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Hello abyss, miss me?

It's been three years and somehow I've looped back around to the interests I had three years ago. There was a second season of Good Omens!? And if we're lucky, we may get a third! Can you believe it? I've also been rewatching Arrested Development, Gob is still my favorite. And I've been rifling through fanfiction pages again, feeling inspired to finish some of the scribblings, like I said three years ago.

One unexpected thing to happen during the three year gap was me getting super in Cobra Kai and more specifically, the actor Ralph Macchio. So much so that I wrote FOURTEEN fics. Over 25,000 words. That's crazy! I want to write more, but since the filming for season 6 is stalled (due to the writers and actors strike), I feel like I've hit a bit of a wall. I'm hoping the inspiration comes back soon, I have unfinished fic I want to finish. That's why I've been looking at old papers again, maybe working on something that has less pressure behind it will spur me on.

I'm trying to think of how to summarize the three year gap. Looking at the date I last posted, it's just before the quarantine happened. So yeah, uhh, the pandemic happened. That was weird. I didn't get sick until earlier this year (lucky me?). I moved into my own apartment. I saw a ton of movies. I learned what Discord was. And I still use tumblr. (Although I really did stop using it for a little over a year, I only went back because I watched Cobra Kai when it went to Netflix and my brain went into karate-soap-opera-mode)

So that's my update for now. I really do want to use this blog more often, especially since yet another site is on the downswing (twitter, no I will not call it X, I will never call it X), I just want somewhere to talk, y'know? And text posting on tumblr still isn't my favorite. I feel like I can blather on here in a way I can't there. It's nice to blather once in a while.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: "Roll With the Changes", REO Speedwagon

I wrote a thing! Or, more accurately, I finished a thing. I wrote most of it a while ago. But I finished it! Finally!

The word you're looking for is "Closure" (4718 words) by chwheeler
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Mr. White (Reservoir Dogs), Mr. Orange (Reservoir Dogs)
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fix-It of Sorts, What-If
Summary:

Freddy played with his empty bottle, tilting it with one finger, teetering it back and forth while watching the couples dancing in the dirt. “I just wanted to know.”

“Know what?” Larry hadn’t meant to sound so bewildered, but he couldn’t help it. The long day had erased his common sense, like the sun bleached his brain clean and white. Bleached the five long years and endless red blood between them, sun sanitized, but brittle and ready to shatter at the merest pressure.

“Why. Why’d you take me to the hospital?”

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: "Season of the Witch", Donovan

Did I say I would wax rhapsodic about my favorite Documentary Now episodes? I did? I did! Let’s do this!

( Read more... )

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: “Everybody’s Moving Around”, Test Pattern

I’ve been messing around with digital art, since I got some fun tech toys for Christmas. I’ve still got a lot to learn, but I’m having fun.

( Exhibit A )

Current Mood: creative
Current Music: “Lazy Line Painter Jane”, Belle & Sebastian

Ok abyss, it's some other time which means life update!

New year, same old me! Nothing really changed since my last post, other than new glasses and the growth of a minor Bill Hader obsession, but everyone has one of those now sooo--

I did see a buttload of movies according to my letterboxd account, but that’s par for the course in Liz-land. I'm single, childless, and have a decent paying job. Going to the movies is my social life; it's how I have fun on weekends. And it’s not just new movies, I see old movies too. I want to see every movie on the big screen if possible. Luckily, the local theater chain does Tuesday Night Classics for $5. I got to see The Thing, The Shining, This is Spinal Tap, Rebel Without a Cause, and Labyrinth this way. I love it, it’s magic to me.

What else....

Oh! Barry!! (Bill Hader, yes yes?). O-M-G, ya'll. You have to watch Barry. HAVE TO. My family keeps ignoring my pleas, but I still keep telling them regardless. WATCH IT. Check your local library for the first season if you can. Also, Documentary Now!, on Netflix. (Again, check your local library, they might have stuff you don’t realize they have) I could go on a thousand word screed about the brilliance of Doc Now.

I won’t, at least not in this post. Other things to get to.

So I kind of started gathering my random fanfic stuff together. And writing, just a bit. I don’t have anything concrete yet, but I really want to post something, soon. I’m carrying a journal around and writing what comes to mind. I still haven’t written as much as I’d like, but I think I’ve improved discipline-wise. Fingers crossed I can keep it up.

