An end and a beginning
Aug. 31st, 2021 01:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lenticularstudyI think I've finally left behind fanfic for good. After a long-winded goodbye on FF.net, I only wrote a few occasional drabbles for the LJ masseffect community's Insanity Round, but even they're finished, I think.
It's complicated, and there are a lot of reasons, not all of which I can explain comfortably. Some of it's the quietness of the fandom; some of it's my unsureness of the legal ramifications of fanworks; some of it's personal and complicated. My focus is going to lie with my original work for... well, the future. The rest of it, anyway.
Here's what I posted at FF.net:
An Explanation
This will be a goodbye to many, I think. Life has changed rapidly and in a lot of different directions that were... well, unexpected, both positive
and negative. It seemed very unfair to just go AWOL with so much unfinished and so many still not thanked, so hopefully this should offer some sort of an explanation.
It's been great. I've loved the community and the sense of all being in it together that I've found. I've loved finding people with common interests, and having long, rambling conversations about nothing in particular. I've loved the writing tips, the support, the discovery of new music and new interests. I'm still a proud RPG geek, and still - to an extent - in the community (think I'll be occasionally lurking around LiveJournal, under the name lenticularstudy), but it doesn't look like I'll be participating in fanfiction anymore. Much as I've loved the fandom and the things it's alerted me to, events have moved my focus away from it, in a way that feels very permanent.
Hopefully, for anyone that wants to read - or re-read, if I'm that lucky - my work, I've left a fairly sizeable archive behind me (forty-nine stories! How did that happen?) that shows the way I write. Even if I'm not around, I hope people like the evidence of the time I spent in this community.
Thanks for the support, the reviews and the virtual pats on the back, for keeping reading and just... sticking around. It's improved my confidence in getting my writing out there to no end. Thank you for the long PMs about everything from the Chantry and the Dark Ritual to Shep/Tali and the music of Holst; for the great, involving stories, the work of people that have put so much of their heart and soul into the worlds they love.
I'd put a smart Dragon Age or Mass Effect quote here ("I should go" doesn't quite seem to cut it), but since I can't think of one...
Well, it's been an absolute blast. So long, all, and thank you.
~Rose
All of which is true, except that with the drabble collections it may be fifty-one stories now. I'm going to miss the characters I wrote about like hell - particularly Morgana and Alistair and John and Tali, who made my heart ache to write them - but it's time to move on.It's complicated, and there are a lot of reasons, not all of which I can explain comfortably. Some of it's the quietness of the fandom; some of it's my unsureness of the legal ramifications of fanworks; some of it's personal and complicated. My focus is going to lie with my original work for... well, the future. The rest of it, anyway.
Here's what I posted at FF.net:
An Explanation
This will be a goodbye to many, I think. Life has changed rapidly and in a lot of different directions that were... well, unexpected, both positive
and negative. It seemed very unfair to just go AWOL with so much unfinished and so many still not thanked, so hopefully this should offer some sort of an explanation.
It's been great. I've loved the community and the sense of all being in it together that I've found. I've loved finding people with common interests, and having long, rambling conversations about nothing in particular. I've loved the writing tips, the support, the discovery of new music and new interests. I'm still a proud RPG geek, and still - to an extent - in the community (think I'll be occasionally lurking around LiveJournal, under the name lenticularstudy), but it doesn't look like I'll be participating in fanfiction anymore. Much as I've loved the fandom and the things it's alerted me to, events have moved my focus away from it, in a way that feels very permanent.
Hopefully, for anyone that wants to read - or re-read, if I'm that lucky - my work, I've left a fairly sizeable archive behind me (forty-nine stories! How did that happen?) that shows the way I write. Even if I'm not around, I hope people like the evidence of the time I spent in this community.
Thanks for the support, the reviews and the virtual pats on the back, for keeping reading and just... sticking around. It's improved my confidence in getting my writing out there to no end. Thank you for the long PMs about everything from the Chantry and the Dark Ritual to Shep/Tali and the music of Holst; for the great, involving stories, the work of people that have put so much of their heart and soul into the worlds they love.
I'd put a smart Dragon Age or Mass Effect quote here ("I should go" doesn't quite seem to cut it), but since I can't think of one...
Well, it's been an absolute blast. So long, all, and thank you.
~Rose
All my fic is at FF.net (old series, old oneshots, multi-chapter stuff) and AO3 (drabbles and such), if you're interested, though it's safe to say that the "ongoing" stuff... isn't.
Thanks for your time.
