It's Great Being Back Here ... Is That Picture of the Mad Knight Still Around?
It feels really weird to be posting on LJ now. For one thing, I know hardly anybody will read it. Then there's that whole thing with Russia and their anti-gay persecution. I have had to agree to Livejournal's user agreement to keep this journal, which gives them the right to yank my LJ at any time without notice, because obviously I'm not going to
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This morning I had a message in my inbox saying you had uploaded a new userpic. I still get the rote messages about birthdays and stuff, but this one intrigued me because I couldn't figure out why *you* would be active on your account.
So I checked it out, logging on for the first time in three years and lo and behold, you had posted ! And about HP no less !
I can't express how closely I relate to what you've written. Everything about being so passionate and so involved in the debates, about missing the discussions, about feeling it's a waste we never got into the nitty-gritty meta with book 7... It all hits really close to home with me.
I still read/write fanfic (though far less than before) and I've taken interest in other fandoms since my HP days, notably Sherlock (until season 4 basically razed the series to the ground) and Star Wars, and I'm a huge fan of the Fantastic Beasts movie series. But Tumblr was never quite the same, because for all the pretty pictures and gifs it's basically worthless in terms of discussions. I never managed to make real friends through Tumblr, not in the sense I had here. And I found myself missing LJ (and even Journalfen LOL) more and more.
I think this also has to do with my general annoyance at social media. I've recently unfriended 95% of people on Facebook and quit Twitter because between the compulsive need to check it every minute, the algorithms choosing your content for you, the constant ads and the privacy infringements I'd had enough. It makes me long for early-2000s anonymous internet, for all its measly 100x100 userpics and manual HTML coding. You could switch off when you weren't in front of your computer, no one tried to sell us anything except premium accounts, and politicians certainly didn't come on LJ to insult each other and start wars.
For about a year now I've had this fantasy that LJ or something like it might start up again for those who crave anonymity, fun debates and long discussions. It's a fool's hope, but still, your post has given me more to be optimistic about than anything for a very long time. Thank you Angua :)
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Still writing fanfic, huh? Any in HP? In English?
You're right. I hadn't really thought about it, but being a fan during "the Livejournal age" was almost as special as being a fan during the Harry Potter release years.
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