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[winter_rogue]

So yesterday I met with my academic advisor for the first time, super nice lady, super cool! reaffirmed how I should stick with wsu because my program really is cool. My official transcripts from SPSCC arrived as well though I am still waiting for the admissions office to lift my hold on registration. Much fear and trepidation concerning this. Though, if everything does go to shit and they pull my admissions I guess I will just finangle some online classes from my community college, finish my AA and reapply for next year. >.> the lengths to which i complicate my own life are astounding.


On another note, I've been devouring Merlin fic like an insane hungry thing. I went through a brief (6 month?) period of Dean/Castiel reading back during season 4/parts of 5 of SPN but otherwise have remained rather fandom free since SGA ended. There's quite a lot of delicious fic out there. Possibly I will make a delicious site for my own edification lol.

A few things though have triggered a knee jerk reaction in me (there are certain types of change, for example, that cause me MUCH anxiety). Namely, that it feels like after a healthy 1-2yrs of Merlin fandom, quite a few of the people (who I've followed in Stargate, semi-spin and now Merlin) seemed to have dropped completely and inexplicably out of the fandom after season 2ish? A part of me wonders, because after the first couple episodes of s1 I didn't follow it till after s3 was already airing, was there a big gap between airing seasons 2 and 3? was there a large fandom backlash to how things played out in season 2? It puzzles me exceedingly. And makes me increasingly sad, because I have this terrible habit of jumping on a fandom train during the last leg of it's journey (ie Buffy, Angel, SPN). I think SGA was one of the few I was onboard with from, if not the beginning, close to the beginning (Rodney McKay will remain one of my favorite things to happen, ever, forever)

Second knee jerk reaction-- Dreamwidth. It somewhat mystifies me why so many people moved over there. I mean, yes, there are no adds, but the adds on livejournal really arent that horrible. And almost everyone who posts over there still crossposts to livejournal anyways. And the people who don't fill me with minor flutterings of dread because there could be things I'm missing, awesome nuggets of awesomeness and I wouldn't even know. >.> I might have to get an account just to calm the little voice in my head that cries at people changing. Dreamwidth reminds me a bit of when GreatestJournal came out except how no one actually transferred to greatest journal and the movement died a quiet death.


And on the creative front...

I have not made icons /facepalm but I will. I always feel inspired to work on art when I'm sitting in the CUB bored to death but I don't have photoshop on my laptop. And I've been rather tired by the time I get home so all I feel like doing is curling up under the comforter with my laptop. It's a vicious cycle.

I have this notion for a sweeping epic Merlin fic inspired by Atonement. The scope of the idea, however, terrifies me. I wish I could have little, sweet fic ideas to cut my teeth on, instead of epics. /sigh


I need to get a job.

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[magog-83.livejournal.com]

I think some old names did drop out about then (Seperis and Astolat for example, although I don't know if you meant them, and Astolat still posts the odd Merlin fic), but quite a lot of popular authors also came into the fandom about then too (Dreamdustmama, Lisztful, Hermette) so it certainly doesn't feel like it's on its way out. I've been hanging around the fandom since December 2008 and the big fests like Big Bang are still as busy as they were before :)

There was a lot of unhappiness after series 2 though. I think in series one, everyone's ships worked. You could ship Merlin/Arthur, Gwen/Morgana, Arthur/Morgana etc, then series two canon kind of squashed those and fandom started to get a bit tense :/

Your Atonement idea sounds amazing btw!

[winter-rogue.livejournal.com]

haha you nailed seperis and astolat exactly. i've been reading them for an embarrassingly long time so i was very q.q to see them not as active.

mm, the morgana unhappiness makes a lot of sense. i feel very conflicted about it personally and definitely prefer s1 inspired morgana in fic. it'll be interesting to see what happens with s4 especially since it wont be airing until 2012 (D:!) and i've read quite a few conflicting feelings concerning where it was left.

I definitely don't want it to be dying yet. SPN this season has been rather dreadful imo and there's just nothing fandom-inspiring that i've seen lately on tv. and Merlin is just so full of adorableness <3 lol

[magog-83.livejournal.com]

Merlin's my only fandom so I'll be holding onto it as long as possible I think!

I was one of the people very sad about Morgana. I tend to write everyone with series one characterisations in my fic, because in series two and three it felt like a lot of characterisation got thrown away. That was especially true of Morgana, who went from quite a complex and compassionate figure to evil incarnate! Most Morgana and Merlin/Arthur fans seem to be going with the "LALALALA CAN'T HEAR YOU" approach, which works for me :)

I'm pretty sure Merlin is airing next year though! The BBC confirmed it to geeksyndicate (and they notified Gealach_ros), they just haven't finalised the schedules yet apparently, because of Doctor Who. I hope it's next year anyway, although fandom seems happier in the hiatus!

[winter-rogue.livejournal.com]

i definitely have a hard time reconciling Morgana's progression. there are definitely hints and things that happen which i can understand would turn her against Uther, i can even reconcile her problems with Merlin if i squint, but her treatment of Arthur and Gwen take an almost impossible stretch of the imagination.

i recently rewatched The Moment of Truth and it leaves me flailing around going "whatwhatwhat? what happened? where did that fierce awesome, loyal woman go?" (and also makes me go, wtf when did gwen become a damsel in distress Re: when Elyan was captured by Morgause)

i'd hazard and say that they just don't have enough episodes in each season to properly deal with big sweeping character development and Morgana suffered for the lack of it.

i like the LALALALA approach lol