Fannish Friday

I have made progress on my Tibby/Cecil fic, though it feels slow—probably down to the research. I hit a few dead-ends during canon review and while looking at academic sources. Cecil is so uniformly described as shallow, judgmental, and nearly nothing else that I realized my job would be to invent a version of him nearly whole-cloth; I used to have the energy for that sort of thing and I wonder at my past self. How did I manage? (Across multiple stories is the answer, I think. It’s a much bigger challenge to do that work in a single short fic. Necessarily, I cannot answer every question.)

I plan to spend the weekend on finishing it up, in order to set the draft aside. I’ve got other fics I’d like to write as well!

raremaleslashex remains my favorite exchange on the calendar. I’ve spent all week looking at the nominations page. Signups can’t come soon enough.