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Jul. 22nd, 2021 08:56 pmI need a new fandom, lol.
Really, I just want some variety in what I get ideas for, and yet... the ideas all come for the same ship in the same fandom.
Well, that's not 100% true: sometimes I also get ideas for a DIFFERENT mostly outdated video game franchise that was formative to teenage me but suffered a decline in coherence and quality in later years and is well past its glory days of active fandom. :D
Some of the struggle is that while I've been *into* other movies/shows/games/books/etc. I'm more satisfied with most of those, so I don't really feel the need to wade into producing fanworks for them. I often consume fanworks in those fandoms, but don't really get the urge to make my own.
But Kingdom Hearts is INFAMOUSLY a mess in canon, so I enjoy throwing all of that out and not even pretending to understand it, and writing about the characters I loved and cared about in various AUs.
Alternately, I want to write horror stuff set in Silent Hill, utilizing the broader lore to explore the parts of it I find most interesting. But I also feel like very few people are interested in reading that, which makes it harder to want to write it, lol. (And there is that one Silent Hill fic I wrote way back in 2016 but never posted... that was about a mystery illness... which felt like Very Bad Taste to share once Covid happened, even though I'd written it years before. Maybe in another year or two it'll seem less tacky to post.)
This isn't to make it sound like I don't want to keep writing the stuff I'm working on, and I wouldn't say I'm exactly burned out on it... But it does feel like I've kinda explored the same dynamic as many times as I feel the need to right now... I just wish I felt like I had some well of inspiration to move onto after!
Really, I just want some variety in what I get ideas for, and yet... the ideas all come for the same ship in the same fandom.
Well, that's not 100% true: sometimes I also get ideas for a DIFFERENT mostly outdated video game franchise that was formative to teenage me but suffered a decline in coherence and quality in later years and is well past its glory days of active fandom. :D
Some of the struggle is that while I've been *into* other movies/shows/games/books/etc. I'm more satisfied with most of those, so I don't really feel the need to wade into producing fanworks for them. I often consume fanworks in those fandoms, but don't really get the urge to make my own.
But Kingdom Hearts is INFAMOUSLY a mess in canon, so I enjoy throwing all of that out and not even pretending to understand it, and writing about the characters I loved and cared about in various AUs.
Alternately, I want to write horror stuff set in Silent Hill, utilizing the broader lore to explore the parts of it I find most interesting. But I also feel like very few people are interested in reading that, which makes it harder to want to write it, lol. (And there is that one Silent Hill fic I wrote way back in 2016 but never posted... that was about a mystery illness... which felt like Very Bad Taste to share once Covid happened, even though I'd written it years before. Maybe in another year or two it'll seem less tacky to post.)
This isn't to make it sound like I don't want to keep writing the stuff I'm working on, and I wouldn't say I'm exactly burned out on it... But it does feel like I've kinda explored the same dynamic as many times as I feel the need to right now... I just wish I felt like I had some well of inspiration to move onto after!
