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@kbin.socialHello everyone. We’ve all blinked and now we are nearing the end of May. Some of us played with the Domaystic challenge. I’m surprised how much I’ve drawn for it. 20 prompts done out of 31. Though for some days I certainly drew more than one panel, so call that very evened out?
I hope the original errors that was making it hard for people to fediverse is settling down some. Love to be corrected if wrong, but this is the only fanfic place that has any sign of life in any fediverse I’ve seen! Is there anything that may help others feel more like chatting on here or is it largely just the tech issues and the very small/quiet crowd?
Goodness, I do miss the activity of reddit. I think it might be one of the reasons why I’m pining for interactions in the fandom of my latest hyperfixation when I usually am able to sit back and pretend it doesn’t exist. I was able to get my fandom community needs in a slightly more abstracted way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjpBE0ofoCA
civil war in 'house of the dragon' and then civil war in its fandom on AO3. this is why we don't use the archive like social media folks...editing help from ...
Despite the latest issues of life, a oneshot I started working on last week is nearly at 5k words. I just. I can't even. My brain usually struggles just to do 1k words in that frame. How.
Also now drawing things for Domaystic. That is less wild to me because. Well. Drawing has always been easier than words.
One day I'll get back to my main comic but not going to fight my brain on this. Riding this hyperfixation high for however long it will let me.
Finished that shipping week event with 2 late pieces but getting 5/7 prompts (with 2 of them being written onehots) is honestly way more than I expected of myself. Especially since my usual pace of finishing a 1k word oneshot is 3 months. This likely means said texts are a big mess but maybe people will be distracted enough by my doodles for the event? lol
Hoping to collab with a friend for Domaystic. As in will do some doodles to compliment their awesome writing.
All of this and haven't done a thing for my comic's anniversary. Well, not a complete lie. I have been working on the pages for this month. I just haven't gotten enough done to be able to post them. And as we know readers to be, working on something isn't the same as actually being done. But hey, still have some days left of this month!
This little place has gotten very quiet but hope everyone is ok. Please stay safe.
If anyone has doubts that their idea is too niché to be read, my Squirrel Stapler/Slay the Princess oneshot has gotten 40 hits since I uploaded it some 20ish hours ago.
I cannot remember who introduced the Finished What You Started here, but that oneshot is my contribution to the event! I have so many other WIPs. I dared think I was going to finish a Pokémon piece or even a Sakuna: Rice&Ruin one I've had since last year. But nooooo (I say despite the fact we still have time left)
Also got to contribute to a week event! No way am I going to fulfill the whole week of prompts but it was so nice to find something I could play and contribute to.
Hope everyone is holding up. Please be safe!
I'm going on a road trip, and I'm interested in fic recommendations. I had a fic in mind to read during the trip, but as I've been reading it, it's become a bit darker than I thought it would be. I may still read it some; it is well-written, but I want to have some backups in case it gets too much and I want to distract myself with something less bloody and grimdark.
Some violence is okay, as long as it isn't graphic or sexual in nature. I prefer something that's at least 15k words in length, preferably a little longer since I would like to finally finish a longer fic.
My main fandoms are Sonic the Hedgehog, Transformers, and Puss in Boots: the Last Wish, though I would be willing to read something from an unfamiliar fandom if it is high fantasy or science fiction related (especially if it focuses on sentient robots/has a well-developed sentient robot)
Here are some of my other fandoms: -Arthurian Mythology -Murder Drones -Record of Lodoss War -Star Trek: the Next Generation -Robotech -Magic Knight Rayearth -Sailor Moon -Almost all Disney/Pixar movies
Self-recs are fine by me :)
Learning to draw new characters in both their original style and trying to decide how to translate them into whatever the heck mine is.
Been also drawing a bunch of comics that at best 2 other people will ever see. Should be preparing for my 5th anniversary for my main comic as some gracious readers have given me questions to play with for the QnA but brain isn't quite ready to return to that yet.
Hope everyone has had something nice happen to them this month and has something to look forward to the next~
I actually DID pick up a fic from over a year ago and restart it. I'm so proud. I might even finish it this time. It's a Pokemon fic because... well that's just been my jam for a while now.
As a side note: Pokemon has been one of my longest running hyper-fixations, but I think that's just because of the length and breadth of the content.
I suppose that means I'll need to keep an eye out for other mega franchises in the future. It's nice to have something enduring. XD
I hope all of you are doing well.
Since I know a lot of people out there struggle with a variety of illnesses, it's good to keep in mind that this time of year you should be gentle with yourself. (April in particular is actually one of the harshest months for anyone dealing with depression, for example.)
It's a slog. It will get better.
That may be completely unrelated to what any of y'all are going through, but I remember hearing it from an expert years ago and it was genuinely eye opening... and a good reminder to take a couple vacation or personal days in the Spring.
Happy weekend!
Hey everyone =) Time for our weekly tradition of telling each other we're damn tired and gush about fandom ;p How have you been? Anything you want to share?
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I'm... well, tired of course, duh. Tempted to add "boring" because I don't have anything new to say lol. Thanks to the FanPrompt game for keeping me vaguely in the loop.
Oh, and someone started a lemmy instance dedicated to fandom, so that could maybe be of interest to someone here.