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aquietjuneSo, um, hello.
I've been debating whether to try participating in fandom on Dreamwidth for about two months now. Yes, since November 2022; yes, it's not accidental. But I'll talk about my discontent with Twitter in a later post.
Right now, I want to start things here by introducing myself, so that I can start participating. I've been looking at random communities from time to time in the last few months, and I've always been amazed at how active and engaged the community as a whole is here. I didn't think it was possible, not after all this time on social media. Mind, I've been on LiveJournal, once, albeit briefly; I've run my fan fiction archive; I posted my stuff on FFnet when AO3 wasn't around yet. I've seen things. Then I went away. When I came back in 2020 (again: it's not accidental), I accepted that fandom had changed, and that for my current fandom, the reason I came back, it was either Twitter or Reddit.
And you know...
Oh, well.
So, here I am, aquietjune. I usually create stuff for just one fandom at a time. Since my current fandom -- Attack on Titan -- looks mostly asleep here, I postponed this moment for a long time, but then, discovering the ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
snowflake_challenge (yeah, no idea of what it was two days ago), I decided that if there was a moment to give it a go, this is it. Besides, there are so many stories that I love, and so many things that I like to do... I don't think I won't find correspondence here. What do you think?
Answering the questions of Challenge#1, in a conversational manner, to cover some bases.
Transformative Works Policy: See, now I feel like an illiterate -- coming from my fandom on Twitter, I didn't even know this was a thing. I care about these topics, but I want to learn more about the culture here before I copy-paste something that may not represent me. In general, however, for me contributing to the fandom means sharing my ideas and my world-building, and if someone finds them so enticing that they would like to use it I'm overwhelmed with joy.
Current Passion: Since July I've been working on a longfic about Annie Leonhart. I first write, then publish, and despite many shortcomings due to other commitments, I'm at around 85k words now. I'm so looking forward to writing certain scenes, and discovering what happens in the interstices of the narrative. This project has me very excited.
Other than that, in the past weeks I've read all the currently available chapters of Oshi no ko by Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari, and my, I can't wait till April when the anime comes out. It has a lot of what I like, a lot of focus on the inner workings and dark side of show business and a lot of fun, engaging drama.
I knew of Aka Akasaka already, but I never read nor watched his Kaguya-Sama: Love is War before. Well, now I'm doing that. It has great comedy and I'm enjoying it very much.
I'm currently preparing the costume for a LARP I'm playing next month. It's rushed, it's complicated, and I haven't figured out the totality of it yet, but the process is fun, and that is what matters.
Where to Find Me: At the moment, I'll say that you can find all my fics on
aquietjune and that's it.
Master List: This is another thing I'm not really prepared for. I have a chronological master list of my fics on Tumblr, but since they're all Attack on Titan and they're all in the same timeline (for now), you can also head directly to my AO3 I think ->
Anything Else: I embroider, I sew toys and ragdolls, I'm passionate about books -- classic and postmodernist literature, gothic and liminal horror -- and many other forms of stories, especially of the ARG/Unfiction kind. I have a bizarre taste for things and interests that are worlds apart. I like trivia and learning how things work.
Thanks for having patience and reading till here.
To the next one!
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Date: 2023-01-12 01:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-12 01:13 pm (UTC)Thank you so much! Yes, exploring the community and finding new people to talk to and engage in dialogue is what I'm looking forward to.
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Date: 2023-01-12 11:45 am (UTC)Good luck with your long (very long, wow!) fic and your costume! :)
I googled what an ARG was and it turns out that I played one of those - The Lost Experience - back in 2006. :D (I don't know any other examples, though.)
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Date: 2023-01-12 01:37 pm (UTC)Thank you kindly! This is the longest story I crafted so far, so I'm impressed with myself but it's also pretty scary.
I too am looking forward to both fandom and non-fandom conversations.
