i think i need to be resocialized
Jun. 19th, 2025 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unfinishedidea...hi: I have pretty much not been on any kind of social media at all for the past two years since twitter imploded the first time around. On the one hand, I think it's done wonders for my mental health. On the other hand, I miss being part of a fannish community.
If I'm really being honest with myself, though, I've never been terribly good at building and maintaining close friendships online or being consistently active in fandom, so it's definitely rose-tinted nostalgia.
gateway drugs: I have somehow in the year of our lord 2025 gotten into Generation Kill. Specifically, Brad/Nate. Listen, I don't even fucking know. It was huge among many of my mutuals when the show first came out, and I had zero interest in it at the time. All I can say is that it's The Pitt's fault (speaking of: yes, I did binge all of it; yes, I do ship Robby/Jack; yes, I'm a little appalled that I appear to be in the Old Man Yaoi phase of my fannish life).
I am sure a ton of good fic has either disappeared into the ether (insert obligatory complaint about how whoever said nothing dies on the internet has never tried to find old fic for a long dead fandom) or is in the bowels of LJ, so if anyone has any non-AO3 recs, 👀. I am devouring pretty much everything on AO3.
I still don't really have any interest in watching the show or reading any of the books, so we'll see how long this obsession lasts.
not quite like riding a bike: uhhh, what else. I want to write fic?
In all seriousness, I do, but I never developed healthy methods of writing. Most everything I've written that I've ended up posting has been completed in either bouts of hypomanic productivity or under extreme stress due to deadlines.
I have a bajillion WIPs that I haven't worked on for years. I've been flirting with the idea of posting some 75% completed fics on and off for a while. No promises, though.
and now for something completely different: I've been obsessively watching this dance choreo on repeat. It's enthralling, mostly likely due to some combination of the song, the chemistry between Sean & Kaycee, and Kaycee's performance in general.
If I'm really being honest with myself, though, I've never been terribly good at building and maintaining close friendships online or being consistently active in fandom, so it's definitely rose-tinted nostalgia.
gateway drugs: I have somehow in the year of our lord 2025 gotten into Generation Kill. Specifically, Brad/Nate. Listen, I don't even fucking know. It was huge among many of my mutuals when the show first came out, and I had zero interest in it at the time. All I can say is that it's The Pitt's fault (speaking of: yes, I did binge all of it; yes, I do ship Robby/Jack; yes, I'm a little appalled that I appear to be in the Old Man Yaoi phase of my fannish life).
I am sure a ton of good fic has either disappeared into the ether (insert obligatory complaint about how whoever said nothing dies on the internet has never tried to find old fic for a long dead fandom) or is in the bowels of LJ, so if anyone has any non-AO3 recs, 👀. I am devouring pretty much everything on AO3.
I still don't really have any interest in watching the show or reading any of the books, so we'll see how long this obsession lasts.
not quite like riding a bike: uhhh, what else. I want to write fic?
In all seriousness, I do, but I never developed healthy methods of writing. Most everything I've written that I've ended up posting has been completed in either bouts of hypomanic productivity or under extreme stress due to deadlines.
I have a bajillion WIPs that I haven't worked on for years. I've been flirting with the idea of posting some 75% completed fics on and off for a while. No promises, though.
and now for something completely different: I've been obsessively watching this dance choreo on repeat. It's enthralling, mostly likely due to some combination of the song, the chemistry between Sean & Kaycee, and Kaycee's performance in general.