My Fannish Heart

[geoviki]

How did 11 months go by without me posting? Like this: whooooosh!So hi, everyone who still might be here. I never imagined myself turning into an LJ lurker, but apparently I have. I still click on my flist all the time, but I've just felt, I dunno, thinking that my fannish interests and little life stories would just be dull reading. But so many of

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[rickey_a]

hi
*waves*
nice to hear from you
I think a lot of us are going through the same HP detachment. I keep my LJ really for the purpose of loosely keeping in touch with some really great people, even if I'm not actively reading or writing. All good :)

[geoviki]

*waves back* And it's great to see you here, too!

I think I finally admitted that I still read everyone, and bless those who post. So I need to reciprocate at least now and again or none of us will have anything to read at all.

I even like to read about families and life and stuff. So I need to share moar.

[lousy_science]

Hey! I have similar not-hot-for-Sherlock-or-Avengers ...not issues, but the thing, you know? And I miss having my tight old fandom connections. But still, it was good times then and there's still plenty of us old-porn-writing-hags around.

[geoviki]

Yeah, I mean I want to like these shiny new fandoms that my other friends do, but it just ain't happening for me. And I think it's because I really prefer the written word to the visual. Not exclusively, mind you, but strongly.

On the plus side, there seems to be an actual Saiyuki fandom that's active, and I'm beginning to discover it just now. *keeps fingers crossed*

[isiscolo]

Heh, I was gonna point you to chomiji but I see you already know each other.

I totally get where you're coming from - I'm not in any mainstream fandoms now, basically just Yuletide-sized stuff. Ah, well.

[geoviki]

You always pop up with fandoms I've never even heard of that require my handy Google-fu to learn about. I see that you were a Saiyuki fan back in the day (or your name's on some of the community lists I'm just now discovering.

Like you said, your running is a fandom, too. And a big congrats on the upcoming 2015 event; I'm really happy for you!

Chomiji is patiently dealing with my fandom excitement this week (like you used to do for me). I'm trying not to be a real pest. How'd you guys connect?

[isiscolo]

I wouldn't say I had been in the fandom, exactly, but I did read the Saiyuki Gaiden series and read a bit of fic.

Aw, thank you. I'm looking forward to running the course better than I did in 2010, which did not quite go as planned.

And...we connected through Sutcliff novel fandom, but quickly discovered that we moved in the same circles back in our University of Maryland days. I'm not sure we actually met, but we have lots of old friends in common and attended many of the same events.

[cordelia_v]

Re the fannish nursing home, hell yeah! Except by that time, I will have time to read your fanfics. And I will, no matter what the fandom. On some level, good porn is good porn, you know?

[geoviki]

Maybe we should build a home for old fangirls in the northwest? All of the aides could be hot and we'd mentally pair them up in new permutations all day long.

[novembersnow]

I do miss fandom, a lot. It was a huge part of my life for a decade. I never thought I would meet so many wonderful people who were far more like me than I could ever expect.

Oh, goodness, yes. I basically stopped writing fic with the last round of hd_holidays (I have one unfinished H/D fic that was soclose to being complete that I still occasionally harbor delusions of finishing it, but I think the time for that has now passed). I'm still hovering around the edges of online fandom over on Tumblr (mostly for--yes, sorry--Sherlock and Marvel, haha), but that seems so much shallower and less centralized, and the experience isn't nearly as satisfying. Most of my fangirling these days is with a handful of local friends who get together for Sherlock marathons. (They're not slashers, alas. But they humor me.)

But, oh, yes, do I ever sometimes miss the sense of community that came with LJ, and being lucky enough to meet lovely people like you at cons. ♥

[geoviki]

mostly for--yes, sorry--Sherlock and Marvel

You are dead to me!!!

Emma Grant is leading the current "Tumblr sucks for fandom" parade, so I get a lot of my feelings about that from her, but a lot of my other friends say the same thing: Tumblr does not build fandom community. And that makes me very sad.

[novembersnow]

Tumblr has pretty much always sucked for fandom, as far as I can tell, haha. Great for funny pictures and GIFs and one-click me-too-ism, but, yeah, very much not a place that fosters community. :(