Attack of the Fifty Foot Ficathons
Mar. 18th, 2012 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
netgirl_y2kYou know, I think it was very sad that the entire Six Nations was cancelled this year due to illness/injury/zombie apocalypse/insert preferred denial here. Very sad indeed.
Although, I did have a very productive weekend on account of all the rugby I wasn't watching. I managed to finish my Rarewomen fic six weeks ahead of the deadline. Admittedly, this is mostly because I misread the assignment e-mail and thought it was due March 30th and not April 30th. Still, not bad, eh? I've also already finished my remix. Which is mad, but also greatly pleasing to me because the main reason I went back and forth on signing up this year is that I know myself that I've become much more fussy in my engagement with fandom over the past couple of years, and I was worried that I'd drop out again. But I got my assignment and there was an obvious fic to remix, and I got an idea straight away - one of those rare ones which pops into your mind fully formed - and it was either write it or watch Scotland being professionally rubbish at rugby, again. And I like what I've written and think it works as a remix, but I also hope that my remixee is of the school of thought that remixes aren't gift-fics, or even really for the original author, because otherwise... oops?
I also bought a toaster. The other week I was talking about how I was envious of the fancy toaster with an egg poaching attachment that my friends had bought, and I was using it as a metaphor for all the things and trappings of an adult life that I don't have right now, and all of that is still true. But, also, I actually really did want that toaster.
Although, I did have a very productive weekend on account of all the rugby I wasn't watching. I managed to finish my Rarewomen fic six weeks ahead of the deadline. Admittedly, this is mostly because I misread the assignment e-mail and thought it was due March 30th and not April 30th. Still, not bad, eh? I've also already finished my remix. Which is mad, but also greatly pleasing to me because the main reason I went back and forth on signing up this year is that I know myself that I've become much more fussy in my engagement with fandom over the past couple of years, and I was worried that I'd drop out again. But I got my assignment and there was an obvious fic to remix, and I got an idea straight away - one of those rare ones which pops into your mind fully formed - and it was either write it or watch Scotland being professionally rubbish at rugby, again. And I like what I've written and think it works as a remix, but I also hope that my remixee is of the school of thought that remixes aren't gift-fics, or even really for the original author, because otherwise... oops?
I also bought a toaster. The other week I was talking about how I was envious of the fancy toaster with an egg poaching attachment that my friends had bought, and I was using it as a metaphor for all the things and trappings of an adult life that I don't have right now, and all of that is still true. But, also, I actually really did want that toaster.