There's something that's been bothering me recently.
Usually I put all my angry rant stuff on dA instead, but this is an LJ-specific rant so it's going here instead.
I don't need to even say this, but I love D.N.Angel. Love love LOVE it. It's the one fandom that has given me joy for the better part of about 5~6 years. The problem isn't with the series itself. It's with the fandom. Specifically, the dnangelfans community. The comm has, at the moment, 671 members, and 486 of those members watch it (I'm not sure if purged accounts factor into the total of the former, but they definitely don't in the latter). My problem with this is that although we have almost 500 people who have this comm showing up on their f-lists, only about a handful of us actually post/comment. We're lucky to get 1 or 2 posts a week, and I'm being generous with that number. The average post has under 10 comments, if it even gets any at all. (This is not a complaint about my posts not getting 'enough' comments. It's just about the inactivity in general.)
It just confuses me so much. Where are these hundreds of people? This might not be the best thing to say coming from a person who lurks in all her other fandoms most of the time, but I just wish people would post more. I've been creating things at a faster rate recently, and I don't want to be that annoying person who's making 90% of the recent posts on a given page or something (whether or not that's an exaggeration, I have no idea...).
I want to see more people's opinions! I want to see other people draw fanart and write fanfiction! I want to discuss serious things and random things and stupid things with you all! TT_TT
Most of all, I don't want to stand out just because I'm one of the few who is posting. It's at times like this that I wish I could take even 10% of one of those super-active fandoms and put them here.
I actually wanted to post this to the comm itself, but I'd never have the confidence to do that. If I did, it would just come across as whiny/angry/entitled. I wouldn't want people to hate me for that, because those things are not a part of my normal personality. I just get frustrated sometimes, and I'm sorry for that.
...On a different note, I'm also annoyed that the comm doesn't have tags. It doesn't seem like I'm the only one either. Actually, I sent a deviantArt note about it to the maintainer a few months ago (since she has PM's disabled here) but never got a reply. I'd feel like I'd just be an annoyance if I sent another one, so it doesn't look like this is going to change either. *sigh*
I've been toying with the idea of going as far as making my own comm, but what good would that do? The only major difference about it would be that it would have tags. Why would anyone even bother to join it anyway?
I'm just going to shut up now before this post gets any more stupid than it already is. orz
[Edit: Post-rant]
It might not be right to think this way, but I think that part of the reason this upsets me so much is because I've allowed myself to see some of the insanely huge fandoms out there, and even occasionally participate in them. For me, the difference is like taking a bird from the wild and keeping it inside a cage, so that it can only look out at the sky instead of getting to fly in it.
It also makes me wonder why D.N.Angel isn't more active. I doubt it could ever get to the level of mainstream stuff, but this series has been around since 1997 and there's still new material being released, so to me it's like it has the potential to be reasonably active, but isn't.
I don't need to even say this, but I love D.N.Angel. Love love LOVE it. It's the one fandom that has given me joy for the better part of about 5~6 years. The problem isn't with the series itself. It's with the fandom. Specifically, the dnangelfans community. The comm has, at the moment, 671 members, and 486 of those members watch it (I'm not sure if purged accounts factor into the total of the former, but they definitely don't in the latter). My problem with this is that although we have almost 500 people who have this comm showing up on their f-lists, only about a handful of us actually post/comment. We're lucky to get 1 or 2 posts a week, and I'm being generous with that number. The average post has under 10 comments, if it even gets any at all. (This is not a complaint about my posts not getting 'enough' comments. It's just about the inactivity in general.)
It just confuses me so much. Where are these hundreds of people? This might not be the best thing to say coming from a person who lurks in all her other fandoms most of the time, but I just wish people would post more. I've been creating things at a faster rate recently, and I don't want to be that annoying person who's making 90% of the recent posts on a given page or something (whether or not that's an exaggeration, I have no idea...).
I want to see more people's opinions! I want to see other people draw fanart and write fanfiction! I want to discuss serious things and random things and stupid things with you all! TT_TT
Most of all, I don't want to stand out just because I'm one of the few who is posting. It's at times like this that I wish I could take even 10% of one of those super-active fandoms and put them here.
I actually wanted to post this to the comm itself, but I'd never have the confidence to do that. If I did, it would just come across as whiny/angry/entitled. I wouldn't want people to hate me for that, because those things are not a part of my normal personality. I just get frustrated sometimes, and I'm sorry for that.
...On a different note, I'm also annoyed that the comm doesn't have tags. It doesn't seem like I'm the only one either. Actually, I sent a deviantArt note about it to the maintainer a few months ago (since she has PM's disabled here) but never got a reply. I'd feel like I'd just be an annoyance if I sent another one, so it doesn't look like this is going to change either. *sigh*
I've been toying with the idea of going as far as making my own comm, but what good would that do? The only major difference about it would be that it would have tags. Why would anyone even bother to join it anyway?
I'm just going to shut up now before this post gets any more stupid than it already is. orz
[Edit: Post-rant]
It might not be right to think this way, but I think that part of the reason this upsets me so much is because I've allowed myself to see some of the insanely huge fandoms out there, and even occasionally participate in them. For me, the difference is like taking a bird from the wild and keeping it inside a cage, so that it can only look out at the sky instead of getting to fly in it.
It also makes me wonder why D.N.Angel isn't more active. I doubt it could ever get to the level of mainstream stuff, but this series has been around since 1997 and there's still new material being released, so to me it's like it has the potential to be reasonably active, but isn't.