I'm halfway through the tenth season of Classic Doctor Who and as I'm approaching the end of the Master and Jo Grant era of the Third Doctor's run, I've been thinking a lot about fanworks for classic shows and in particular early, pre-Strikethrough fandom. I grew up accessing fanworks mostly on forums, fanfiction.net and other private websites (some of which are still up but many of which aren't).

The only years I heavily used livejournal was from 2010 until around 2012. The later part of this usage had my attention largely divided with twitter and tumblr in the mix as well (though I fell off twitter pretty hard for a few years, and in general I don't like it at all as a fandom platform even though I use it every day). With tinypic dying and photobucket pushing their watermarks on everything, it really feels like that era of fandom history is rapidly falling apart.

This is all a roundabout way of saying I kind of want to get more involved with Classic Who fandom, but I don't really know where to begin - especially since the scope of it is just so large. I'm still on the Third Doctor when I know a sizable amount of fans also gravitate toward the Fourth and Fifth Doctor eras. This is all assuming I can even get off my ass and start producing fanworks again, which is something I've desperately wanted to do but haven't been able to find the groove for.

During my sophomore year of college in 2011, I used to go to the library with the express goal of getting X amount of writing done for fic. While it was a bit chore-like, it really helped me get into the habit of writing, though I wouldn't reach my fanfic peak until the year following my graduation in 2014-15 when I somehow had the energy and motivation to write during my commutes to and from work.

I only have a couple of episodes left of this serial, and after that I might wander outside and try to get some writing done for old times' sake. I do want to finish that Hetalia multi-chapter I began in 2011 before this year is up, but in the meantime maybe I'll take a crack at some Classic Who or some Star Wars. Of course, this might all end up being some grand wishful thinking again, but I'd like to think that I can still write something if I really want to. I can certainly ramble a lot on here.

So most of the blog content from livejournal has officially been moved over here, and it's got me thinking about how much content and research myself and others have saved from being permanently lost over the years. Being a part of lonelygirl15 fandom for a number of years helped me practice digging up obscure information from web pages that weren't necessarily still there. For Hetalia specificially, megalodon.jp and the Internet Archive were where we were able to dig up a lot of really neat, obscure stuff.

( A-Hunting We Will Go... )

Watch Status Roundup:
Star Wars Rebels - All Caught Up!
Digimon Tamers - 12/51
Cardcaptor Sakura - 10/75
The X-Files - 74/210