Fannish Friday

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I'm going to try having a weekly post here on DW. I would like to be more active, so collecting thoughts on a theme seems like the best choice. Let's see how it goes!

1. I finished a draft of my first Fandom Trumps Hate fic this week, which is a big relief! I think it needs some revisions, so I don't feel quite done with it yet, but having a first draft takes the pressure off. I've never offered an auction before, and it's both exciting and nerve-wracking.
2. My weekend goal is to title and post my Hurt/Comfort exchange treat. Posting deadline is still two weeks away, but I'm afraid that if I don't get this up eventually (it's been done for two weeks!) I will actually forget about it, lol.
3. Second weekend goal—if I don't go see my student's play on Sunday—is to start a just-for-me fic. I haven't written outside of exchanges so far this year! That needs to change. God, I am out of the habit.
4. My reading this past week has been all for Les Miserables, a fandom which I have never consumed, but which occasionally pulls me in because I love the dynamics of Enjolras/Grantaire. I love an unhappy ending. (I would have thought I'd like Javert/Valjean, but idk, the fic never clicked!) Multiple recs for arriviste pushed me over, and yeah, their work is good. I particularly liked un oubli profond, which is on the unhappier end of things, and come into my parlour on the (eventual) happier side. I also enjoyed The Lotus Drinker by Ark as an example of hurt/comfort—topical! I should use it as inspiration for my own H/C edits.
   I think I'm done with Les Mis for now, but it's an evergreen (blind) fandom, and I'm sure I'll revisit when I want to read about sad romances again.