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I'm still working on the finishing touches to Family Matters. I won't say I'm done before New Year, because whenever I say something like that, something else will jump up and chew all my plans. I want this fic to be all shiny and finished and available online in all its glory.
Albeit I'm afraid very few people will notice, since almost all the forums and groups dedicated to TBX are either deadly silent (or have disappeared altogether). I also noticed, that most of my fannish interests have either gone the same way of TBX or come without a blog-presence.
I've started out with writing for a cartoon series: Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, which was centered around a mailing list (it still exists, but posts are few and far between; today I was reminded of it by a post with links to some fics on ff.net). Then I delved into manga, most notably TBX, which started for me on the -still mourned- Clampesque forum and then pulled me to the blogs (1st Livejournal, now I feel at home at Dreamwidth). A few other fandoms (though I never wrote for them), were there as well: Yami no Matsuei, Fake, Gorgeous Carat, Viewfinder... of those, only Viewfinder still sees daily activity.
Now, I'm actually attached to a book series, The Emperor's Edge by Lindsay Buroker, for which I've wrote a total of three short fics (< 3000 words) so far and have a gazillion ideas, basically waiting for some important details to be decided in canon. Ironically, EE is centered around a forum again, branching into the author's Twitter, Pinterest, and homepage.
Given all that, I'm not sure that I will continue writing Business As Usual after I finished the editing of Family Matters. At least, the Dekagram will have a working end then. If Seishiro (and the notorious Tree-san) compel me to continue, I'll most likely complete it on my own before seeking help for editing, instead of publishing it chapter by chapter. There's just not much point doing the chapter-dance without a fandom for feedback.
Albeit I'm afraid very few people will notice, since almost all the forums and groups dedicated to TBX are either deadly silent (or have disappeared altogether). I also noticed, that most of my fannish interests have either gone the same way of TBX or come without a blog-presence.
I've started out with writing for a cartoon series: Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, which was centered around a mailing list (it still exists, but posts are few and far between; today I was reminded of it by a post with links to some fics on ff.net). Then I delved into manga, most notably TBX, which started for me on the -still mourned- Clampesque forum and then pulled me to the blogs (1st Livejournal, now I feel at home at Dreamwidth). A few other fandoms (though I never wrote for them), were there as well: Yami no Matsuei, Fake, Gorgeous Carat, Viewfinder... of those, only Viewfinder still sees daily activity.
Now, I'm actually attached to a book series, The Emperor's Edge by Lindsay Buroker, for which I've wrote a total of three short fics (< 3000 words) so far and have a gazillion ideas, basically waiting for some important details to be decided in canon. Ironically, EE is centered around a forum again, branching into the author's Twitter, Pinterest, and homepage.
Given all that, I'm not sure that I will continue writing Business As Usual after I finished the editing of Family Matters. At least, the Dekagram will have a working end then. If Seishiro (and the notorious Tree-san) compel me to continue, I'll most likely complete it on my own before seeking help for editing, instead of publishing it chapter by chapter. There's just not much point doing the chapter-dance without a fandom for feedback.
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Date: 2012-10-28 17:54 (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-10-28 18:03 (UTC)From:I'm writing for fun, yes, but also to keep my daily English fluent and up to date, which is kind of difficult when your means to travel are limited. That's why I need at least one lively / friendly community to participate in and that community is going to get my main attention.
I don't want to abandon BAU and the other plans for the Dekagram, but I can't give them the attention as before (sadly).
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Date: 2012-10-28 18:14 (UTC)From:The X community has been erased, clamprecs had been erased as well, clamp-rants is quiet by months... even a relatively new community like tsubasa-yaoi is silent while tsubasarc's last posts had been merely about selling material...
... and I too can't realy talk because out of late I'm not being really present... although here and there I still release TB/X related fanworks (just finished a new 'video', okay, a remake, but this time Sei & Su have the right eye colour!) my writing had gone downhill for various reasons.
However it'll be really sad if you leave the fandom as well so I'm still hoping you'll change your mind.
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Date: 2012-10-28 18:20 (UTC)From:Short stories may be another matter, though, those just pop up, demanding to be written and there they are. :)
But I know how you feel. It's sad that so many communities, so many fellow fans just fell off the earth - often on all channels and not just the blogs.
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Date: 2012-10-28 23:29 (UTC)From:It also sucks to be writing into a (near-)vacuum. I'm sorry it's a bit tough for you at the moment! I can definitely sympathize.
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Date: 2012-10-29 08:58 (UTC)From:Right now, finishing Family Matters' editing is a set. Since that editing is sometimes rather strenuous, I will postpone any final decision about following projects until after that's done. I currently have about 30% of the Okinawa trip immediately following after Family Matters penned down as well, so I might well conclude at least that one. But it will depend on how I feel about it once Family Matters is done and posted blogwise, my homepage, and on the AO3.
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Date: 2012-10-29 05:40 (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-10-29 09:03 (UTC)From:Please rest assured that I will finish Family Matters properly and then I'll decide about if and how I continue with the material. Right now, I have about 30% of the trip to Okinawa written already, so I might at least finish that one. But it will all depend on my feelings once Family Matters is done and out.
