autumn in pluto.

It's probably because I'm not used to this kind of fandom space, and also because I've mostly never really cared about top/bottom ship dynamics, but I saw some people with "❌🔄" in their bio and thought that meant I wasn't not allowed to retweet their stuff.

I'm an impulsive retweeter, like my hands are quicker than my brain kinda deal, and I get real panicked when I retweet something from someone who has "❌🔄" in their bio.

Apparently, it actually means they won't do reverse pairings! So my panicking was unwarranted!

This experience has significantly aged me :)

So, I'm in this 3H fandom event called "Blue Lions Big Bang".

Big Bangs, for those uninitiated, is a fandom event or challenge, where a writer and an artist get paired. The writer creates a fic, and the artist makes art based on the fic. (For more info, here's a Fanlore wiki article! I love Fanlore.)

For November, we were encouraged to take part in a challenge not-so-different from NaNoWriMo (again, relevant Fanlore article...) but of course, not actually associated with the original, controversial event. The goal was very flexible; I set mine to just 6,000 words, or essentially, finish my first draft of chapters 1-4 before the 50% check-in by November 30.

I'm happy to report that I finished it...!

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