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I have this Good Omens Easter fic that has been living in my head for so long that when I go back to GO I legitimately forget that not only is "the first time Crowley ever slept was that morning in the first century when he was pretending to be a guard at the latest guy-who-clamied-he-was-the-Messiah's tomb" not canon, it's also not even fanon, because I've never mentioned it to anybody.
And every Lent I think to myself "this should be the year I actually write the fic", and every Palm Sunday I sit down after church and re-write the first scene and then go "aaaauggh I need to do more research."
You might be surprised to find how little there is out there in terms of resources for "how to read the Easter accounts in the gospels in context with archaeological evidence and non-Christian historical accounts of c. 30 BCE Jerusalem". I mean, most of the information exists, I have been trying to gather it together since before I read Good Omens the first time, but seems likeit's in pieces here and there, each with a different slant, because all of the people who have the different pieces have different ideological reasons to not want to be the resource that connects it all. Because they have no compassion for fanfic writers, clearly.
And, of course, the same fraught reasons the easy research resources don't exist is the reason I don't want to write the thing without having access to them.
So this year I finally finished my Republic of Two Systems Independence Day story instead. :P
Just Born (2166 words) by melannen
Fandom: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Justice of Toren One Esk Nineteen | Breq, Gem of Sphene, Translator Zeiat, Lieutenant Tisarwat, Piat, Seivarden Vendaai
Additional Tags: Republic of Two Systems Independence Day, Food, vengeance
Summary:
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Also!![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
staranise is working on a guide to DW for Tumblr users who want to move, and she's asking for people to subscribe/add some mock accounts that she can use for tutorial purposes - if you have some accounts laying around, and you want people to move from Tumblr to DW, check it out. There's also a community, ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fictional_fans, that she'd like a variety of fandom-related posts and conversations in to use as a demo - if you would like to help, you can go post either a real fandom-related post or a fake one, either is fine!
(however I would kind of like to see it become a real community. Part of the reason fandom communities have never taken off on DW, I think, is that we're a small enough pool of users that it's hard to get critical mass on any specific topic - they tend to either die of malnourishment or get dominated by one or two members to the extent they can't really grow. But I bet we could get critical mass for "fandom in general"! And I bet DW, as it exists in 2018, could actually support a comm that was just "anything fandom related for any fandom" without it getting out of control the way it would on a larger platform. And if it was a living community it would be a great place to send new users to welcome them! Anybody want to help me try to make it real?)
And every Lent I think to myself "this should be the year I actually write the fic", and every Palm Sunday I sit down after church and re-write the first scene and then go "aaaauggh I need to do more research."
You might be surprised to find how little there is out there in terms of resources for "how to read the Easter accounts in the gospels in context with archaeological evidence and non-Christian historical accounts of c. 30 BCE Jerusalem". I mean, most of the information exists, I have been trying to gather it together since before I read Good Omens the first time, but seems likeit's in pieces here and there, each with a different slant, because all of the people who have the different pieces have different ideological reasons to not want to be the resource that connects it all. Because they have no compassion for fanfic writers, clearly.
And, of course, the same fraught reasons the easy research resources don't exist is the reason I don't want to write the thing without having access to them.
So this year I finally finished my Republic of Two Systems Independence Day story instead. :P
Just Born (2166 words) by melannen
Fandom: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Justice of Toren One Esk Nineteen | Breq, Gem of Sphene, Translator Zeiat, Lieutenant Tisarwat, Piat, Seivarden Vendaai
Additional Tags: Republic of Two Systems Independence Day, Food, vengeance
Summary:
Seivarden and Sphene bond over their shared Notai heritage.
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Also!
staranise is working on a guide to DW for Tumblr users who want to move, and she's asking for people to subscribe/add some mock accounts that she can use for tutorial purposes - if you have some accounts laying around, and you want people to move from Tumblr to DW, check it out. There's also a community, fictional_fans, that she'd like a variety of fandom-related posts and conversations in to use as a demo - if you would like to help, you can go post either a real fandom-related post or a fake one, either is fine!(however I would kind of like to see it become a real community. Part of the reason fandom communities have never taken off on DW, I think, is that we're a small enough pool of users that it's hard to get critical mass on any specific topic - they tend to either die of malnourishment or get dominated by one or two members to the extent they can't really grow. But I bet we could get critical mass for "fandom in general"! And I bet DW, as it exists in 2018, could actually support a comm that was just "anything fandom related for any fandom" without it getting out of control the way it would on a larger platform. And if it was a living community it would be a great place to send new users to welcome them! Anybody want to help me try to make it real?)