Stalled out on my WIPs so dug through old things I've not posted and cleaned up one and posted it even though it's not particularly great and probably too similar to some others but it made me feel like I did something I guess. And I called it complete rather than starting another WIP.

please give yourself the gift this spooky season of the “Dracula” audiobook where Tim Curry is Van Helsing and Alan Cumming is Renfield, it’s everything you could ever want from “Dracula” and it’s a sleeper hit on my Personal Tim Curry Faves roster

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

One thing about Tim Curry: though Rocky Horror made him a queer sex icon, he never publicly defined his sexuality. Not in interviews, not in his memoir. This was the most I got out of him. Which, fine?

Michael Schulman@michaelschulman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Well, shit. RIP Tim Curry. I got to have this long talk with him last year for the publication of his memoir, and, while he was physically weak, he was still darkly and deliciously witty. No one will ever be sexier than him as Dr. Frank-N-Furter. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

New fanvid to "Skeleton Key" by Dessa just dropped and it's for . . . Jeeves and Wooster. Huh. I did not expect that but I never know what to expect. (I am behind on updating my doc of Dessa vids. One of these days I'll do it.) archiveofourown.org/works/91133876 www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1EF...

Jeeves and Wooster - Skeleton Key

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(Spoilery) trailer for the new season of Slow Horses that starts a month from now already (where has the time gone?). I should probably get cracking on finishing my Slow Horses WIPs before that happens though it's not like they aren't totally AU in a way anyway. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZbJ...

Slow Horses — Season 6 Official Trailer | Apple TV

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What the fuck, man, I had like 256 plums in that icebox. Are you okay? Do you need to go to the hospital?

I say this all the time but this is one of my favorite episodes!!

Wild Ramp Publishing@wildramppublishing.bsky.social · 2w ago

New Rough Draft! In this ep, we discuss two mirror-image novels about young women navigating fandom and parasocial relationships: "Superfan" by Jenny Tinghui Zhang and "Idol, Burning" by Rin Usami. tinyurl.com/RDEP19

Having a bad day full of sadness & angst which was extra frustrating because of writer's block too. Hadn't realized how often I had been escaping into writing fic (well, I had some clue but not this specifically). Additional problem was when I tried to read my stuff, I found it all horrific.

Posted 1st chapter of a new Slow Horses fic rather than finishing the Slow Horses WIP I should be finishing. D'oh. (I thought I'd wait to post this until I finished it but after staring at chapter 1 for a week I wanted to put it out there.) (Might motivate me to finish it or . . . the others.)

I have WIPs I've been posting that I should finish so instead I started writing a new story. (A Slow Horses fic this time.) (This keeps happening.)

Grateful to @aprildawn85.bsky.social for leaving so many nice comments on my fic. 💜 Someone else has been commenting on my fic a lot lately too and it's so nice to have some positive feedback in my inbox especially when writer's block is hitting me like whoa.

I appreciate the person who edited this down (removing the Joker stuff that's intercut with it in the movie). (It occurs to me I would love a cut with a lot less Joker, but that's always the case.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Ar...

Bruce Saving Mr. Reese | The Dark Knight | 4K HDR

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Totally forgot Escapade Online was this weekend. Oops. I really need to put online cons on a calendar or something with reminders. (Or pay better attention to social media but I haven't been on nearly so much the last couple of weeks.)

Still wild I'm posting fanworks, I thought my AO3 would stay with 0 works posted and just some bookmarks for the rest of my life. Then I thought "okay, maybe I'll post some vid shows and meta, that'd be neat." Up to 30 works now, WTF. Never dreamed I'd try writing fic (& actually post it).

Might have been foolish committing to reposting my very first fic but with some revisions because oof, I've reached a chapter that is in first person (all of it so far was not) and making it match the rest of the story is a chore. Doing it for those who like this story & deserve to see it finished.

The vid shows I put together for Contingency Con. 🧵 1. "Beginnings . . . " "A fond look back at some early fanvids for Person of Interest . . . " On AO3 (with info, links, and so on): archiveofourown.org/works/89392046 On YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Beginnings . . . - YouTube

A Person of Interest vid show for Contingency Con 2026. A fond look back at some early fanvids for Person of Interest that were made while seasons one and tw...

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FINALLY finished a story I started posting in April. Sheesh. I went on many side quests to avoid working on it when I got stuck so it's very satisfying to finally finish it. Someone new commented on it last night and that was the push I needed to get back to it. archiveofourown.org/works/828128...

Still kind of blowing my mind that my fic is getting people to check out the sources/fandoms I write for (it they like it for one of the two I mostly write for, they check out the other). (Still blows my mind anyone reads and likes any of it.)

Unlocked this story because I'm kind of in love with it; just made some minor edits after discovering a couple of big typos (missing words actually). Ugh. So tempted to post outtakes which I find hilarious (the Gordon Family chat, mostly).

swizzlespoon@swizzlespoon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Gave up and posted that bachelor auction fic even though I couldn't think of a good title for it and I probably could've kept fussing with it. I never now how to rate things, maybe should be Teen instead of Mature but I tend to err on the side of overwarning. archiveofourown.org/works/87223041

Stalled out on multiple WIPs and willing someone to leave me a comment on something to remind me some people like this nonsense I write. 😂 Surely I can write more.

Never thought of myself as someone who would try to recruit anyone to fandoms or ships, but I got a comment on a fic that starts with "I can’t believe I’d never thought of this ship. They’re perfect for each other." and that is very satisfying as it turns out. (I know I've won a few people over.)

Was insecure about posting an old fic but I got a glowing review from someone so I guess I'll keep posting old fic why not. (If at least one person enjoys the stuff, might as well.)

Happy 4th of July to all the Matt/John shippers out there.

TimKon fans near and far, we're proud to announce that My Robin, My Cloneboy is now FREE to download!! 🐦 superbatszine.itch.io/my-robin-my-... 🧬

I may use a zillion emdashes, but that's all me. (Can't even imagine using "A.I." but I'm extremely anti-A.I. and also obviously not writing for attention though I now know it is really cool to get good feedback on stuff you write obviously.)

Posting the start of new fic, rewriting &/or finishing and/or just posting old fic. It's probably too much and not very good but whatever. If I'm having fun, why not. Though I really should probably be working on vid show stuff. (Of course the chapter that I'm most insecure about has no comments.)

There’s a lot going around today about the use of AI in fic, and I just want to say a quick word to anyone who’s ever used it in your work; You -can- stop using AI. AI feels addicting to use; it’s -so- easy to generate a bit of prose, to fix things up here and there.

Actually posted to Dreamwidth (the swizzlespoon one, I mean, though I haven't been updating my other one much it's been more than this one). I really shouldn't go so long between updates because I tend to post long rambling things that are all over the map— oh wait I'm just like that. (sigh.)