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I had some things I probably should have done today, but I spent that time re-reading some of my SSSS fic instead.

I miss that fandom a lot. I'm still so proud of some of the stories that I wrote for it. There was so much creativity there. And it was so much fun.

It's impossible to re-create that time. It'll never come back. But I'm so glad that we had what we did.

I still enjoy that universe. I don't think I currently have any wips; there are a few sketches for OC-related things, but nothing for the canon characters. "Colour in Your Cheeks" was the last one.

But I think... if I revisit the canon, I might get some ideas. One thing I regret is that I didn't write as much action-adventure-horror fic as I wanted to. The ones that I did write were so good! So, if I took another look... maybe inspiration will hit.

Upside, I have the first two volumes in print. So. We'll see

But man, I really miss this fandom. And Emil/Lalli is such a good pairing.

So. Stand Still Stay Silent is officially finished.

I went and looked at the ending. It's not that bad. Adventure 2 was a disappointment overall, but the ending/epilogue etc isn't that bad. If I were still active in the fandom, I can see some things that I could pick up to play with.

It's very open-ended, because the author wanted to leave the possibility of doing an Adventure 3 in the future if she ever decides to pick up the story again, unlikely though that is.

My feelings about this comic are complicated. I still feel very angry and sad about a whole lot of things - both stuff directly related to the author specifically, and to the direction that the story took in general.

But SSSS fandom got me through some very difficult times, and I talked with some great people, and I wrote some fanworks that I'm still happy with.

I guess I'm having a hard time letting this go. But maybe it'll be easier now that it's officially done.

Just came across a comment where someone recced SSSS and mentioned that it has a shippable M/M age gap pairing in the form of... Onni/Lalli?

Haaa. What?

I definitely wouldn't rec it with that in mind. Not because it's an incest pairing, but because it's nonexistent in the fandom. If that's what you're into, then you're going to need to build it from the ground up on your own.

Luckily they also mentioned that Onni/Reynir fits the bill, so if someone looking for M/M age gap pairings does check the fandom out, at least there might be something for them. But, still. I was kind of surprised and confused.

Now that I'm giving it thought, you could do some pretty interesting darkfic centred around codependence and such with any of the Hotakainens. I'd click on that if I came across it. No ideas of my own writing-wise, but. Yeah, I'd read it.

I was re-reading the prologue for Stand Still Stay Silent today. The vibe sure is different in the light of... well... [/Gestures at literally everything happening in the world right now]

I think it's still my favourite part of SSSS. The art from that period looks so good, and I got weirdly attached to all of those characters, even though everybody from that set only shows up for a handful of pages each.

(Signe is still The Best.)

Page 216 made me crack the hell up. I had a feeling something like that was going on with the lines/sensors, but the way the reveal is framed is just perfect.

Ah yes. It's an annoying spirit... very annoying... ;)

Maybe I should work on one of my wips for this series this weekend. I still have several things in various stages of writing.

So, this fic by Wavewright62 has been up for a while, but I only got around to reading it just now. It's one of the best SSSS fics that I've read in a while - probably one of the ones I've liked best in general, really. I'm always down for a story set during the first months of the apocalypse, with people pulling together to get through it. :D

The title makes it seem a bit unsuited for reading in summer, but it's actually not very holiday-centric at all. It's set around the same time as the SSSS prologue, so we end up at that time of year.

Sit tight for worldbuilding, original characters, angst and tragedy, and various canon-typical things. And a whole lot of curry, of course. And it's on the long side, clocking at 27k!

Even if you aren't familiar with Stand Still Stay Silent, I think it's pretty easy to enjoy this one as a "found community during the apocalypse" story. It sets down all the relevant details pretty clearly, and since it takes place on the other side of the world from the original canon, you don't need to be familiar with any of the SSSS characters or their plotlines.

Anyway. Do check it out on Ao3 - it's a good read:

Thanksgiving at The Last Curry House in New Jersey (27811 words) by wavewright62
Chapters: 15/15
Fandom: Stand Still Stay Silent
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Original Human Character(s)
Additional Tags: Year 0 (Stand Still Stay Silent), Community where you find it, Curry, Horror, Character Death, Lots & Lots of Character Death, It is a Global Epidemic After All Just Sayin', Did I Mention Curry?, Even Though New Jersey is Known For Lasagna, Angst and Tragedy, New Jersey Giants
Summary:

An imagining of the Y0 apocalypse and its aftermath, set in a strip mall in rural New Jersey.

Chapter cover for chapter 4 of story 2 of SSSS is up now.

Gosh, it's pretty. I'm loving all the little details in it.

I'm interested to see how this will fold out... It would be nice to get a little bit of information about what life is like in populated areas in Finland, but I'm not sure how long the crew will stay in this location.

There's been a lot of speculation about the direction the story is going, but I prefer not to throw any ideas out myself, as they'll likely turn out to be wrong. WELL, all one can do at this point is buckle up and see what happens, I guess.

