*tap tap tap*...is this thing on?

[dancing_adrift]

*yells out into the terrifying abyss* "HELLO, LIVE JOURNAL!"

I have no barely any idea how to act in here, so please bear with me. I probably won't be very active, because will probably be more active than I'd thought; LJ has been pretty damn welcoming so far :) I'm pretty happy with the set-up I've got going between twitter and AO3, but I kind of really wanted to try my hand at submitting some art for a Big Bang, so I had to make my account official in order to do that. I think that's the first logical step at least...

So anyway, here I am. All my profile info is straight from twitter (because it seemed like the most comfortable way to dip my toes into the big, scary LJ, by logging in from that account), so take it for what you will (I added a bit; guess I can step out of my twitter shell after all ;)). To update it a bit [more]: I love Supernatural; I am a fairly recent fan (I started watching on Netflix a few months before season 10 first aired), but I am neck-deep in fandom now and I love that, too.

As I mentioned, I'm also on AO3. Mainly, I spend my time there reading, but I also beta for a few friends (mainly non_tiembo_mala, gluedwithgold, and sometimes whispered_story - all amazing authors; definitely check them out if you don't already know them) and occasionally post fic of my own.

I also like to draw/paint/sketch/whatever, but I rarely do in the interest of doing those other things. But I like to take opportunities when I can to flex those skills, try to keep them from getting too rusty. (For an example, check out the drawing I did for non_tiembo_mala's "Upon A Painted Ocean", here. You should also definitely read the story, because it's SO GOOD.) Thus, my motivation for joining, like, officially joining, LJ - to (I hope, if all goes well) participate as an artist contributor in the 2016 Big Bang. I'm going to go sign up now, so wish me luck!! (I'm gonna need it!)

Here's to you, Live Journal. Please be gentle with me - I'm new. ;)

Love,
Amanda aka @Dancing_Adrift

[edited March 28th to keep info current while maintaining this as a suitable introductory post to stick at the top of my journal] :)

Comments

[dancing-adrift.livejournal.com]

omg, I saw your avatar for this comment and my heart did a HUGE HAPPY DANCE. STARGATE SG1, AHHHH ♥♥♥ I forgot that you were also into that show - my first fandom love!!!

As for commitment issues, I find that being accountable to another person, or a deadline, is super helpful in motivating me to write. I'm sure there's got to be a community with a challenge out there somewhere that you could have fun with! :)

[alyndra]

Haha I only ever wrote one little thing for SG1, here, gen, team, kind of weirdly meta, but you can check it out if you want! No pressure.

It may be sadder than I thought it was at the time, looking at it now. Hmm.

That's my problem, though! All to often I will disappoint someone (or someones) so I probably do better to just go at my own pace even if it takes me a year to write a medium-sized story. I'd like to be able to join in on more communal writing exercises, if only my brain would cooperate!

Probably I should look for ones with no deadlines, and then have fun, I'm realizing. :P

[dancing-adrift.livejournal.com]

I read it, and I loved it! Even though it is indeed sad.

I started an SG1 fic once; it was intended to be Sam/Jack (it feels so weird writing that as a ship name and not as, like, Sam [Winchester] slash someone, lol), but I never got very far. I'd like to finish it someday, but I think I'd have to do a rewatch or something, get me out of the SPN headspace and back into the SG1 one.

[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] actually started an SPN/SG1 crossover that I every so often BEG her to finish, but she's working on so many other fics with those wrascally Winchesters and their RPF counterparts...well, I can't really complain as long as she's writing something ;) Same goes for you, missy - just keep writing! *does her best to take her own advice, too*

[alyndra]

Thanks for reading and letting me know! ♥

Haha yes and then there is LotR Sam and don't even get me started on all the Johns in different fandoms! So ridiculous. Who invented this system?

I will completely applaud any efforts you want to put into finishing! But yeah, it's such a weird feeling when you realize you've fallen out of a fandom you used to be super into.

... Or any efforts towards getting your friend to, for that matter! Is it someone I know? *chinhands* (haha psst unlike Twitter you can actually edit posts here, btw. ETA: I guess I mean you can edit comments until someone replies to them. Whoops!)

Halp! I should be writing right now! Exciting stuff in the works!

[dancing-adrift.livejournal.com]

hmm. I'm not sure why it didn't like my tag. *tries again* non_tiembo_mala <<non_tiembo_mala, aka @sammie_phillips, our MinnCon roomie, is the one working on the crossover. I have stuff I should be working on writing-wise too, lol. Got a fic that I'm supposed to have finished by April 1st, but I'm nowhere near done O.O

[alyndra]

Oh ok! No worries, those tags are easy to mess up all the time. You got it now though!

April 1st is sneaking right up on us! Better whip it into shape!!

[dancing-adrift.livejournal.com]

hahaha, right? Thankfully, we just got an extension through the 10th, so I should definitely be good ;) I'm pretty excited about it - one prompt, three authors writing separately of each other. Can't wait to see the different results!