Date: 2008-01-11 12:41 Subject: grumble snarl, kick things put a sign for help Security: Public Tags: lil help?

Someone on my flist in either December or November linked to a story writing software page. Between ebay making me clear my flipping cache and a lost session, I no longer have any idea what that software was.

I think it began with S.

The page linked leg to a file showing all the things it could do. There was a pin up board with seeming index cards and what seemed like a screen cap showing a place to follow story arcs....

The link lead to a page with several screen caps.

Does anyone have a clue?

I think rexluscus was talking about how she recced it to someone, but I am no longer certain it was her - mostly because in my current state I can't find a mention on her lj.

Anyone?

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Date: 2008-01-11 14:05 Subject: Closed Source Fandoms Please Security: Public Tags: fannish: activity, thoughts on: things fannish

My first fandom was Trek, whether I knew it or not. I read it, watched it and play-by-email rp-ed it.

My second fandom, was Xena. I loved Xena. I knew there were Xena watching parties and Xena fiction on the internet.

But I consider these two my feral firsts. I was not a part of fandom as I know it now. I was either alone with my loves, or incorporated into something that seemed to be about itself (like Trek) vs being a fannish activity.

So The Sentinel remains, to my mind, my first official fandom. It is my first fandom within the Roman empire civilization. And it is the fandom I still turn to on my really bad days. Instead of doing things I've promised various people, therapist included, not to do, I read Sentinel fic. For like Blair, Jim is home and for like Jim, Blair is hope.

Aren't I a mushy little fangirl?

Still, I've realized that part of my attraction to Sentinel was that it was a closed source fandom. I already knew the heartache of the source closing. I didn't have to wonder about what stupidity would happen next - Re: Writers and actors and execs and bad exec decisions, etc. Now having lived through Smallville and stopping at the beginning of S3, having torn asunder my attachment to Trek with Voyager and having mourned the end of Joss' Vampire Verse with Buffy and Angel, I've realized that I want that security again.

But, having made my decision on closed source fandoms, I find myself not knowing of any. In fact in only occurred to me two nights ago that HP is now a pretty much closed source-fandom (if you go by the books alone, at least).

And with HP there's also the little problem of the fact that HP inspires me to original writing, but I'm going to post about that in writers_whinge.

For now...

If you have suggestions for closed source fandoms, please comment here.

Tastes: I've been a Trekker. I love fairytales. I read and like comics (but loathe the editors and their recent decisions). I like urban fantasy and interesting magical fantasies. And please let there be at least one character of colour.

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