My Yuletide Story - for the EDS Cat Herders tv Commercial

Cats Tamed & Old Flames (3059 words) by thesunsaid
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: EDS "Cat Herders" (Commercial)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Original Male Character/Original Male Character
Characters: Original Male Character(s), Worldbuilding (EDS "Cat Herders" Commercial)
Additional Tags: Fluff, Cats, Hurt/Comfort, Past Relationship(s), Worldbuilding
Summary: Two experienced cat herders meet again after a long absence.

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"There was a time when they were younger that a soft look like that might’ve meant something. Some kind words and a sly smile still went a long way with Luther after having been gone from the ranch for a few years. He hadn’t shared much of this life with anyone there but here was Roger who not only knew the life, but lived next door and was kind enough to stay and help heal some minor bites and scratches on his arms."

Snowflake Day #1 & #2

I am planning to make my return here to DW. My social media landscape has been/is shrinking. I'm on tumblr daily but rarely post myself, I spent almost every day on TikTok but never posted anything myself, and I'm planning to delete both FB & IG in the coming days after the Zuck of it all. (I am on BlueSky and will try to post on there, but I've rarely been comfortable posting anything about me regularly anywhere but here and LJ back in ye olden days.

snowflake_challenge is as good a time as any to reintroduce myself.

So, Day One:

Update your fandom information.

Done. A little clean up to my profile and links.

You can find me at thesunsaid where I post (mostly) Dragon Age & Critical Role fic, in addition to whatever yearly flavor of Yuletide fandom I've chosen for the year. In recent years I've also done a few long fics for The Exorcist, which I've enjoyed writing.

I'm singedsun on tumblr as always. And while I use it regularly, I don't post any personal stuff there, including fic.

My guidelines for transformative works is both in the header of my main singedsun page and on my tumblr about page. You'll also get a little flavor for my friending policies and what I'm about in both of those places as well.

And while I originally wrote it for tumblr I have an Unfollow FAQ there that's relevant for here too.

Also if you're the sort of person that likes a good fandom/character mood board, I do a lot of that actually over on Pinterest thestorminme.

Lastly, at the top of my DW page, I have links to all those places recently updated to replace old ones (my twitter was nixed two years ago) with new ones (the aforementioned BlueSky).

Day Two

In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story.

I have a really really long origin story posted here from a few years ago. TL;DR though, I didn't dip my toes into fanfic until about 2004 when I had an epiphany about a Firefly story I wanted to write. I wrote it for myself, but didn't know about how people shared stuff online too much, so it lived with me until a few years down the road when I got VERY into the Dragon Age books and video games and met a community I loved and had stories just bursting out of me. Though I'd been involved with a lot of online communities even creating and hosting some myself in the past, I never was sort of head-over-heels in the same way I was (and still sometimes am) for Dragon Age. It consumed a fair number of years of my life, basically until I returned to DW in late 2018 when I was very sad and thought (obviously not for the last time) I'd lost my digital community.

Here I am again to throw myself at your digital shores and hope to find myself among friends (old and new).