Whew! (aka, the Return of LJ)
Little did gaeta and I know as we set off Friday afternoon to meet cordelia_v in person for the first time what fannish horrors were waiting just around the corner!
No, not Cordelia, you mean people! She's lovely! I meant the [temporary] system failure of LJ.
That whole situation was kind of fascinating to me (I can see it as fascinating and not Teh Scary now that it's mostly over); I mean, no...it wasn't as if the internet had disappeared, but in my part of fandom, at least, most of the fannish infrastructure has relocated to livejournal, which meant that LJ going down was tantamount to Fandom evaporating. And yet, no sooner had it started to sink in that Fandom, as it had become, was no more, than people started finding each other again on mailing lists, on AIM and YM, on other journaling services (particularlly journalfen and greatestjournal). It was like we were all castaways washed up on the shore of a desert island, recreating civilization...er...
:::metaphor collapses as the idea that fandom could be characterized as 'civilized' becomes too much for bethbethbeth:::
I'm glad to be back. *g*
No, not Cordelia, you mean people! She's lovely! I meant the [temporary] system failure of LJ.
That whole situation was kind of fascinating to me (I can see it as fascinating and not Teh Scary now that it's mostly over); I mean, no...it wasn't as if the internet had disappeared, but in my part of fandom, at least, most of the fannish infrastructure has relocated to livejournal, which meant that LJ going down was tantamount to Fandom evaporating. And yet, no sooner had it started to sink in that Fandom, as it had become, was no more, than people started finding each other again on mailing lists, on AIM and YM, on other journaling services (particularlly journalfen and greatestjournal). It was like we were all castaways washed up on the shore of a desert island, recreating civilization...er...
:::metaphor collapses as the idea that fandom could be characterized as 'civilized' becomes too much for bethbethbeth:::
I'm glad to be back. *g*