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rthstewart) wrote2018-09-17 08:51 am
rthstewart) wrote2018-09-17 08:51 am
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Stuff and Things -- gosh it's dusty in here
I owe my amazing remixer another review for 5. I'm having difficulty processing my delight that someone went back to something that is so old (I now remember I posted Stuff in late 1996-1997) that was so hugely important to me and to the direction my adult life would take. I was messaging with petra last night, shocked to learn that here was yet another person I meet a decade or more later who had read that story in the 90s. And as I looked at my Twitter timeline (another advantage of all my self indulgent squee is that it drove everything else off my TL for a little bit ugh ugh ugh), I realized that the vast majority of my peeps have come from two places -- the pool of folks I met while writing and posting Stuff and in the subsequent development of Club Jade and, and then 10+ years later through writing The Stone Gryphon. Apart from neighbors and work colleagues the vast majority of my nearest and dearest have all come through communities built around fic.
amidst the haze of last night some thoughts that kept me up too late.
About Stuff--
HLynn did a cover for Stuff years ago. I've got it in my closet with everything else from those days. No one ever did anything else to the story ever though I think dangly earrings were kind of an inside joke in CJ for a few years. I had some sequels and pieces. I gave them 2 kids (they were terrible parents). They never married -- I felt really strongly about that. I killed them off. I sent them on missions. the sex got more explicit. When I broke up with SW in 2001 I erased it all from my compaq computer and drove a screwdriver through the disks with all my notes, WIPs, research and drafts. I had to download Stuff from CJ to repost it a few years ago. There was no copy. So, seeing a remix of something that's so old and was so important and formative for me is huge and every emotional.
About communities -- I keep seeing those things on Tumblr about OMG what are old people doing in fandom. Why are you STILL HERE? I joked to Petra that we're like mildew. They said it "People with a rich fannish history aren't mildew, we're the mysterious plant-like organism that grows in all caves everywhere and glows with an unearthly light, allowing stories to flourish." the experience isn't unique. I'm just blessed to have been able to do it twice, in a different way, different era, with TSG, and again have the privilege of meeting wonderful people through fic, bonding over it, and then the bonds of friendship endure when the fic fades.
petra last night, shocked to learn that here was yet another person I meet a decade or more later who had read that story in the 90s. And as I looked at my Twitter timeline (another advantage of all my self indulgent squee is that it drove everything else off my TL for a little bit ugh ugh ugh), I realized that the vast majority of my peeps have come from two places -- the pool of folks I met while writing and posting Stuff and in the subsequent development of Club Jade and, and then 10+ years later through writing The Stone Gryphon. Apart from neighbors and work colleagues the vast majority of my nearest and dearest have all come through communities built around fic.amidst the haze of last night some thoughts that kept me up too late.
About Stuff--
- OMG so straight. needs WAY more gay.
- Evidences Rthstewart's early obsession with massive amounts of internal introspection and getting a character physically from Point A to Point B, C, D, etc.
- My interest in how colonial power subjugates local, native populations has obviously been around a long time.
- Really really weird to read the part where Vader shows up because this all pre prequels and Clone Wars.
- I'm still really happy with Mara. I obviously have a competence kink. (and so many other tropes show up, too. This was before we called them tropes, I suspect).
- I thought the characters were so old at the time. They were 35? 40? Bless.
HLynn did a cover for Stuff years ago. I've got it in my closet with everything else from those days. No one ever did anything else to the story ever though I think dangly earrings were kind of an inside joke in CJ for a few years. I had some sequels and pieces. I gave them 2 kids (they were terrible parents). They never married -- I felt really strongly about that. I killed them off. I sent them on missions. the sex got more explicit. When I broke up with SW in 2001 I erased it all from my compaq computer and drove a screwdriver through the disks with all my notes, WIPs, research and drafts. I had to download Stuff from CJ to repost it a few years ago. There was no copy. So, seeing a remix of something that's so old and was so important and formative for me is huge and every emotional.
About communities -- I keep seeing those things on Tumblr about OMG what are old people doing in fandom. Why are you STILL HERE? I joked to Petra that we're like mildew. They said it "People with a rich fannish history aren't mildew, we're the mysterious plant-like organism that grows in all caves everywhere and glows with an unearthly light, allowing stories to flourish." the experience isn't unique. I'm just blessed to have been able to do it twice, in a different way, different era, with TSG, and again have the privilege of meeting wonderful people through fic, bonding over it, and then the bonds of friendship endure when the fic fades.
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And LOL I met you through fic I just realized! I read one of your stories, messaged you, and we discovered we were both Club Jaders (but I was so new so hadn't met you yet).