some fandom stuff

[quillpunk]

Signups are open for fandomtrees! I still haven't decided if I'm going to sign up or not but I am keeping an eye on the Trees; I had a lot of fun with fandomgiftbasket and I wanna drop more random fics on random people!

The prompting period closes soon for smallfandomfest. I've dropped a couple of prompts, the one I'm most proud of is the Bachelor(ette) AU for Biggles. I am still cackling evilly at that. Like, I don't know how it'd *work*, but I am cackling. XD

tinyfandomflash has reached 10 challenges now, and I am ridiculously proud of myself for still getting the prompts out on time. Since it's only 2 challenges a month, maintaining it is going pretty well for me, and I'm quite happy I got it going and didn't just like, let it languish forever in my drafts.

Like every month, there's a Review Hunt ongoing at Ad Astra, a Star Trek fanfiction archive, which is very fun. I'm getting a lot of practice commenting and I think it's really helping! I'm second-guessing myself much less when commenting now, LOL. And I've won some cool books on my wishlist from the Review Hunt in the past, which is just absolutely awesome! XD

It's Amnesty over at fandomweekly and I wrote a Leverage fic for it. I would like to write one fic more for it before Amnesty ends, but we'll see. I feel like I almost had the characterization down but not quite, so I'd like to make another attempt at Leverage. *musing expression*

Aside from the Fandom Weekly ficlet, I've also written a 9-1-1 fic and a Teen Wolf fic. First attempt at both of those fandoms and I'm generally feeling pretty *ugh* about the TW fic and kind of *meh, good enough* about the 9-1-1 fic. Like characterization-wise I just wasn't able to get the right feel at all for TW and while I think I did pretty okay with the 9-1-1 fic, I can do better. We'll see if I keep trying, LOL.

I'm linking the New Year's Countdown horror prompt list I wrote up a while ago because it's getting close (ahhh!) and I'm considering if I actually want to write anything for them. Mostly I'm just mentioning them to remind myself they exist, LOL.

I've crossposted some fics to SqWA, finally, and made a cursory update to wraithvault. One day I'll catch up, but today is not that day.

Pillowfort is currently doing a fundraising campaign until the end of the year to raise enough money the IRS doesn't reclassify them as a hobby project (or something to that affect, I don't quite remember), which would make things worse for them financially. They're over half the goal already (woo!) which is probably in part because apparently stuff is happening again over at Tumblr. (I have like 14 tumblr accounts (that's only a slight exaggeration) and haven't checked in in months, and honestly I don't wanna. Ugh.) I've got lots of free invite links for PF if anybody wanna check it out :D

Finally, I've got my eye on getyourwordsout because I wanna sign up for next year. I'm thinking I'll sign up for 500k, because it's more fun getting halfway on an unattainable goal then it is to fail at a reasonable one, LMAO. (For reference, 200k-300k is what a reasonable goal looks like for me *right now*.) (I think I'm technically signed up for inkingitout this year with a 200k word goal which, yeah I might actually reach that. Interesting. Considering I haven't thought about that at all all year, I'm still debating if I'll sign up again next year. It looks like I might be able to sign up for both?)

Also I've completely forgotten my NaNoWriMo project, LOL. My poor baby. I'll get to you at some point, I promise!

Edit: I forgot hcfest again. Sigh. Right now H/C Fest is in the claiming and filling prompt period and I had better write at least one fic or there might be nothing at all, LOL. The prompts can be found here, if anybody's interested.

Comments

[senmut]

You've been busy!

[quillpunk]

i have! XD

[yourlibrarian]

It's a hopeful sign that PF's fundraiser seems to be going well. There's definitely lots more activity on it as well right now given the new influx.

[quillpunk]

yeah, the fundraiser is over 60% now and there's still a month left, so hopefully that turns out okay.

[spacedogfromspace]

Wow, that sounds busy! All I'm doing is NaNoWriMo and catching up on the Ad Astra Weekly Challenge prompts for Amnesty and I am swamped with just that! You're going hard! Good luck with all those things!

[quillpunk]

thank you! i didn't realize it was so many things until i was writing this up, lol.

and it seems like you've been making good progress on Ad Astra's challenges! good luck! :D

[spacedogfromspace]

<3

[cornerofmadness]

I do inkingitout and getyourwordsout as well (not to mention fandomtrees) trying not to look at the horror thing because I might be tempted (we all know I'll look)

[quillpunk]

yeah, i went through the signup post on inkingitout to find my signup because i forgot what my goal was, lol, and i think i saw you there. and i'm been keeping an eye on fandomtrees for any fun prompts i wanna do! (the temptation of the horror prompts is too great for mere mortals like me to resist, but i am Trying™)

[cornerofmadness]

Yeah while I'm very much self motivating for writing, having a weekly accountability makes me feel more comfortable so I enjoy it.

Fandom Trees is such fun (though my favorite frustration is seeing my fandoms with prompts/pairings I couldn't pull off even if I tried)

temptation is so hard to resist

[quillpunk]

accountability that is comfortable is so important, it's great that's working for you! i'm also very self-motivating (in the sense that i don't like talking about how i'm doing on a goal while i'm working on it, because then there's Pressure™) but i suppose these weekly goals i'm doing count for weekly accountability, lol

Fandom Trees isn't super grabbing my enthusiasm this time (not that i've done it before, lol) (which i think i've seen you express similar opinions about lately, in which case, i hope that now with all the signups posted there'll something fun!) but i have amassed a few Trees i am looking at :D And also i *am* having a lot of fun with Small Fandoms Fest right now, so it balances out, i guess XD

and temptation is so hard to resist (but it turns out sometimes i'll forget about it entirely, and than it's a lot easier!) (read: i forgot)

[cornerofmadness]

Yeah I get that. I am too though I'm not the type to feel pressured like that but I know so many are (I think it's because I'm insanely competitive)

Yeah definitely a lot of people are saying the same thing. There are an amazing amount of fandoms but we know none of them. I have about 6 I know I could do and honestly I have 2 pro stories I must work on so if I do a few for the trees I'm content (I just hope we're not sitting here for weeks because so many of these are newer or whatever it is this time)

hahaha don't worry I forget a lot too

[quillpunk]

Yeah, I'm not particularly enthused about any of the fandoms/prompts/pairings on FandomTrees :( I still haven't gotten to writing on any of the ones I'm eyeing, so we'll see what happens.

i hope the event goes well, though!

[cornerofmadness]

I ended up finding about 4 that excited me. I've done one and a half so far

[quillpunk]

that's great! i've gotten my grubby paws on 2 that's got me more excited about it, so hopefully i'll actually write something, lol. congrats on your progress! :D

[cornerofmadness]

good luck with them

[quillpunk]

thank you :D