I'm Back (?) Anyone Home?

[hobgoblinn]

So, It's been a while. I'm honestly surprised this hasn't been purged. At any rate, I'm coming back to some WIPs after over a decade (when did I get so old I can think in decades?)

If anyone is still out here and following me, I would love some company. I never have time in November, but I have about 50 days before I go back to school, so I'm going to see what I can finish in that time. I'm focusing on the Lost Boys sequel first (Harry Potter fandom.) I'm rereading a lot of great stuff in that fandom, but what got me back into fandom at all was Once Upon a Time, which I just discovered. Both share some unfortunate plot and characterization holes that fic is going a long way towards fixing.

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[hobgoblinn]

It should come as no surprise that Rumplestiltkin is one. He's like Snape in a lot of interesting ways, and played by the brilliant Robert Carlyle. I slogged through the whole thing, but when I went back to re-watch, I mostly fast forwarded to his scenes. Fanfiction is where you can find all the implications and consequences, and more coherent plots. I really want to write something where he and Zelena reconcile (albeit uneasily) after the end of the series proper, but I feel guilty starting that when I have these WIPs hanging out there, and a good idea how to finish the Lost Boys sequel at least.

I also adore the Evil Queen as she changes over time-- that thread, at least, they didn't drop. After Henry grows up a little, I love him, too. Wish there had been more of him with his grandfather. There's a lovely deleted scene out there from the start of season 4, where Henry asks Rumple to take some memories from him. Everything the show should have been, but wasn't because they had to shoehorn more Disney characters into it.

I love the themes of redemption, and evil is not born but made, and the way love and family tie people together. I hated the way they made characters, particularly Rumple, morph into evil people again just because they needed it for their dubious plot purposes.

Glad to hear a friendly voice. I did post a new chapter of No Malicious Haunting and a stand alone that is basically that chapter and the next one in the story as a stand alone. I'm currently posting on FF.net, but I have an Archive of Our Own account. I'll start putting my more decent stuff there, too, eventually.

What have you been up to? How active is it here? Anyone you recommend I follow?

[beatrice_otter]

I wish Neal had lived, because there's so much delicious stuff that could have been done with him and Rumple and Belle. Also, I feel like the show forgot a lot of the time that Henry is Rumplestiltskin's grandson. Rumplestiltskin, who engineered this whole entire chain of events in the first place specifically so he could find his son, Henry's father! And then most of the time at least in the first few seasons, he doesn't ... really notice Henry as anything other than the Mayor's son or Emma's son, whichever is most convenient to his plans at the time.

Oh! You asked for recommendations for who to follow.
fictional_fans is a community for fandom in general that's decently active.
james_davis_nicoll reviews SF/F books, writes articles about classic SF/F for Tor.com, and posts about things of interest to old-school litSFF fandom.
kuwdora is a multifandom vidder
lannamichaels writes fic in Vorkosigan, Harry Potter, and a few other fandoms.
lizbee is in Star Trek and Doctor Who fandoms.
melannen is active in a lot of small fandoms, and I love her fic
petra is another old-school fan, mostly into Star Wars and DC comics
philomytha is into Vorkosigan and some other fandoms.
rydra_wong is in fandom, but also posts interesting things about UK politics
schneefink is general fandom and minecraft stuff, they do recs fairly often.
selenak mostly blogs about Doctor Who and Star Trek
senmut (aka merfilly) is a prolific writer in a BUNCH of fandoms
sixbeforelunch writes AMAZING Star Trek stories
sixthlight does a lot of book reviews
tielan used to be in Stargate fandom back in the day (as Seldear) and now is into the MCU
unfitforsociety does multifandom recs
wrennette writes Star Wars fic.
birdylion does a lot of fic exchanges and writes mostly in smaller fandoms
dewline is into Star Trek
firecat is an old-school fan who does a lot of media lists
fancake is a very active multifandom themed fic rec community
fandom_fanvids
fandom_icons
fandomcalendar is a good place to hear about fannish things happening in/around DW
writethisfanfic is a community for helping you with working on your fan fiction.
ladybusiness is a feminist meta community
little_details is a community that helps writers with their research and fact-checking
pinchhits advertises pinch hits for various fanwork exchanges
queerly_beloved is for LGBTQ+ fandom stuff
recs is a semi-active rec community
recthething is a more active rec community
storyfinders
thisfinecrew is for boosting positive political action stuff (mostly US)
vidrecs
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