June Something: Days One, Five and Two
Jun. 18th, 2021 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
paulamcgJune Something! I've enjoyed following my DW friends' posts, and now that I've started my summer holidays, I feel that my June has properly begun and I'll manage to post Something myself, too. Because I'm still hopelessly stuck in one fandom, some of the questions can't possibly apply in my case.
Day 1: What's changed about your fandom life in the last 365 days?
Not much. My participation in the Harry Potter fandom looks and feels about the same as a year ago. In the past twelve months I've taken part in the same fests as in the eight months before those. However, I've joined in a few more HP events and communities, and continued to branch out a bit.
I've written more femslash, also at a comment fest, and posted a couple of tiny poems, and last autumn I wrote several drabbles for a prompt community, developing a slim thread of a story about Neville, after coming up with Harry/Neville on a whim when composing a last-minute contribution for Harry's birthday event. It's been fun to do![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
firewhiskeyfic again, twice, and to offer fic and my comments on all the works at a few journal fests I missed the previous time, some both on LJ and DW, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
hoggywartyxmas on LJ.
Oh, I've also started dabbling in fanart, and shared five humble pictures so far. I've participated in a couple of such fests which are only on Tumblr and AO3 and joined in Discord channels for these events, and found a new friend and beta thanks to a chat on Discord. I still haven't learnt to be active on Tumblr. I think I've now found other writers interested in Remus and Sirius: the Wolfstar community on Discord and Tumblr. But I feel I don't fit in and that there isn't much interest in the kind of Marauders fic I write.
Day 5: Compare and/or contrast your very first fandom obsession and your very latest fandom obsession.
I'm afraid I've never had more than one fandom obsession. Despite the branching out I've done since returning from my hiatus in early 2019, I still continue to write in the same first-five-HP-books-consistent universe which I started developing in autumn 2003. The core of my work is Remus Lupin's life, and almost all my fics include at least vague references or indirect connections to his story.
Day 2: You've got your OTP, you have to throw a third into the mix (from the same fandom), creating an OT3. Who is the OTP, and in your opinion, why would they make a perfect third for them? (Bonus question: What about adding a third to your OTP from a different fandom? Who and why?)
My OTP must remain Remus/Sirius, even though I've written more and more about Remus's intimate relationships with other characters (and even some kind of Sirius/Mrs Figg). While I'm happy to read about Remus and about Sirius in any pairing or threesome, I've never thought that in the reality of my Remus and Sirius's lives there could be a perfect third for them. But now that I think about it... it's still possible to include some Remus/Sirius/James in the story.
Day 1: What's changed about your fandom life in the last 365 days?
Not much. My participation in the Harry Potter fandom looks and feels about the same as a year ago. In the past twelve months I've taken part in the same fests as in the eight months before those. However, I've joined in a few more HP events and communities, and continued to branch out a bit.
I've written more femslash, also at a comment fest, and posted a couple of tiny poems, and last autumn I wrote several drabbles for a prompt community, developing a slim thread of a story about Neville, after coming up with Harry/Neville on a whim when composing a last-minute contribution for Harry's birthday event. It's been fun to do
firewhiskeyfic again, twice, and to offer fic and my comments on all the works at a few journal fests I missed the previous time, some both on LJ and DW, and hoggywartyxmas on LJ.Oh, I've also started dabbling in fanart, and shared five humble pictures so far. I've participated in a couple of such fests which are only on Tumblr and AO3 and joined in Discord channels for these events, and found a new friend and beta thanks to a chat on Discord. I still haven't learnt to be active on Tumblr. I think I've now found other writers interested in Remus and Sirius: the Wolfstar community on Discord and Tumblr. But I feel I don't fit in and that there isn't much interest in the kind of Marauders fic I write.
Day 5: Compare and/or contrast your very first fandom obsession and your very latest fandom obsession.
I'm afraid I've never had more than one fandom obsession. Despite the branching out I've done since returning from my hiatus in early 2019, I still continue to write in the same first-five-HP-books-consistent universe which I started developing in autumn 2003. The core of my work is Remus Lupin's life, and almost all my fics include at least vague references or indirect connections to his story.
Day 2: You've got your OTP, you have to throw a third into the mix (from the same fandom), creating an OT3. Who is the OTP, and in your opinion, why would they make a perfect third for them? (Bonus question: What about adding a third to your OTP from a different fandom? Who and why?)
My OTP must remain Remus/Sirius, even though I've written more and more about Remus's intimate relationships with other characters (and even some kind of Sirius/Mrs Figg). While I'm happy to read about Remus and about Sirius in any pairing or threesome, I've never thought that in the reality of my Remus and Sirius's lives there could be a perfect third for them. But now that I think about it... it's still possible to include some Remus/Sirius/James in the story.
