Guava Continent Outpost

READ IT & WEEP

After finishing the first draft of my FIRST EVER 10K FIC, I've got it printed and have edited about a quarter of it. So far, even with minor mistakes and notes on scenes to rework, I'm enjoying the story and can't wait to read more. That may change the deeper I get into this and as the conflict leading to the buttsex heats up.

I've checked my fic records for this fic and it turned out that I spent exactly a month writing the first draft. This means that I need the margin of time in between chapters to think through the plot and that I'm far from capable of completing the NaNoWriMo challenge. I don't have to aim towards that though, especially when I'm deliberately focusing on a project that's not 'time sensitive' and that I have to post asap in order to catch a captive audience.

Taking writing slow and steady also gives me more room to experiment and really think about what I want to have written. In the writing of my draft, taking the 10 days of 30 just to think and sort out my worries enabled me to be better at the aspects of writing I thought I'd be really bad at. For one, I liked the exposition/worldbuilding bits!

Finishing Kyoryuger (8 eps), LuPat (5 eps) & Time Force (7 eps)

On top of that, I started 4 eps of Metalder, yet another Metal Heroes series >_> The toku franchise that's probably the least female fan friendly of them all. Speaking of Metal Heroes, I keep thinking about the latest Space Squad movie (Gavan VS Dekarangers) and its potential for kinkfic. Too bad that there's already a fic in the tag or else I can focus on it to come up with a PWP for the upcoming Be The First Challenge.

Maybe I need to accept that I can do away with the plot of tokusatsu. For shows I'm watching the first time, it might be worth watching the endgame just to know how it unfolds. But for shows I'm rewatching, I might as well skip to the end and over the parts I'm uninterested in.

Binged minutephysics' vids on Youtube & started Philip K. Dick's Ubik

The scifi research continues! I'm engrossed in Ubik and just reached the part where the serious shit goes down (one-third through the book). As per my case with the classics, I don't really like any of the main characters. That may not be a problem for me since I'm mostly into this for the worldbuilding.

Sneezing, scifi & scribbling

About 6 more days to go until I finish this story. This is the longest I have spent on a single fanfiction project.

Writing, more than creating in any other kind of medium, requires much more patience when it comes to creating more than a 100-word drabble which I can now finish in the same amount of time it takes me to complete a simple gifset. Even if I don't make it to the finish line, I'd have cultivated my patience more than if I chose to create more graphics or do something else.

A bout of runny nose and cough got me to slow down and think more about the words I'm putting down. Done with the main action of the fic, I went back to the start to do some scifi-ish worldbuilding. It's trickier than I thought, leading me back to seek out published work for references.

Read Joan Silber's The Art of Time in Fiction

Found this in a rec from this DW post on the problem of transitions. It's a thin little volume that can be finished in a couple of sittings. There's an analysis of a book called Einstein's Dreams on how time works differently in different worlds which I plan to check out next.

7 more episodes of Time Force to go!

I still can't wrap my head around my problem with finishing Sentais, but I don't want to leave more shows unfinished, so I just clicked on the next episode and continued.

Alex, like Ryuuya, is a dick, but at least not one with some kind of latent God Complex. The differences between the two and their direction of the Rangers' actions is what differentiates the Sentai and the adaptation, both in terms of plot points and themes. Fans who attempt to compare the two could hammer home even more the contrasting roles of Red's 30th Century Descendant, but maybe it doesn't really matter since both shows are well-known enough to get new people to watch (and re-watch) each year.

What am I going to do once Snowflake Challenge is over? :'(

11 prompts completed, 4 more to go. After making a video for one of the day's prompts, I made another video soon after. So maybe I can try doing the prompts over and over again when I've got no idea for new entries. I'll definitely miss the rush to complete the day's prompt (not a must, just a personal challenge) and waking up to receiving encouraging comments.

Got to keep journaling and commenting!

I won't call myself a vidder yet

Made two Timeranger videos - a shippy one and a Timefire transformation compilation which I've posted on Youtube. Both made using free software such as Spark Adobe! I'm not only proud of myself for finishing the videos, but also because I managed to get writing done and not get distracted by shiny new skills.

Fic After Fic

Completed the fifth drabble for 100words! I nearly couldn't think up a scenario for this week's prompt, but then I got inspired by the Time Force episode in which Wes and Eric go back to the Jurassic age for V-Rex. I thought Tatsuya and Matoi were sent back in time to walk with dinos in Timeranger VS GoGoV, but it turned out that they just walked with cavemen >.> Oh well.

Since I'm pants at scifi, I'm likely gonna continue borrowing from Time Force (with credits) for future Timeranger fics.

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.