For #snowflakeChallenge2024 I want to talk about my fic writing goals!
My biggest one is to finally finish and post a certain asoryuu fanfic which I drafted 2-3 years ago and never posted. I’m very proud of it already, I just need motivation to clean it up a bit.
I’d also like to finish my marek/solya fanfic which I outlined a year ago and suddenly started drafting recently.
And… I want to write the OW treat I’ve already outlined for the bulletproof exchange!! That’s a very short term goal.
Recently people on a fanfic exchange discord mentioned it would be nice to see which tags were most recently added to the Bulletproof AO3 tagset. Let’s go over a hacky way to do this.
There is a piece of advice I often see on social media, along the lines of write for yourself, not for bozos who would cancel you. I always thought I was pretty good at doing that even when making stuff for others to read.
But, since resolving to write something for myself only, I feel so much more free to be… weird and sus about things. And I wanted to talk about how good that feels…?
While rereading uprooted, I am realising that the falcon is a real blorbo for me. We love to see a character suffering because all their plans came to fruition (until they suddenly didn’t)
Also on a meta level I find it very funny how everything takes on a slash fic vibe the moment he gets introduced. Oh you have a sun moon aesthetic with your prince? Oh you and the dragon are bitter rivals on first name terms? I see how it is…………
I love the problem solving experience of planning a fanwork. Assembling the facts about canon, the narrative I managed to construct from it, my feelings and reactions, and any extra what-if element I want to add. Then headaching about it for hours, turning it upside down, throwing it against the wall until some sort of coherent story pops out. (crosspost)
Got the site online! Now to change the link at goldgust.net…
This post was initialised from the command line! Here’s the script I used:
#!/bin/bash
# Check the number of arguments passed
if [ "$#" -eq 1 ]; then
postname="content/microposts/$(date +'%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S').md"
hugo new $postname
echo -e "\n$1" >> $postname
else
echo "Error: Multiple parameters passed. Only the first parameter is accepted."
exit 1
fi
I did append the code by hand because I’m lazy and can’t imagine wanting to do that often.
Made this site look vaguely like my main site.
I want to make a command line utility to add microposts without having to do hugo new painstakingly write out the timestamp and then open a text editor to write the post itself.