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It's been about three years since I logged onto Dreamwidth, posted any kind of VK fanfic, or even thought about writing any. 2018 me was convinced that I wouldn't be writing anymore. 2021 me is laughing.
So, what happened?
1) May 2021: I get hit hard by inspiration to work on another draft of The Art of Denial, a ghost story that began as fanfiction with Sakurai Atsushi being a costume designer who was being haunted by a sinister ghost. I wrote about 5 chapters as a fanfic, decided I'd do better making it an original work, and got an entire draft of a novel written for NaNoWriMo. I've had ideas for redoing it, but until May it was basically in development hell until I made a commitment to writing it again.
2) Since Ayumu was Atsushi at first, I started listening to my favorite Buck-Tick songs again.
3) I decided at the end of June that far too much time, stress, and money had been invested into my Japanese education to just let it go to waste. I was going to relearn Japanese, study, take the JLPT finally (I've been thinking of doing this since 2016), and see about finding work as a translator since that would marry my love of writing with my love of Japanese.
4) Started watching anime again so I could hear the Japanese language.
5) Listening to Buck-Tick snowballed into listening to D, Kiryu, and basically everyone else I'd been super into. I'm incredibly fortunate that out of all the bands I'd been super into, Mejibray is the only one that disbanded (and that one fucking hurt to see since Mejibray had really helped me get through my toxic work experience over in Japan in 2014/2015) and Nocturnal Bloodlust had a lineup change when someone fucked over Cazqui and Daichi. Still hurt and I still get random depression over those two not being the same.
6) My best friend who's basically my fandom gateway and I were pulled back into VK at around the same time. She drew my attention to a big, Fallout style apocalyptic AU we'd written and never finished. Cue us smacking our 2016ish selves for never doing so. We decided to drop our current project and continue with that.
7) I read through a ton of my old projects and found a bunch that I want to work on again. Second Chances, Flashes of Shadows, some of my other vampire fics.
I'm going to finish up 3-4 projects I'm working on for the DC Comics fandom and the couple I'm doing for Marvel. Then I'll tackle my VK projects. I always planned to make them into original works at some point, so finishing the story will be good practice for me. Even if it's just for me and a couple other people.
To anyone still here, you're great!
Oh and also: I've finally become a Dir en Grey fan. For whatever reason I just never got into them. As is so often my way of getting into a band, I saw a picture of someone pretty (Toshiya with long hair), had to investigate, and liked the music. I've been a VK fan since I was 17. I'm 29 now so uh, better late than never?
So, what happened?
1) May 2021: I get hit hard by inspiration to work on another draft of The Art of Denial, a ghost story that began as fanfiction with Sakurai Atsushi being a costume designer who was being haunted by a sinister ghost. I wrote about 5 chapters as a fanfic, decided I'd do better making it an original work, and got an entire draft of a novel written for NaNoWriMo. I've had ideas for redoing it, but until May it was basically in development hell until I made a commitment to writing it again.
2) Since Ayumu was Atsushi at first, I started listening to my favorite Buck-Tick songs again.
3) I decided at the end of June that far too much time, stress, and money had been invested into my Japanese education to just let it go to waste. I was going to relearn Japanese, study, take the JLPT finally (I've been thinking of doing this since 2016), and see about finding work as a translator since that would marry my love of writing with my love of Japanese.
4) Started watching anime again so I could hear the Japanese language.
5) Listening to Buck-Tick snowballed into listening to D, Kiryu, and basically everyone else I'd been super into. I'm incredibly fortunate that out of all the bands I'd been super into, Mejibray is the only one that disbanded (and that one fucking hurt to see since Mejibray had really helped me get through my toxic work experience over in Japan in 2014/2015) and Nocturnal Bloodlust had a lineup change when someone fucked over Cazqui and Daichi. Still hurt and I still get random depression over those two not being the same.
6) My best friend who's basically my fandom gateway and I were pulled back into VK at around the same time. She drew my attention to a big, Fallout style apocalyptic AU we'd written and never finished. Cue us smacking our 2016ish selves for never doing so. We decided to drop our current project and continue with that.
7) I read through a ton of my old projects and found a bunch that I want to work on again. Second Chances, Flashes of Shadows, some of my other vampire fics.
I'm going to finish up 3-4 projects I'm working on for the DC Comics fandom and the couple I'm doing for Marvel. Then I'll tackle my VK projects. I always planned to make them into original works at some point, so finishing the story will be good practice for me. Even if it's just for me and a couple other people.
To anyone still here, you're great!
Oh and also: I've finally become a Dir en Grey fan. For whatever reason I just never got into them. As is so often my way of getting into a band, I saw a picture of someone pretty (Toshiya with long hair), had to investigate, and liked the music. I've been a VK fan since I was 17. I'm 29 now so uh, better late than never?
