Hisashiburi
May. 11th, 2025 04:25 pmI haven't been around for a while. I lost the thread here; I couldn't figure out what to talk about or what to say.
I think I have indeed finally found it, and that is, in addition to all the other things I like to blog about (fandom, anime, YouTube, gardening), to talk about my original fiction. In my writers group, I've spent most of the time working on figuring out how to let the people who might like my work know it exists! I don't usually write genre fiction, so though I feel like I write the type of fiction that was far and away the most common in my youth, nowadays it's hard to figure out where are the people who still read that, especially my specific brand of it.
I finally realized that the best thing I can do is blog about my work! For the first time ever. I was raised to be quiet and humble, but damnit, I made all these beautiful works I'm so proud of, and I want to talk about them! In fandom spaces, since my original fiction is very like my fanfic, inasmuch as I've always loved fandom tropes, and all that stuff is the same kind of thing I write about in my original fiction.
Because that's another problem with finding its audience: I've gotten the impression that some of it is hard to find a way into, so I've thought maybe talking about my inspirations and intentions here might help. Also, I have a looooot to say about my original fiction that I've never written anywhere!
Also, I've really missed blogging and participating in a fandom space. I've thought often of that long list of excellent shows in my sticky post that I got to watch that year, as anime has been in a dreadful isekai-only drought ever since. (Is this Sword Art Online's fault?? Did every anime studio instantly book nothing but isekai shows when it was so popular, and only now have most of them finally been released so they can start making other kinds of shows?) Every time a batch of new anime came out, I thought surely the nothing-but-isekai phase would have to finally be over, but after years of that, this time I gave up ... and suddenly there's a bunch of good new shows! Can A Boy-Girl Friendship Survive? is pretty good. Witch Watch is fun. We've got a new season of Windbreaker, a My Hero prequel, a new season of Andor that I'm equal parts anticipating and dreading, Our Love Has Always Been 10 Centimeters Apart and Mob Psycho 100 are older shows I just discovered and am quite enjoying, and To Be Hero X, which so far is AMAZING!!! Finally, some good stuff to watch!! What a relief. Because we'd resorted to rewatching old favorites when we simply could not find anything new to enjoy, and I was getting scared tastes had changed so much that there would never be anything new that appealed to me ever again. It's still really hard to find anything live-action we enjoy. I'd love to hear any recommendations you might have.
I think I have indeed finally found it, and that is, in addition to all the other things I like to blog about (fandom, anime, YouTube, gardening), to talk about my original fiction. In my writers group, I've spent most of the time working on figuring out how to let the people who might like my work know it exists! I don't usually write genre fiction, so though I feel like I write the type of fiction that was far and away the most common in my youth, nowadays it's hard to figure out where are the people who still read that, especially my specific brand of it.
I finally realized that the best thing I can do is blog about my work! For the first time ever. I was raised to be quiet and humble, but damnit, I made all these beautiful works I'm so proud of, and I want to talk about them! In fandom spaces, since my original fiction is very like my fanfic, inasmuch as I've always loved fandom tropes, and all that stuff is the same kind of thing I write about in my original fiction.
Because that's another problem with finding its audience: I've gotten the impression that some of it is hard to find a way into, so I've thought maybe talking about my inspirations and intentions here might help. Also, I have a looooot to say about my original fiction that I've never written anywhere!
Also, I've really missed blogging and participating in a fandom space. I've thought often of that long list of excellent shows in my sticky post that I got to watch that year, as anime has been in a dreadful isekai-only drought ever since. (Is this Sword Art Online's fault?? Did every anime studio instantly book nothing but isekai shows when it was so popular, and only now have most of them finally been released so they can start making other kinds of shows?) Every time a batch of new anime came out, I thought surely the nothing-but-isekai phase would have to finally be over, but after years of that, this time I gave up ... and suddenly there's a bunch of good new shows! Can A Boy-Girl Friendship Survive? is pretty good. Witch Watch is fun. We've got a new season of Windbreaker, a My Hero prequel, a new season of Andor that I'm equal parts anticipating and dreading, Our Love Has Always Been 10 Centimeters Apart and Mob Psycho 100 are older shows I just discovered and am quite enjoying, and To Be Hero X, which so far is AMAZING!!! Finally, some good stuff to watch!! What a relief. Because we'd resorted to rewatching old favorites when we simply could not find anything new to enjoy, and I was getting scared tastes had changed so much that there would never be anything new that appealed to me ever again. It's still really hard to find anything live-action we enjoy. I'd love to hear any recommendations you might have.