hey, look, another milestone.
Ten years ago today I made my first LJ post.
Reading LJ posts by vonniek and
coffeeandink and
bonibaru was my first exposure to fandom beyond the Nummy Treat mailing list for Buffy vidders. Every Tuesday night after Buffy aired I'd load up their LJs and hit refresh until they posted something (which I could do with impunity because sometime in 2001 I'd ditched my 56k dialup and acquired a cable modem, ooooooh). And then I managed to weasel an invite code out of somebody and had my own LJ. Whee!
Fandom's changed a lot since then. I have a whole post brewing about DW/LJ and Tumblr, and how I have come to genuinely enjoy and value Tumblr (even as I am occasionally baffled by it and frequently frustrated by its culture of sloppy metadata) but still experience it as supplemental to DW/LJ.
But I don't have the brainpower to finish that post right now, so instead I'll just say, to all the folks I followed here and the ones I've hung out with since: It's been a blast. It still is. Having this venue in which to share and celebrate things I love (and occasionally vent about things I don't) has been one of my great joys (and stress relievers) of the last ten years, and has buoyed me up at some really critical moments.
I can't imagine my life without fandom. And whatever form fandom takes in the next ten years, whatever platforms we adopt or adapt or invent, I'm grateful to have had this space in which to develop so many of the best fannish relationships -- and friendships -- in my life. ♥
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Reading LJ posts by vonniek and
coffeeandink and
bonibaru was my first exposure to fandom beyond the Nummy Treat mailing list for Buffy vidders. Every Tuesday night after Buffy aired I'd load up their LJs and hit refresh until they posted something (which I could do with impunity because sometime in 2001 I'd ditched my 56k dialup and acquired a cable modem, ooooooh). And then I managed to weasel an invite code out of somebody and had my own LJ. Whee!
Fandom's changed a lot since then. I have a whole post brewing about DW/LJ and Tumblr, and how I have come to genuinely enjoy and value Tumblr (even as I am occasionally baffled by it and frequently frustrated by its culture of sloppy metadata) but still experience it as supplemental to DW/LJ.
But I don't have the brainpower to finish that post right now, so instead I'll just say, to all the folks I followed here and the ones I've hung out with since: It's been a blast. It still is. Having this venue in which to share and celebrate things I love (and occasionally vent about things I don't) has been one of my great joys (and stress relievers) of the last ten years, and has buoyed me up at some really critical moments.
I can't imagine my life without fandom. And whatever form fandom takes in the next ten years, whatever platforms we adopt or adapt or invent, I'm grateful to have had this space in which to develop so many of the best fannish relationships -- and friendships -- in my life. ♥
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