Well... 19 views in a month. A few less than the 51000 that viewed my last blog entry.
It's really weird being a fan. I somehow got it in my head that writing 20,000 words that no one is going to read was a good idea. When it's something you love, it feels like it was worth it anyway. There's the one story that gets in your head and defines who you are, and suddenly it feels OK to wear a Trek uniform in broad daylight.
Incidentally, the whole genesis of this was me taking up astronomy as a hobby so I could better understand Kaorin's character from Azumanga Daioh, so that I could write a fic. I did take a basic astronomy class a while back -- the easiest thing ever after 3 terms of physics -- but I never really got into it until the last two years. And once you learn something, you start seeing the world in a different way. Still haven't written that fic, though.
Blog article omake!Kaitlyn Hutchins represents the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. A modern constellation inserted into the dim space between the two Canibus*, it was given a mythological name but the constellation has no canonical history. Just as she is a future character inserted into an existing story and given a background as if to belong with the rest. Kaitlyn is a unicorn in the older Silicon Valley sense of the word, as in "hunting the unicorn" -- she is a young, attractive bisexual female willing to be in a polyamorous relationship with a male-female couple.
* I'm guessing ablative case
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It's really weird being a fan. I somehow got it in my head that writing 20,000 words that no one is going to read was a good idea. When it's something you love, it feels like it was worth it anyway. There's the one story that gets in your head and defines who you are, and suddenly it feels OK to wear a Trek uniform in broad daylight.
Incidentally, the whole genesis of this was me taking up astronomy as a hobby so I could better understand Kaorin's character from Azumanga Daioh, so that I could write a fic. I did take a basic astronomy class a while back -- the easiest thing ever after 3 terms of physics -- but I never really got into it until the last two years. And once you learn something, you start seeing the world in a different way. Still haven't written that fic, though.
Blog article omake!Kaitlyn Hutchins represents the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. A modern constellation inserted into the dim space between the two Canibus*, it was given a mythological name but the constellation has no canonical history. Just as she is a future character inserted into an existing story and given a background as if to belong with the rest. Kaitlyn is a unicorn in the older Silicon Valley sense of the word, as in "hunting the unicorn" -- she is a young, attractive bisexual female willing to be in a polyamorous relationship with a male-female couple.
* I'm guessing ablative case
-- ∇×V