchanges (Yuletide + Chocolate box). In 2021 so far, I've written 3; 1 was a pinch hit for
hurtcomfortex , 1 was an an assignment for the rural_dionysia, one was a continuation of a fic started in 2020. I will probably do at least a couple more, but for someone who was doing around 20-40 fics in a year for exchanges, that's a pretty large slowdown. In part, I was planning on slowing down anyway - I'd burnt out a bit. I wanted to work on more on my own fic, some of which has been languishing for a while. (And some of which continues to languish, oops.) I wanted to finish the fics I'd started on for the equality auction. I had hopes of getting everything organized neatly. Not a lot of that happened, but I stilll have hopes it will! It seems terrible, but hey, I learned I need to give myself deadlines, because I'm pretty terrible at getting things done without them. There's reasons, of course, but the tl;dr I'll give in a public post is basically 2020 wasn't a great year, 2021 started rough (but is getting better), and depression is a bitch.
I also discovered exchange ...fandom? moves extremely fast. Within a couple months of stopping doing exchanges, I stopped recognizing a lot of the names that were signing up for things, as I was no longer going "ah, a new person who likes what I like!" I also noticed a lot of the fandoms I knew ceased to be, ceased to be as popular, or were just all new fandoms that I wasn't familiar with. So by the time I jump back in, I feel like I will essentially be a newbie again!
Day 2: You've got your OTP, you have to throw a third into the mix (from the same fandom), creating an OT3. Who is the OTP, and in your opinion, why would they make a perfect third for them? Bonus question: What about adding a third to your OTP from a different fandom? Who and why?
Edit: I misread this, and thought both couples were meant to be cross-overs. BUT I like what I wrote, so rather than re-writing it, I'm just going to go ahead and say this is just two cross-overs because I'm a dunce. You can kind of pretend the first one is the same fandom in an "alternate universe" sort of way? Maybe? *squint*
( Hadestown's Persephone/Hades with Chorus' Persephone )
( Tekken's Kazuya/Lee + Yakuza's Tetsu Tachibana as a third. )
