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healingmirthI went through about a week of thinking that I was going to try NaNoWriMo this year, despite the fact that I don't think I have ever produced enough words in a day as I would need to produce on average every day in order to even halve the total. On one of those passes through livejournal's main page that I periodically make while trying to log in, I saw something about Na...blog...something...Mo which... does not seem nearly so cool. Fortunately, I am also not nearly so cool.
Also, was looking at the interests on my profile page, and felt 1) not at all interested in updating them and 2) ambivalent about what I would include, including which of the hugely varied forms I would use to note things, should I wish to update (sga vs. stargate:atlantis vs. it even hurts my brain to try to flesh out this example)
I thought, instead, that I might make some sort of introductory post, which I am reasonably sure will instead be a number of tagged entries, trying to sketch out my personal fandom history, insofar as I remember it.
You would be forgiven for wondering why I'd want or need to do that.
Prior to... 2004? I was far too wrapped up in online gaming to have time to read. Anything. I'm amazed that my brain, or at least my vocabulary and ability to construct sentences, didn't atrophy and then leak out of my ears While my memory about this is as hazy as my memory of pretty much everything else in my life, I don't think I even realized fanfiction, or fandoms beyond Star Trek and Star Wars, existed prior to watching season one of Veronica Mars. Actually, I don't think I started reading until sometime season two, cause I feel like I read some hiatus-a-thon type stuff from the past. But I digress*...
This journal is much younger than that. For the past two years, it was populated wholly by tumbleweeds and dust bunnies, and only served as a flist to watch communities from. It seems like sort of a shame to have not commemorated any of that, even if I'm the only person who reads this.
So, in the next month, or far less than that, I'm hoping to sketch out my path through fandoms on the internet, including at least a few hugely belated recs for stories and authors, or failing that, at least communities, that have stuck in my memory. I can already tell that this is going to be haphazard and only vaguely chronological, though I may retroactively edit it into some sort of sense-making.
* - how sad is it that the only thing I remember about Catcher in the Rye is the bit about yelling "Digression"?
ETA: The proper name is for the blogging event is NaBloPoMo. Not to be confused with National Blow a Policeman Month, which was literally the first thing that came to mind when I saw it just now. I may have been reading too many naughty things lately.
Also, was looking at the interests on my profile page, and felt 1) not at all interested in updating them and 2) ambivalent about what I would include, including which of the hugely varied forms I would use to note things, should I wish to update (sga vs. stargate:atlantis vs. it even hurts my brain to try to flesh out this example)
I thought, instead, that I might make some sort of introductory post, which I am reasonably sure will instead be a number of tagged entries, trying to sketch out my personal fandom history, insofar as I remember it.
You would be forgiven for wondering why I'd want or need to do that.
Prior to... 2004? I was far too wrapped up in online gaming to have time to read. Anything. I'm amazed that my brain, or at least my vocabulary and ability to construct sentences, didn't atrophy and then leak out of my ears While my memory about this is as hazy as my memory of pretty much everything else in my life, I don't think I even realized fanfiction, or fandoms beyond Star Trek and Star Wars, existed prior to watching season one of Veronica Mars. Actually, I don't think I started reading until sometime season two, cause I feel like I read some hiatus-a-thon type stuff from the past. But I digress*...
This journal is much younger than that. For the past two years, it was populated wholly by tumbleweeds and dust bunnies, and only served as a flist to watch communities from. It seems like sort of a shame to have not commemorated any of that, even if I'm the only person who reads this.
So, in the next month, or far less than that, I'm hoping to sketch out my path through fandoms on the internet, including at least a few hugely belated recs for stories and authors, or failing that, at least communities, that have stuck in my memory. I can already tell that this is going to be haphazard and only vaguely chronological, though I may retroactively edit it into some sort of sense-making.
* - how sad is it that the only thing I remember about Catcher in the Rye is the bit about yelling "Digression"?
ETA: The proper name is for the blogging event is NaBloPoMo. Not to be confused with National Blow a Policeman Month, which was literally the first thing that came to mind when I saw it just now. I may have been reading too many naughty things lately.