Yes, ARGs like The Lost Experience! Just like Higurashi (and Umineko!) is originally a visual novel, I like ARGs that are more on the narrative side (so fewer riddles and cryptography stuff, more dramatics). Lately I've been enjoying a lot The Monument Mythos -- it's almost like a web series, but the youtube account itself contains parts of the story. (Link to the 1st season if you want to have a look: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYEu-9YXzZuIFn8rtAYiE433KC5loEkrj)
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Date: 2023-01-14 05:34 am (UTC)I'm sure I would too! :) The Lost Experience was the only ARG I've seen until now, but my favorite parts were the videos and lore (well, and the website where you could "reserve a seat" on Oceanic 815 xD), not the riddles. But then again, most of the time everyone had already solved the riddles as a group before I even got online for the day - it went REALLY fast.
Thank you for the rec! ♡ I watched the first episode of The Monument Mythos and then I fell into a rabbit hole immediately, googling for other games, explanations/definitions, etc. :D I think this is something I like a lot, I just didn't know that!
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Date: 2023-01-14 11:39 pm (UTC)Glad you enjoyed The Monument Mythos <3 I love transmedial stuff and the "hidden" things, both in subtext and in little details and types of media that are different than fictional prose (including interactive stuff like the seat reservation you mention, for example). It makes for messier stories (which is great).
If you're curious about this genre, I would rec Night Mind, a great YT channel that explains many of these series and is very active also in the production side, afaik. https://www.youtube.com/@NightMind also he has a very soothing voice. His marble hornet explained videos, although now ancient, are highly recommended.
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Date: 2023-01-18 10:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-20 06:10 pm (UTC)It's true that a lot of ARGs try to deal more with the (strange) worlds than characters, but there are ARGs that are more character-focused, although, consider they're usually about fragmented psyches.
I would probably suggest: * alantutorial -- one of the first projects by Alan Resnick about a strange tutorial channel. Another character-focused story by Alan Resnick is "Unedited footage of a bear" on Adult Swim. More choral (but more about world and mystery other than characters) is "This house has people in it", a story about a rather dysfunctional family. * hiimmarymary -- a girl wakes up in a house she's trapped in and doesn't remember anything * i am sophie -- I think this project is discontinued but I liked it a lot: it's about this influencer girl and her channel and things that do not fit the narrative * Daisy Brown about a girl and a strange creature she cares for (I have yet to see this)
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Date: 2023-01-23 04:20 pm (UTC)Yes good I like that. :D
Thank you so much for compiling this entire list for me! ♡♡♡ A lot of them sound like something I could actually get invested in (vs just watch and forget, like the purely horror ones). I remember "i am sophie" from someone somewhere (on reddit?) wondering if it was real when it was still going on, I didn't know this was an ARG either!
Your knowledge is vast and amazing and I'm honestly super lucky that you share it with me, thank you again! :D
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Date: 2023-01-30 09:39 pm (UTC)Glad if I can be of help!
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Date: 2023-01-14 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-14 11:43 pm (UTC)Thank you so much, I appreciate it! Yes, I want to say more about Twitter, even briefly, maybe through the Scream into the Void challenge. In general: it's a great place for fans to meet, but it encourages behaviors that destroy fandom as well, so... it's a place where to" "tread lightly".
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Date: 2023-01-15 09:51 pm (UTC)I am currently learning to cross-stitch, I love reading and random trivia too - It is very rare to see people who love trivia so I had to say hello! (I am also still learning how commenting works)
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Date: 2023-01-20 05:49 pm (UTC)Hi! Thank you for stopping by! So far snowflake has been fun :)
I have never cross-stitched, I do traditional round-ish embroidery (I feel more at ease with... irregular, non-geometric stuff?), but lately I've been looking a bit into pixel art, which is, to me, very similar to cross-stitch. How do you like it so far?
As for trivia, people always tell me I know the most bizarre things, so I guess this is a thing for me--when I end up in some strange realm of knowledge I always want to get to know a little bit of it before leaving (or not leaving -- that is also a thing). (I also think it's very good creativity-wise.)
