5 things for the internet

[melannen]

1. I have signed up for intoabar again! With Katharine Dunleavy from Jupiter Ascending and Snarkout Boys, The Librarians, Steven Universe, and Saga as my four possible fandoms. There is no possible way I will ever regret this.

2. I also did indeed sign up for Camp Nano for April. I will probably regret this. So far I mostly just want to make more lanyards.

3. First day of class went well! I think it will be fun and not as exhausting as I was afraid, mandatory group project aside.

4. Other than that I have been getting basically nothing done, as predicted. lalalala.

5. sathinfection posted a writing meme on Tumblr where you get to be your own worst critic. I kinda feel like on the one hand it would be good to actually get some of that out there and talk about it instead of being a secret shame? But on the other hand once you go down that rabbit hole it is hard to come back up. So here I will post it on DW for answering in comments instead of smearing it all over my tumblr dash:

If you want to see me do one of these, leave a number in a comment and I'll answer! If this feels too dangerous to you do not click the cut.

1: Go to your oldest work online and find the most cringe-inducing section.
2: What's the most embarrassing porn you've ever written?
3: Most embarrassing drawerfic.
4: Laziest ending.
5: Worst beginning.
6: Send me one of my own fics to flame.
7: Rank your top five worst fics.
8: How do you disagree with your AO3 stats page?
9: Send me one of my own fics and I'll write the worst comment imaginable for it.
10: Write a parody of your own style.

Comments

[omens]

OK those are awesome fandom choices!

Cabin Dinocrazy #fistbump

I would be intrigued to know about #3 because drawerfic fascinates me :D

[melannen]

I am way too fond of Katharine Dunlevy really and she has basically NO FIC, so we'll see what happens...

*fistbump* whooo write the things.

On that note, I don't really have "drawerfic" in the classical sense because tbh if I go to the trouble of writing it down you can damn well bet I'm going to put it up for kudos.

Um.

I did spend a couple months when I was going door-to-door for the census plotting out a SUPER-ELABORATE Top Gear RPF slavefic/concubine AU. Uh. Do you actually want any plot summary of that or is that enough to understand why it counts as shame.

...so like it was set in an AU Britain what was sort of based on moving the world from Study in Emerald forward but not really. Former-slave-made-good Jeremy Clarkson had recently been promoted for Unspecified Services For Her Glabrous Majesty and therefore needed a second concubine to keep up appearances so he bought James May super-cheap because James was really bad at being a slave and was up for last-chance auction. And then he proceeded to ignore him completely except when he needed him to stand there and look pretty for very occasional social events, so basically he just lounged around the estate a lot with fellow concubine Richard and messed with his employer's collection of steam cars.

Except it was super-boring and also James was rather offended at the fact that everybody just assumed he would be terrible at being a sex slave so he somehow got himself sent to famous retired champion concubine Oz Clarke for training in the arts of sensuality and when he finally went back to the Clarkson estate everything was different and...

..and, uh, a lot of other stuff happened too, but I'm actually kind of ashamed just writing that summary. <_< I still kind of enjoy the basic milieu I set up there so I suppose there's a tiny chance I will someday rework it as original erotica but. being in RPF fandoms does weird things to your sense of shame. I never so much as wrote one word of it down before, iirc.