I’ve also managed to reorganize my book and vinyl collections. They were very haphazard for the last few months. It’s actually a relief, seeing everything lined up and not just stacked in a corner. And I can actually find my records on the first try! I’ve got four categories: A-L, M-Z, IMPORTANT, and SOUNDTRACKS. By “important”, I mean important to me. The Beatles and the Monkees live in this crate, along with some eclectic friends. And soundtracks is exactly what it says. Soundtracks are my weirdo favorite, just like my bookshelf of Tie-in novels.

I think that’s it, for now. Possible fic in the future, maybe an in depth review of the best DocNow episodes. Peace out!

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: “Friday I’m in Love”, The Cure

Sometimes we are our own worst enemies and that's the way the cookie crumbles. You either cry because the cookie is destroyed or you scrounge up those cookie bits and drop them on top of a scoop of ice cream and have a sundae.

"I'm gonna have a super active blog!" says I.

"Super active -hahahahahahah!" says the future version of me, with an empty blog.

Ok, I'm putting on my active-blog-pants and doing a meme, I'll update the abyss about my life some other time:

Fandom Question Time! Cobbled together from a few different prompt posts.

1) What was your first fandom and are you still in it? The first fandom I was in was Harry Potter and let's be honest, no one actually leaves that fandom, currently participating or not.

2) What is your current OTP? Going entirely by the word "current", I'll say Richie Tozier/Eddie Kaspbrak because i'm on an IT: Chapter 2 high right now. The answer to this question changes hour to hour.

3) What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom? The first thing I can think of is an unfinished Yu-Gi-Oh fanfic. I'm 100% sure there were other things, but that one really sticks in my mind.

4) Do you read fic? Do you write fic? Yes, all the time. And yes at a much less frequent rate.

5) What made you start writing fanfic? I read fanfiction and thought "Hey, I can do that!"

6) Has anyone pulled you into a fandom? Yes, lots of people. If you can convince me of a ship well enough, I will sit down here and now and eat that content up. This was my experience for Life on Mars, Arrested Development, and The Man from UNCLE among others.

7) What pairing were you initially confused by but someone changed your mind? Larry/Ahkmenrah. I did not see what the big deal was, at all, until I realized the entire appeal of it is "It's fun." So thank you, NatM fans for pulling my head out of the sand and showing me that something can just be for fun!

8) What is a pairing you wish you shipped, but just can't? I'm gonna commit a little blasphemy and say Hawkeye/Trapper. I just don't like Trapper John. I'm sorry!

9) Name 5 of your favorite characters from 5 different fandoms. I'm gonna name these in no particular order and from five random fandoms: Charlie Kelly, Donald Duck, Harold Finch, Freddy Newandyke aka Mr. Orange, and Racetrack Higgins.

10) Name 3 of your OTPs from 3 different fandoms. So many to choose from... Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin, David Starsky/Kenneth Hutchinson, and Harold Finch/John Reese.

11) Play a song at random from your music library. What ship does it remind you of? "Rosalie" by Thin Lizzy. Megan/Graham from But I'm a Cheerleader, not sure I can articulate why exactly.

12) Do you reread your own fic? No one should be ashamed to read their own work. I have a Newsies oneshot called "Drip" that I've read too many times. I'm really proud of that one and re-reading it is inspiring when I'm trying to write.

13) Name three stories you found easy to write. "Drip", "Home", and "Dearest Sister" were very easy to write.

14) Name three stories you found difficult to write. "Assorted Fruit" was hard because I got stuck a few times plot-wise. "Bitten" was hard because it was so dark. "A Bit of Clarity" was hard because I had no idea what I was doing with it.

15) What’s your ratio of hits to kudos? I think for most of my fics I get one kudos for every ten hits. The outlier is "Costumes, Candies, and Caped Crusaders", which has an intimidating number of views.

16) What do your fic bookmarks say about you? That I like long, involved fics and slow build romances.

17) What kind of relationships are you most interested in writing? I like writing friendships and romances that have a little tension to them. And are perhaps a little too co-dependent.

18) For E-rated fic, what are some things your characters keep doing? Eating. It's a bit ridiculous. I swear I do not have any sort of food fixation.

