Walk Into My Parlour

I think I fell back into PotC, lol. I had a crazy cool dream Monday morning, and since then I've been very...thinking about it constantly (which is what I prefer). When I was in the fandom the first time, in like 2004-2008ish, all I did was hang around ff.net and read. I had no interaction with anyone else.

Now, I'm pretty sure there must be something around, but I don't...know where they're hiding. I know there are fans around though, because the AO3 page is pretty active. Twitter is just a lot of people screaming about only tangentially related things, I'm not touching instagram or facebook. I found a discord but it's kind of dead, and I don't know what that corner of tumblr is like. Is everyone just on AO3? I don't want to dust off my old non-kink DA account.

Anyway I found a fandom exchange and joined it, lol. I doubt my ability a little because I've never written for the fandom and I feel embarrassed and weird about it even now, after writing fic for 12 years. It's totally not a "I need to spend a full year reading fanfic in this fandom before I can try writing for it" thing either because...I've already done that. I spent 4ish years doing that. Maybe it's more of a "these are too near and dear to my heart and live only solidly in my head, if I write them I WILL fuck it up" thing.

I also got the idea to run a 20 year anniversary zine, which I think would be neat! I don't want to step on any toes, though, which is why finding any semblance of a fandom still kicking is important. I've been on the other side of a new player coming into town and deciding how things must be run and it sucked, so I don't want to do that to anyone else. I also know overlord Disney is always watching but, eh.

But while looking to see if there have been any recent zines in the fandom (as far as I can tell there haven't) I found a stash of old fanzines, the kind that are mostly fic. Someone on ebay was selling a bunch and I got 3, for now. I can't really afford their whole supply rn, lol. I'll have to dig further on the internet to find the rest, maybe someone scanned and uploaded them...

Someone shared a gif of The Pirate (1948) with Gene Kelly and Judy Garland, so I watched the movie. I liked it a lot! It was kinda dumb but fun, lol. It was a very enjoyable watch, do not regret at all (even if it took 3 days to watch 90 minutes). I should really watch Black Sails eventually. (I think one of the reasons I Haven't is because I want to like it so much, and am afraid of, you know, not.

Ahhhhh

Its time to take the time machine back about 10 years so I can ramble into the void.

My friend is coming over tonight and staying over into tomorrow, and I'm going to play hooky. I'm excited but also #nervous, you know. I haven't seen her in over two years, and haven't spent that much one-on-one time with someone in as long. But I hope (I HOPE) its a good day.

I spent the weekend cleaning my room and making it look nice. I did a lot that I've been meaning to but not enough lol, there is still a lot to do.