Guava Continent Outpost

On BSky, I've created an account to share fanworks centred on episode 13 of Exceedraft. I post one fanwork on each day and will continue until I get to 100 fanworks posted over 100 days. My daily posts started since the start of April and I'm currently almost midway through my project. I've shared meta, GIFs of single scenes, collages, memes and screenshots to compare Exceedraft E13 with another creative work.

My BSky account is basically like a Xitter (X formerly Twitter) 'fan account' common in K-Pop fandom. I did run a K-Pop fan account before for my SF9 OTP, which taught me that I dislike posting on Xitter. On the surface, BSky is more or less a Xitter clone, but it has been much better posting there, perhaps more likely due to the kinds of posts I chose to put out rather than BSky's offerings.

Community engagement would be minimal anywhere as I'm posting about an old, obscure and non-English TV show. Most support that I've got so far are from sharing the BSky links of my fanworks on Discord.

I wanted to try sharing new fanworks every day after finding it an energising and inspiring habit during my participation for TokuShipping Week. Like for that fanweek, I created fanworks for my BSky fan account in advance, saved them as drafts to later share one by one. As I share more fanworks and further populate my fan account, I could better pretend that I live in a world with a consistent stream of a variety of appealing and interesting fanworks about my favourite show and character (lol). For edits in particular, as opposed to any kind of writing, it's easier to pretend someone else has made them.

me: with all the high quality files of subtitled old shows available, why haven't there been more GIFs and GIFsets made out of them? all anyone has to do is —

me: [lists many steps that involve opening different software and looking at different files]

me: oh

Just finished creating Turboranger GIFsets. I've tried to make it a weekly routine since I've returned to once more posting on my Tumblr fanworks blog. Editing graphics always takes more effort and care than I thought, but immediately after posting, I'd inevitably crave more edits of my obscure favourites.

Posted my exchange treat!

I posted my completed treat on 11 Dec, four days before the official deadline. I feel unnecessarily competitive and therefore #onbrand with my ship >:3 Even after posting, my nerves on how the story will be received still have yet to abate. I'm trying to work through it now by starting another fic, one with kinks and a plot that makes it obvious that the story is mainly for me.

A vision for juicedguava 2.0: Version Dreamwidth

Like many who have jumped on to the DW bandwagon due to the recent Tumblr purge, I've been exploring the various communities on the platform. I've rebooted my own fanworks community juicedguava, named after my first fanworks blog on Tumblr.

In 2019, I plan to move my static graphic edits from the Tumblr to juicedguava, that is photo sets and a softer world remixes. I think I'll continue making GIF sets and to make up for the extra step of uploading them on another host for embedding, I can experiment with going beyond Tumblr size limits.

This week, I've made some shippy icons for the first time and learned how to use this handy website for generating the HTML for the icon table. It's been a refreshing experience to just edit pictures for the fun of it with no expectation for the final work to be of use for others. Once or twice I wondered what if I learned how to contribute graphics back when I was active on LJ fandom, but at that age when I didn't really have anything unique to express, it felt all the more awkward when I forced myself to contribute out of anxiety on missing out on all the fun.

Last year, I confronted that anxiety head on through writing and posting fics, and while it feels like a never-ending battle, each breakthrough gives me the confidence and courage to face the next intangible obstacle.

Completed this week's prompt for 100words

Wrote a Naoto/Tatsuya drabble for Prompt #123 - Ghost and posted it on the comm! I've saved the post to my memories for posting on AO3 if/when I've written more drabbles.

I was more excited than I thought I'd be about posting on a DW space that isn't my own. I had to take extra care in formatting my post to look like the post of other members; a practice that I don't think is intuitive for fans of the social media generation. For that reason, I think that if there'd be another attempt to start up fan activity on DW, a lot of detailed handholding would be required to keep up the momentum for a significant (and perhaps finite) amount of time.