Write Every Day: 29 August 02019
Aug. 29th, 2019 08:34 pmGreetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-in post for 29 August 02019.
I held back one of the things from yesterday that I discovered, mostly because it didn't obviously fit the theme of "the way that transformative works are changing the landscape of fandom", although the more I think about it, it might just.
I'm a big fan of the Sorting Hat Chats system of Primary and Secondary Hogwarts Houses, (with extra fun when you add Models, Performances, and the Stripped/Burned/Fallen/Prtrified forms of the Primaries and Secondaries) because it does a lot of good work toward giving each house a fair shake and in separating out the reasons why you do a thing and the methods you use to accomplish them. The neat thing I was linked to was a quiz that suggests what your Primary and Secondary might be, based on answering questions. It also has the options for you to say that something doesn't fit or isn't quite right to help refine what you might be or for you to say that they're wrong entirely. Much like how the Hat itself gave Harry the choice of houses, even though it knew he'd do just as well in either house presented.
Unsurprisingly, I ended up where I always end up when I take a Sorting test - Hufflepuff Primary, Hufflepuff Secondary. Which, y'know, isn't bad to have. It's jsut that because the source spent so little time on showing us what Huifflepuffs were like, they became Team Nobody Notices, and it's been a lot of fans' work that makes them Team Nobody Notices (Until It's Too Late). War badgers and the like. So while I can't deny that it's my house and I exempllify it, there's always a sort of "but I don't particularly want to be an NPC" that flares up every time I get my results. And possibly a little bit of something where I know I'll put in the work and help the people and think that people are important and it's likely it won't result in any sort of fame, fortune, or even acknowledgment of a job well done. Because that's Hufflepuff. They show up, they do the work, they build communities, and everyone thinks of them as always having been there, doing things that are necessary but not glamorous.
I was poking through the reblogs that tagged in Sorting Hat Chatss, and someone did some of the Miraculous Ladybug heroes, and I found myself disagreeing completely with the post, which is great if I ever want to write it up, but not something that I'll get into here in the check-in post.
I wrote today. A few more words in a scene that seemed to be moving a bit clunkily, and then another minor meltdown decided it might appear there, and that seems to be giving the scene some life, so I'll go with that, and let my beta reader tell me whether it makes sense for any of this to be happening at all. (I don't envy them the task, but I do have to actually get the thing done at some point.)
Two days left before we decamp and head![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
china_shop's way.
( It's tally time! )
I held back one of the things from yesterday that I discovered, mostly because it didn't obviously fit the theme of "the way that transformative works are changing the landscape of fandom", although the more I think about it, it might just.
I'm a big fan of the Sorting Hat Chats system of Primary and Secondary Hogwarts Houses, (with extra fun when you add Models, Performances, and the Stripped/Burned/Fallen/Prtrified forms of the Primaries and Secondaries) because it does a lot of good work toward giving each house a fair shake and in separating out the reasons why you do a thing and the methods you use to accomplish them. The neat thing I was linked to was a quiz that suggests what your Primary and Secondary might be, based on answering questions. It also has the options for you to say that something doesn't fit or isn't quite right to help refine what you might be or for you to say that they're wrong entirely. Much like how the Hat itself gave Harry the choice of houses, even though it knew he'd do just as well in either house presented.
Unsurprisingly, I ended up where I always end up when I take a Sorting test - Hufflepuff Primary, Hufflepuff Secondary. Which, y'know, isn't bad to have. It's jsut that because the source spent so little time on showing us what Huifflepuffs were like, they became Team Nobody Notices, and it's been a lot of fans' work that makes them Team Nobody Notices (Until It's Too Late). War badgers and the like. So while I can't deny that it's my house and I exempllify it, there's always a sort of "but I don't particularly want to be an NPC" that flares up every time I get my results. And possibly a little bit of something where I know I'll put in the work and help the people and think that people are important and it's likely it won't result in any sort of fame, fortune, or even acknowledgment of a job well done. Because that's Hufflepuff. They show up, they do the work, they build communities, and everyone thinks of them as always having been there, doing things that are necessary but not glamorous.
I was poking through the reblogs that tagged in Sorting Hat Chatss, and someone did some of the Miraculous Ladybug heroes, and I found myself disagreeing completely with the post, which is great if I ever want to write it up, but not something that I'll get into here in the check-in post.
I wrote today. A few more words in a scene that seemed to be moving a bit clunkily, and then another minor meltdown decided it might appear there, and that seems to be giving the scene some life, so I'll go with that, and let my beta reader tell me whether it makes sense for any of this to be happening at all. (I don't envy them the task, but I do have to actually get the thing done at some point.)
Two days left before we decamp and head
china_shop's way.( It's tally time! )
