It makes me sad when I see people calling this fandom "dead," when the reality is just that it's changing.
Exactly.
I see it that way, and I only got involved in it late '07, early '08, way AFTER what most would see as "the heyday", I guess.
If we don't like what we see, then it's up to us to make changes, isn't it?
Hear! Hear!
You get out whatever you put in; hey, I would like to have thousands or even hundreds of people reading my fanfiction, but if in reality it's only a handful of people that's okay too -- as long as they still enjoy reading what I write, I'll enjoy writing it.
Actually I'd continue writing even if I had NO readers, because I've gotten to the point where I really, REALLY like the characters I've developed and just feel the need to develop them to the end. Plus I'm having a ball writing about 9 year old Severus, playing around with speculation about his personality at that age, and how he could grow up to be basically the troubled man we see in canon, even if he has a totally different AU life...
Hey, if a cat can amuse itself with a ball of string, *I* can amuse myself twiddling with a string of thought/ideas!
Exactly.
I see it that way, and I only got involved in it late '07, early '08, way AFTER what most would see as "the heyday", I guess.
If we don't like what we see, then it's up to us to make changes, isn't it?
Hear! Hear!
You get out whatever you put in; hey, I would like to have thousands or even hundreds of people reading my fanfiction, but if in reality it's only a handful of people that's okay too -- as long as they still enjoy reading what I write, I'll enjoy writing it.
Actually I'd continue writing even if I had NO readers, because I've gotten to the point where I really, REALLY like the characters I've developed and just feel the need to develop them to the end. Plus I'm having a ball writing about 9 year old Severus, playing around with speculation about his personality at that age, and how he could grow up to be basically the troubled man we see in canon, even if he has a totally different AU life...
Hey, if a cat can amuse itself with a ball of string, *I* can amuse myself twiddling with a string of thought/ideas!
;-)
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