It's a magical world

It seems to be an immutable law of the universe that whenever I have a huge project looming, I…dive headfirst into a new fandom to compensate. Last year, for my qualifying exams, it was due South; this year, with my dissertation coming in like the tide, it's Stargate Atlantis. Many of you are probably already aware of my new obsession, as many of you wrote a lot of pretty great SGA fics back in the day and I have been steadily leaving kudos on all of them over on AO3. Ironically, I read a lot of SGA when I first got my AO3 account in closed beta in 2009 (just like I read a lot of due South at the same time, actually), but it's sticking a lot better this time around. I'm already making notes and doing a lot of research for a classic me-type fanfic, which, who knows if it will ever see the light of day, but in the meantime it gives me great enjoyment.

The other thing that's interesting as I go back through old journal entries, excavate old vids, etc, is to see how things were back then. SGA went off the air six and a half years ago. Six and a half years ago I had never been to WisCon, I didn't have a Dreamwidth yet, and I had never even met some of the people I now count among my closest friends. It's kind of amazing, how much things can change. But it's also kind of encouraging.