Questions for December Daily?
Nov. 26th, 2018 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonantHiya, fandom! Long time no see! The current Tumblr turmoil may not end up amounting to anything, but it did stir up the constant subsonic murmur of my Dreamwidth nostalgia enough to make me eager to participate in daily posting again.
So here's how it works. Choose a date in December. Ask me a question. I'll make a post about your question on the date you choose.
Quick update:
Work: Stable job, great boss, good pay ... such boring work.
Kidlet: A sophomore studying psychology and gender studies at a university about two hours away. Also working at one of the food places and experiencing that joy of employment best expressed by a text that said: "I'm the only person who ever cuts any onions! I am the BACKBONE of this place!"
Personal: Still in this damned commuter marriage, which still sucks. In an effort to stop talking about politics so much, the spouse and I are reading James Joyce's Ulysses out loud. I'm trying to spend a few more weekends at home; I miss him, but I need to live where I live. Also, I'm growing herbs in my kitchen and I bought a houseplant.
Health: So, um, you know how you sort of know you have sleep apnea for like years and years and never do anything about it? ... except that I started being short of breath every time I walked half a block, and this month my doctor called for an EKG and then made appointments with both a sleep specialist and a cardiologist. At least this year there's no rabies involved.
Writing: Not yet.
Fannish engagement: Reading all the Venom.
Anyhow, leave me questions! Tell me if you're participating, and I'll leave you questions! I still remember fondly what it was like to talk to each other!
1 --goss, "VENOM! Why do you think it's been such an instant hit with Fandom, and what are some of your favourite fanworks so far?" and nestra, "Any Venom recs?"
2 --anitac588, "How do you relate to different fandoms? Do you revisit them?
Sometimes I find it difficult to go back to reading stories in 'old' fandoms after discovering new OTP."
3 --marginaliana, "what is your favorite physical non-living thing? Not a person or a pet, but it could be something you own or a piece of art, etc."
4 --cesperanza, "I'll ask an HP question, actually, because I wasn't really ever in it and I'm interested in the reactions of people who were. It seems to me from the outside so spectacularly meh now; like, it was the fictional equiv of Lost (which I also didn't watch) where it was fascinating as a piece of serialized fiction but where the execution simply couldn't live up to the collective imagination. Am I wrong?"
5 --teigh_corvus, "Your thoughts on James Joyce and Ulysses."
6 --kass, "If the you of 10 years ago could see you now, what would surprise her most?"
7 --
8 --
9 --
10 --princessofgeeks, "How did you go about changing fandoms? Was it, historically, something you did or something that just happened? Did friends lure you? Did you find new shows to watch?"
11 --reginagiraffe, "(It's MrGiraffe's birthday so...) Have you ever written a birthday themed story? If not, what couple would have the best/funnest/easiest birthday story to write and why?"
12 --laurenthemself, "What are your thoughts on Thor: Ragnarok? I know ya boy Steve wasn't in it but did you have any shippy feelings?"
13 --
14 --
15 --china_shop, "What hooks you into a fanfic? Is it banter, characterisation, tropes, or...? Is it different from what hooks you into original fic?"
16 --
17 --
18 --kass, "What have you read recently that you've enjoyed?
19 --
20 --
21 --
22 --mekare, What would Ben Fraser do in 2018?
23 --marina, "What was the last book you read that wasn't fanfic and that you intensely loved, and why."
24 --wychwood, "Something about SGA! What's the one fic you're sorry you never wrote? What was your favourite episode? Do you still love John/Rodney? How gay WAS John Sheppard? Where in Atlantis would you live if you could pick any room you liked? Pick one or a topic of your choice."
25 --
26 --
27 --
28 --kass, "What do you like best about where you live?"
29 --
30 --china_shop, "Your favourite book you read this year."
31 --wolfshark, "what is your favorite story to reread of your own stuff? what was your favorite story to write?"
So here's how it works. Choose a date in December. Ask me a question. I'll make a post about your question on the date you choose.
Quick update:
Work: Stable job, great boss, good pay ... such boring work.
Kidlet: A sophomore studying psychology and gender studies at a university about two hours away. Also working at one of the food places and experiencing that joy of employment best expressed by a text that said: "I'm the only person who ever cuts any onions! I am the BACKBONE of this place!"
Personal: Still in this damned commuter marriage, which still sucks. In an effort to stop talking about politics so much, the spouse and I are reading James Joyce's Ulysses out loud. I'm trying to spend a few more weekends at home; I miss him, but I need to live where I live. Also, I'm growing herbs in my kitchen and I bought a houseplant.
Health: So, um, you know how you sort of know you have sleep apnea for like years and years and never do anything about it? ... except that I started being short of breath every time I walked half a block, and this month my doctor called for an EKG and then made appointments with both a sleep specialist and a cardiologist. At least this year there's no rabies involved.
Writing: Not yet.
Fannish engagement: Reading all the Venom.
Anyhow, leave me questions! Tell me if you're participating, and I'll leave you questions! I still remember fondly what it was like to talk to each other!
1 --
goss, "VENOM! Why do you think it's been such an instant hit with Fandom, and what are some of your favourite fanworks so far?" and nestra, "Any Venom recs?"2 --
anitac588, "How do you relate to different fandoms? Do you revisit them?Sometimes I find it difficult to go back to reading stories in 'old' fandoms after discovering new OTP."
3 --
marginaliana, "what is your favorite physical non-living thing? Not a person or a pet, but it could be something you own or a piece of art, etc."4 --
cesperanza, "I'll ask an HP question, actually, because I wasn't really ever in it and I'm interested in the reactions of people who were. It seems to me from the outside so spectacularly meh now; like, it was the fictional equiv of Lost (which I also didn't watch) where it was fascinating as a piece of serialized fiction but where the execution simply couldn't live up to the collective imagination. Am I wrong?"5 --
teigh_corvus, "Your thoughts on James Joyce and Ulysses."6 --
kass, "If the you of 10 years ago could see you now, what would surprise her most?"7 --
8 --
9 --
10 --
princessofgeeks, "How did you go about changing fandoms? Was it, historically, something you did or something that just happened? Did friends lure you? Did you find new shows to watch?"11 --
reginagiraffe, "(It's MrGiraffe's birthday so...) Have you ever written a birthday themed story? If not, what couple would have the best/funnest/easiest birthday story to write and why?"12 --
laurenthemself, "What are your thoughts on Thor: Ragnarok? I know ya boy Steve wasn't in it but did you have any shippy feelings?"13 --
14 --
15 --
china_shop, "What hooks you into a fanfic? Is it banter, characterisation, tropes, or...? Is it different from what hooks you into original fic?"16 --
17 --
18 --
kass, "What have you read recently that you've enjoyed? 19 --
20 --
21 --
22 --
mekare, What would Ben Fraser do in 2018?23 --
marina, "What was the last book you read that wasn't fanfic and that you intensely loved, and why."24 --
wychwood, "Something about SGA! What's the one fic you're sorry you never wrote? What was your favourite episode? Do you still love John/Rodney? How gay WAS John Sheppard? Where in Atlantis would you live if you could pick any room you liked? Pick one or a topic of your choice."25 --
26 --
27 --
28 --
kass, "What do you like best about where you live?"29 --
30 --
china_shop, "Your favourite book you read this year."31 --
wolfshark, "what is your favorite story to reread of your own stuff? what was your favorite story to write?"