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Oi. Had a lovely day yesterday up in Ann Arbor shopping and eating with the girls. Bought some Godiva truffles. Returned all four pair of shoes I'd bought online for size and got the right ones ordered. All in all a productive fun day that had nothing to do with anything I needed to do work wise or at home. I like this idea of taking time off from the endless litany of work related stuff that has to be done yesterday.

Today the wind is howling outside, 50 mile an hour gusts, I'm doing the laundry and thinking about lesson planning. My tax preparer called to say my taxes were finished and I'm terrified what the changes in the tax code may mean for me. I thought I was going to be ok, but there's that last minute terror that I've miscalculated.

And last but not least I am once again thinking about fandom and fanfic, with tumblr now saying it will be gone by the end of 2019. I recently had a horrendous experience reading an author I trusted and liked, but I'm still a fic reader if not writer through and through even if I'm not writing anymore. So I'm looking for any BBC Sherlock recommendations for either fic or accounts to follow.
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Just spent some time (when I should have been grading) going through and purging all the tumblr accounts I follow that have been inactive for a year, two, four, however many years it’s been. I do this more regularly on my twitter feed, but today the purging and the time frames really made an impression on me. I mean, how long have I been on social media? There used to be such a vibrant, thriving community of educators on tumblr. For the most part they are gone. I find what’s left of my PLC on twitter. But even there it seems that the community is shrinking, failing, disappearing, amid all the talk of teacher shortages and reforms in education. There is no shortage of teachers. There is a shortage of qualified people willing to work in education and in classrooms for poverty wages and a constant barrage of disrespect and demonization. But that’s another discussion.

Where has the time gone? I realistically am five years out from retirement, but those five years seem like forever. Looking back, however, where did the last five years go? They disappeared in a flash, a blinded haze where I simply put one foot in front of the other and marched on, being the ever good little soldier/teacher/mother. Without noticing the passage of time, the closing of doors, the monotony of existing in this time and place. Maybe it’s the brutalization of teaching as a profession and education in general. Maybe it’s the increasing danger facing us in our political, social, and economic realities as institutions come under attack and threaten to collapse under the weight of it all. Oligarchy, authoritarianism, marginalization for large segments of society are terrifying things. Our political reality is a shitshow on fire. Watching the slow moving massacre occur, trying to ride the wave of change and make decisions that will not cost you everything is exhausting. There is no time for everything that needs to be nurtured, reflected on. There is no time even to barely achieve anything beyond basic existence.

Even fandom offers little of the joy and solace it has in the past for me. I haven’t written fic, or anything non-profession related, in over a decade. I may have forgotten how. Fandom seems as fragmented and fragile and tribal as every other area of life. I am tired and looking at a stack of grading to be done as I sit here commiserating with myself, which is not a good look for me right now. I eat, I shop, I work, and it all seems a bit empty, going through the motions. I’m so grateful for my kids and my friends and my cat and my occasional travel, which is what is making all the continuing on possible. The road ahead is a blurry mess, and I wish I could do a better job at reading the signs, but it is what it is.

For now I guess I’ll just sink back into my funk and watch the cat cleaning himself. And maybe try to get a little scoring done.
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The challenge for today is: In your own space, post self-recs for at least three fanworks that you created. So here they are. One SG-1 and two Farscape. I wrestled with my choices, wanting at one point to go with the Farscape/X-Files crossover or the Farscape/Firefly crossover I wrote and really love, but finally just went with these. They might be a little dark. :)

And Miles To Go
And So You Go
One Red Thread

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Today’s challenge is to stretch yourself a little and try something new. Go play in a new fandom or with a new pairing. Try working in a new medium. Or check out some fanworks that are new to you.

So I decided to check out the Three Patch Podcast which I’ve seen out and about in my tumblr wanderings. And who could pass by anything with the really great title of League of Furies? Especially with the podcast description: In which we explore the intersection between activism and fandom, interview the author behind the recently published Sherlock’s World, and watch the first episode of the newest Doctor Who! We also pay tribute to Chuck and their legacy in fandom. Just the description alone had me hooked. Anyway, if you are so inclined, go ahead and give it a listen. Show notes and podcast are here.

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Today's challenge is: In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. So I'm just gonna be selfish here and go for it.

An icon. I have no artistic skillz and this is beyond my abilities. So an icon of either Aeryn (Farscape), Sherlock or Sherlock and John (BBC Sherlock), or Cam and Vala (SG-1). Or I'd really like recs for Johnlock, either dark and angsty or fluffy and cute, as long as Mary is either gone or evil and vanquished.

