I'm in a hunter x hunter zine

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Yes... Seven years after I drifted away from fandom, working way too hard as a long term sub and then new teacher at various urban schools to have the energy for anything besides going home and watching YouTube bullet planner videos and maybe commenting on omonatheydidnt.. I'm officially back in fandom, *and* involved enough to be a moderator on a fandom exchange!

The zine I'm in is an all-ratings Killugon (Killua/Gon from Hunter x Hunter) zine, so we are right in the eye of the fandom culture wars, haha. I liked a bunch of the contributors from AO3 and figured it would be a good way to make fandom friends on tumblr, and it worked :D It's actually my first zine in 15 years in fandom, unless you count the Death Note doujinshi telophase drew based on a script we wrote together back in 2005, so that's exciting too.

Anyway, I know you guys being from the old school of nonjudgmental fandom will not give me grief for this. If you have a little extra cash, you can show support by buying a copy at https://gumroad.com/milestoneszine.

Speaking of old, nostalgic fandoms though... did you guys realize that in this Year of our Lord 2020, there's a new chapter of Death Note out???

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What mp3 thing was that, again?
It was the Mushishi soundtrack! Which still remains some of my favorite music of all time, and has often made it back into my car playlists. Over the years, every time I've dug out the mp3s, I have literally said to myself, 'thank goodness for sub_d', I'm not kidding.

my Loveless AMV, which no longer exists anywhere on the internet or on any harddrives, so I guess it's lost forever aha
You say this BUT I went back and checked my archives, and I actually have BOTH versions of your video still. Which 1. tells you something about the dusty state of my archives, and 2. the timestamps on them are 2006, so that means they've been hanging around on my hard drives for fourteen years at least wtf

And they're still playable! So let me know if you want me to upload copies to Google Drive so you can grab them, or if you'd rather back away from this reminder of the past. :)

As for writing, I'd probably have even more fics by now, but fell into doing longfics pretty chronically... so instead of nice, tidy 3-5k pieces, there are these 15-40k monstrosities floating around. They serve a purpose too, so it's all good -- I just wish they weren't so time consuming. Either way, I still get a lot of satisfaction in simply continuing to create content regardless of fandom, length, or even audience, so that will probably never go away.

Speaking of which, I'm about to go head-down in the last stretch of this one fic (14k, I weep), but hit me up if you have any other links you want me to share, or want me to upload the amvs. :)

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Yeah, I wouldn't mind having them actually, even though I don't have any intention of posting them publicly again :p Wow, that is so wild... Thank you for being an archivist XD.

And oh yeah, the Mushishi soundtrack is really relaxing... I still don't remember doing that, good job, past self XD.

Fanfics seem to be getting longer,in general.. I feel like people who just wanna talk to other people about canon without doing a lot of world building or anything just make memes or do hot takes now, and the people who are writing still are mostly doing it because they enjoy writing for the sake of writing. I dunno if that makes sense or not, the quality over all seems a lot higher now tho XD.

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Happy to help! :) It's kind of a miracle that they survived, what with all the various computer migrations over the years (before these days of debatable cloud storage.) But I'm very glad they did :)

That's true about fic getting longer, and I agree with you there -- there are more avenues for shorter flashfic too, I guess, between Twitter and Tumblr (if that even still is happening after the purge.) With fandom being more accepted, the ways to celebrate it are spreading out too maybe, with more ways to share art and forms of fan merchandise (keychains!) and so it's easier to stay involved in your love for fandom without sticking to only writing if it's not your thing. Maybe? haha. Either way, it's nice to see the richness around us... hopefully that will never go away. :)

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I think the fic is getting longer because we're all turning into content producers, and we all have more competition now. You gotta stand out if you want an audience, XD. But it's also true that fandom's more accepted and we don't live in fear of lawsuits anymore, haha. And hosting images and making and selling merch is of course much easier.