The Eleventh Hour Was Now
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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I was wishing I had fish custard once I sat down to watch. I had to really try not to get super visibly emotional watching..though no one is at home so don't know why I bothered trying to hide it.
I have never been to a convention! They always looked lovely and fun, but I could never get away.
Your picture link didn't work for me unfortunately. :/
I am so glad that other people attribute importance to the date also and that you liked the post! I figured someone had to be watching still and I just couldn't let it go by without saying something!
I still get notifications and I check back every so often. I remember when LJ sort of blew up (literally) and we all created DW accounts. I still post to that one, but *sigh* it is pretty dead here in general. I noticed the staff are trying to get people to come back.
Perhaps it's fandom fatigue, but even when new things do appear, I swear that they do not have the same savor as DW S5-7ish. There was just something really special about the Matt era...like they hit just the right notes with the various characters, ideas, and actors. And I swear this is not something I usually go on about. I've liked watching the new Who since Ecclecakes, but lately I've fallen off it a bit and am rather behind. Cutting the cable probably didn't help.
Anyway. :) <3
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It's not anything important, but I'll just link the actual Instagram post anyway.
https://instagram.com/p/1CBEhIoB6C/
The local convention I met Toby Haynes at was actually the last time it was where I live (the Bay Area) and then it moved to Anaheim so I don't do conventions much anymore except for Gallifrey One. :(
I think a lot of things contributed to the decline of English-language LJ but a major factor was the increasing popularity of Tumblr. But Tumblr is a completely different platform that doesn't really work for the kind of fandom communication that LJ did. Trying to talk to people through reblogs is a pain in the ass and even though I do still use Tumblr, I feel like I'm screaming into a void where no one is going to hear me instead of participating in a fandom community where we can have discussions.
And because of the perfect storm of fandom moving to a less useful platform, and my local convention moving, I just kind of pulled back from fandom in general. I do still watch everything I used to, but I mainly talk about it with my close friends (most of whom I met here!) on Twitter and Facebook rather than engaging in large public discussions.
That said, I'm still here, and I still get notifications of new posts because I'm a maintainer, so if for any reason this comm ever picks up again, I'll be happy to participate in whatever is going on. :)
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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. :)
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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
And it's the internet so they must have assumed that folks from this comm would lurk and run across it. Oh, wait...actually, I think I remember defriending the general Who comm and quitting other places over this. eclecticmuse or somebody mentioned something to me I think.
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. :)
True! I am a bit less sad then I was last week. Making a post and rewatching made me happy,but had slightly wistful consequences. Watching the trio's other projects should help. I realized that while I really loved that era of Who my life overall is a bit better now, but having that at the time really helped. :)
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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.
I hadn't realized how much I was bottling everything up but once everything was out in the open and I was able to talk to my friends about it, I felt so much better. It was also a good life about not bottling stuff up lesson for broody teenage me. :D
I realized that while I really loved that era of Who my life overall is a bit better now, but having that at the time really helped. :)
I actually had a moment of realization almost exactly like this a short time after Matt announced he was leaving.
I mean, I had pretty much known it was happening and expected it soon because of rumors, but at first it just felt like a part of my life was dying. But then I remembered my life had actually gotten significantly better since those early days, and I needed to move on and just be grateful for all the awesomeness that had come before.
I mean I will ALWAYS have so much nostalgia for that era and for the heyday of this comm, but since I've spent most of my life foolishly looking back and missing shitty times in my life, it's definitely time for me to get a reality check and learn to move forward.
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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.
I figure, Matt's era is like any good book. It is bound by a front and a back cover, but you can reread it anytime you like. I am rewatching Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone tomorrow and eating fish custard. But during the day because those eps still scare the crap out of me!
but since I've spent most of my life foolishly looking back and missing shitty times in my life, it's definitely time for me to get a reality check and learn to move forward.
:)
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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.
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