Right now, the situation feels grave from the empty communities and general silence, but I'm also at the most cumbersome part of editing in a long fic, so that likely plays a role in my reaction to it, too. :)
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Date: 2012-10-29 06:03 (UTC)From:The TB/X fans are out there SOMEWHERE, but there doesn't seem to be a solid fan community anymore, everyone is just scattered individually or in very small groups. For a fandom to thrive I think there needs to be a central hub and TB/X totally does not have that right now. Some fans are on tumblr though :)
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/x1999
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/tokyo-babylon
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/subaru-sumeragi
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/sumeragi-subaru
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/seishiro
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/sakurazuka
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/sakurazukamori
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/sakurazuka-seishiro
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/seisub
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/seishirou-x-subaru
Anyways, whether or not you continue to write in the fandom I will be sticking around to read other things that you write whether it be emeperor's edge related or original fic or other stuff :)
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Date: 2012-10-29 09:09 (UTC)From:Media based platforms don't work that well for me. And Tumblr just feels... shallow. All pretty pictures and no thought. Boring.
I'm happy that you also like EE. If you are interested, I have an entry running in the current Halloween contest: http://the-emperors-edge.com/forum/index.php?topic=364.msg13122#msg13122
I will definitely finish FM, and everything else will be decided afterwards. I realize that I'm probably at the most cumbersome spot in editing such a large fic, so that likely plays a role in my overall feelings as well. I won't decide anything until FM is done, there is so much material left for the Dekagram. Who knows... maybe I'm just depressed because FM is currently so annoyingly slow to work on. :)
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Date: 2012-11-02 18:44 (UTC)From:Yeah, the media based sites do tend to have a lack of... words |D Although, I wouldn't say it's completely absent on tumblr, some people do take advantage of the text-post option.
Sadly, slow-reader me is still on EE 4 so I can't read anything that's post EE 5! But I will most definitely be reading that when I'm all caught up :) *downloads*
I'm VERY glad you def plan to finish FM... there is a spot in my iBooks shelf all ready for a FM pdf! And yeah, who knows what the future will bring. Obviously you'll just do what comes naturally and is right for you, and if that happens to involve future installments, I think there will always be a small but ardent pile of fans waiting ;)
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Date: 2012-11-07 09:56 (UTC)From:I plan an extended winter vacation this year, so there's a good chance to get some serious writing done then. And once the editing's off the menu, I expect writing TBX to be a lot more fun again.
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Date: 2012-11-07 21:47 (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-10-29 07:47 (UTC)From: (Anonymous)Yes writing in a vacuum with no feedback can seem pointless, and I of course always says "do what makes you happy" but if you do continue I will be reading!
I like that you give them a plausible story that doesn't 'fix' everything and make it sappy. I've been so pleased with Subaru's growth and 80would like to see Seishiro's arc and changes maybe some emotional healing if it's possible, of course. A happier ending for him than his basic suicide in canon is what a fan wants after all. :)
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Date: 2012-10-29 09:13 (UTC)From:As I said in answers to previous replies, I have additional material for the Dekragram, partially written and more planned. Whether or not I use it will depend on how I feel when Family Matters is done. Right now, it's very slow and cumbersome work that doesn't allow pushing for discussions about it, so I can't stir up the community that still visits my blog once in a while. So maybe everything feels more lonely than it is.
I'll see how it is once FM is done and I can return to easier writing.
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Date: 2012-10-29 18:05 (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-10-29 18:37 (UTC)From:You and I, we are producers, but without feedback, without "that works" or "that sounds off", it is empty to us. I maintained friends, friends I'd dearly miss (like you, for example), from GR and the list, but when was the last time anything important happened on-list that had to do with GR and went beyond somebody posting stuff and a few scattered "Re: likes"?
I'd love to see your Skollii completed and showcast (in reading order, pretty please?) on a site dedicated to it (and your other works). I know that people occasionally still find my stories, albeit in low numbers. Personally, it feels good to have the stories up out there, totally worth it - whether or not people visit. Though, uploading the finished ones to the AO3, as an archive site, might increase the chance that ppl search or stumble about them. That's why I'm still working on putting my stuff there as well.
I think the GR fandom is as silent - if not more so - than TBX is by now. I just felt the latter more strongly, because it happened comparatively fast. But it's more than just GR or TBX. The majority of fandoms I enjoyed has grown silent or moved to media centered sites that do not work well for writers. Maybe that's why EE feels so special right now, there's a lot of the old vitality I experienced on the list and in the beginning with TBX.
Frankly, I miss our long email exchanges over our various writing projects. Writing these days has become a lonely sport with few exceptions.
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Date: 2012-10-30 02:45 (UTC)From: (Anonymous)no subject
Date: 2012-10-31 15:14 (UTC)From: (Anonymous)no subject
Date: 2012-11-07 09:52 (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-11-07 09:41 (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-11-07 09:51 (UTC)From:Frankly, the final touch of the editing is a very tedious, very cumbersome task and I keep getting interrupted by real life work demands in it, so it's even more cumbersome than it ought to be. Once that's done and I can happily write on ahead, exploring new scenes, new stuff, new adventures, I fully expect to enjoy writing and playing with TBX again (despite delving into Emperor's Edge now and then, too).
Right now is just a very depressing stage of events. Let's hope my winter vacation is long enough to get past that! :-)
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Date: 2012-11-07 10:13 (UTC)From:If nothing, I'm hoping to see Okinawa trip because it's ought to be awesome! ;)