I’m going to take this as being “what I can’t stop listening to right now” as opposed to what the top 10 most played songs are.
Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin (Thor: Ragnarok still heh)
Is she really going out with him – Joe Jackson
Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson (Princess Diaries feels)
I Lived – One Republic
Help! – The Beatles
Dream On – Christian Falk
Put Your Hands Up – Matchbox Twenty
When in Doubt – Thousand Foot Krutch
Nobody can save me – Linkin Park
High School – Superchick
Although to be honest quite often I put iTunes on shuffle. I usually have music playing constantly while I’m awake, so this list was only the songs I’ve looked up lately to actively listen to because otherwise it would be 800 songs long…
Cables get all tangled up and have a party the moment you leave them alone.
Tumblr adds tons of unnecessary <span> tags and other such styling to complete screw with your pages (aka I’ve been going over my masterlist and yikes).
I mean seriously, how? why? It’s weird. I didn’t do that. I didn’t ask it to do that /headdesk
I got an ask! Yay 🙂 Sorry it’s been ages on account of how I’ve not produced anything in forever. Thank you so much anon 🙂
Do I have a fic I look back at and cringe?
Seriously I could fall over laughing because like oh man SO MANY!
In the interests of my self-esteem I’ll only look through my current masterlist. There are some fics in my past that are just beyond the pale (I know I was 11 but what was I thinking??)
As always I’ve gone on a bit *eyeroll*
The List:
Pretty much all my smutty fics. I wanted to add “smut writing” as a tool for my writers toolkit. It also feels like the rumbelle fandom loves their smut and I wanted to join in and be part of the “cool kids club” but I have buyers remorse on that decision tbh. It would probably be easier to list the ones I think are ok-ish, but that might get confusing. So cringe ones:
All We Are
Story as old as video
Hands all over (this also killed my desire to finish the actual WIP as its a future fic – seriously what was I thinking?)
The smut in Brighter Days (I rather enjoyed pointing out Young’s deficiencies though)
Highway to Hell
The Quest (at least this finished me as a smut writer so I’m grateful for that)
More than a feeling
Trouble Sleeping
Last Friday Night
This Afternoon
Once Upon a Lifetime
Sweet Masquerade
The smut in The Auction
Happy Anniversary
Swim to the Stars. (Sweet and fluffy? Yes. In character? Not so much imo)
Learning Curve.
Broken Apart (just badly written imo)
I probably should cringe at Wizard Love or Never Let the Pirate Babysit Alone but I rather enjoy the silliness. There is nothing wrong sometimes with just having a laugh.
Also (because I can never leave anything alone) the smut fics I accept on my masterlist without cringing are: Fall All Over Again, What Makes You Different, To Be Loved and The Beauty and the Tragedy because I feel like the smut adds something, rather than it just being ‘smut’ with no actual story or an unnecessary addition.
Ultimately however while I cringe and wish I had a back button so I could make it like it never happened – I learned something.
I learned what matters to me as a writer and what drives me to put pen to paper. I learned that I really should learn to just say no. The number of fics I’ve written only because I was asked, and the number of fics I’ve never written because they would be self-indulgent… why is that a bad thing? Who am I trying to make happy here. The answer should be me.
That is a thought I’m going to try and hold in my head as I go on. I’ll probably forget and have to relearn the lesson because I feel guilty writing what I want, as opposed to writing what I think others will like. I’m going to try though because those stories that burn in my veins, the ones I ignore to try and please others – those are mine and nobody else will tell them.
Recently I got nostalgic and watched a bit of Rosemary and Thyme. It’s not the best show in the world (think Midsomer Murders in terms of body count) and I’m sure it has lots of other problems BUT…
how many shows focus on two ‘older’ women (in terms of TV standards anyway) and their friendship. I just think that’s nice.
Plus I still laugh every single time at the scene in 1×02 when Rosemary is in the study and she gets shot at.
– calls up the stairs “Laura we’re being shot at!”
– she runs out into the hall
– turns the light on
– throws the door open and steps outside
“WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING? YOU’VE ONLY GONE AND BROKEN THE BLOODY WINDOW!!!”
– Laura grabs her, drags her back inside and turns the light off
It’s probably much funnier to watch than to describe heh 🙂 I wonder if it’s on YouTube…
alright the quality is appalling but it is a better illustration as to what I mean so never mind.
Ahh, the nostalgia, it reminds me of when I actually used to watch British TV.
I hope I’ve invited everyone who has already asked. I’ve manually checked stuff but tumblr had that funny ten five minutes with the notifications. So please if you want to join us and hopefully have lots of fun writing/revising/anything writing related really next month then please don’t delay! 🙂
They had an underwater aerial battle. This is so ridiculous I love it!
The visual effects are so silly. Why are trashy films sometimes so seriously entertaining?
I wonder if the sequel is in any good. It doesn’t have Rachel Nichols in it but it does have Adrienne Palacki (Bobbi Morse in Agents of Shield) so hmm…
Rumbellers! The possibility of running an art/fic bang for the fandom was brought up last night. If you’re not sure what a Big Bang is, keep reading the info that I copied and pasted from last night’s post:
A Big Bang pairs up fanfic authors and fanartists to work on a joint project. The goal is that by the end, each fic has fanart of some kind to go with it, and each piece of artwork has a fic to go with it.
