Things I read in 2015 and still need to talk about + Snowflake day 2

[dhampyresa]

Before I start forgetting which side of the Dec 31/Jan 1 those last few ones fall on. Thoughts to be forthcoming.

Chronicles of Legion 1-3
Darkness Over Cannae
Dr Fate 1-4
D'un monde à l'autre (La Quête d'Ewilan, tome 1)
Fragile Things,
Le Jardin des silences
Magnus Chase and the Sword of Asgard
Prince of Cats
Saints 1
Sandman Overture 1-6
Secret Wars 1-7 (still ongoing)
Spider-Gwen v1 1-5
Spider-Gwen v2 001
The Infinite Loop 1
The Red Pyramid
The Spire 1-5
Toil and Trouble 1-3
Tumulte à Rome

Those I might forget:
13 Devil Street
Freaks Squeele 7: A move & Z movie (did I ever talk about Freaks Squeele at all at any point?)
L'arabe du futur 2
Le papyrus de César
Lucifer (Vertigo comic)
Chats d'oeuvre

I cannot shake the feeling I am forgetting a bunch of stuff, however, but anything else I will count as read in 2016, yes, sirree bob.


Day 2

In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wish-list if you feel comfortable doing so. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Check out other people's posts. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.

1. Fanworks of any of my stuff. (My ao3)
2. Somebody to kick me and remind me to post fic regularly even without deadlines
3. NO MORE SHIP WARS OR CHARACTER BASHING OR PEOPLE BEHAVING LIKE DICKS IN GENERAL

Comments

[chordatesrock]

Do you edit? Are you getting bogged down in editing forever?

What do you have sitting finished on your computer right now?

[dhampyresa]

It's more that I can't make myself edit things.

Everything in this post (minus the Iron Man 3 and Hunger Games fix-its) + a kind-of* fic about Loki and Odin's first meeting.

*Long story. It was originally going to be part of a Game of Thrones/Norse myth crossover thing based on a specific bit of the Havamal, but I've given up on that for various reasons. This bit does stand on its own, though -- and is also structured based on the Havamal (iirc).

[chordatesrock]

Those all sound interesting! I'm not as familiar as I'd like to be with most of the fandoms you mention in the linked post, though if you want to post them you should! But mostly I would so very, very love to read the Norse fic!

(And now I want to know more about the given-up-on crossover.)

I don't know if this is your problem, but when I used to have trouble editing, it was because I didn't really know how and thought that somehow the first draft + SPAG fixes + willpower + magic??? = goodfic. Is it possible that's your problem, too? I'm no master of the craft now but I know enough for some purposes and could try to teach you what I know.

[dhampyresa]

Thanks for the pep talk. I just need the motivation to edit them, lmao.

(It was going to be called "A Measure of Wisdom" and structured based on these lines from the Havamal:
54. A measure of wisdom | each man shall have,
But never too much let him know;
The fairest lives | do those men live
Whose wisdom wide has grown.

55. A measure of wisdom | each man shall have,
But never too much let him know;
For the wise man's heart | is seldom happy,
If wisdom too great he has won.

56. A measure of wisdom | each man shall have,
But never too much let him know;
Let no man the fate | before him see,
For so is he freest from sorrow.

It had a framing device of Melisandre talking to the Lord of Light (who is post-Ragnarok!Balder) and then tying various GoT gods and what not to Norse myths. The Drowned God was Njord, iirc. I basically gave up because I no longer feel fannish about GoT.)

Honestly, I don't think my problem is SPAG. My SPAG's fine, it's more bigger picture things I have trouble with? And also just doing the thing.

[chordatesrock]

That is a very interesting idea for a crossover! So after Ragnarok, the "happy ending" is that they all get to be in a George R.R. Martin book? Wow, harsh. Who were the Seven? (Freyja's the Stranger, right? And Gefjun the Maid? Or did you have an entirely different idea?)

Yeah, that's what I thought. You get to a point where, okay, you've handled the Objectively Wrong things and then, you don't really know where to go from there, because after all it's not like you can run Spellcheck-For-Plotholes. That about it? I've been... you could call it studying editing... for a while and I'd know exactly what to try linking you to if you wrote longfic. For stuff as short as the fics of yours that I've read, personally I just run it by someone and ask "this okay? understandable? you had the reaction I intended?" and then post it. How long are the fics you're having trouble figuring out what to do with now? All short? Want me to round up links to some editing resources regardless?