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Big fandoms sometimes make me long for small fandoms. And small fandoms make me long for big ones, of course. I'm just naturally wibbly that way. Big fandoms have so much stuff, and you never run out of stories to read, and that's great. On the other hand, you know you're never going to be able to read everything, either, and genres rise and fall and new ideas become clichés overnight; small fandoms have a slower and more restful pace. Meaning after the first weekend binge, you might have gone through the lone archive and all the personal websites, even the stories with five spelling errors in the first sentence.
No, I don't really know why I'm sitting around being Goldilocks. And I'm not sure what I'd consider the just-right size for a fandom, anyway. Big fandoms are exciting and a little scary. Small fandoms are... also exciting, but it's harder to find people to share the excitement with. Sometimes, if the fandom is really small, you are the excitement, all on your lonesome. (But then you can be perfectly sure that there's only one crazy person in the fandom.)
I'm waiting for rain. I've been told repeatedly that there will be rain, but it's hard to take those dark clouds on the weather forecast chart seriously when the entire day and evening have been clear and sunny and warm. They seem to lack authority, somehow.
No, I don't really know why I'm sitting around being Goldilocks. And I'm not sure what I'd consider the just-right size for a fandom, anyway. Big fandoms are exciting and a little scary. Small fandoms are... also exciting, but it's harder to find people to share the excitement with. Sometimes, if the fandom is really small, you are the excitement, all on your lonesome. (But then you can be perfectly sure that there's only one crazy person in the fandom.)
I'm waiting for rain. I've been told repeatedly that there will be rain, but it's hard to take those dark clouds on the weather forecast chart seriously when the entire day and evening have been clear and sunny and warm. They seem to lack authority, somehow.