Rough Draft Month Report #6
Nov. 30th, 2024 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedesPath: Moonlight Trail
My goal: 20,000
Current word count: 20,402
Wordcount goal: GET!!
I'm super proud of myself!! It's not like the first time I passed a revised goal -- I feel like I worked for it, and succeeded at a challenge. As-of now, I'm also 4th on the Moonlight Trail leaderboard out of 24!
For my last few projects, I finalized my suicidism article, wrote the text for a small zine I'm making about my favorite fanfic tropes, wrote a template for one of those DeviantArt-style "journal memes" for Sheezy.Art (a website I might dedicate a whole blog post to someday soon), and outlined a fic!
Said fic is extremely self-indulgent. I've been rewatching Shugo Chara with my partner lately, because it's extremely nostalgic for me, and it reminded me, in part, how much I love Tadase, but also... God! The Shugo Chara fandom was just so weirdly homophobic towards him! (The first time I ever heard or read the f-slur was actually by a Shugo Chara fan, directed towards Tadase. True story!) So, of course, I've taken to headcanoning him as queer in earnestness, to reclaim All That Shit that I had to see as a latent queer child. Which is basically what the fic is about -- Tadase being queer, treated genuinely, in a "5+1 things" format!
I don't know if I'll ever finish it. The Shugo Chara fandom is, like, super-mega-dead at this point, and Shugo Chara feels a little bit... embarrassing to write for? Especially this kind of fic, where the point is (not to be cheesy) trying to heal my inner child. Although, maybe that's a reason why I should write it. The only reason why I'm embarrassed about it is because it's a really old fandom, mostly for young girls, and the subject is that of queerness. None of that should be considered embarrassing! Maybe considering writing for my elementary school interests is bringing out the "elementary schooler bullied for his interests" in me again...
Writing it all out like this... yeah, I think I am going to finish it! But definitely not right now. I need a break from writing for a while, as I do after every writing challenge. Especially since I went from one writing challenge (drabblefest) right into another (Rough Draft Month)! But I feel like I've earned my break. I'm happy with myself.
My goal: 20,000
Current word count: 20,402
Wordcount goal: GET!!
I'm super proud of myself!! It's not like the first time I passed a revised goal -- I feel like I worked for it, and succeeded at a challenge. As-of now, I'm also 4th on the Moonlight Trail leaderboard out of 24!
For my last few projects, I finalized my suicidism article, wrote the text for a small zine I'm making about my favorite fanfic tropes, wrote a template for one of those DeviantArt-style "journal memes" for Sheezy.Art (a website I might dedicate a whole blog post to someday soon), and outlined a fic!
Said fic is extremely self-indulgent. I've been rewatching Shugo Chara with my partner lately, because it's extremely nostalgic for me, and it reminded me, in part, how much I love Tadase, but also... God! The Shugo Chara fandom was just so weirdly homophobic towards him! (The first time I ever heard or read the f-slur was actually by a Shugo Chara fan, directed towards Tadase. True story!) So, of course, I've taken to headcanoning him as queer in earnestness, to reclaim All That Shit that I had to see as a latent queer child. Which is basically what the fic is about -- Tadase being queer, treated genuinely, in a "5+1 things" format!
I don't know if I'll ever finish it. The Shugo Chara fandom is, like, super-mega-dead at this point, and Shugo Chara feels a little bit... embarrassing to write for? Especially this kind of fic, where the point is (not to be cheesy) trying to heal my inner child. Although, maybe that's a reason why I should write it. The only reason why I'm embarrassed about it is because it's a really old fandom, mostly for young girls, and the subject is that of queerness. None of that should be considered embarrassing! Maybe considering writing for my elementary school interests is bringing out the "elementary schooler bullied for his interests" in me again...
Writing it all out like this... yeah, I think I am going to finish it! But definitely not right now. I need a break from writing for a while, as I do after every writing challenge. Especially since I went from one writing challenge (drabblefest) right into another (Rough Draft Month)! But I feel like I've earned my break. I'm happy with myself.
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Date: 2024-12-01 02:10 pm (UTC)And I love your sticker book pages. Those are pretty.
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Date: 2024-12-02 07:14 am (UTC)Thank you!! I love the sticker book feature on the RDMO site, it's so fun :D
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Date: 2024-12-03 10:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-12-01 03:17 pm (UTC)(Also thanks for writing that post about Cold Front - I've downloaded their game Elevator Hitch and I'm looking forward to playing it. Never heard of the studio before!)
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Date: 2024-12-02 07:20 am (UTC)Thank you sm!! <3 And of course!! Their game, Dead Plate, is one of my main fandoms at the moment (I'm currently venturing into the world of video essays for the first time in order to make one about The Queer Analogy Of It All), so I'm always happy to spread The Good Words :>