19) Who are three of your favorite characters to write? I love writing Racetrack, so it's ridiculous I don't write more Newsies fic. I find Larry Daley incredibly endearing to write. And the third no one would know because I've never posted anything, but it's Mr. White aka Larry Dimmick. Because I'm never quite sure what that guy's gonna do next.

20) One-shots or longfic? I prefer to read longfic but I'm not opposed to one-shots if the occasion calls for it.

21) What is your favorite genre of fic? Sometimes I like slow burn romances. And other times I like really plot-dense stuff. If it's both? Heck yeah, jackpot!

22) Do you have a favorite fic? One of my all-time favorites is a Life on Mars fic called "Till Touchdown Brings Me Round Again" by an author named halotolerant. I adore that fic. It is beyond perfect in my eyes. I've read that thing dozens of times.

23) What turns you away the most from a fic? This is very petty, but it's first or second person narratives.

24) What is the longest fic you’ve read? The longest that immediately comes to mind was 100,000 words. There may have been longer, but I can't say for sure off the top of my head.

25) Favorite trope/element/scenario in fic? I love when characters have to go undercover. In fic and in media. The worse they are at it, the happier I am.

26) Least favorite trope/element/scenario? Sad endings. Lol, kinda pathetic.

27) Do you like crossovers? If the author can sell it, I'll happily read a crossover. I once read a The Dead Zone/MASH crossover and it was perfectly done.

28) Do you read AUs? I do, if it sounds interesting enough.

29) If you could have any of your plotbunnies complete and finished right now, what would a short summary of it be? The Machine gives Finch and Reese a new number, the number belonging to Benjamin Linus. Can Ben and Hurley complete their tasks on the mainland before Widmore’s goons catch up to them? POI/Lost crossover.

30) What do you have in the works? Too much, too much. What I’m trying to tackle immediately? A Reservoir Dogs alternate timeline fix-it, a cute The Nice Guys case-fic, finishing up my Night at the Museum food series, and a free-for-all-I’m-writing-whatever-the-heck-I-want-good-or-bad fic for The Mummy.

Current Mood: determined
Current Music: "The Ecstasy of Gold", Ennio Moricone

I'm trying to get back into writing fanfiction. It's been... years at this point since I last posted a completed fic, which is majorly depressing. Well, if not majorly depressing, then minorly disheartening at the very least. The last thing I posted at Ao3 was in July of 2016 and all I can focus on is HOW did so much time pass already?

I have a lot of random snippets that I've managed to go through and somewhat sort, spread across at least half a dozen fandoms and genres. A paragraph here, a sentence there. Twelve and a half scribbled pages of the beginning of one idea. An abandoned timeline. It's all such a haphazard mess. And that's just what I have on physical paper. Thousands of jumbled words are on the computer.

I think I get too into my own head when I try to write. Always second guessing every word and decision which spirals to not actually committing to anything. It was the same in school. I can't think of a single english essay I DIDN'T write at 3 am the night before, slightly delirious from sleep deprivation and what I can only assume is some kind of existential ennui. And the rub of it is that I was GOOD at this. My essays got good grades. So I had no push to change this awful, terrible habit. Weeks of half ideas and haphazard outlines culminating in one night of extreme panic and production and then boom, done, turned in, no longer have to think about it. Over and over.

A lot of my posted fics were written in one session. Sat down, wrote a bunch of words and boom, done, posted, no longer have to think about it. The "Larry and Ahk Bond Over Food" series is the only one that doesn't fit this mold. It's also the only one that technically isn't done. There should be ten parts. There are only five.

That's one of the abandoned timelines.

I've picked up one of my empty journals (of which I have too many) and I'm going to try to fill it with words. Good sentences, bad sentences, fun ideas, absolutely stupid ideas. Doesn't matter. I'm going to write something. I want to, I need to, I will do.

Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: "Something in the Air", Thunderclap Newman

The Good Omens trailer is hitting me HARD, ya'll! Michael Sheen didn't need to go all in like that but he did and it is beautiful and I am crying. Because I too am a big, dumb, emotionally constipated baby who just wants love.

How can we wait until May 31st?

Current Mood: loved
Current Music: "Under Pressure", Queen and David Bowie

Can you hear the bells? The death knell? Tumblr may have just kicked off it's own demise. Exciting times. Getting some definite flashbacks of strikethrough. I still can't feel out where fandom is going to migrate. My gut says pillowfort but that has a paywall at the moment. And can it handle the influx? Only time will tell. Twitter is a massively bad idea. It's not designed for traditional fandom. Hmmm... no idea.

