sholio | From the Department of Former Fandoms ...

lunabee34 has just opened up an All Fanwork Gateverse Extravaganza in her journal -- leave prompts, choose prompts, create things -- and spread the word! On LJ and on DW. As she says: "I think it would be wonderful if we could get the fannish momentum rolling in the Gateverse again." I don't know if I'll make anything, but I'm going to try to think of some prompts. If you're interested, pass it around, and go leave some prompts and/or pick one up! (Any kind of fanworks are welcome -- fic, art, vids, meta, etc.)

My "breakup" with SGA is still so very weird to me, because I've never left a fandom so acrimoniously before -- I mean, not in the sense that I had a huge flounce or anything, but I was incredibly bitter and unhappy when I left (due in part, I realized only years later, to mental issues completely unrelated to the fandom, much like my unhappiness with White Collar fandom last year ... but, in SGA, there were legitimate things going on that were making me miserable, and it took me a long time to get over the upset).

It feels particularly strange because those characters lived so very noisily in my head for years. I wrote more (and longer) for SGA than I've ever written for any fandom; I suspect it's a record that's going to stand forever, because during the time that I was most heavily into SGA (2006-08), I was doing little original writing, so I was able to devote my 24/7 creative efforts to writing novel-length stories in a way that I'm not able to do now that I'm writing ... actual novels. *g*

Normally I'm very warm-fuzzy about my old fannish crushes and revisit them on a semi-regular basis, but I haven't really been tempted to do that with SGA ... yet. I think I'm mostly over it now -- my memories are basically good ones, and I made a lot of friends I would never have met otherwise. I don't really feel the bitterness anymore; I mostly just remember the good times. I was watching some old music videos the other day, which was something I hadn't been able to do for years. And the idea of dipping a toe back into the fandom again is no longer anathema to me -- actually, I think it might be fun, and I'll be perusing prompts to see if anything jumps up and bites me. (Actually, one of the meta prompts already has!)

Also, thank you to everyone who commented with suggestions for

fitzwiggity in the previous post -- she says it was very helpful. :)