Digress like a 19th Century Novelist
This party is for people who like the long way around and the deep dives into minutiae, whether your ambition stretches to “I wrote a drabble, then a page of carefully-researched exposition about the history of the coffee beans sold in the shop where the drabble is set,” or to “I invented a conlang for the Tusken Raiders and I’m trying to figure out what to do with it since it got jossed by The Mandalorian, so I’m going to go full on JRR Tolkien and write a heroic novel of colonization and resistance in the sands of Tatooine.”
Any fandom or original project is welcome. Whether your digression is Victor Hugo-esque and pointed in the direction of revolution, or waxes as lyrical about sperm as Herman Melville, or takes place in the appendix where all the good bits live, or comes in the form of humorous footnotes that go on far longer than Terry Pratchett’s, come share your project with us.
The timeline for this fest is January 1 - December 31, 2022.
(Open, Unmoderated)
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Digress Like An Overzealous Cyborg with an Acid-Proof Notebook by scary-senpai (Zark)
Fandoms: ワンパンマン | One-Punch Man
31 Dec 2022
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For Digress-A-Thon 2022.
A collection of fandom-related essays, initially posted on Tumblr, now transferred to our beloved archive for posterity.
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All the things I have written over the course of plotting fannish stories, except the stories I was actually meant to be working on. -
The Greatest Film Studies Course Ever Made by CassieIngaben
Fandoms: Goncharov (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese - beelzeebub
15 Dec 2022
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Goncharov (1973) is a paradigmatic example of Umberto Eco’s ‘open work’: a text where the artist purposefully leaves some (or many) constituents of a work to the public or to chance. An open work entails a proliferation of meanings, as they emerge from the interaction between audience and text.
—Francine Rubek, “Like Clockwork: Scorsese’s Goncharov as Combinatory Play”
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Violent Delights, Violent Ends [podfic] by CassieIngaben for pansiesforthoughts
Fandoms: Goncharov (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese - beelzeebub
12 Dec 2022
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As Goncharov lies bleeding out, his last memory is that of a clandestine meeting with Andrey, several decades ago.
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That Arbitrary Decisions Are Preferred to Rational Ones by Eccentric_Hat
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, MONTAIGNE Michel - Works
10 Dec 2022
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The documented history of English magic is by now widely known; one assumes French magic was equally well recorded, but the only text on the subject one has to hand is this assortment of thoughts by sixteenth-century essayist Michel de Montaigne.
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Eroica: Not Only for Beethoven Fans. A From Eroica with Love Manifesto [vid] by CassieIngaben, isindismay
Fandoms: Eroica Yori Ai o Komete | From Eroica with Love
19 Nov 2022
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A 10-minute video primer for the manga "From Eroica with Love" by Aoike Yasuko. Everything you ever wanted to know about Eroica but didn’t know how to ask.
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Amestris News Network Presents: The Mustang + Hawkeye Wedding Special by by_nina, Cassidy_Chonsa, dragonifyoudare, klainelynch, Musing_and_Music, nightofnyx8, Thequantumvariable, VillainousMiss
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
04 Mar 2022
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In tonight's episode of A.N.N., radio show host and hopeless romantic Cecilia Marron takes her listeners on a beautiful journey of love.
Bookmarked by dragonifyoudare
05 Mar 2022
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We are all saps and it's great.
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Cassie's Challenge Shorts by Anne-Li (Anneli), CassieIngaben
Fandom: Eroica Yori Ai o Komete | From Eroica with Love, Multi-Fandom, No Fandom
01 May 2022
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Collected prompts from the Monthly Challenge on the Eroica Mailing List on groups.io. Each month, the list admins issue a different challenge prompt. Often, the prompts are issued in the form of a vignette. Narrative vignettes are usually written by Cassie Ingaben, and are collected in this series. Non-narrative or quasi-narrative prompts also included in the series for documentation and inspiration purposes.
Fulfilled challenges are posted to the From Eroica With Love – Group Challenge https://archiveofourown.org/collections/From_Eroica_With_Love_Groups
Challenges are low-pressure and open-ended: no deadline, and no penalties for not finishing in time, or even not starting at all. Anybody can join in and take part in a challenge: but if you want to join us, we're a small but friendly and even-tempered Mailing List. You can find us here: https://eroicaml.groups.io/g/main
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Cassie's Recs & Reviews by CassieIngaben
Fandom: Eroica Yori Ai o Komete | From Eroica with Love
16 Jun 2022
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A compilation of my recs and reviews of various fanworks. Most recs include spoilers, so you may want to read the relevant story first. Indented italics in the recs are direct quotations from the story being reviewed. I will add more recs & reviews as I write them, as further chapters in this work.
Notes:
The idea for a series of recs & reviews came from The Snowflake Challenge 2022 on Dreamwidth (https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org)Snowflake provides a series of challenges for the month of January. Challenge #10 (https://snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org/59862.html) required that people post recs of a fanwork they did not create, and link them on the challenge page. People can choose any type of fanwork: fic, art, vid, playlist, anything!
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She Got It From Jim: A Clinical Review Of The Works Of Dr. Leonard McCoy and Transmission Network Analysis of "Patient J.", by Galatrini of Regulus V, University of Andromeda, 2403.7 by angelsaves
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
29 Jul 2013
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Abstract:
Objectives: The author intended to review the recently-published case studies of the late Dr. Leonard McCoy and place them in their proper context in galactic social history.
Methods: The case studies were carefully read. Literature searches were conducted to connect the most interesting case study to medico-sociohistorical events. Transmission network analysis was performed.
Results: One specific patient appears to have been responsible for or connected to a disproportionate number of these events, specifically, the patient noted as J in McCoy's documents.
Conclusions: Further research on the sexual habits of Starfleet will be indispensable to the medical community at large. -
Hearts and Flowers by Anne-Li (Anneli), CassieIngaben, isindismay, lysandyra (pxssnelke)
Fandom: Blade Runner (Movies), CLAMP - Works, Eroica Yori Ai o Komete | From Eroica with Love, Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Multi-Fandom, No Fandom, Sherlock (TV), Torchwood, xxxHoLic, 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
22 Oct 2022
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A series of work on Hanahaki disease. The work include fanfictions, documentaries, film posters. While there is a slant towards From Eroica with Love, the topic is non-fandom specific.
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