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*blows the dust off*
So I logged in on Dreamwidth for the first time in ... years? a couple of weeks ago, right in time for an experience I am summing up, less and less tentatively each time I say it, as:
My Ability to Write Has Come Home from the War
Which! Oh boy! It has been A LONG TIME. Three and a half years, probably? A LONG TIME. And it feels sort of magical and impossible and also the absolutely logical result of, you know, taking three years to grieve the demise of my (first) attempt at a full-time writing career, actually getting a stable full-time job on which I can support myself, getting my own place again, acclimating to said stable full-time job (and losing the incredibly bad boss who first hired me), doing some therapy for the ADHD, taking up running again, and ... so on. Apparently when the rest of your life is not a flaming wreck, it's easier to be creative and productive?? Who could have imagined?
Anyway, two weeks ago I thought to myself, "I need a shiny new fandom, what looks shiny and new and fun?" and decided on The Sandman and, specifically, Dreamling, the Hob Gadling/Dream pairing. Partly because after twenty years in fandom that is the first legitimately charming pairing portmanteau name I've encountered, but also... yeah, one suffering superhero, one regular guy with a lot of hidden trauma and vast wells of competence? Yeah, this is my pairing.
And now! I have posted my first fic for it! Over at![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
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Title: Licking the Spoon
Fandom: The Sandman (Netflix)
Rating: Explicit
Length: 8600 words
Content notes: Light dom/sub, oral sex, sensory seeking, sensory exploration, touch-starved Dream, tickling, spooning
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Summary: "I have spoons in my flat," Hob added, feeling a little reckless with the surge of probably-unneeded adrenaline. "Loads of spoons."
His friend raised his eyebrows at that, and jerked his hand away from the spoon on the table, but he didn't follow it by walking out, so Hob hadn't gone too far.
Licking the Spoon
(And, since it took me until the last twelve hours of the challenge to get that posted, it'll be on Ao3 tonight. But for now, it is on Dreamwidth, and I am also on Dreamwidth! Hi everybody else who's still/back on Dreamwidth!)
My Ability to Write Has Come Home from the War
Which! Oh boy! It has been A LONG TIME. Three and a half years, probably? A LONG TIME. And it feels sort of magical and impossible and also the absolutely logical result of, you know, taking three years to grieve the demise of my (first) attempt at a full-time writing career, actually getting a stable full-time job on which I can support myself, getting my own place again, acclimating to said stable full-time job (and losing the incredibly bad boss who first hired me), doing some therapy for the ADHD, taking up running again, and ... so on. Apparently when the rest of your life is not a flaming wreck, it's easier to be creative and productive?? Who could have imagined?
Anyway, two weeks ago I thought to myself, "I need a shiny new fandom, what looks shiny and new and fun?" and decided on The Sandman and, specifically, Dreamling, the Hob Gadling/Dream pairing. Partly because after twenty years in fandom that is the first legitimately charming pairing portmanteau name I've encountered, but also... yeah, one suffering superhero, one regular guy with a lot of hidden trauma and vast wells of competence? Yeah, this is my pairing.
And now! I have posted my first fic for it! Over at
fan_flashworks :Title: Licking the Spoon
Fandom: The Sandman (Netflix)
Rating: Explicit
Length: 8600 words
Content notes: Light dom/sub, oral sex, sensory seeking, sensory exploration, touch-starved Dream, tickling, spooning
Author notes:
Summary: "I have spoons in my flat," Hob added, feeling a little reckless with the surge of probably-unneeded adrenaline. "Loads of spoons."
His friend raised his eyebrows at that, and jerked his hand away from the spoon on the table, but he didn't follow it by walking out, so Hob hadn't gone too far.
Licking the Spoon
(And, since it took me until the last twelve hours of the challenge to get that posted, it'll be on Ao3 tonight. But for now, it is on Dreamwidth, and I am also on Dreamwidth! Hi everybody else who's still/back on Dreamwidth!)
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I stopped writing fic for 10(!) years and found a fandom and started again earlier this year, and it’s just delightful to be back. Happy writing!
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!!!!
Re: !!!!
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Welcome back *G*
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Rec, in case you're interested in more than one new fandom - Given how much you like/d writing Bucky, you might also enjoy the Murderbot Diaries. I found All Systems Red not super engaging the first time I read it, extremely engaging the second time I read it, and I'm now very in love with this series and it's very damaged, very competent central character.
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And oh, yeah, I adore Murderbot! I binged all of the audiobooks around the time System Effect came out. :D
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I haven’t managed to watch Sandman yet, but HI I’m glad to see you back! I hope your renaissance goes great! I’ve been revelling in mine.
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Welcome back! Hurrah for the arrival back of your Muse!
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taking three years to grieve the demise of my (first) attempt at a full-time writing career
I'm so sorry! I had thought you'd been doing well at it but had moved on to other things.
I'm really glad you're back writing again and things are generally going better.
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Summing it up did make it sound a bit more dramatic than it was in practice, but--I burned out on writing Zoe, and wasn't ever very good at actually sticking to any identifiable target audience, and got to a point where a couple of books underperformed and I just had to do the math and realized that This Was Not Working, you know? I'd simultaneously arrived at the point of recovering enough from my dayjob burnout to be ready to go looking for another library job--I think I actually had landed my first part-time job by the time I realized it was time to stop treating writing like my full-time job, because it couldn't actually function that way, so it could all have been a lot worse! But, uh, yeah, that... didn't work out.
(I mean, hilariously and wonderfully, I still make hundreds of dollars a month mostly off Zoe backlist, bless all of you keeping Zoe going! But yeah, on to other things these days. *g*)
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(Anonymous) 2022-10-17 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
Anyway, welcome back XD [throws your writing ability a ticker-tape parade]
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