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Date: 2023-01-26 03:06 am (UTC)I saw you subscribed to my journal and thought I should comment. I was actually going to reach out to you when I randomly saw you on the snowflake challenge. It's good to see another SnK fan out here! I didn't think anyone around here was still into SnK and an Armin fan too!
I saw you were into horror and horror books as well!
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Date: 2023-01-26 09:02 am (UTC)Hi! Yes, sorry, I wanted to comment before subscribing but I was in a hurry and wanted to "put a pin" on it so I subscribed. Thanks for adding me. I'm happy there are other SnK fans here :) The fandom mainly lives on Twitter and that's not always a positive. I want a place for slower, more good-faith conversations. Are you looking forward to part 3.1? (Armin is my definite fave but I like a lot of other characters, both those deeply explored by the narrative -- Reiner -- and not -- Pieck.)
And yes, I like horror! Mainly in movies and transmedial experiences (ARGs and the like), but in books too (I'm tentative here because I always find it difficult to articulate the kind of horror books I like -- it's a bit of a continuous quest. I usually dabble in more "liminal" stuff, so it's by trial-and-error because it's for books that are not marked as horror, like Picnic at Hanging Rock. The last one I read is A History of Fear by Luke Dumas and it was ok.) What kind of horror do you like?
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Date: 2023-01-27 03:28 am (UTC)I'm definitely looking forward to part 3.1! I love all the characters, warriors and 104th alike but I have a weakness for Armin, Eren, Reiner and Jean. I love Pieck too! Even though she doesn't get as much screen time as the others, she felt like a fully fleshed out character, same with Porco.
Interesting, I had no idea horror had different sub genres. I think, I liked the Little Nightmares series, in terms of games and Oxenfree. But Little Nightmares is a huge inspiration when I write horror fics because it has no dialogue but you feel the tension in it.
Books, it's a mixture of manga and actual literature. I discovered magic realism and surrealism orginated in South America, so I've actually started with South American authors first. My fave is Mariana Enriquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, a collection of short stories with heavy emphasis on surrealism. I did read PTSD Radio, a manga series based on a neglected god-- it's also got short stories in it.
I'm into Fantasy as well and I like blending it with Slice of life and Horror. My fave author is Peter Beagle and his work, "The Last Unicorn" and the anime movie, "Wolf Children."
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Date: 2023-01-30 10:02 pm (UTC)Best strategy.
Understandable, I like them too (ok, I don't like Eren as much as the others actually, but it's an engaging character, no doubt about it.
I've never heard of it, I'll have to check it out.
Oh, I really like Mariana Enriquez! By her, I read "Things we've lost in the fire" and some other loose stories. I'm tempted by her newer (or newly-published? I didn't check) novel but I'm a bit afraid because it's on the longer side and I can't commit to very long narratives at the moment. Horror-non-horror writers I like from South/Central American countries are: Samantha Schweblin (Fever Dream, not Little Eyes), Cristina Rivera Garza (The Iliac Crest) and (older) Amparo Davila and Silvina Campo. Not counting Leonora Carrington but of course Leonora Carrington is everything.
Oh that reminds me that I did read the first volume and did not continue probably because of rapid changes around me. I should go back, it was cool.
I only know him by name! For fantasy, my absolute favorite is probably Diana Wynne Jones, although I haven't been reading a lot of hers lately (and maybe not a lot of fantasy overall? My I lost count on everything -__-)
I'm so glad to find another reader with similar taste in genres though! I'll be happy to chat about it.
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Date: 2023-02-01 12:04 am (UTC)Little Nightmares:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOadxZBsPiA
Oxenfree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAhrOoNR4ng
!!! I'm actually trying to get that one from the library but it only has the e-book version rn. I placed her newer one on hold. I'll take a look at the other authors you suggested. My goodreads is mireailles if you have an account there.
Peter Beagle is pretty much my everything rn. I've also heard of Diana Wynne Jones, I read Howl's Moving Castle, my unpopular opinion is that I liked the book better than the Ghibli Movie lol. My fave quote from The Last Unicorn is, "I know you, if I were blind, I'd know what you are."