phantomtomato

I've gained a lot of new people in my circle this week, so: hello! Lots of migration to DW right now; I'm happy to see it.

senmut put together a post with some resources and tips for using Dreamwidth over here. There's some great communities and resources listed there! Some of my favorites are vriddy's series of tips for using DW and this roundup of major DW events.

Following my Bartimaeus Sequence reading adventure, I began writing fic for it. There are some new-to-me themes in this and I'm not sure how I feel about them yet, though I know they're right for the story. In particular, I've decided on my happy ending—I always prefer to write towards an ending—but it's something that sort of squicks me. And that's an odd position in which to be! This is definitely the risk of opening up a new fandom with a mid-sized project rather than diving into a more isolated romance or smut scene. Ah well. Something that I'm not conflicted about in the project is the experience of writing attraction to a human by a nonhuman—I am such a fiend for very physical descriptions of bodies, and this is apparently the best excuse for it!

One of my older fics, something written for rarepairshorts two years ago, is getting a lot of love this week. I'm just so warmed by that—getting such kind comments is lovely, of course, but I'm also very tickled by the idea that I have old-enough fics for this sort of rediscovery. Since stepping back from Harry Potter as my primary fandom, I've come to appreciate the long tail of being a rarepair author in a large fandom a bit more. It's a brutal thing to be a part of as one's only focus, I stand by that. And in many ways I am still wistful about having the interest and energy to write for my beloved HP rarepairs each week, as I used to do—it's hard to accept that the characters I love are no longer active in my hands. But given that this is my position, it is a joy to get that rare comment notification for a finished, older fic and relive some of my initial excitement for the work through a new reader's eyes. (This fic was the first time I wrote first person POV, apparently! I have a note in which I am clearly nervous about that! How two years changes things!)
It also reminds me that I should get on something for this year's Summer Wishlist Event over at RPS. I don't miss quarantine, not really, but I do envy past-Tomato their scads of free time!

Fannish Friday