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Ever wanted to learn more about a piece of media without risking spoilers, written by a fan for a prospective new audience? jellyfishlover recently wrote a primer for the series Petscop (both here on Dreamwidth and Neocities) and I think it is the coolest thing.

The page itself covers Petscop’s deal, so I’ll let that end speak for itself; but I also want to add, the very concept of a page like this intrigues me! Sometimes I just wanna know what’s up with XYZ thing that someone’s talking about, but wiki-trawling is a spoiler minefield—and half the time it’s incomprehensible anyway, written with the assumption you’ve already seen/read/watched/played/[insert other form of media consumption here] the thing. But behold, the primer: Here’s what the thing is about! Here’s why you(-general) might find it interesting! And if you do give it a try, and want to get more deeply invested, here’s some stuff you can check out, both official and fanmade!

I Just Think It’s Swell. It makes me want to make something similar for my current pet fandom, and check out other pages like it. (Closest thing coming to mind is a fanshrine, which preceded my internet time so I have no idea if they were/are made with the intent to inform/intrigue the canonblind.) At any rate, while I am notoriously slow at getting into things, reading this definitely nudged Petscop up a few hypothetical tiers. Like, look at that funky little cursor guy. What a face :3

user has not been paid for this post, just wanted to do a linkshare and the rest got out of hand!

Been a bit!

Mini boost first: Found via vriddy’s Community Thursday (A+ way to find new places to poke around here, btw), findingfriends is a neat community; a lot quieter than addme or addme_fandom, probably because the template is a very thorough questionnaire. Which I like a lot!! I will have to poke around there more some time.

Okay, we now return to your regularly-scheduled… uh, “whatever this person has been doing/thinking about lately.” Yes, that has an excellent ring to it. Very concise.

( writing and artstuffs and rambling, oh my (…it is not concise at all) )

Current Location: the void, perhaps
Current Music: very serious remix

There is really no inspiration nudge quite like getting away from a screen, whipping out the Actual Physical Notebook, and repeating a mantra like “it doesn’t have to be good it just has to be written.” Internal screaming over the discombobulation of it all is inevitable. But writing will happen!!
Sometimes ideas that sound really $adjective are actually not $advective at all, or at least much less than they were in your head. But also sometimes they are extremely $adjective, just in an entirely different way. Only one way to find out: get! it out! of your head!!!

( more specific prattling )

Current Music: Igorrr – “Very Noise”

Shorter “half” of what was supposed to be another smorgasbord post (“some reads, some writes”), but uh, first one got away from me slightly.

some writes; or, mortifying ordeal of being challenged

Within 24 hours of making this lil boost post I proceeded to second-guess the hell out of everything, as one does. I don’t know how to write AUs; sometimes it feels like I barely remember how to prose! The challenge is officially collected on two platforms (tumblr + Ao3) I do not use! (tumblr, left; Ao3, invite is Sitting There unused until I figure out what I want to do with an account there.) I gave my email to a random stranger for this without a second thought?? bruh????

Well Anyway Too Bad for the doubt spiral because the form went through, I got my prompts, and then proceeded to flip my entire shit because one of the AUs sounds 👌👌👌 beautiful for the source material. I won’t give it away but the genre is brand sparkling new to me, one of those story types I’ve always kinda nodded along with like “oh, yeah, that sounds cool” but never Looked Into. So I’ve got some research and inspiration-scrounging ahead, but I’m excited for it!

ok but what’s the Catch

There is a deadline, something with which I have a very good and sparkling track record and have never struggled with once, ever, in my entire life (← lying). Specifically, it’s a month out; could’ve sworn I saw a specific date somewhere but can’t find it atm >:V (n.b. am mildly tired. in case the Super Extra Mega Verbosity 64 wasn’t already a giveaway.)

Point being, I want to keep this little hype train going! Even though I always have a handful of non-writing things on the to-do list, and will realistically not work on it Every Single Day In A Row, plus I’ve got the other ongoing fic which ostensibly takes priority… @_@"

Uh, basically, I’m gonna give “public accountability” a whirl. Every day I work on the challenge fic in some way, I’ll post an update here. That’s it! No more, no less. Or maybe more because I ramble a lot, but y’know.

Here goes nothin’ ᕕ( 8V )ᕗ

( and today…? (this part’s longer again oops) )

This was supposed to be a short post (“some reads, some writes”) and then the reading rec section turned into like, four-ish (not-quite-)book reviews in a bigass trenchcoat. Cut cut, motherfuckers.

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Random recs from recent, all of which made me Think for some reason or another: ( ✂️ )

Current Music: Imagine Dragons “Polaroid”

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linkrec: Primer of Petscop

smorgasbord again no problem

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