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donutsweeper) wrote2019-07-02 07:39 am
donutsweeper) wrote2019-07-02 07:39 am
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Bangs and Babble
Wow I suck at remembering to post. Well, thinking about posting while in the headspace of doing so, I guess. It's ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
watsons_woes's July writing prompt time again, but I'm not sure I'll manage anything for it. I just have *thoughts* about what should be on AO3 vs a personal LJ/DW and am trying to always posting at the former so.... Hopefully I'll manage a few things anyway.
remixrevival signups opened yesterday. I don't know if I'll sign up this year. I have well over 20 fandoms I've written in that could qualify but to write? I'm not really in any fandoms anymore, let alone up to date in them enough to risk writing for, especially when adding in the risk of getting matched to someone who only writes stuff I couldn't hope to remix, like various AUs or pwps. I know, I know, I've posted expressing worry about that every year, but this year I think the brainweasels will probably win out. I might just try to do madness if it runs this year.
There are SO many fic exchanges running these days - it feels like there used to be Yuletide, NPT, fandom specific ones and a few general types like ones based around video games or women focused, then TrickOrTreat and ChocolateBox popped up and so many specific theme ones and more and more kept appearing. There's probably somewhere between 15-18 running right now. I think it's great there's so many with so many different focuses (AUEx, JustMarried, Nonconathon, RareMaleSlashExchange, RarePairs, EveryWoman, Rule63, KidFic, Pining, PressStart, FandomGrowth, FicCorner, etc etc) so people can pick the things that interest them but it also means each of the exchanges tend to have less signups overall since the pool of people is more spread out so there's less I can treat in the exchanges I could write for. Maybe if I knew more fandoms, but I have fallen out of (or never had interest in) nearly all the ones that seem most common which leaves me scrolling and scrolling through requests and sighing.
Anyway, whine over.
I've been trying to find more diverse things to watch/listen to (aka not white, cismale, American creators/writers/producers/etc anyway).
There's three podcasts I like (all available on the app I use and probably most others):
The Allusionist which is a podcast hosted by Helen Zaltzman about language (the most recent two were Pride focused and very interesting)
Ologies, a comedic science podcast where host Alie Ward interviews various "ologists" aka experts in various sciences. Huge, huge range of subjects and really fascinating.
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week, a great random info podcast where several (mostly female) Popular Science researchers talk about the weirdest thing they learned/researched that week.
And a (new-to-me) tv show I've just started:
Murdoch Mysteries, which has aired 12 seasons and nearly 200 episodes in Canada but I completely missed since it hasn't aired where I am in the US, is set in 1890s-1900s Toronto staring a detective trying to use "modern" techniques to solve cases with the help of female coroners. It's based on a set of books written by Maureen Jennings and has several women involved in making it (executive producer, developer, producing, writing, directing). Character-wise it's still, unsurprisingly, guy heavy, but from what I've seen so far it doesn't seem to shy away from serious issues (sexism, women's rights, racism, Canada's treatment of First Nations people, antisemitism, etc) and does them pretty well. I'm really enjoying the setting too - while I love London and NYC, it's so nice to see something set someplace different, especially a period piece. It also has the best wikia I've seen in a while.
watsons_woes's July writing prompt time again, but I'm not sure I'll manage anything for it. I just have *thoughts* about what should be on AO3 vs a personal LJ/DW and am trying to always posting at the former so.... Hopefully I'll manage a few things anyway.remixrevival signups opened yesterday. I don't know if I'll sign up this year. I have well over 20 fandoms I've written in that could qualify but to write? I'm not really in any fandoms anymore, let alone up to date in them enough to risk writing for, especially when adding in the risk of getting matched to someone who only writes stuff I couldn't hope to remix, like various AUs or pwps. I know, I know, I've posted expressing worry about that every year, but this year I think the brainweasels will probably win out. I might just try to do madness if it runs this year.There are SO many fic exchanges running these days - it feels like there used to be Yuletide, NPT, fandom specific ones and a few general types like ones based around video games or women focused, then TrickOrTreat and ChocolateBox popped up and so many specific theme ones and more and more kept appearing. There's probably somewhere between 15-18 running right now. I think it's great there's so many with so many different focuses (AUEx, JustMarried, Nonconathon, RareMaleSlashExchange, RarePairs, EveryWoman, Rule63, KidFic, Pining, PressStart, FandomGrowth, FicCorner, etc etc) so people can pick the things that interest them but it also means each of the exchanges tend to have less signups overall since the pool of people is more spread out so there's less I can treat in the exchanges I could write for. Maybe if I knew more fandoms, but I have fallen out of (or never had interest in) nearly all the ones that seem most common which leaves me scrolling and scrolling through requests and sighing.
Anyway, whine over.
I've been trying to find more diverse things to watch/listen to (aka not white, cismale, American creators/writers/producers/etc anyway).
There's three podcasts I like (all available on the app I use and probably most others):
The Allusionist which is a podcast hosted by Helen Zaltzman about language (the most recent two were Pride focused and very interesting)
Ologies, a comedic science podcast where host Alie Ward interviews various "ologists" aka experts in various sciences. Huge, huge range of subjects and really fascinating.
The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week, a great random info podcast where several (mostly female) Popular Science researchers talk about the weirdest thing they learned/researched that week.
And a (new-to-me) tv show I've just started:
Murdoch Mysteries, which has aired 12 seasons and nearly 200 episodes in Canada but I completely missed since it hasn't aired where I am in the US, is set in 1890s-1900s Toronto staring a detective trying to use "modern" techniques to solve cases with the help of female coroners. It's based on a set of books written by Maureen Jennings and has several women involved in making it (executive producer, developer, producing, writing, directing). Character-wise it's still, unsurprisingly, guy heavy, but from what I've seen so far it doesn't seem to shy away from serious issues (sexism, women's rights, racism, Canada's treatment of First Nations people, antisemitism, etc) and does them pretty well. I'm really enjoying the setting too - while I love London and NYC, it's so nice to see something set someplace different, especially a period piece. It also has the best wikia I've seen in a while.
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*hugs* I thought about signing up for Remix Revival for the first time, especially since I saw that a whole fandom could be marked safe and I'd love to mark Supernatural out of bounds because I'm firmly out of Supernatural fandom and I don't want to read another one again.
There are a ton of fic exchanges! I was already noticing that before Not Prime Time started up this year in terms of how many pinch hits from different exchanges were appearing on my flist (and even worse, how long they were lingering :/ ). I like to think I know a lot of fandoms, but it's pretty obvious, from the pinch hits I stare at and can't claim, that I really don't.
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There are so many exchanges! So, so many. I see discussions on upcoming or even ongoing ones on discord all the time and people talking about having half a dozen assignments at any given time and I just o.O at it.