Sliding in under the wire

[esmerelda_t]

Wow I have not posted once this month. The slow death of LJ makes me sad but given 99% of fannish activity seems to have moved off of it it's difficult to see how to bring it back to life. Also I seem to have lost the ability to produce fannish works to post anyway!

I was in London last weekend for my now traditional annual trip to The Globe. This

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[eglantine_br]

I know what you mean about LJ. I still go here first-- but sometimes I feel like the only one in the room.

I love your fiction, even if it appears seldom. I have times of great discouragement with my own, but I have resolved to keep trying. I would not dare to suggest what you should do, but if you make it available I will always read it.

I have thought the same about Merchant of Venice. I end up feeling sad for Shylock, but I cannot like him. It is written with a lighter touch than Marlowe's Jew of Malta, but JoM is so full of racist tropes that some think it may have been intended as a comment on anti-Semetic tropes of the day. I hope that is true, but I can't tell at all. It is a squirmy read even for someone who loves Marlowe. In the end we cannot know what they were thinking. The more I try to feel their world the more alien it feels.

Sailor boys with hands in pants are much easier. If I am the last person in an empty LJ, writing Hornblower smut into the howling void will you still come and read it?

[anteros_lmc]

I'll still be here! Perhaps not as frequently as previously but still around. Alas fic writing time is sadly curtailed by work malarky, but I live in hope!

[esmerelda_t]

The thing I'm finding really frustrating about writing is I have the ideas and whole stories plotted out in my head. I've just lost the ability to translate it into actual writing.

I plan to be here until they swtich of the lights!

[anteros_lmc]

Och people have been predicting the demise of LJ forever, no doubt it'll happen eventually, but may as well enjoy it while it lasts!

I seem to have lost the ability to produce fannish works to post anyway!
Clearly you need to bribe Bartholomew with more custard creams ;)

[esmerelda_t]

I remember the days when fandom was on message boards. Then it was LJ. Now it's tumblr.

Bartholomew is far too bush with his memoirs. Perhaps I shall post an extract or two....