I’m going to be 100% honest here and I apologise for the length of the reply. Although heh if you know anything about me, you’ll know I’m not very good at brevity *rolls eyes at self*
Why the name change?
This was my first tumblr, I’d never had anything like it before. I kinda missed the whole LJ thing or MySpace or whatever else people used before tumblr. I’d been out of fandom for years and the online ‘handle’ that I’d had back then I’d picked when I was 11 so it was kinda dumb heh.
So basically I didn’t have a clue what to call myself on here. I’ve had the domain still-searching since 2005 and 47 is my favourite number. It wasn’t linked to any particular fandom which suited me because I love many different things. I went with it and figured I would never change it. The URL was my identity and that was that.
BUT then I saw this aesthetic (which I should probably reblog again, I love it!) and space pirates started echoing around in my mind. Sci-fi is very close to my heart, Stargate will always be my first love and when I found out galactic-pirates was available I just couldn’t help myself.
If I’d had the brainwave back in May 2016 I would have been galactic-pirates from the beginning 🙂
Will I still remain in the Rumbelle fandom?
Absolutely!
Now I could leave it at that (and probably should, shut up Sam) but I feel like explaining a bit.
I used to be a lot more active than I am now. My relative inactivity isn’t because I’m moving away from the Rumbelle fandom, it’s because I’m trying to improve my life and change is hard.
I’ve gone back to uni, I’m experimenting with new creative things, I’ve joined a comic book club (hopefully our comic book will be published this Easter!) and not going to lie my mental health is kicking my arse – like I said change is hard. It’s kinda one step forward, two steps back.
I haven’t written in ages because writing is the most important thing in the world to me and is consequently utterly terrifying. Uni is also terrifying and comes first and it takes all my “do this scary thing” willpower and I got nothing left.
Basically the only writing deadlines/demands are self-imposed ones. I HAVE to do uni but writing I can let slide. I don’t want to! But I can only cope with so much, and I’m struggling to cope as it is. Fandom is way down at the bottom of the list and it has to be something I enjoy.
Don’t get me wrong I do love Rumbelle – like I said I’m not going anywhere – but I used to be pretty Rumbelle-centric and now I’m going to branch out. I’m going to do what I feel like because this is my place to relax. I just did a Fitzsimmons exchange, that was nice. It was also stressful because I didn’t think I was going to finish and then I had to rush and wasn’t happy with the result.
I don’t think I’ll do anymore exchanges BUT I’m working on something for the February AMR, it was supposed to be for Fluffapalooza as well but I didn’t finish it in time. So that’s for Rumbelle and will be the next thing I post. Also in the works I have a Star Wars art project which will probably be after that.
With fandom participation I have loaded my kindle up with rumbelle fic which I read on the bus when I can concentrate to do so. Every now and then (when I remember) I do a search for Rumbelleedits and add them to my queue. There’s a Rumbelle appreciation week going on so I expect my queue will be dominated by rumbelle again soon 🙂
So yeah I hope that makes sense. TLDR – not going anywhere.
