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I have finally written something again! It's in the "let it rest then do another edit" phase, so it should be finished and posted soon.

The fic is in a new-to-me fandom: Lucifer. It's a show that I started watching not that long ago, then got completely sucked into. I finished binging it last week, and I immediately wanted to write fanfic for it. It's nice to genuinely feel fannish about a show again.

It's a little intimidating to write for Lucifer, though, because it's a popular fandom and I really don't know the fandom culture at all. Although I did take a peek at some of the fanfic for it on AO3. So far, there seems to be one character that everyone hates, and some interesting ships that I wouldn't have guessed would be popular.

As for this fic I've written, I have absolutely no idea if it is a new idea, or if I've just written the most common trope in the fandom. It's a little weird to be standing on the outside, looking into a completely new fannish space. But a little fun, too.

Hi everyone! I don't even remember the last time I posted, but I'm finally starting to feel fannish again, so I am finding myself lurking here a little more, and I'm re-reading fanfic. I am also feeling the itch to write again, which is great because the last time I wrote anything was over three years ago (!)

As a way of easing myself back in, I have compared my fics on Teaspoon to those on AO3 and started importing some that I hadn't moved over. Which led to an interaction this evening where I had to explain to an AO3 reader why a fic I wrote in 2009 didn't reference an episode that aired in 2010. Which also led to my realizing that I used to write fanfic a very long time ago. Has it really been that long since we were all on LJ together and excited about new episodes with the Tenth Doctor?

Yes. Yes, it has. sigh

Anyway, I'm enjoying feeling the itch to write again, so that's something at least. Although I'm not sure yet which fandom I want to write in. Or if I will end up writing at all, for that matter. But that's the thing about time, right? It passes while you're not looking, but it can always surprise you. Looking forward to finding out what happens next.

You guys, the SJA cast has made a special last episode, written by Russell T. Davies, and it's beautiful and it made me cry.

Just to show how out of the loop I am, apparently there was a worldwide re-watch of "Day of the Doctor" today, with hashtag #SaveTheDay (although I'm not on Twitter, so don't have much use for hashtags).

However, I was not too late to find this: A new introduction to the re-watch for these social-distancing-times, written by Steven Moffat and using voice help from Dan Starkey as Strax:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fx8N5y3JlA

Hello everyone, and happy new year!

I haven't posted for awhile, mostly because I haven't had much to say. I am not currently feeling very fannish about anything. But right now, I am in the mood to talk about how I am not in the mood to be fannish. So here, have a post. ;)

First off, Doctor Who. It was the fandom that brought me to Teaspoon, and then to LJ, and then here. (It hasn't yet brought me to Tumblr, though, which is a problem since that seems to be the place where most people are hanging out now. Oh well, I shall remain here with my charmingly old-fashioned typing words and expecting people to read them method of communication.) I was so incredibly excited to have a female Doctor, and I couldn't wait to see what they did with Thirteen. And then we got last season, and I really didn't enjoy it. Then I saw part one of "Spyfall," and don't even think I want to bother with part two. I am just not enjoying Doctor Who. It's a very sad feeling. The only thing that makes it somewhat okay is the knowledge that eventually I am likely to enjoy it again. After all, I stopped watching Classic Who in the Sixth Doctor era for pretty much the same reason, and look what's happened since. Also I did go back and watch "The Pandorica Opens" today to remind myself of what a great Doctor Who episode is like, and I can happily report that I still loved it to absolute bits. So it's not the show itself that I no longer enjoy, just the current era.

In other TV news, I am watching The Good Place, and they are winding down the series and I am finding it very disappointing. The show was great in season 1, and mind-blowingly fantastic in season 2, but it's been a lot more Medium Place ever since. So I'm not really caring now about how they decide to end it.

Also, I just started watching The Orville, which is an interesting show, but I doubt that I will become fannish about it. The latest episode I saw, "Majority Rule," was pretty heavy-handed social commentary, although it did make me feel nostalgic for Sliders, which is an old TV show that perhaps no one on my flist has seen. But the "Majority Rule" planet would have been an excellent alternate Earth in a Sliders episode.

