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I know that hardly anyone reads this journal anymore, and I'm pretty sure that those of you that don't aren't here for the fic.
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wipbigbang is taking sign-ups.
I was thinking about doing it for "The Right Hand Knows Not" which is the sequel to the Avengers fic "Give A Girl A Moment" but that's only at 20K right now, and I'm not going to get through the 80K of plot I have left in 10 weeks with my current life schedule.
There are other options: "The Gathering Clouds" (Avengers: Psy-Changeling, probably 40K), "Anchor & Anchorage" (Pacific Rim: Mako/Raleigh), "Scar Tissue" (Pacific Rim: Yancy survives but he and Raleigh are no longer Drift-compatible), and - to start something completely new - "Watch The Queen Conquer" (Pacific Rim: the female characters).
I'm just...I'm in the frame of mind that questions why I write female characters who aren't "acceptable" to the rest of fandom. Why bother when my interests don't align with everyone else? I've been told to write fic for the characters I love even when no-one else likes them because I'll make people like them. And I do. But I can't make my readers fannish about them, because things that I like in my female characters are never the things that other people like in their female characters and there's no amount of fic that can change a person's taste in tropes.
I'm burning out in much the same way that I did in SGA; only my burn-out time is growing shorter. And lately, I'm feeling like I'm "that fan" - the one that people are always nice to, but carefully avoid as much as possible: "Don't encourage her, dear, she might actually want to interact with you."
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wipbigbang is taking sign-ups.I was thinking about doing it for "The Right Hand Knows Not" which is the sequel to the Avengers fic "Give A Girl A Moment" but that's only at 20K right now, and I'm not going to get through the 80K of plot I have left in 10 weeks with my current life schedule.
There are other options: "The Gathering Clouds" (Avengers: Psy-Changeling, probably 40K), "Anchor & Anchorage" (Pacific Rim: Mako/Raleigh), "Scar Tissue" (Pacific Rim: Yancy survives but he and Raleigh are no longer Drift-compatible), and - to start something completely new - "Watch The Queen Conquer" (Pacific Rim: the female characters).
I'm just...I'm in the frame of mind that questions why I write female characters who aren't "acceptable" to the rest of fandom. Why bother when my interests don't align with everyone else? I've been told to write fic for the characters I love even when no-one else likes them because I'll make people like them. And I do. But I can't make my readers fannish about them, because things that I like in my female characters are never the things that other people like in their female characters and there's no amount of fic that can change a person's taste in tropes.
I'm burning out in much the same way that I did in SGA; only my burn-out time is growing shorter. And lately, I'm feeling like I'm "that fan" - the one that people are always nice to, but carefully avoid as much as possible: "Don't encourage her, dear, she might actually want to interact with you."