So, hypothetically speaking...

Someone who shall remain anonymous, LOL, unless she doesn't want to, helped me remember why I'm here in the first place.

Jensen, Jensen, Jensen, Jensen. Glee!

Just saw ze_pink_lady's vid of his Asylum panel where he talks about Danneel and Icarus and now I have the stupidest grin on my face and the urge to write Jensen/Danneel, which is insane because I don't write Het. Okay, so I write it, but I don't post it, and I don't read it, because there are just too many squicks in Het for me to chance it.

But the point is, I'm a Jensen fangirl. Not a Supernatural fangirl. I get very little squee out of reading SPN related posts anymore. Which makes me sad, because I still love the show dearly, but I don't really care to hear anyone else's take on it. At this point, I've been here since early in season 1, and I can pretty accurately predict how certain people are going to respond to certain things, and it's all really, really tiresome. Especially when it affects the way I view the show.

Problem is,this is a fandom journal, has always been a fandom journal, and everyone I know here with exception of a few, I met through fandom. So, I can't just NOT be exposed to it.

But if, hypothetically speaking, I wanted to lessen the fandom effect and focus more on my Jensen fangirling, and now, my Adam Lambert fangirling, where would I go? What sites do Jensen fangirls watch, anyway? I mean, I didn't have a computer back in my Dark Angel days, so when I did get one, Jensen was already on Supernatural, so it was easiest to get my Jensen fix by following Supernatural posts and whatnot. But surely there is a Jensen fandom outside of Supernatural? With like, sites and communities and whatnot? Anyone? Anyone?

Help a girl out. Please? *puppy face*

And this is not to say that I don't like Jared or Misha. I just want to be able to focus on Jensen and not feel like I have to make consolations to anyone else just because they share a credential. (Besides, Misha already knows he's awesome, so that takes 90% of the fun out of fangirling him. LOL.)

Hmm, I dunno. This post might bring in some haters, I suppose. Should I be worried? Nah. Not locking.

All that being said, I'm not going anywhere, just trying to be more selective about what I entertain myself with online. And I realized I haven't got many options since all my online business is SPN business. I need to change that. Plus, I have too many WIPs to leave now. :P

So, in case you missed it. This is a call for links. Also, because I am stupid, what is a Google alert, and how can I get some?

Bigbang question post coming up shortly. ;)

Bigbang Poll-y Question post...

I'm actually editing our bigbang fic. Yay! :S Anyway, as I go about it, I like to break it down into nice, beta-sized chunks that I think will approximately be the actual post-sized installment. As I'm looking at this fic, trying to find a place that's both at least a little hooky to get the reader to click on the "Next" link and also at a decent spot to make a good-sized post, I'm reminded of a post I read just after Dreamwidth started out in which a reader was lamenting the fact that people posting on Dreamwidth and cross-posting to Livejournal still had to break down their stories into little bits in order to fit in a Livejournal post, even though you can apparently fit 50000 words in a Dreamwidth post.

So, now I'm thinking. I haven't really asked my cowriter about this, so this might all be moot and come with a giant Hell to the NO stamped across it. But here's what I'm thinking. So far, our bigbang draft is 27000 words, with all my clumsy editing notes in it. And I'm thinking with all the rewriting it could easily cross 30000 and if I'm really inspired with the backstory could actually hit 40 or 50 by the August 12 postdate. I could theoretically post the whole thing on Dreamwidth in one post and link back to it here.

Problem is, most of the readers are primarily on LJ. So, I'd want to have comments only on LJ. I could do that by a)putting the comment link in manually and linking it back to a comment page on LJ or b)posting the last bit of story on Livejournal and having people comment there. All of this depends on what readers prefer. I kinda like stories that are broken up into parts, because it gives me a good place to take a pee break and not have to find where I left off. But I guess some people actually hate that. So, here's where you can tell me what you think.

Also, I'm in the middle of compiling a soundtrack, which is constantly evolving as I rework scenes and see the tone change. Ever since I first discovered mp3 player widgets I've wanted to experiment with putting songs into the story that way, so the reader could play the song I'm actually hearing in my head as the scene unfolds. Only problem is, those widgets take up a lot of character space, so drastically decrease your available space for words. So, I don't think I'd do it on LJ. But maybe on dreamwidth? I haven't actually checked to see if those things even work on Dreamwidth so that might be a lost cause anyway. But the major drawback I see is that not everyone reads at the same speed, so they'd have to be able to shut the stupid thing off if they are reading along and come to the next widget before the last one is finished playing or the widgets would have to be spaced out quite a bit to assure there's no overlap. Some people just like to download and listen to the songs whenever they want to, but that doesn't always end up being the way I envisioned it when I wrote it, and well, it's illegal, ya know? I feel a twinge of guilt, yes I do.

So, um, there's a question about that, too.

Hopefully the polly thing works, if not just a quick opinion dump about word length and fic music would help me out a lot. I'm about to unplug from the internet and go somewhere less distracting to write. Sorry for the spammage. :P



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