Hello!

[epithalamium]

Yes, this is epithalamium. I decided after some thought not to delete my LJ. It's going to remain as is because I was an embarrassing young adult and I guess it's good to remind myself that I used to be an embarrassing young adult as I go about my cranky old man life.

All my entries--fanart and fanfic alike--are going to remain in that old account. For my dreamwidth, I decided to delete all posts I've already made (which were just test-run html coding for the fests I've signed up for anyway) and start over.

どうぞよろしく! And for people I've known since the LJ days, ただいま!

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[paulamcg]

I guess it comforts my son a bit that while his anxiety stops him from meeting people, nobody is supposed to gather in groups. And a mask helps a bit against the chemicals I'm sensitive to, so that maybe I'll continue to wear a mask in a lot places, including the stairwell of my own building. In any case, I'm looking forward to this being over and most people feeling less anxious!

I'm so glad that the HP fandom can still give you joy. After my return from hiatus it's clear that the HP fandom or rather my ficverse will never leave me. I just have to be reconciled that I can really share these stories with very few people. I'm also happy that (after I'd probably figured out (my) asexuality even later or not at all, if I hadn't been in fandom) I can use HP characters for my ace stories, although most of them are perhaps too much of issue fics and also historical, set in the years when these characters were young adults, mainly B.C. (before cake, and before the term ace).

This past winter I tried a bit of chatting in a couple of Discord channels (for some Wolfstar fests). And last summer someone who found my fic on AO3 continued discussion on comment threads of several of my fics. But I still hope for small corners of fandom on journals where people would be interested in each other as creators of fanwork.

[epithalamium]

Aah, I'm sorry I've been so spotty! ;__;

But I'm really glad you decided to share your stories again Before Cake is such a cute term 🤭 and this is true, the word 'asexual' wasn't a thing before. It's strange how people experience things before there's a proper word for them, isn't it? There's not a lot of asexual characters in stories so I really do like seeing them, 'issue fics' or not.

Ooh! How are the discord servers you've seen? I've never been on an HP Discord, aside from a brief moment during the final RS Games... 🤔

[paulamcg]

Before Cake is such a cute term <3 Yes, and even when there was the word and the definition of asexual, asexuals first (before ace) called themselves (human) amoebas. :)

It's wonderful how the awareness and the representation of asexuality have developed. And that's just one of the changes in the contents that people now want in fic, and perhaps the spreading on new, different platforms isn't the biggest change, after all. After my hiatus I must have tried to write something closer to what was more popular ten years earlier than my fic was, but now it seems to me that I really should have written these stories ten or fifteen years ago.

As for Discord, besides those channels for particular fests, I've been to The Quibbler, which is for any HP fanfic writers, but I don't think it's very active.