I used to have a bunch of essays up on my site on various fannish topics, but I took them down when I redesigned, because I just wasn't sure how I felt about them any more. Most of them were written in the late 90s, and I called them rants at one point, but they really weren't; I don't rant well. I've been thinking about making annotated versions,
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Huh. Yes. I hadn't really thought about it like that, but seeing you put it in words, yeah. And I guess part of the reason I haven't thought much about it is that I'm very Doyleist by nature and usually have to concentrate a lot in order to be able to have Watsonian discussions. But I don't think you're the only one who misses that. I mean, I miss that, even if it's more from the perspective of seeing other people get into it than getting into it myself.
though on the other hand we seem to have to a great extent moved out of that period with all the drabbles and the weekly challenges
Do you think so? I can't speak to drabbles at all, but the flashfic communities I know of are... hee, okay, I just went to look at the three I'm familiar with and while sga_flashfic seems to be flourishing still, the ds and spn ones are a lot quieter.
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