Come on now, sugar/Bring it on, bring it on, yeah.
Those of you who might be newer to fandom and wondering what people mean when they say, "The SPN/SGA/Whatthefuckever wank was so lame. I remember back in the day when wank was epic! And we had to walk uphill both ways in the snow to get to our wank!"
This is what they mean. If anyone is confused as to why the LJ fan community fucking flips their shit when wank is mentioned, read this right now. Hell, read it anyway because it's fascinating. Is there any work with an academic bent about this sort of thing? Huge, dramatic BNF wanking? I'm feeling my analytical meta brain wake up some.
When wank was wank and sheep were nervous. Or something.
Fortunately (I think)? All this went on when I was in a lurkdom phase of my fandom involvement, between my active days in LFN fandom on ezboards in the late 90s and my hiatus until I created this LJ in, *goes to check* holy crap, April of 2004. I came into the HP fandom well after it and heard a lot of the reverberating soundwaves so the whole thing just carries equal parts morbid fascination and anthropological curiosity for me.
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A little self-indulgent obeisance to you all re: comments.
I seem to have checked out of my life a little this past...week? Few days? I really apologize to people who've sent me e-mail or comments with specific questions or stuff about con-txt or whatever, I am not ignoring you. I am ignoring my life and any productivity therein. I'm really sorry I'm such a flake - I've been in a really weird place mentally, super busy at work and at home and it's hard to get myself to do anything but read fic and comment on OTHER people's posts. My brain seems to take issue my own posts. I took a mental health day yesterday and I honestly have no idea what I did with my time. It was like I just didn't decide to wake up and become a person yesterday.
I also feel terrible about not having responded to many lovely fic-feedback comments. I always genuinely want to respond b/c people say such wonderful things that I want to leave thoughtful replies to. I don't really believe in the "cut and paste 'thank you'" replies (fine for other people, I personally don't do it), particularly when people leave fabulous, kind, thinky things! So I'm forgiving myself for being all super late about replying to them in favor of replying properly. Hope you won't mind if you don't get a response for a while, I'm here and listening I swear. *hugs*
This is what they mean. If anyone is confused as to why the LJ fan community fucking flips their shit when wank is mentioned, read this right now. Hell, read it anyway because it's fascinating. Is there any work with an academic bent about this sort of thing? Huge, dramatic BNF wanking? I'm feeling my analytical meta brain wake up some.
When wank was wank and sheep were nervous. Or something.
Fortunately (I think)? All this went on when I was in a lurkdom phase of my fandom involvement, between my active days in LFN fandom on ezboards in the late 90s and my hiatus until I created this LJ in, *goes to check* holy crap, April of 2004. I came into the HP fandom well after it and heard a lot of the reverberating soundwaves so the whole thing just carries equal parts morbid fascination and anthropological curiosity for me.
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A little self-indulgent obeisance to you all re: comments.
I seem to have checked out of my life a little this past...week? Few days? I really apologize to people who've sent me e-mail or comments with specific questions or stuff about con-txt or whatever, I am not ignoring you. I am ignoring my life and any productivity therein. I'm really sorry I'm such a flake - I've been in a really weird place mentally, super busy at work and at home and it's hard to get myself to do anything but read fic and comment on OTHER people's posts. My brain seems to take issue my own posts. I took a mental health day yesterday and I honestly have no idea what I did with my time. It was like I just didn't decide to wake up and become a person yesterday.
I also feel terrible about not having responded to many lovely fic-feedback comments. I always genuinely want to respond b/c people say such wonderful things that I want to leave thoughtful replies to. I don't really believe in the "cut and paste 'thank you'" replies (fine for other people, I personally don't do it), particularly when people leave fabulous, kind, thinky things! So I'm forgiving myself for being all super late about replying to them in favor of replying properly. Hope you won't mind if you don't get a response for a while, I'm here and listening I swear. *hugs*