lu_hyperfixates

"Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all."

Dear Object Show Community:

I encountered you in the wild a few times before I finally caved and joined the fandom. I attacked some object characters on Artfight in Summer 2024; I watched an Inanimate Insanity fan animatic out of curiosity because a Ninjago fan-artist had made one; I can only assume, though I don't specifically remember, that I encountered BFDI assets at some point in my career on Scratch. But I actually got interested because my friends wouldn't shut up about Battle For Dream Island in the new Discord server we'd made together. It looked cute, and I really wanted to know what on earth my friends were talking about, so, on November 27, 2024, I went on YouTube and watched the first episode.

My first reaction: this is fucking weird. ( Read more... )

"The Icebreaker Challenge: Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it."

Hi there! You can call me Lu (they/them), and I'm participating in snowflake_challenge this year! I know I've joined a little late, but I want to try and see how many challenges I can do before the end of January. For those unfamiliar, Snowflake Challenge is a yearly challenge where people answer prompts about themselves and their fandoms. I found out about it last year, but felt it was too late to join. I was reminded of it today, and thought, what the heck, I wanted a reason to post on Dreamwidth more often anyway! So yeah, it seems fun, let's see where this goes.

More fannish information about me: I'm a fanfic writer who occasionally dabbles in other fanwork types, mainly fanart, though not nearly as much anymore. I have trouble committing to projects for long enough to see them finished, so my AO3 page is more than a little bare, but I still consider myself a fic writer. My main media interests right now are object shows and The Living Tombstone, two fandoms that...don't really have much presence on Dreamwidth. Ah well! Hopefully you still find my posts interesting, even if you aren't familiar with the media being discussed. (And if you are familiar with one of these fandoms [especially TLT], let's chat!)

I had this big intro post planned out in my head but now that I'm actually on the "post an entry" page I've totally frozen up. But I'll try to hit my main points that I can remember.

Basically, Dreamwidth seems kind of cool, and having a very casual blog might motivate me to write more and to share my writing more. I like the idea of being a published novelist someday, but in order for that to be a possibility you have to write things so you can be good-ish at it. Also it could be good for my brain to think through ideas and make them vaguely presentable in the form of Posts. And who knows, maybe I'll even make some Online Acquaintances. (I used to have those back when I used Instagram, and it was kind of awesome, but then I became an indie web bitch and I couldn't put up with the messy parts of Instagram anymore. [Well it's more complicated than that but that's a different story.])

I kinda tried to talk myself out of making an account on here, like "you have to do more lurking until you're sure this is the Perfect Place for You" and "oh it would be so much more eco-friendly if you coded your own blog". My brain is weird. Luckily if you delete your account on here, eventually it'll be gone and the username will be free again, so I can be like "I'm just trying it out, if I don't like it I can just delete my account and nobody will be worse off." I'm sure you're reading this and thinking, "Lu, are you okay?" and the answer is "not exactly!" (I have a therapist, I promise.)

Anyway, please stick your fingers through the bars of my cage (subscribe to my journal), especially if you're one of the two or so other people on this site who like Chonny Jash. I'll try to make the other posts less rambley than this one, but no promises!