Independence Day

[cornerofmadness]

It's not a great year to feel festive about this country but for those celebrating, I hope it was a good day.

I spent the day going back and forth between writing and cleaning and I made progress. I'm to the point where a) I think the stories suck and b) I can't clean any more because I'm literally out of places to put stuff but don't want to part ways with the stuff either. Good day to be me.

Speaking of which, I set timers 20 minutes on cleaning 20 minutes off (so I could write and let my body not overdo it) but my sugar was so high every 20 minutes for the entire day it was a bathroom break. That might also be why I'm not feeling great.

But I did get a little more on my novel. Really wish it had an alpha reader but Link is at least looking at it.

So it's fandom tuesday. I'm curious, what is your favorite part of fanfiction/art to explore? For me, there are a few favorites. As hard as the end of canon is sometimes to take (Looking at you Prodigal Son, at least you got to tie it up The Owl House), I love exploring the whole post-canon possibilities. There are so many places you can take it.

I love fix-it fic but that is of course so very subjective. Is it really a fix that needs doing? You'll never get agreement on that but for me it's a fun exploration.

I hate to say it because I know it's not always that popular, but I do like kid fic, the characters having kids (not them being regressed into kids, that isn't my cuppa).

Comments

[shanachie_quill]

I do love me some kid!fic. Um, I like alternate first meetings, fix it fic, and soft/domestic fic. (I also love some smut, but that's another conversation...)

Ugh my sugar and weight were both up this morning so I feel you.

Hahah yeah we had quite a big group of personal fireworks last night. Plus I'm pretty sure the city shot some off.

[cornerofmadness]

You know I'm not sure I've read a lot of alternative first meetings. I'm intrigued. I do like soft/domestic fic too (and yes well smut too)

ugh to the sugar and weight. Same, hard same

nice

[shanachie_quill]

There's some really good ones in the 911 fandom.

Ugh hard same on my sugar and weight. I'm just tired of all this.

[cornerofmadness]

same here

[suzume]

Ever since probably(?) high school, I sit in my mom's window and look at the fireworks going off over the lake (you can't see the lake from our house and about half the fireworks fall below the roof of the house across the street, but still). It's enjoyable.

[cornerofmadness]

That sounds very nice. Often we go to my uncle's lake house and watch the fireworks over the water

[suzume]

Yeah, it's a good spot. (When I was younger, my dad would take me (and later also my sister) to sit on a nearby hill and we would play War, but the addition of my sister spoiled that... There is no three-way War, har)

[cornerofmadness]

ah well, siblings,

[suzume]

Yes. Yes, indeed.

[under_the_silk_tree]

There were so many illegal fireworks going off last night near where we live, well past 11:30 too.

My favorite fanfic is probably h/c both exploring what happened in canon and putting the characters in new dire situations. Because let's face it in canon we hardly ever get much comfort or even explored aftermath when it comes to hurt/trauma.

[cornerofmadness]

ironically zero fireworks here. Still loved that meme of Mabel though

Yes h/c is really my jam too. Honestly it was one of the things I loved about Prodigal Son is they did try to deal with the trauma. The kid in my icon is walking talking trauma that almost no one has ever sat that boy down to talk about (granted it's a kid's show but they aren't shy about showing the trauma, he's on the screen abused by his "uncle")