I've had this conversation a LOT with my fandom friends. I got into fandom JUUUST as LJ was getting big as a fandom space, and when AO3 was still new and super stingy with the invites, and man, we used to really know each other! People would talk about fandom, but also their lives outside of fandom and it was just...awesome. I could crack open my LJ every day and have at least a dozen posts to read.
Okay, there was wank, and crap going on with passive aggressive posts under f-lock and all that stuff, which made me despair because it felt like being back in high school (which was NOT a good time for me!). I tried Tumblr, I really did, but it does not really seem the place for original content--it's a place I see memes and picspams and stuff that wants wide circulation (like 'hey here's a new fic I wrote') but having an actual conversation is futile.
I miss meta the most--the discussions and questions and trying to figure stuff out about a canon world, or a character, but that's narrowed into a very small set of categories that tend to lead to negativity (Is Pidge in Voltron trans? Your opinion will make you friends or mortal enemies!). I thought for a while meta might at least happen in fic comments, but...not so.
I miss the connection. I like kudos on fics, sure, and of course I like comments, but I really miss knowing the people BEHIND those things!
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Date: 2017-03-19 12:40 pm (UTC)Okay, there was wank, and crap going on with passive aggressive posts under f-lock and all that stuff, which made me despair because it felt like being back in high school (which was NOT a good time for me!). I tried Tumblr, I really did, but it does not really seem the place for original content--it's a place I see memes and picspams and stuff that wants wide circulation (like 'hey here's a new fic I wrote') but having an actual conversation is futile.
I miss meta the most--the discussions and questions and trying to figure stuff out about a canon world, or a character, but that's narrowed into a very small set of categories that tend to lead to negativity (Is Pidge in Voltron trans? Your opinion will make you friends or mortal enemies!). I thought for a while meta might at least happen in fic comments, but...not so.
I miss the connection. I like kudos on fics, sure, and of course I like comments, but I really miss knowing the people BEHIND those things!