Happy 2019!

[crantz]

I posted a decent chunk of fic in a lot of fandoms and not-fandoms in 2018, enough that just linking them all fills me with ennui.

I also got a quality assortment of gifts! I'm a lucky man. I can't even choose my favourite out of all of them! Fandoms include original work, She-Ra, X-Men (Mostly Gambit), Fairytales, and even Zoo Tycoon! Also my sister wrote a Jeeves and Wooster/Ranma Fusion for my birthday that gets special mention because she's my sister.

I wrote 33127 words that the world got to see in 2018 and that's pretty good. Pretty good indeed. I try not to compare myself to my friends who wrote 100k+, though I am properly admiring of them considering that on top of that they're damn good authors. Prolific, consistent, and good quality. That's the dream!

Honestly the reason most of my recap of last year is about my fanfic is because that is the only aspect of my life I can click on a statistics page for. I can't actually remember most of 2018. I know it wasn't too bad and the parts that were bad for me passed. I know that I forgot to drink my New Year champagne.

I don't know, is last year the year I disconnected my stove and started using a plug in skillet? Did I reach season 11 of Murder She Wrote last year? The year before?

Did I disassemble my lego table then? I don't know. I'm starting to see why people use these things as diaries, because I can't seem to keep things straight in my head.

I was going to end this with a comic recommendation, but then I realized I'm ten issues or more behind on all my comics. So I don't know if they're currently good or not.

The last time I decided to have a nice reading session in the library, someone had placed a plastic skeleton in My Chair. It's still there, but now it's on the arm with its face pressed against the window to look at passerbys.

Comments

[tainry]

Murder wizard! XD

OK Rin-ne sounds interesting!

Yes! I don't remember if the first anime I saw (in the 90's...I mean I'd been watching Speed Racer since I was little, and then Battle of the Planets and Voltron and Starblazers at a little older, and then Robotech came out when I was in high school and we called it Japanimation then and it was mind-blowing b/c a major-ish character ACTUALLY DIED) was Ranma or Sailor Moon, but those were the first two definitely. The Ranma fandom was what introduced me - very gently, really, as the story lends itself in a natural way - to yaoi. <3 ::has never looked back::

[crantz]

Fun fact: I had no idea Speed Racer, Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z, Samurai Pizza Cats, etc, were Japanese so Ranma gets to be first through the dint of being the first *knowing* anime.

X-Men introduced me to slash! Mom told me about fanfic when I was really sad about the X-Men cartoon ending 'cause she thought I'd write it like she used to write Star Trek fic but what happened was I looked it up on alta vista. And then I started looking up sound clips from the cartoons, old midi files, and came across one that had been edited to sound like Gambit/Wolverine and Rogue walking in and then there was fanart of Gambit in Wolverine's lap and my thought was 'huh, they're standing close!' and then mom went through my web history and had just watched her Due South mailing list descend into flames over slash and was like 'no this is a cursed thing!'

so I went back and read the whole (and only at the time) x-men slash archive.

The end.

[tainry]

I...am not sure I knew Speed Racer et al were Japanese, not at first? I mean I knew Ultraman was. But I did notice that there was a similarity of style to them, like there was for the Looney Toons, and Hannah-Barbara, and a bit later, Rankin-Bass. I could pick out voices, too, though I had no idea of names. I could pick out the guy who would go on to do Thundercracker years later, and the guy who would do Ratchet. Frank Welker had me fooled, though, because I never figured Fred was also Cosmo and also Iceman from Spiderman and His Amazing Friends! Oh and Shaggy, being Casey Kasem, was super familiar! Scatman Crouthers too!

OMG that's kind of epic! XDDD Oh lord Due South slash... My bff was way more into Due South than I ever got - though I liked it a good deal - and she told me all about the two Rays and the two camps dedicated thereof. XDDDDDDD

[crantz]

Voices! It's amazing how much of my childhood was Cree Summer!

My poor mother was like 'I just wanted to discuss how dreamy Fraser was! Then everyone was fighting!'