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Sep. 8th, 2015 06:58 pmI have about 1200 words written of my hockey rare pairs assignment, and it's...nowhere close to being an actual story. I spent the three day weekend reading the Man From UNCLE kink meme instead, and it was nice to hang out in a fandom space that wasn't overtaken with heavy, serious discussions about heavy, serious issues. I'm just here for cock and huge men beating each other up.
I'm tired for a happy reason--I got a promotion I was really hoping for--but it's pretty much doubled my workload and level of responsibility. I definitely won't be signing up for Trick or Treat, and I probably won't sign up for Yuletide either :( It's mostly fest fatigue and regular fatigue, but I have an unfortunate habit of picking favorite ships and tropes that run directly opposite fandom preferences. It's tiring, even in fandoms where you won't be chased out with pitchforks for liking problematic things.
I'm going to try really hard to write the exchange fic that exists in my head, and to write the treats I have bookmarked. I might sign up as a yuletide beta, just to hang around and be involved (and once the hockey exchange posts at the end of September, anyone on my flist is welcome to hit me up for beta stuff in my fandoms). And it's almost huge-men-beating-each-other-up season again. I'm lucky enough to have grown up in a great hockey town with lots of great hockey people, and my favorite parts of rpf fandom are the ones with the same sense of passion and community and ridiculous over-investment. I love the people in hockey fandom writing weird dark kinks, the homers writing about the cities they love, the people who love fights and thugs and rivalries, the people rooting for unpopular teams and converting newbies to the dark side. It's just like home, except with more gay sex.
I'm tired for a happy reason--I got a promotion I was really hoping for--but it's pretty much doubled my workload and level of responsibility. I definitely won't be signing up for Trick or Treat, and I probably won't sign up for Yuletide either :( It's mostly fest fatigue and regular fatigue, but I have an unfortunate habit of picking favorite ships and tropes that run directly opposite fandom preferences. It's tiring, even in fandoms where you won't be chased out with pitchforks for liking problematic things.
I'm going to try really hard to write the exchange fic that exists in my head, and to write the treats I have bookmarked. I might sign up as a yuletide beta, just to hang around and be involved (and once the hockey exchange posts at the end of September, anyone on my flist is welcome to hit me up for beta stuff in my fandoms). And it's almost huge-men-beating-each-other-up season again. I'm lucky enough to have grown up in a great hockey town with lots of great hockey people, and my favorite parts of rpf fandom are the ones with the same sense of passion and community and ridiculous over-investment. I love the people in hockey fandom writing weird dark kinks, the homers writing about the cities they love, the people who love fights and thugs and rivalries, the people rooting for unpopular teams and converting newbies to the dark side. It's just like home, except with more gay sex.
