Admin Post: Community Check-In for August 2018

[goss]

Today's the last day of August, and we'd love to have you check in and chat with us. How have things been with you this past month?

Did you sign up for or take part in any fandom activities in August, or have you been working on any personal art projects? Are you currently trying to meet a deadline? Feel free to share upcoming challenges that have got you excited, any frustrations you've been experiencing, possible goals for the next month, and so on.

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Upcoming Group Project?

mekare has suggested having another Drawesome Group Project in the coming months. I am all on board for it, but would like to know when would be the best time for you guys. So please take a moment to fill out our poll by selecting 1-3 months. We appreciate your input. :)

Poll #20397 Drawesome Group Project

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 7

View Respondents

Which month(s) would you be more likely to participate in a group project?

View Answers

November 2018
3 (42.9%)

December 2018
3 (42.9%)

January 2019
5 (71.4%)

Not sure which month is best, but I would love to participate in the group project
1 (14.3%)

I will probably not be participating in the group project
0 (0.0%)

In addition, we're open to ideas for this group project, so please let us know if you have any suggestions.

Comments

Sorry this is wordy.

[mekare]

Oh yay, I'm finally on time for a check-in again. So, lots of stuff going on in August:

1. I fell in love with a new fandom because jainas recced the Be the Serpent podcast to me and they were waxing poetic about this one fic by astolat, so I checked out the canon and fell into a deep hole. (The fics are full of D/s, lovely hurt comfort and just all the loyalty, fealty and team-as-family tropes). And then I did the book cover challenge and the 10 day challenge in this fandom, and have been binge reading at the same time.

2. I got drawn into a pretty dark fic by butterflyghost (which I think was mentioned in a chat of the dsc6dbang?), made art for it and am currently betaing the sequel. My art gave the author a push to finish writing their sequel which honestly was such a boost!

3. wipbigbang: my second piece was posted on the 29th in the comm, a cover art for a Grimm fic by trobadora (again a sequel of a fic I read some time ago). It's great, but pretty dark (aftermath of noncon warning) - somehow this month was all about the angst? I tried to make the art reflect that. You can see it best embedded on AO3.

4. ALL THE BANGS: marvel_bang and Cabigbangare still going on, Cabigbang is coming to a close though and I'm going to get cracking on that this weekend. I've got my first choice of fic for the Marvelbang (a Stucky-epic) so I'm pretty happy. Unfortunately (see No. 1), I also unwisely signed up for the Person of Interest Bigbang this year (which is a little later thank God). Aaaaaaand the ds_c6d_bigbang is almost over, my pieces are 99% ready and I have been matched with the lovely clarasteam who will do a complementary work for my art. :-D I've never been on this side of a bang before and it feels great.

O_o Reading all this, it just seems absolutely crazy what I've had going on.

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[minoanmiss]

Crazy AWESOME!

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[mekare]

He, it was a lot of fun certainly!

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[goss]

I've really been enjoying you in fangirl mode discovering new fandoms. Your enthusiasm is infectious. ^____^

Also, YAY Big Bangs! Reverse Bangs are so cool. :D

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[mekare]

I‘m glad. I love being enthusiastic about things. And the dsc6d isn‘t a reversebang per se, but sort of anything goes. Mific and I did art, and the other participants wrote fics.

Gateway

[goss]

Also, funny how your gateway to POI was via fic by astolat.

A similar sort of thing happen to me for how I ended up in Stargate: Atlantis fandom (more than a decade ago). Someone posted a rec for this SGA fic by astolat, and raved about how wonderful it was, so I read it even though I was only vaguely familiar with the show. I totally fell for the characters, I just had to find out more, so I went to check out the show, ended up marathoning Season 1 and proceeded to fall hard for the fandom.

In conclusion: astolat = best gateway drug. LOL. In fact, thanks to her fic, I am right now neck deep in the Brienne/Jaime Lannister ship, having never actually watched anything of Game of Thrones besides the pilot many, many years ago. :b

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[mekare]

Ha, I don't remember how I got into SGA but it certainly was somehow via fandom discussions... and yes, astolat is a great gateway drug *g*. Thank you for the fic rec, I read some of her SGA fics but not all, and certainly not this one.

I did watch all of GoT and Jaime and Brienne are one of the few pairings I can get behind. Even with all their ambiguity and the moral complexity of Jaime...

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[felicitygs]

Wow, that's so much!! Good work!!

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[mekare]

Thank you!

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[mific]

Wow, busy busy, like me! For me, it was a Resonant story that was my gateway to Stargate Atlantis, and I’ve never looked back. My recent TV show discoveries are The Magicians and Person of Interest, but I’m saving Astolat’s stories until I’m further ahead with PoI. I loved all her Jaime/Brienne ones.

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[mekare]

:-) I'm still chuffed that you're watching POI too, and yes, it's a good idea to see some canon (and experience certain events without being spoiled) before reading fic. I already majorly spoiled myself on the finale of the whole series which was a downer :-(