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[liveonthesun]

hello! i joined this community years ago, but it's never been updated. with several people from tlt twitter moving to dreamwidth, i figured i'd kickstart this place and see if we can make it a hang-out spot.

i'm rebecca, liveonthesun_ on twitter. notable fandom contributions inlucde the cottagecore au (gideon/harrow), the kink meme (tlt_kink), and palamedes getting fucked in a nurse's dress ft. very detailed descriptions of lingerie.

i first read gideon the ninth in 2019 and an arc of harrow the ninth in early 2020 and i think because it was the last thing i'd read before the pandemic, my brain just latched onto it as The Last Time We Were Happy. harrow was my comfort read all that year, and i just listened to the audiobooks on a loop every time i was in my car.

i'm in my 30s and have been involved in various fandoms in some capacity on and off for over 20 years now. tlt is the only one i'm currently very active in. feel free to add me as a friend here! my personal blog is mostly about day-to-day real life stuff.

Comments

[rocky41_7]

Welcome back! Definitely agree it would be fun to get some activity going on this comm. Thanks for linking the TLT kink meme too! I didn't know we had one of those 👀

[liveonthesun]

we do!! i'm very proud of it. i wasn't sure it would take because so much of the fandom on discord had never heard of kink memes, but some really amazing fic has been produced from it and i'm so happy i decided to set it up.

[rocky41_7]

I do firmly believe Dreamwidth is the best possible format for kink memes.

[liveonthesun]

it is!!! so much of fandom activities and events were built on livejournal-esque platforms and hosting them elsewhere is so tricky to manage. the whole square peg/round hole thing.

[deadfinch]

embarrassing admission: i saw this on my reading page, was delighted that there was a TLT community, got confused because i didn't remember subbing to a TLT community, and then remembered all at once that i made it like four years ago. my recollection is that i was trying to lure some of my twitter friends onto dreamwidth by making a comm for our one shared fandom and i kind of abandoned the idea when no one from my circle took the bait. (that was pre-pandemic, geez. time doesn't feel real.)

anyway: hi! nice to meet you, rebecca. i'm finch. i'd love to get some activity going in here, especially now that the fandom's grown. first step for me is probably giving this thing a proper layout and a sticky. i'm also thinking a regular fanwork rec + discussion post, if there's interest. any other ideas?

[biodamped]

Hope you don't mind a vague comment hijack on my part - it's been so long since I was in an active lj/dw community that I feel weird about just replying to anyone :"> I would love to see a regular fanwork rec post AND a discussion post - we used to do these at a few of my old fandom spaces on lj, and it really brought the community together! Other thoughts - occasional fic challenges? Drabble/flash fic prompts? Weekly roundup of new fics/art people might have missed elsewhere? (I've been meaning to do that last one for thesixthhouse and keep getting sidetracked, oops.)

Also, I had to laugh at your backstory for this account; I once made a Doctor Who community here for the exact same reason, except it was to lure people off the then-decaying livejournal. Unfortunately tumblr got most of them.

[deadfinch]

fic challenges, yes!! let's do regular flashfic prompts for sure, then depending on interest we can see what else people want to do? i'm so excited. i'll post a google form soliciting more specific feedback from you all probably sometime tonight, and we can hammer out how frequent all this stuff is gonna be and what it'll look like.

re: the idea of a weekly roundup - that sounds awesome, but i don't personally have time to run it. if you or someone else wants to take charge of it, though, that'd be sick - we should definitely talk.

[biodamped]

Awesome, I love it!

I'm also very weak in the free time department, haha, which is the reason I've never yet managed to do a round up for Sixth House but maybe a few people could share it, take turns? That could be a good thing to get specific feedback on in your google form. Ahh, also so excited to see some buzz happening somewhere other than twitter!

[liveonthesun]

i would love reclist posts and discussion posts! reclists are so hard to find these days. i missing being able to google "[ship] reclist" and get several LJ posts full of great fic in return.

[mercurialreprobate]

oh hell yes i love the idea of fanwork reclists and discussion posts! i'd love a space to like, dive into some literary analysis, there's sooo much going on these books that even a few years in i feel like i haven't fully digested so it would be nice to unpack some of that

[mercurialreprobate]

i love this!! hey everyone: i'm gray.

i started reading the series abouuuut a year into the pandemic proper and i was still pretty locked down and reading a bunch and my brain really latched onto these books. i found myself looking up fanfiction for the first time in... a while, and then i found dr. cam, and then i realized how many smart and delightful people were in the fandom and here i am now.

i'm a very on and off fandom person but have been part of a few here and there (a lot of the times as a lurker - i was very online during the Prime Years of Homestuck but never really wrote anything) and i'm also in my 30s era of enjoying things. i have the same name on ao3 and have made some extremely dubious contributions to the fandom there. some people may know me from twitter where i'm @ OfReprobates and say a lot of goofy shit.

i just started my dreamwidth account but it'll probably be a mix of fandom and personal stuff, feel free to add me

[liveonthesun]

a;skldjf;laskdjfl;aks as the owner of the dr cam ao3 account (but not the creator of dr cam itself!! that honor goes to someone else ♥), i'm thrilled to know it's what drew you into the fandom.

[mercurialreprobate]

i will never ever get tired of telling this story because god, reading it was such a fucking REVELATION. i laughed so hard i cried i'm pretty sure. it was the first time in a long time that i felt that sweet fandom feeling of "god these people enjoy this thing so much and are just having the greatest time". i loved it!!!

[liveonthesun]

lmao we really were just fucking around making our own joy during that very dark and awful first pandemic winter ♥

[themorikelife]

Hiiii! Great to see a familiar username here!

[themorikelife]

Oh hai thar! Glad to see this comm getting some action. I'm themorikelife on DW and Tumblr and Morike91 on AO3. I run the annual TLT Holiday Exchange (happening again this year!) and will definitely post about that here once we get dates finalized and stuff.

I first read Gideon the Ninth end of 2019 when everyone in publishing was raving about it. And when Harrow the Ninth came out I knew there had to be a fan community somewhere for it, and I luckily found a chill Discord server and online friends. I haven't really left since. Hi!

Most of my fandom shenanigans have been through Tumblr or the exchange circuit in this past year, so I'm thrilled to have this comm. Looking forward to spending more time here!

[dray]

Yoooo I saw that you were running a holiday fic fest... but were commenting in 2023, so I went hunting anyways. Glad to see that this is still going! You da best!

[meikuree]

hello there! from a long time lurker, just wanted to drop by and say thank you for starting up the tlt kink meme, that was a big brained idea and it's spawned so many glorious art/fic/fanworks.

and @ the admins: I'm all here for livening up this place and look forward to the rec/discussion posts. <3

[dray]

Thank you for adding some content! I'm a lurker, for sure, but I have been meaning to dig into more TLT fandom work since we lent out our Gideon and Nona books and our friends have not freaking given them back. Harrow is cold comfort when we're missing our full set.

I'm here looking for fic recs and to get my head back into the TLT groove. I don't write a lot, or well, but when I do write I like it to be fun, and TLT was one of those first fandoms that felt fun to me. So! Cheers to y'all! I hope once Alecto comes out we'll all come pouring out of the woodworks again.