But I did just hear about some new TV show coming out with Hugh Laurie in it called Avenue 5. Does anyone know anything about this? Apparently Hugh Laurie is again using an American accent, which I find amusing. It also looks like it might be something that I would really enjoy. It is, alas, on HBO, which I do not have, but maybe I should look into finally getting it? Here, have a trailer and judge for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Zr3f-_Ft8

I've been having a stressful time lately, and while I got an idea for my Yuletide fic in mid-November, and even wrote the first 300 words, I have spent the last two-and-a-half weeks diligently not working on it. As in, I would come home from work and spend the evening thinking about how I really ought to open up the file and do some writing. Or open up the file and look at what I'd written so far. Or, okay, what if I just opened up the file? I didn't have to look at it as long as the file was at least open on my computer. But then I was always too tired, or too stressed, or too something, and I put it off for another day.

Last weekend I thought I would make a lot of progress. And surely I would have, if only I had opened up the file.

So these last few days I have thought seriously about defaulting. I've never defaulted for Yuletide, and it seems crazy to default when I have an assignment I think I can genuinely write, including having an idea for it and everything. The only problem is, I'm not actually writing it.

But the default deadline isn't until Tuesday, so I decided to give myself through this weekend to see how things went. And tonight I finally managed to open up the file and read what I had written a few weeks ago. And . . . I liked it! And then I wrote some more, and as of right now, the fic is 940 words long. So assuming I can open up the file again tomorrow and Sunday, I have a pretty good shot of actually being done with it soon.

In the meantime, I got my Yuletide gift a few weeks ago, which is by far the earliest I've ever gotten it. I'm trying to decide how much I want to shake. Maybe once I've posted my own fic, I'll feel more deserving of a gift.

So the recent Doctor Who episode started making me feel nostalgic for Timeless, and I went looking for clips.

Here's a whole montage of people introducing themselves in the past with modern pop culture references: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efvMmCTAgUU

And here's a clip where Rufus (the black pilot of the time ship) deals with some racism, which happened on the show *all the time*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZeCgOfmf10

And sure, Doctor Who had Rosa Parks, but Timeless had Katherine Johnson, and Bass Reeves -- go Google him if you've never heard of him, or better yet, watch this short clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYxrU-WaKGQ -- and Josephine Baker, and Wendell Scott (Google him, too), and HARRIET TUBMAN. So, yeah.

In fact, the show was great at showcasing historical people of color and making you go Google them afterwards. They also knew how to do an infodump in a way that was actually interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_95cqpBH_4

I had one of the best experiences a fanfic writer can have the other day: someone read one of my fics on AO3, liked it, commented on it, then promptly went off to read a bunch of my other fics on AO3 and comment on them as well. Obviously that only happens when the reader and I have tastes in common, and indeed, in one of their comments they happened to mention that the Doctor/Sarah best-friends relationship is their favorite. Oh, I was grinning so much, because -- me too! So then of course I became especially interested to know what they thought of my other Doctor/Sarah fic as I have written a truly embarrassing amount of it. I looked through my other fic on AO3 and . . . oh. Most of that fic isn't on AO3, I realized. I wrote it before I got an account there, and never bothered to bring it over from Teaspoon.

So, I am starting to rectify that. In some ways it's fun because the work shows up on AO3 as "new" and gets a little attention that way and hey, new comments on fic I wrote years ago! It's the cheapest, easiest way to get a small little ego boost. But it's also a bit of a pain because, as handy as AO3's import function is, I still have to go through about three iterations of correcting the notes and the tags and other random things once it's been imported. In fact, I'm wondering if it's not easier to simply post it as a new work from the copy of the fic on my computer. Of course, that means putting in all the tags and notes from scratch, but I'm practically doing that anyway.

Those of you who've done this for all of your past work -- any thoughts? Which method is easier?

I have finished posting my oldest WIP, and it is now a complete work! I am feeling super-accomplished, and thinking that I really should get back to writing more fanfic. Maybe I'll even try to tackle my next-oldest WIP, "Turn Again," which is only . . . (checks Teaspoon) . . . nine years old?

In the meantime, here's the official information for my no-longer-a-WIP:

Title: It's All Done with Mirrors
Fandom: Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) [1969 version]
Characters: Marty Hopkirk, Jeff Randall, Jeannie Hopkirk
Rating: All ages
Length: 26,343 words (8 chapters)
Summary: When a strange woman offers to hold a séance so Jeff and Jeannie can communicate with Marty, Jeff is skeptical, Jeannie is hopeful, and Marty is worried. But not even Marty could have guessed that this was the start of something that might end the Randall and Hopkirk partnership, forever.

Link here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15216503/chapters/35291972