That's it. Apparently I am a simple creature as far as my fannish needs to. :)

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In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Where to start? With my original fandom perhaps. I love beginnings and a beginning I love was the first episode of Farscape. Why? Because Moya, that gorgeous living, sentient ship. And Pilot. Snarky, lovely Pilot. And Rygel, Zhaan, and D’Argo. But most of all I love this for Aeryn. Beautiful, confused, conflicted, damaged, lethal Aeryn. My deep and abiding love for her continues to this day.

Another beginning is Sherlock. The unaired Pilot as well as the official one. Martin and Benedict are perfect as John and Sherlock. Their relationship (prior to S3 and 4) is exactly as I imagine Conan Doyle saw it. And while some episodes and entire series were less appealing than others, The Reichenbach Fall is an still an amazing episode. Needless to say, I have been a fan of Holmes and Watson since I was ten years old.

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Ok. I like reading and writing dark. Most of the time. These are all from the Sherlock fandom and fair warning, they are all sad, sadder, saddest, as they all address some form of character death. But there is beauty here as well. Caveat lector.

Alone on the Water

Software Malfunction

Where I Cannot Find You

if nobody speaks of remarkable things

Half Day

Dec. 20th, 2018 06:48 pm
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Tomorrow is out last half-day before break. Then after the kids are gone I'll spend the rest of the day cleaning up the late work pile and filing and getting ready for the day we come back. In my fantasies, I spend time sitting in a comfy chair reading something that isn't student work, something that I don't slap a score and feedback on, something that makes me feel civilized and human. Something that isn't Republican fascism or the death of democracy, that isn't children in cages and no one having healthcare. Something that does't involve starving, hurting, tormented animals or people. Fandom is the best I can do right now. I have a ton of books in my to-read pile, but fandom is the friend you can call up anywhere you have a device and internet. And fanfic makes me happy. I can pick and choose authors and story lines and characters I like. Which is a vast improvement over the 48 hours of online scoring I have waiting for me over break.
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Sitting around with the presents all wrapped under the tree, laundry and bathrooms finished, and ignoring all the scoring and associated minutia of the end of the year festival of all things crap, I'm instead spending my time in a quiet house soaking up fanfic. I spent ten years writing and reading in the Farscape/SG-1 fandoms and then stopped writing. I have spent almost as long reading in the Sherlock fandom after having been a fan of Holmes and Watson since first reading ACD at about age 10. I have to say I spend a lot of time reading Sherlock fic and just want to shout out to those writers who give us all so much joy at this and every time of the year, whose gifts to fandom of time and talent make us all feel so much better even if real life is not cooperating in that endeavor at all.
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Back in the fold again after a much too long absence. In light of tumblr's current issues and the coming possibly massive exodus, I am once again looking for fandom connections everyday interactions among the forum faithful.

Tis the season for hope and joy. :)
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it's a grey, overcast day which perfectly mirrors my mood. it's the last day of my break, and i'm back in the classroom tomorrow for that last, frenzied push to the end of the year. i should probably think about what i'm doing tomorrow...eh, later. i'd rather think about what i'm making for dinner tonight and what i might be taking for lunch tomorrow.

right now i'm sitting here losing my voice. never a good thing when you are narrating slldeshows for an online class you're putting together. who thought this would be a good idea, again? yep, that was me. stoooooooooooooooooooooopid. *bangsheadondesk*

also thinking about maybe signing up for the remix again this year. i enjoyed it the last (and only) time i did it. and since i don't feel like writing any fic for my fandom/forum to post, why not?

feel free to give me a reason, though. :) 
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...i forgot to squee! i have a shiny, new layout courtesy of [personal profile] grrliz and her greatness. it even came with a great tutorial and everything. :)

it was a lovely day today, sun shining and warm, and it was friday even if that means my break is almost over and i'm faced with going back to school on monday. i just have so much to do. oy. i'm worse than the kids.

and i'm feeling kinda antsy and between chairs as it were, feeling out of love with my fannish pursuits and a dead/dying/dysfunctional fandom and looking for something else to engage me.

any suggestions?  

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well, as thinky as i can be at this point in time. i'm sitting here watching and listening to the rain, again. ok, i get it. it's april. it's cold and it's raining. again. but it's my spring break, and i am sick and tired of cold and rain.

so i'm sitting here thinking of fandom, as opposed to being productive and shit. and i'm wondering if there's a tipping point for dying fandoms and if you could recognize that. i mean, can you recognize a fandom in its death throes and see the point beyond which it will never recover?

and is there such a point for you, individually? beyond which you simply cannot tolerate being part of a fandom?   

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