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edenfallingSince returning to Ithaca, I somehow managed to get my sleep schedule fucked up, which has been messing with my ability to face sorting through the Yuletide archive. (Making and acting on decisions is hard, yo, and one of the first things to go when I am tired. Which also contributes to my tiredness, since after a certain point I can't make and act on the good and wise decision to go the fuck to bed. Stupid brain chemistry design flaws.)
I have managed to sort of force my way through work despite occasional spacey moments. Luckily it's been slow because of weird holiday scheduling. I mean, Christmas and New Year's on Wednesdays? So strange. Nobody knows what days anything is open or closed, so a lot of people seem to be avoiding the issue and just staying home.
We did quarterly inventory today, though I actually did quarterly inventory on Sunday afternoon and evening. See, I did the instant lottery ticket inventory and order on Friday afternoon because of holiday delivery scheduling issues, and some newspaper stuff on Saturday (which I normally have off), so on Sunday I took a bunch of inventory sheets downstairs and did all the basement inventory, as per Boss Lady's instructions. Then it was so dead in the evening (because nobody is out shopping, because weird holidays are weird) that I stole all the book inventory sheets from the piles set out for Monday morning and just counted them too. I mean, if I hadn't done that, I probably would've ended up counting all the greeting cards this morning, because that is how my life works. I loathe counting the greeting cards. So this was self-defense, really.
I typed up a fragmentary response to another Cotton Candy Bingo prompt that I wrote at work back at the end of September and added another hundred words to it. I may poke at that again tonight. Or I may go poke around the Three Sentence Ficathon. Or I may write up a Yuletide reveal post. Hmm. *ponders*
Oh, hey, speaking of Yuletide. I have read, I think, all the Earthsea fic, and all the Calvin & Hobbes fic, and all the Black Jewels fic, and some assorted random things that jumped out at me from other people's rec lists, and a few things I clicked on at random in the Madness collection. (Plus the other fics in the fandoms for which I myself wrote stuff.) That is not very much, all told.
My own stories have garnered few hits and a modest response, though both my recipients liked them. This is not surprising in the slightest; the fandom for which I wrote a treat is... not obscure, precisely, but definitely not large. And the other is, well, historical fiction. And not fantastical historical fiction, either. Its fannish audience is therefore self-limiting, which I knew going in, and I don't care because I love the canon to bits and I enjoyed the hell out of researching and writing that fic. The comments I received have been very nice and thoughtful, and confirm that I achieved the result I was aiming for, so I am content to declare victory. :-)
I mean, I would never say no if I wrote a story that became a surprise Yuletide hit, but I know myself and I have some sense of where the big fannish id buttons lie -- and also the Yuletide fannish id buttons, which are not quite the same thing -- and I am confident in saying that my chosen fandoms/tropes/plots do not usually hit those buttons in the way that goes viral.
Yeah, I should go write up a reveal post.
And then maybe do the "thinking about the year" part of my end-of-year fic roundup post, because I may have all the links in place (which I try to keep up-to-date on, since it is tedious beyond belief to collect them all at once), but I haven't done any analysis at all.
Let's see if this decision works. :-)
I have managed to sort of force my way through work despite occasional spacey moments. Luckily it's been slow because of weird holiday scheduling. I mean, Christmas and New Year's on Wednesdays? So strange. Nobody knows what days anything is open or closed, so a lot of people seem to be avoiding the issue and just staying home.
We did quarterly inventory today, though I actually did quarterly inventory on Sunday afternoon and evening. See, I did the instant lottery ticket inventory and order on Friday afternoon because of holiday delivery scheduling issues, and some newspaper stuff on Saturday (which I normally have off), so on Sunday I took a bunch of inventory sheets downstairs and did all the basement inventory, as per Boss Lady's instructions. Then it was so dead in the evening (because nobody is out shopping, because weird holidays are weird) that I stole all the book inventory sheets from the piles set out for Monday morning and just counted them too. I mean, if I hadn't done that, I probably would've ended up counting all the greeting cards this morning, because that is how my life works. I loathe counting the greeting cards. So this was self-defense, really.
I typed up a fragmentary response to another Cotton Candy Bingo prompt that I wrote at work back at the end of September and added another hundred words to it. I may poke at that again tonight. Or I may go poke around the Three Sentence Ficathon. Or I may write up a Yuletide reveal post. Hmm. *ponders*
Oh, hey, speaking of Yuletide. I have read, I think, all the Earthsea fic, and all the Calvin & Hobbes fic, and all the Black Jewels fic, and some assorted random things that jumped out at me from other people's rec lists, and a few things I clicked on at random in the Madness collection. (Plus the other fics in the fandoms for which I myself wrote stuff.) That is not very much, all told.
My own stories have garnered few hits and a modest response, though both my recipients liked them. This is not surprising in the slightest; the fandom for which I wrote a treat is... not obscure, precisely, but definitely not large. And the other is, well, historical fiction. And not fantastical historical fiction, either. Its fannish audience is therefore self-limiting, which I knew going in, and I don't care because I love the canon to bits and I enjoyed the hell out of researching and writing that fic. The comments I received have been very nice and thoughtful, and confirm that I achieved the result I was aiming for, so I am content to declare victory. :-)
I mean, I would never say no if I wrote a story that became a surprise Yuletide hit, but I know myself and I have some sense of where the big fannish id buttons lie -- and also the Yuletide fannish id buttons, which are not quite the same thing -- and I am confident in saying that my chosen fandoms/tropes/plots do not usually hit those buttons in the way that goes viral.
Yeah, I should go write up a reveal post.
And then maybe do the "thinking about the year" part of my end-of-year fic roundup post, because I may have all the links in place (which I try to keep up-to-date on, since it is tedious beyond belief to collect them all at once), but I haven't done any analysis at all.
Let's see if this decision works. :-)
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Date: 2013-12-31 06:55 pm (UTC)There's also various fics from the FrostIron Fest, which is sort of like Yuletide but exclusively for the FrostIron pairing, if you're into that.
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Date: 2014-01-01 03:47 am (UTC)If FrostIron is Loki/Tony Stark from the Marvel movies, then I am not even neutral on the pairing -- I have actual negative interest in reading about them together, regardless of the surrounding plot. (My ship is really, really not your ship... and that's okay!)
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Date: 2014-01-01 05:10 pm (UTC)Yes, FrostIron is Tony/Loki--the Marvel fandom seems to be big on creating cool/funny/cute names for pairings. (Which reminds me of a comment someone made about the Star Trek fandom: "I think we've shown remarkable restraint in referring to the Spock/Kirk pairing as Spirk and not Kock." LOL.)