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[flambeau]

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

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[pensnest]

...mmm, and in a big fandom, you know you'll probably miss out on some good stuff from people whose names you just don't recognise, because so much is happening all the time... How does anyone survive in SGA? Was popslash like that, in the Olden Days? Eek.

I tried being a fandom of one for a little while, but it was dispiriting. Nobody commented on my fic.

Popslash is probably the perfect size, right now. And there's an awesome treasury of fic that piled up when it was a *huge* fandom, and okay, that does leave a person feeling slightly sniffly at the thought of those wonderful writers who have wandered away, but there are still good ones around and there's plenty of rapturous squee and crack and seriousness and stuff. Also, we're pretty much all nice to each other. Odd, but true.

[flambeau]

No, popslash was worse. *g* Not as big as SGA, but not as well organized, either -- the tricky thing with popslash was actually finding the stories, since there was no centralization. (Hence the creation of shinyandnew.) But of course, one you're used to that it seems normal, and I think the treasure-hunt feel to it made it feel less overwhelming. And now I feel like a geezer, which is weird, since when I was actually in popslash I felt like a newcomer all the way -- like, very aware that I hadn't been there When It All Started. *g*

[ratcreature]

IMO what's really hard is being in several big fandoms at the same time as you are into small ones, because not only is it impossible to stay even remotely on top of things in any of your big fandoms, you get whiplash from swiching to the small ones. I mean, like right now I want Daredevil fanfic really badly, but it is quite rare, at the same time I completely miss even awesome and widely reced SPN stories

[flambeau]

HP definitely feels like a world of its own. A very, very big world of its own. And when I think about or talk about HP I always feel like outsider-perspective person, no matter how much HP I've read (which probably isn't all that much in relation to how much there is) and no matter that I've written HP several times and probably will again. I keep thinking a person could get lost in there. *g*

Totally agree that it's difficult to juggle big fandoms and small fandoms. And sometimes a fandom feels big enough that I actually stop even trying to read the fiction, because there's too much and I don't know where to start and I know I'll never keep up and... yeah.

[flambeau]

Mm, I've heard about the Oklahoma rain. But we got some of our own today, so I believe I'm fully supplied for the coming week, too... sigh.

[flamebyrd]

Yesterday the Google weather forecast text said "mostly cloudy", but the icon said "sunny". I guess they were covering all possibilities.

These days I only seem to get involved in small fandoms, I think I'm cursed or something.

[flambeau]

I guess it's good to know that there will undoubtedly be weather? Of some kind. *g*

Small fandoms are nice! Like a small cosy party. Although admittedly it can feel weird when you look across the street at the giant shindig (or possibly hootenanny) where you can't even count all the guests.

[hesychasm]

The new ideas becoming clichés is really frustrating! Although I'm not sure I ever felt jossed by HP fandom the way I often do by SPN, perhaps because there were so many characters and possible places to take the canon. Not that I'm complaining, really, because it means more good stories of the kind I wanted to read anyway, but sometimes it is nice to be the one telling them!

[flambeau]

*nod* Sometimes it feels kind of pointless to even start writing in a big fandom, because someone else is bound to have already done that story, or be about to do it any minute, and probably much better. But then I think feeling like that might be a sign that the fandom and I are just not meant to be. Whereas if I feel convinced that what the fandom needs is just one more cabinfic, then it's probably love. ;)