if i fail, let me be wormfood.

here's a fact about me that, if you didn't already know it, i think really draws a complete picture of me: i joined tumblr in early 2010 and stayed very firmly on the Hipster Side for quite a while. my stray to the Fandom Side was honestly very gradual; i still follow aesthetic photography blogs, and i lost touch with the last of the old guard of fandom friends that overlapped with hipster friends only in the great purge of 2018.

here's another fact: i just listened to brand new for the very first time today.

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i'm now glassedplanets on AO3 and glassedplanets on (fandom) twitter! main/RTs/uspol/whatever-it-is-now twitter is now prophecydungeon due to the swap.

this has been a reeeeaaaaally long time coming lol, beastofthesky was a username i didn't use anywhere else save for an old email i made in hs, which is why i originally chose it - i didn't want it linked back to my tumblr blog at the time, which ended up being in my favor. that's a whole different can of worms. anyways, "beastofthesky" has felt embarrassing and bad to me for a really, really long time, idk what snapped in me tonight and finally got me to rearrange everything. i feel a lot better now that all my creative accounts (AO3/twitter/artblog) are all under the same name! and "glassedplanets" has name recognition to it, and it's a fantastic halo joke. a win all around.

(i need to stop trying to make witty titles.)

anyways, i started doing writing sprints with a friend and why did i never do this before. this has been such a sledgehammer for every block i've run into in the past week or so (which, wildly enough, has been a lot of blocks). this is so much fun. seriously, why in all hells did i not do this before.

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( and for a short fragment from tonight's sprint that i liked: )

still feels so fucking weird to put titles on things. formalizing my thoughts? don't know her

anyways, as i was driving home today i thought about the very first few fics i wrote and posted back when i really first got into fandom; this was early 2011 rvb, pre-S9 rvb, which is to say, a whole different beast (and for me, pre-AO3. this was an archive hosted on its own site. a relic even in those times, i think). that's not especially relevant save for the date, though, and the fact that it was my first time writing fic intended for the consumption of others, and unleashing it on the world. 2011 was really my first true foray into fanfiction, since in the weeb days i only stuck to deviantart, and where i'm going with this is that i didn't know how to format fic. the first thing (or few things? idr) i published was formatted like a published book would be — chunks of paragraphs, indented dialogue, etc. also, reasonably sure it was a pwp. that'll be relevant later in this meandering post.

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