In a ‘regular’ Big Bang, the writers go first, by submitting a brief summary of the fic they plan to write. (This part is done anonymously, so it’s not just a name-recognition popularity contest.) The artists name their top choices of which fic they want to create art for, and the mod(s) match everyone up as fairly as they can. Some people won’t get their first choice, or even their second, but I’ve been in the situation of not getting my first choice, and still had a great time with the Bang.
After the writers and artists are matched, the mod puts them in touch with each other, and they collaborate to create fic and art that complement each other. Usually the matches are kept secret until the works are posted.
A Reverse Big Bang works in much the same way, except that the artwork is created first. The artists submit their artworks (anonymously), which don’t have to be finished at that point but need to at least have enough done so viewers can see where they’re going with it. The writers state their top choices, the mod matches them up, they collaborate.
Word count requirements can be whatever the mod sets for that particular Bang, but 5,000 words of betaed, finished fic seems to be a common number.
For purposes of a Bang, fanart isn’t defined as just drawn/painted/etc art. It can also mean gif sets, aesthetics, photo manips, or a playlist with cover art. Basically, anything visual that can be reblogged on Tumblr. I know that the Bangs I took part in at the height of Glee’s popularity sometimes had trouble finding enough artists to pair up with the writers. But every fandom is different and maybe it wouldn’t even be an issue for Rumbellers. It would depend on how many writers and artists sign up for it.
On an assigned day, the artist and writer both post their works and the fandom gets to roll around like excited puppies in all the pretty new fanworks. If it’s a big event with lots of participants, typically the posting schedule will be spread out, with one team per day posting.
This type of event usually stretches over months, to allow time for the multi-step process. Whoever’s going first has to produce a fic summary or rough WIP art, then everyone needs time to look over the choices and submit their picks, time for matching, and then the second half of the team needs time to do their work after discussing it with their partner. So yeah, it all takes a while.
If what you’ve read here intrigues you, please click the link above to take the survey. It’s only six questions and should take a minute at most. I want to find out how many people are really interested in something like this, and if the writer/artist ratio is equal.
I plan to run the survey through next weekend. It will close at midnight EST on Sunday, June 24th.
Please signal boost, so as many people as possible have a chance to see this!
Ahhhhhhh! I’ve talked about this kind of thing with .. I don’t know if they would like me to name them, but yeah anyway (my friend! heh) and the trouble we always had was thinking of a place in the Rumbelle calendar to put it. Between all the events we have now, it was like how?
I’ve sworn off events, waaaay too much stress and pressure BUT BUT yeah I can’t resist if this becomes a thing. I have to do it! Consider me 110% signed up, and ignore me if I moan later. It’s just too cool not to participate 🙂
Should have read the questionnaire first…. I’m a little confused by the whole Big Bang/Reverse Big Bang thing. Maybe it’s just the ones I’ve seen advertised recently on tumblr but I thought both were a thing? Like two rounds I guess. First round artist and author, second round swap. So art and fic start off, and follow-on. Am I even making sense with that?Also I have no clue who else but you is behind this but if you need anything, feel free to hit me up 🙂
Interesting… I’ve personally never heard of a two-round Big Bang. So do the pairings remain the same for both rounds, in your experience?
This is probably a good moment to insert the disclaimer that all my knowledge of Big Bangs and how they work, is based on participating in them in the Glee fandom. So that’s my template, and I’ve never actually run one. But no one else was offering to run an event like this, so I figured I’d step up. Thanks for offering to help! I may take you up on that!
In my experience a ‘regular’ Big Bang (story comes first) and a Reverse Big Bang (art comes first) are run as two separate events. Nothing’s stopping us from having another event after the first one, if the first one is a success. I think I’d rather take it one step at a time, though.
I’ve never taken part in a Big Bang of any kind. It was just on my dash very recently, I think it was for Philinda? spelling out how it was going to work, and they ran both the Big Bang and the Reverse Big Bang concurrently, so artists got their work turned into fic, and fic got turned into art.
I don’t know whether it was a straight swap. I’m guessing probably not because otherwise it would lose the anonymity factor.
I didn’t really know they were two separate events tbh. I thought it was so everyone got a fair shake at having their work transformed. I totally see the sense in what you are saying about not biting off more than one can chew, so now I understand the questionnaire a bit better heh. Seeing what way round people want to do it – makes sense!
I’m watching Timeless, 2×07 Mrs Sherlock Holmes. I have like an “anti-ship” thing going on. There’s a love triangle thing going on between Lucy, Wyatt and Flynn.
I don’t ship either Lucy and Wyatt, or Lucy and Flynn, because that magical “oh no I ship it” hasn’t struck BUT I’m blinking and going ewww Notp with Lucy and Wyatt because of how Wyatt is behaving.
Examples just from this episode:
– Wyatt – “stay away from Lucy”, Flynn – “Lucy can decide for herself what she wants to do”
– Wyatt – “I won’t let you do this in case you get hurt”, Lucy – “I know its dangerous but its a risk worth taking”
– Wyatt – “Flynn? You are making bad choices, it’s a rebound thing”, Lucy – “From our one night relationship? My choices are my own.”
– I can’t remember what Wyatt said but Lucy said something like “I’m the one that got the rug pulled out from under me. You are with your wife so please stop acting like you are the victim”
So yeah not impressed, just had to get that out of my system. Flynn used to be the bad guy but he is showing a lot more respect than the supposed hero.