Anywhos, time for some updates of the life persuasion!

Since my last post there's been a major holiday, I saw two movies, I attended a play, and I noodled around with some art supplies.

I saw Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindewald and Ralph Breaks the Internet during Thanksgiving weekend. I enjoyed both. Fantastic Beasts definitely led to some quirked eyebrows and some minor dismay. It was soooo... middle installment. Lots of questions, no answers, and what answers were given just led to more questions! Very frustrating. Ralph Breaks the Internet was more fun. My only quibble is that it kind of ignores the whole Turbo/game-jumping thing from the first movie. But it was well-made enough for me to not think about it and just enjoy the movie.

The play I saw was "Half-Baked Hamlet", an improv style/abbreviated version of Hamlet where one of the actors (in my showing it was Hamlet herself, yes Hamlet was played by an actress) gets WASTED via shots of alcohol over the course of the show. It's was very silly, very raunchy, and very funny. I would love to know what was truly improv and what was blocked.

And lastly I went and brought a water brush to try with my gouache. I attempted a small painting of Donald Duck, just for giggles, and it worked pretty well. I definitely need more practice as I kept flooding my page. I also got a larger dimension paper, so that's my next goal: move on to larger pieces!

Time to go sketch some ideas....

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Music: "Wild Women", The Big Three

"Footloose and fancy-free! Getting there is half the fun, come share it with me!"

Hello, Hi, and Welcome! My name is CHWheeler, or Liz. This is my first post on what I hope to be a very active blog. If you've followed me from Tumblr, thank you for thinking I'm interesting enough to talk to on a different platform.

A little bit about me:

I've been doing this whole fandom thing for 17-ish years (yikes!) starting back in the day with Harry Potter. I've been on so many different platforms it's ridiculous. Geocities, forums up the wazoo (Oh the days of the IMDb forums), ff.net, Livejournal, Tumblr, Twitter, blogspot, AO3, I've done them all! (Well, everything except for the new-fangled places like discord or pillowfort. I'm officially TOO OLD to try something completely new right now.) I never utilized my personal LJ the way I should have, I stuck entirely to communities. So I'm hoping to use my Dreamwidth more comprehensively. I was never super jazzed with the direction fandom took under Tumblr, so I'm excited to help rejuvenate fandom activity elsewhere.

I love talking about my fandoms and writing meta. I love fanfiction, even though I fell out of the habit of writing it. I'm hoping to write more in general. (A bad habit exacerbated by the picture and hot-take Tumblr attitude, no doubt.) Very, very occasionally I'll draw. All of my fanfiction is posted on my AO3 account, which is linked in my profile.

My fandoms are as follows:

Ducktales (2017) / Donald Duck
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / Charlie Day
M*A*S*H
The Man From Uncle
Starsky & Hutch
Disney/Pixar
The Beatles
The Monkees
Night at the Museum
The Kids in the Hall
Person of Interest
Some Like it Hot / Jack Lemmon
Star Trek (The Original Series)
Jeeves & Wooster
Good Omens
Pacific Rim
The Muppets
Newsies

And loads more. But if you wanna talk about those listed, I'm always game! I'm also happy to talk about movies, music from the 1960s and 70s, knitting/crochet, theater, and Disneyland.

I'm not sure what else to say right now, other than we just gotta move right along.

"Moving right along, footloose and fancy-free! You're ready for the big time, is it ready for me?"

Current Mood: optimistic
Current Music: "Moving Right Along", The Muppet Movie

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You got to (keep on rollin')
Fanfic: Title: "The word you're looking for is "Closure"" Fandom: Reservoir Dogs
Documentary Now!
Doodle fun
Movies, Bill, and Vinyl
Fandom meme!
I will do
Good Omens Trailer!
Bells, beasts, and brushes
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You got to (keep on rollin')

Fanfic: Title: "The word you're looking for is "Closure"" Fandom: Reservoir Dogs

Documentary Now!

Doodle fun

Movies, Bill, and Vinyl

Fandom meme!

I will do

Good Omens Trailer!

Bells, beasts, and brushes

Moving right along...