Domenika Marzione (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
domarzione) wrote2021-12-12 09:50 pm
domarzione) wrote2021-12-12 09:50 pm
I live?
It has been nine months since I posted here, apparently, and I didn't mean to make it such a hiatus, especially because I check in every other day or so and have kept up with all of your adventures.
(I post on tumblr because it's generally low-effort, but I also sometimes post meta and other stuff and it's the WORST environment for that.)
It has been a year, peeps. I've finished school, switched jobs, learned how to drive, and am currently failing spectacularly at moving to my duty station. Which hasn't mattered because we're all still WFH, but that will be changing imminently and I'm still hundreds of miles away.
I haven't had much of a brain for fanfic with everything going on, especially when all of my outstanding WIPs are over 100k words and rereading them to figure out where I was is so consuming. And I don't have an active fandom right now to spark a fic surge the way The Old Guard did last summer. I miss writing, y'all.
That said, I kinda did figure out what happens with Qui Habitat and have outlined it through Chapter 37 (it's posted through 28). I have to suck it up and start killing off meaningful people, though, and I dread that. The outlining is still work, though, and then I have to write the story. But someone read through the series on ao3 the other week and commented throughout and that felt SO GOOD. I don't get a lot of comments on any stories these days, let alone one like that.
Time has not at all healed my MCU wounds or revivified my fandom interest. It's not dead officially or intentionally, just... I come from the comics and I've had decades of being able to let stupid canon decisions roll off my back, but it's been hard here. Maybe because it's only one canon and not the "character appears in ten different books with eight different writers and some get it better than others" where I have options. And the end state of Endgame just pissed me off on so many levels, which does not play well with my Canon Whore tendencies. So returning to writing a Steve/Peggy story when I still feel rage at how canon handled that... I can't for more reasons than that time travel is now a completely different thing.
(I suspect the tumblr discourse hasn't helped, where everything is so politicized and it's Team Tony and Team Steve the way it's Team Democrats and Team Trump and each thinks the other is evil and perverted for believing what they believe. I filter proactively and excessively, but you can't keep it all away when sometimes it's not the tags it's the gif selection.)
I'm hilariously behind on consuming media there, too, despite the Disney+ subscription. I can't finish The Falcon and the Winter Soldier because it bores me and the early worldbuilding decisions annoyed me. Loki was good, although I have issues with the last episode -- nowhere near the degree that I had issues with the last episode of WandaVision. I haven't seen any of the movies despite wanting to. I watch hockey instead.
So that's me. How've you all been?
(I post on tumblr because it's generally low-effort, but I also sometimes post meta and other stuff and it's the WORST environment for that.)
It has been a year, peeps. I've finished school, switched jobs, learned how to drive, and am currently failing spectacularly at moving to my duty station. Which hasn't mattered because we're all still WFH, but that will be changing imminently and I'm still hundreds of miles away.
I haven't had much of a brain for fanfic with everything going on, especially when all of my outstanding WIPs are over 100k words and rereading them to figure out where I was is so consuming. And I don't have an active fandom right now to spark a fic surge the way The Old Guard did last summer. I miss writing, y'all.
That said, I kinda did figure out what happens with Qui Habitat and have outlined it through Chapter 37 (it's posted through 28). I have to suck it up and start killing off meaningful people, though, and I dread that. The outlining is still work, though, and then I have to write the story. But someone read through the series on ao3 the other week and commented throughout and that felt SO GOOD. I don't get a lot of comments on any stories these days, let alone one like that.
Time has not at all healed my MCU wounds or revivified my fandom interest. It's not dead officially or intentionally, just... I come from the comics and I've had decades of being able to let stupid canon decisions roll off my back, but it's been hard here. Maybe because it's only one canon and not the "character appears in ten different books with eight different writers and some get it better than others" where I have options. And the end state of Endgame just pissed me off on so many levels, which does not play well with my Canon Whore tendencies. So returning to writing a Steve/Peggy story when I still feel rage at how canon handled that... I can't for more reasons than that time travel is now a completely different thing.
(I suspect the tumblr discourse hasn't helped, where everything is so politicized and it's Team Tony and Team Steve the way it's Team Democrats and Team Trump and each thinks the other is evil and perverted for believing what they believe. I filter proactively and excessively, but you can't keep it all away when sometimes it's not the tags it's the gif selection.)
I'm hilariously behind on consuming media there, too, despite the Disney+ subscription. I can't finish The Falcon and the Winter Soldier because it bores me and the early worldbuilding decisions annoyed me. Loki was good, although I have issues with the last episode -- nowhere near the degree that I had issues with the last episode of WandaVision. I haven't seen any of the movies despite wanting to. I watch hockey instead.
So that's me. How've you all been?
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I don't really know what else to say. I live too! And I know what you mean about feeling the lack of a fandom. I feel a bit cast-about. I'm excited about the new season of The Expanse, and I'm enjoying the Hawkeye tv show so far. My football team is inching slowly up the table toward promotion, or at least playoffs, so I am getting ready for the inevitable disappointment in the spring.
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My only hesitation about starting the Hawkeye series is how much I grew to dislike the Fraction comics by the end -- and my loathing of how fandom turned that canon into MCU fanon. MCU Hawkeye is based on Ultimates Hawkeye and I loved him deeply from his introduction in an otherwise execrable comic and to see his movie incarnation replaced by the captain of Fraction's failboat... I don't want to see that 'for real' and not just in a fanfic.