Gonzai Gallery

Part of why I dragged myself back to LJ (and the entire reason I broke down and got a Twitter account) is that I haven't gone all in on a fandom since 'Serenity'. Nothing has risen to the level of obsession/fanfic writing/fanart creation since then...and then Daredevil happened.

The first thing I notice is that I don't like binging. Maintaining a discussion about a show works a lot better when there's an episode a week and everyone watches it at roughly the same time. While right now binging isn't a logistical problem for me (obviously, since I've watched Daredevil in its entirety three times in addition to certain episodes repeatedly) if/when I get a job binging will be difficult.

The next thing I notice is - I can't find more than one or two places for fanfiction, fanart or fanvids. I'm still in a bunch of LJ groups that do fanvids, but nothing's coming through the pipeline, and I don't know where else people are putting the things. (It's bad enough I've gone to Twitter; I flat out refuse to Facebook.) I know of a whopping two places to post fanfic - FFF, which I hated 10 years ago, and An Archive Of Our Own (AO3), which is where I'm doing all my fan reading/posting. Fanart seems to be Twitter/Instagram or bust. Am I wrong about this? Am I just failing to find the right places/sources? Or is Facebook the only game in town?

In any event, I'm hoping to do some Daredevil fanart if my hand will permit. (Big if.) And I wrote my first fanfic in 10 years, which I posted at AO3, an alternate take on the aftermath of Daredevil Episode 9 entitled 'Turn Right' (a play on the Dr Who ep 'Turn Left'). http://archiveofourown.org/works/3970270/chapters/8906503 BTW, the last fanfic I wrote was a short piece for Firefly, and I can't find it. I thought I had copies of everything I wrote, but I can't find that one anywhere, and the site I posted it to no longer exists. If by some miracle someone remembers it/where it was and can point me to it that would be most excellent.

I heard a couple songs on the radio last night and they immediately struck me as good vidding songs. Which is a bit odd, as I don't vid (I barely have time for doing fan art, I'm not learning a new form!) and I don't usually think of songs in terms of vidding.

But I've never encountered a vid done to any Jayhawks song, and I haven't found a vid for Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip , but the Jayhawks' 'I'm Gonna Make You Love Me' struck me as a good match. Happy, romantic pop fluff on the surface, with an underlying layer of creepy stalkerism. Works for the dysfunctional 'ships on Studio!

The other was Nik Kershaw's 'Wouldn't It Be Good', which I haven't heard in years. I'm an 80's girl, sue me. Couldn't help thinking of Moonlight and in particular, Mick St. John's unease with his own existence. As I'm a non-shippy fan, a vid of just Mick & his struggle to that song would be most excellent :)