Year's End Round-Up Post
Dec. 31st, 2017 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caitriThis has been the shittiest year I've had in ages, and I am so. fucking. glad. it's over. Well, almost over. You know what I mean.
The big thing by far this year was losing my good friend Candace to cancer. Fully recovering from that is an ongoing process; there were weeks immediately after her passing where I kept catching myself that I couldn't send a text or geek over something. She had spent the last few Christmases with us so I was straight up dreading the holidays even more this year. I actually managed okay, so I think I've...gotten to something like peace. At any rate I'm not in a borderline nonfunctional headspace, so there's that.
And I feel like this really overlooks the ongoing hell that is contemporary politics and so on. But I don't have the spoons to go into that. Suffice to say we've upped our contributions to the ACLU and try to keep fighting the good fight.
I remain Behind On All The Things, but especially the diss. *deep breath* Well that is something I can take care of. Time and patience takes care of a lot. Giving myself space/time to breathe is a thing I recognize as necessary. So there's that.
~
My year in publications was shinier. Enough to offset the feeling of being a flake and whatnot.
*“The Mako Mori Fan Club: Pacific Rim Fandom Online” in Dis-Orienting Planets: Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction ed. Isiah Lavender III..
*“Trek Fandom Always Wins!’ The Literary Legacy of Star Trek” in Time Lords & Tribbles, Winchesters & Muggles ed Paul Booth. (Short: 1000 words)
*“The Problem with Aliens in Brownface” in Outside/In Makes It So ed. Robert Smith. (Short: 1000 words)
*A pre-print of “Gendered Spheres: Theorizing Space in the English Printing House” is online at The Seventeenth Century
*“The Margins of Print? Fan Fiction as Book History” in Transformative Works and Cultures.
*With my colleague Karen Viars: “Welcoming the Dark Side?: Exploring Whitelash and Actual Space Nazis in TFA Fanfiction”.
I also have several other things accepted that will come out next year. So. *flail*
With my colleague Kate Ozment we also pushed through a pretty big update to our Women in Book History Bibliography. We've gone from about 150 sources in May 2016 to over 1000 in August 2017, and also added a little storefront with merch from Teepublic with proceeds going to pay for our domain space etc. We're talking about building on a blog to the site next year as we keep updating, so that's exciting. We also got a positive review about the first iteration of the site over the summer in SHARPNews.
~
Not publications, but interviews:
*An interview with me on SFF archives and collections makes up part of a chapter in This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information by Kyle Cassidy.
*A Guest Post at the OTW. Most interestingly to me, on their social media they described it as piece about "discovering fandom at Walmart." I feel like there's some interesting stuff to unpack there....later.
~
I also finished my first fic in AGES for Space_Wrapped:
(‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, and) All Through the Snowglobe...
Rating: PG (Language, Violence, Smoochies)
Word Count: 12,452
Summary: It’s holiday season on the Yorktown as the crew waits for the Enterprise’s refits. Unfortunately, amid crises personal and professional, there’s a lot less mistletoe and good cheer and a lot more...explosions, fistfights, and drama. Jim Kirk and his crew have saved the universe on multiple occasions, but this year can they save….Christmas?
A proper fic, ya'll. I haven't finished anything longer than a couple thousand words in freakin' ages.
~
NGL I look at my list of writings and stuff there and can hear the insidious whispers of people who want to downplay or insult or dismiss my work. I know that makes up the minority of all reactions, but still. But I know that it matters to some of you here, and maybe also to some who aren't around yet. So I keep fighting and trying to signalboost things!
I don't know what else to say except: My Gods I hope 2018 is kinder to us all. And if it's not, I send you light and protection with what I have. So.
Happy New Year, folks. Hang in there.
The big thing by far this year was losing my good friend Candace to cancer. Fully recovering from that is an ongoing process; there were weeks immediately after her passing where I kept catching myself that I couldn't send a text or geek over something. She had spent the last few Christmases with us so I was straight up dreading the holidays even more this year. I actually managed okay, so I think I've...gotten to something like peace. At any rate I'm not in a borderline nonfunctional headspace, so there's that.
And I feel like this really overlooks the ongoing hell that is contemporary politics and so on. But I don't have the spoons to go into that. Suffice to say we've upped our contributions to the ACLU and try to keep fighting the good fight.
I remain Behind On All The Things, but especially the diss. *deep breath* Well that is something I can take care of. Time and patience takes care of a lot. Giving myself space/time to breathe is a thing I recognize as necessary. So there's that.
~
My year in publications was shinier. Enough to offset the feeling of being a flake and whatnot.
*“The Mako Mori Fan Club: Pacific Rim Fandom Online” in Dis-Orienting Planets: Racial Representations of Asia in Science Fiction ed. Isiah Lavender III..
*“Trek Fandom Always Wins!’ The Literary Legacy of Star Trek” in Time Lords & Tribbles, Winchesters & Muggles ed Paul Booth. (Short: 1000 words)
*“The Problem with Aliens in Brownface” in Outside/In Makes It So ed. Robert Smith. (Short: 1000 words)
*A pre-print of “Gendered Spheres: Theorizing Space in the English Printing House” is online at The Seventeenth Century
*“The Margins of Print? Fan Fiction as Book History” in Transformative Works and Cultures.
*With my colleague Karen Viars: “Welcoming the Dark Side?: Exploring Whitelash and Actual Space Nazis in TFA Fanfiction”.
I also have several other things accepted that will come out next year. So. *flail*
With my colleague Kate Ozment we also pushed through a pretty big update to our Women in Book History Bibliography. We've gone from about 150 sources in May 2016 to over 1000 in August 2017, and also added a little storefront with merch from Teepublic with proceeds going to pay for our domain space etc. We're talking about building on a blog to the site next year as we keep updating, so that's exciting. We also got a positive review about the first iteration of the site over the summer in SHARPNews.
~
Not publications, but interviews:
*An interview with me on SFF archives and collections makes up part of a chapter in This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information by Kyle Cassidy.
*A Guest Post at the OTW. Most interestingly to me, on their social media they described it as piece about "discovering fandom at Walmart." I feel like there's some interesting stuff to unpack there....later.
~
I also finished my first fic in AGES for Space_Wrapped:
(‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, and) All Through the Snowglobe...
Rating: PG (Language, Violence, Smoochies)
Word Count: 12,452
Summary: It’s holiday season on the Yorktown as the crew waits for the Enterprise’s refits. Unfortunately, amid crises personal and professional, there’s a lot less mistletoe and good cheer and a lot more...explosions, fistfights, and drama. Jim Kirk and his crew have saved the universe on multiple occasions, but this year can they save….Christmas?
A proper fic, ya'll. I haven't finished anything longer than a couple thousand words in freakin' ages.
~
NGL I look at my list of writings and stuff there and can hear the insidious whispers of people who want to downplay or insult or dismiss my work. I know that makes up the minority of all reactions, but still. But I know that it matters to some of you here, and maybe also to some who aren't around yet. So I keep fighting and trying to signalboost things!
I don't know what else to say except: My Gods I hope 2018 is kinder to us all. And if it's not, I send you light and protection with what I have. So.
Happy New Year, folks. Hang in there.
