a long year, a fandom check-in
The most surprising thing I can report isn't the pandemic, because that's old hat by now, over a year in. No, the most surprising thing is apparently that I'm in a new fandom, as I've been in a long-term relationship with Sherlock for several years now. Since 2013? Almost as long as I've been married tbh.
Yet over the summer (2020), that's where I found myself--in a new fandom. And like, deep in a new fandom, which I was honestly feeling like I was incapable of in the wake of Sherlock s4. I have described it before as a sort of depression, not being in and not being able to get into a fandom. But apparently that phase is over for now?
But over the summer, mostly out of boredom I decided to pick up this random Chinese drama I'd heard some folks talk about. And I fell into it. Here's a quick catalog of some related things I've done since the fall.
Yet over the summer (2020), that's where I found myself--in a new fandom. And like, deep in a new fandom, which I was honestly feeling like I was incapable of in the wake of Sherlock s4. I have described it before as a sort of depression, not being in and not being able to get into a fandom. But apparently that phase is over for now?
But over the summer, mostly out of boredom I decided to pick up this random Chinese drama I'd heard some folks talk about. And I fell into it. Here's a quick catalog of some related things I've done since the fall.
- wrote an Untamed/MDZS fandom starter kit doc (currently just under 3.1k)
- wrote a part 2 of the above Untamed/MDZS fandom kit (currently at 4.9k)
- started a new twitter handle/fandom name
- started a podfic of a 40k MDZS work
- taught myself vidding over New Year's Eve
- translated a song by Wang Yibo and made a lyric video for it
- made two more fanvids for the Untamed (both in the last couple days)
- art
- art
- art
- shitposts/edits
- set up stores at redbubble and threadless