+ I kind of forget how much I appreciate the regular update schedule until suddenly it's chapter break and the pages aren't coming the way they usually would. Oh boy. I don't want to be impatient for updates, but... I'm impatient for updates! ;)

+ At this point... I don't have any Deep Thoughts on anything that's going on at all. I'm just along for the ride. :V

+ I was hoping there would be some SSSS requests in Multifandom Drabble (other than my own), but alas, no. Darn. Next round, maybe...?

+ Man, I haven't had a good fic idea for this canon in a while. Ah well, all I can do is hope something will pop up eventually! I do have that one WIP with prologue characters that I was working on, though I haven't touched it in a while - part of the problem is that I wasn't sure where I wanted to go with it. (I knew I wanted to write horror, but hadn't considered beyond that.) Maybe when I'm on vacation I should pull it out and take another look. ;)

☆ Year in Hereafter's break is over. That means: new chapter. Yay! I've been missing the updates, it'll be nice to have new material again.

☆ Speaking of YiH, Mikael is doing an Indiegogo campaign for a printed version of the comic! Previously, he issued them as floppies, but this one is for a compiled version (good choice, it suits a lot better). Details over here; if you like YiH please support him if you can. :D ...I'm going to need to wait a bit before deciding whether to get only the book, or book + extras, because oh boy, once you convert those prices to CAD, it's a lot. (Insert typical grumping about the Canadian dollar here.)

☆ Other crowdfunding: there's a campaign for the second issue of Odie. Like before, Elli and Mikael did the art. :) Only a few days left for this one (it ends evening of Sept 04 NA time) Glad I caught that one before it ended; almost slipped my mind.

☆ Small Trolls updated, yay! The pages for this one are infrequent but I'm always so happy to see them. I should give it a re-read.

☆ Stand Still Stay Silent: I am going to continue to sit here and popcorn.gif all the way. I'm really enjoying all the survival horror stuff that's going on now + for the last little while. Also, I'm really glad that the bodysharing subplot is over, because I'm not really a fan. Might be surprising, considering I love the whole dreamwalking thing (and telepathy in other canons) but eh, what can one say. I prefer Lalli in his own body.

Speaking of SSSS, my attention has kind of wandered away from the shipping side of it. Which is interesting. Not that I dislike any of the pairings I liked before; I still like them. But I'm so much more interested in gen scenarios at the moment. It might be because I just finished drafting a longish genfic, ooorrr maybe the bodysharing turned me off just that much, who knows. I still love my prologue pairs, so there is that. :Va Anyway, 's funny how tastes change.

☆ Also SSSS: I haven't received my book 2 package, but probably will soon. I ordered an extra copy of the book to give away, but I don't know if I want to do a full giveaway. Is there anybody on my Flist who would like to have it? If so, give me a prod! You'll get it, and save me the trouble. xD

It's been a bit more than a week since works for this exchange were revealed, but I only just got around to posting about it. :) I received several lovely gifts in three different fandoms, yay! And I wrote 5 works, in 3 different fandoms. Double yay!

I'd been looking forward to this exchange all year, and I'm glad it went so well. :D It really is a fun little exchange.

Anyway, here are the works I received.

Nirvana in Fire:

☆ Seeking Warmth by Melody_Jade. 300 words, T, Prince Yu/Mei Changsu. Back in Jiangzuo, Changsu had collected a dossier of information on each prince, including within it Prince Yu's preference for men.
Pretty much what it says on the tin and I am still absolutely floored with delight that somebody wrote this pairing for me. It's the one I decided to chance putting in my requests, but never in a million years would have expected to actually receive.

A Redtail's Dream:

☆ A Sip of Coffee by helia7. 100 words, G, Jouko Kuikka. Jouko's morning coffee break
My favourite grumpy baker! <3 This one is cozy.

☆ Like I've Known You All My Life by Lunarium. 100 words, G, Vuokko Tikkanen & Mrs Squirrel. “Yet it seems I’ve known you all my life.”
LOOK, someone wrote me Vuokko fic! *_* It's charming. :D

☆ Lunch Break by Elleth. 300 words, E, Joona Kuikka/Hannu Viitanen. Lunch hour in the garden shed.
Oh boy. Here there be porn. And it is very good indeed. :)a

Stand Still Stay Silent:

☆ Árni's Dream by Wavewright62. 100 words, T, Árni Ragnarsson & Freyja with reference to Reynir. It was just a dream. Of course.
Ah yes, just a dream... well, that's one explanation for everything. :D

☆ Before the Memory Fades Completely by Wavewright62. 100 words, E, Sigrun & Sjødraug. When we were young, you taught me to swim here.
This one is beautifully poetic.

☆ Whalesong by Elleth. 100 words, G, survivors outside the known world. Heligoland has been a fortress before.
Beautifully atmospheric. Also, creepy voices in the radio! *_*

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Of the fics that weren't written for me, I'd also like to rec all the other SSSS works, the two Year in Hereafter works, and the one VME work that I didn't write. I'm sure there are a lot of other awesome things in the collection too, but these are the only fandoms I read stuff for.

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And to keep this from being super long, I'll put the ones I wrote under a cut. :)

( Hetalia x 1 + SSSS x 2 + VME x 2 )