Random Fannish Meanderings

[dawn_felagund]

I have had a busy, busy day so far today, rearranging my closet and moving my stuff from the drawers in the bedroom into the new furniture in the guest room. I have also banished my sentimentality (almost*) and donated a bunch of old clothes and shoes to Goodwill. Some of these I have had since high school. Most of it I haven't worn in years, but

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[brookeoflorien]

I've not been on FFN in forever, but I recall that they used to have limits on the numbers of favs a person could have, but not follows. I used to be in the habit of giving both follows and favs, even to completed stories, so that if I had to remove a story from my favs - in order to make room for some other one - it would still be in the follows. I'm not sure how many other people did that, though.

I will never understand why people feel the need to post uncivil remarks in public places! It annoys me, no matter what it's about or if they agree with me. -_- I get discussing your stories and the fanon that's sprung up from them, just like any other fanon, or criticizing aspects (though even that's borderline for me), but anything more is just "Did your mother never teach you anything?!"

Tumblr and I do not get along for the most part. It's too far on the blame and criticism spectrum for me - I'll willfully admit that I'm a moral and cultural relativist and I end up feeling sick at times from the expectations that seem to happen! On the other hand, I saw you mention to Oshun that you plan to get HL up and running again. I'm not sure if anything I could write would be of interest (labeling theory and the Fëanorians?), but I'm always available over the summers (and sometimes during the school year! It just depends on if I'm tutoring or TAing).

[dawn_felagund]

they used to have limits on the numbers of favs a person could have, but not follows.

That makes sense. I don't know if those limits still apply. I generally pop onto the profile of anyone who favorites a story of mine, just out of curiosity, and I found someone once who had over 1,000 favorites! (It seems rather silly to limit favorites, but FFN isn't the most sensible place on the planet ...)

I will never understand why people feel the need to post uncivil remarks in public places!

The funny thing is that a remark like that made about AMC did not make that person look good at all. (I'm biased, of course!) I certainly do think the story is open to criticism. I sometimes wish people would be more critical of it because it is flawed in a lot of ways, and I don't want it to be something people can't bring up and talk about because it's a "classic" in the Silm fandom. But. A remark about a story that goes for provocation without ever articulating any criticism against the piece? When, whether you agree with my interpretations or not, does engage deeply with the source texts? Does not reflect well on that person, imo.

I'm not sure if anything I could write would be of interest

OMG yes it would. Anytime you want to write for the HL, consider this an open invitation! You could either do a guest post/posts, or I could set up an account for you there and you could post freely whenever you wanted.

I am not going to be doing much in the way of promoting the blog until around this time next year, once my thesis is done. But I am hoping to center much more of my fannish activity there (and reach out more on sites like Tumblr and LJ). So if you want to wait for the grand relaunch, I do not blame you! :) But the site is there for you to use whenever you want.