Still here

[mobiusstripper]

Remembering that there is still Expanse fandom stuff happening here so maybe I should try to hang around more. I've been hanging around other corners of the fandom (Reddit mostly) and find them a little frustrating (I got DOWNVOTED for suggesting that book fans who wanted to see additional novellas try their hand at fanfiction), maybe things are better over here.

Also lol I forgot my last post was about missing BJJ. I'm happy to announce to anyone still following that I'm BACK. Six days a week, baby. Bruised as hell. Loving every minute of it. Let's GO!

Also my mental health is out of the toilet so while there will still be a lot of navel-gazing from me, at least it won't be as ungodly WHINY as whatever I had going on in 2022.

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[mobiusstripper]

I'm shy about exchanges, especially when it comes to writing, but I have done art for a few in the past and probably should participate more. I will definitely check those out! Do you know any other Expanse fans on here? Maybe we could start a group and try to get some people together.

[galaxyofroses]

That's a great idea! I'm not very DW-savvy, but I know a couple people and I think there are still some fannish places to promote new groups.

[mobiusstripper]

I'm going to start by figuring out which exchanges will be the most likely to net me some background fic about the Laconians. The incuriosity of the fandom in this regard is mind-boggling to me. I'm upset we never got to see what the inside of the Laconian conspiracy back on Mars actually looked like. How did Duarte recruit his people? What went on in their minds when they decided to follow him? How did they organize? THE INTRIGUE! And then what the fuck were they all DOING for thirty years out there all by themselves? What was life like? What was the journey there like? (I know we get the tiniest glimpse of this with the Sauveterre epilogue, but COME ON. It's just him making his subordinate cry and then getting dematerialized.) What was it like for kids like Santiago Singh to be taken along for the ride and then grow up in this total isolation? There could be an entire spinoff series addressing just those questions. There's so much rich ground for backstory/missing scene fic there. It's free real estate!

[galaxyofroses]

OH MAN, I am obsessed with the Laconians! The Martian Congressional Republic is already so over the top and high on its own exceptionalism and then Duarte selected for the most hardcore and zealous of them!? Please, I need to hear all about how that happened and the kind of society they were imagining. Like even the adaptation of the Martian garden rhetoric to Laconia being this Edenic dream? Please. (Have you read the Dragon Tooth comics? They proceed from show canon and focus on the Roci crew, but I loved the insights we got into the Laconian project.)

Not to keep flinging recommendations at you, but it sounds like you might like worldbuilding_exchange.

[mobiusstripper]

Ooh yes thank you!