The Eleventh Hour Was Now

[starswan]

I know that LJ has seen busier days, especially in this particular quadrant. But I woke up this morning and it suddenly hit me that this Saturday (today) marks five years since The Eleventh Hour was broadcast! Five years ago, I (and loads of other people) sat in my/our _____room(s) in anticipation of this exciting event, new Doctor, new writer,

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[sharkshark]

Well strictly speaking, the exact anniversary was yesterday, but today is the equivalent Saturday of five years ago.

For me, yesterday was also four years since I met Toby Haynes at my local convention, not to mention also meeting several lovely girls from this comm who I was hanging out with at the time, who swarmed him with additional murmurs of love and requests for autographs after I initially stopped him.

So April 3rd is very, very special to me and will always have a place in my heart.

I posted this combination of Timehop selections on my Instagram yesterday.

[starswan]

Yeah. I figured because the days hop around and we never really watched DW in the middle of the week that it was still approximately the proper day. Matturday. :D

[sharkshark]

Ugh, I used LJ's own upload feature for that picture, so for it to not be working is ridiculous. GODDAMMIT, LJ

[starswan]

I thought the local convention was going to move back up here, then it never did. ._.
I live over in the valley in Davis.

I completely agree about Tumblr. It is fantastic for my mum who posts photographs and joins photo blogs though even then, it would be nice to have a better platform for discussion. I sent a message to someone once after going through all of their awkward menus and it was this big, blocky, inelegant thing with a really big font. I wasn't even sure that it had worked properly at first.

Ah, I miss those large, public discussions. I must say, we were all remarkably well-behaved and friendly on here. :)

If I can think of anything else to post/contribute, I definitely will!

[sharkshark]

Haha, they said our convention would come back after a year, and it never did, and I'm forever bitter.

Communicating on Tumblr is such a pain and I've heard a lot of people saying that it keeps eating their messages and asks so when someone doesn't respond to me, I don't know if they're just not responding or if they didn't get it at all. It's so useless.

Honestly, I am still amazed at how great everyone was here. I mean we did take a very hard stance against rudeness and bullying because at the time there was a lot of hate in the rest of the fandom and I wanted this to be a positive place, but I'm surprised that I never really had to warn people or ban anyone. Everyone really followed the rules and was polite and friendly. I'm so grateful that everyone was so nice to each other and we didn't have any drama to deal with!

[starswan]

SoCal has all the cons. It isn't fair or reasonable. :P

I also find myself mindlessly scrolling on Tumblr as if, once the page refreshes at the bottom and continues, that I am going to stumble across something that I haven't already seen a million times before, only ever so slightly different. :)

It was nice. I was surprised how torqued a lot of fandom was outside the comm! I didn't wander off it very much so it was bizarre to me that people were so bent out of shape. Everyone gets a little crazy when there's a new Doctor, but it seemed extreme.

[sharkshark]

Seriously! They have enough, they need to give ours back. That was, like, our only good con.

Some people were seriously vicious for no reason elsewhere in fandom at the time. I used to lurk in a lot of places and there were a lot of people talking shit about this comm and some specific members in it just because we were happy and excited.
I don't remember if anyone ever named me specifically (maybe once or twice?) but they did frequently name some of my close friends and it was so upsetting. Now I'd probably just brush it off and say those people are assholes, but I was 18/19 at the time and I was already depressed because of stuff going on in my personal life, so every time I saw someone talking shit about my friends and saying how awful we were, it would send me into a really dark spiral for a few days where I would just hate myself and wanted to quit the internet.

Thankfully, that's all in the past, and the amazing memories of the lovely people here vastly outweigh the bad memories of that stuff now. :)

40 comments, huzzah!

[starswan]

Seriously! They have enough, they need to give ours back. That was, like, our only good con.

Yeah. ._.
I always talked about meeting other people there in NorCal and now I can't.

That is incredibly pathetic that they had nothing better to do (like, I don't know, discuss their own fandom concerns?) than trash talk. I still find it highly bizarre, the vitriol in some circles surrounding Matt's taking over. Like, all right, some people were sad to see Ten go but goodness people! Doctor Who is suppose to be fun. I am still on the fence about what I think of newer stuff. I like Peter Capaldi! The newer series seems bleaker. Not that there wasn't always some sort of shifting menace during Eleven's time.
I stopped following some Tumblr folks who were beginning to rant about Ten vs. Eleven vs. Twelve or who don't like Moff. Like I don't always like Moff 100%. Still.

it would send me into a really dark spiral for a few days where I would just hate myself and wanted to quit the internet.That's awful. I'm sorry. o_O

RE: 40 comments, huzzah!

[sharkshark]

Yeah, I actually lost a lot of previous fandom friends over dumb wank about Ten vs. Eleven, or Moffat hate, or something.
And the thing is, I still have a lot of friends who don't like Eleven, or don't like Steven Moffat, or various other things that I like. The difference between them and the ones who are no longer my friends is that they know how to talk about something else and don't try to make you feel like an idiot or a terrible person for liking something they find flaws in.

It's funny you mention eclecticmuse because actually she was a big part of me getting over the vitriolic posts about us and brushing it off. For a while I was trying to keep those awful posts/comments secret from my friends and co-mods because I didn't want anyone else to feel as upset as I did, but one day she found a nasty post and shared it with all the mods saying how awful it was

RE: 40 comments, huzzah!

[starswan]

They could act like reasonable people you mean? :)

I enjoyed talking to her (and fanning over Rory, haha!). She was always funny, kind and inclusive. The comment picspams! XD How could people from other comms really get down on a bunch of folks chatting and having fun? I know that it reflects more on their drama and insecurity and poor self image. Still.
Yeah, I tended to be like that as well. I would not complain or raise my voice when things were affecting me badly. Wound up in a pretty abusive relationship when I was 18 because of it.

I found a journal entry the other day where I talk about how gutted I felt about the announcement even weeks later! I nearly lost it during Day of the Doctor when Eleven talks to Four in the museum. My two favorites in the same room. Anyway

[shyfoxling]

Ugh, I used LJ's own upload feature for that picture, so for it to not be working is ridiculous. GODDAMMIT, LJ!

People were struggling with picture security settings in another comm I read - something about the permission having to be set to public both for the album and for each individual picture in it? See http://dt-sexy-off.livejournal.com/93514.html?thread=1900362#t1900362 maybe.

[sharkshark]

Yeah, I thought that might be it, but I couldn't be bothered with fixing it at the time. I should have just uploaded it to a third party website anyway, like the olden days.