I haven't been around fandom very much, in quite a while. All the new canon's kind of been wearing me the hell out, and until it sinks into my brain properly (and meshes with what's already there) writing's damned hard. Plus, real life stuff, leading into summer, has meant I just haven't been around much.

But this morning I got this piece of feedback, and it just got to me. More than all the fandom awards in the world, more than just about anything I can even imagine, having someone tell me that they like what I've written, and something I've written has touched them-- It's just the best damned feeling in the world.

So, you know, massive amounts of warm fuzzies and positive thinking and just *love*, today.

And maybe I'll do the timestamp meme over the weekend.

Somehow, it's been nearly two weeks since I've posted.

That's because, well, I'm busy doing things. Real life things, with kids and dogs and cooking and cleaning. I am still watching Who (because DUH), but I'm pretty relaxed about my viewing. I have to get my Tardis_Bigbang art done, and confirm the title of the thing. That, and a massive amount of role-play, are really about it for me in fandom, right now.

Well, fake-people fandom. I've also got a growing RPS obsession and am falling in love with Robert Gant, but that's neither here nor there.

Anyway, no one worry. I'm around, I'm fine. I'm just being family and gaming oriented right now, and gearing up to go on vacation and playing outside a lot more than on livejournal lately. If you need me for anything at all, you know where my email is.

Embedding for this video has been turned off, but there was no way in the world I could not share.

It's John singing The Doctor and I.

No, not the Wizard and I. The Doctor and I.

The line "Would it be all right by you if I defabricate you" happens.

Oh dear god, if I ever forgot why I loved John, I have been so reminded.

Seriously, go click the link. Listen. Die.

(And yes, those of you in comms probably already know that, but it's new to me and I have to giggle and share)

There's a recent post over in fanficrants that was intended to address the problems associated with posting WIPs. What it actually was, was a sort of 'how to' primer for writing longer fiction. It was interesting, in a way, but not particularly enlightening; I think we all how how we're 'supposed' to do it.

What I found thought-provoking was some of the discussion in the comments.

Normally remarks to the effect of saying 'it's just fanfiction/a hobby, it doesn't have to be perfect' really get under my skin and just plain aggravate the hell out of me. The least you can do, if you expect people to read your story, is make sure that the story you want to tell is as accessible to the reader as you can make it. It's just basic respect.

One of the comments got me, though. I can't point and say 'that' to any single line in the comment, but I think it's something in 'not constantly striving for leaps and bounds, but meandering upward'. It's an echo of something I heard someone else say, which was that getting better is good, but that doesn't mean every story is going to be better than the last.

Frankly, I think that line is something I could do with reminding myself of.

It is not the end of the world if my next story isn't as better than the last - it's even okay if my next story isn't *as good as* the last one was. It doesn't mean I don't care about my readers. It doesn't mean I'm sending out absolute crap that was written at 3 am while I was high on pixie sticks. It means I'm playing and sometimes things will work better than others, and I can always try again.

laurab1 made art for Kyrie!

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This is just so damn perfect I have no words. Perfect and gorgeous and wonderful and squee!

For the first time in ages I've actually completed more than one thing in a month. That means I can do a round-up.

( April 2008 Round-up )

So, not a ton, but 8,300 words and much more like it.

Can anyone do a quick beta job on a series of 5 drabbles for me? I do need anything major, just someone to catch any major errors/typos.

ETA: Done and posted. That? Felt damn good.

I am having issues getting S2 of TW to 'sink in'. It's not that I don't know it, it's that I can't get it to reach the level of 'reach for it and it's there'ness that I have with information given to us in the first season. I think I'm going to have to find the wiki and read it.

My brain is so weird. And Jack's timeline is so confusing.

Also, 10 vids in 2 weeks? *falls the fuck over* Just thinking about that makes my head hurt.

I'm doing character banners, and managed to remember to save the one with John Barrowman before I slapped text all over it. So, predictably, I'm sharing. Even if it is a little oddly sized

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