I'm not mad about everyone leaving, I just can't help feeling a little personally abandoned, as though "That's all I was to you? One tiny part of SPN?" Silly, yeah, but I think it's also part of the flightiness of the internet. Fancies pass at the speed of hitting a send button.
Oh, I completely agree. It hits me particularly hard, because I am extremely isolated. I live way out in the woods in the middle of nowhere, and I work at home, so some days, LJ is my only contact with the outside world.
OK, that makes me sound like an extremely creepy hermit or something.... but I am just so grateful for all the smiles I get from the fic I read, or the amazing art that gets posted.
There's one author in particular that I miss incredibly, I feel like I am going through serious withdrawal. She lives in NY, and I thought maybe Sandy turned her life upside-down or something, but it looks like she's really just not posting here anymore. :(
Not that it makes that much of a difference, but I'm here for the long haul, so there'll always be at least one loyal fan here for ya!
You hit on something, here. I live in a suburb of a biggish city but I work from home, too. And the internet is frequently my social circle (though I crave real world relationships like WHOA and exploit them whenever I can!)
If my fave authors who wrote SPN continue to write in the urban fantasy/horror genre, I would so totally buy their books! Maybe they're just not writing at all anymore. I dunno. But I like to support the creatives I've met on-line, and I can't do that if they disappear.
I'll be here on LJ spreading the SPN love for the foreseeable future. It's still fun for me; I still have stories to tell and pictures to paint. So come sit by my fire. :D
Oh, I've definitely noticed that. I'm trying to ignore it, but as jennytork said above, people are becoming increasingly LOUD about leaving fandom, bailing on LJ for the next shiny thing, et cetera. There is a bit of an exodus going on, and people seem oddly gleeful about announcing their departure/defection/whatever. I still haven't quite figured out whether that makes me sad or annoyed. :(
Whatever. I'm not going anywhere, either fandom or LJ-wise.
The public gnashing of teeth is probably part venting, part info update, and part looking for someone to commiserate with. So I get it. It still makes me a melancholy.
Bu HELL NO, I'M NOT LEAVING. Not for the foreseeable future. *clings back*
It saddens me, too. I'm at a pretty solitary point in my offline life, so I'm finding the online losses painful.
I'm also aware that part of the reason I'm so obstinately sticking to Spn in spite of what I do feel, objectively, is a serious loss of direction and some very weak writing, is just because I can't afford to lose the social network that comes with it. My fandom friendships do extend beyond fandom, but I think they also need some fandom matrix to hold them together.
I don't know. It's depressing. It makes me depressed. But I'm not going anywhere.
I was just thinking... the "hi_de_nugis" comm was one of the feel-good moments of my year. And it happened online, with people I've never met. You guys are the best!
It's weird for me... I see people leaving but I've also seen people arriving. (and I've met more people this season than the last few...hee...maybe because there's less of us *g*)
I see lots of people making a real effort to keep it alive and kicking. I think Tumblr has been the cause of a lot of that also. Though there's no doubt over the last few years there's been a big drop off.
*clings*
ETA; Not going anywhere. Too many lovely people over here. There may be less of us but what we lack in numbers we make up in quality! :)
I do get that folks lose interest or real life takes them away, but it's okay to keep your fandom friends, regardless. We will be support! We're not just the errant, odd fan; there's a real person attached to these fingers, and in whatever way we can, we care.
There may be less of us but what we lack in numbers we make up in quality! Go, Team Long Haulers! :D
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I've noticed it, too, as well as people being very, VERY vocal about leaving SPN fandom.
And that makes me mad.
Granted, when I left S&H fandom, I left a nastygram, but that was a decade ago and I'd like to think I've grown as a person.
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I'm not mad about everyone leaving, I just can't help feeling a little personally abandoned, as though "That's all I was to you? One tiny part of SPN?" Silly, yeah, but I think it's also part of the flightiness of the internet. Fancies pass at the speed of hitting a send button.
Maybe I'm just too old school for this world...
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I'm still writing in an AU I started on September 7, 1987. I have expanded it and somehow five fandoms are now in it. Blows my mind.
But yeah, I'm still writing in it. Can't abandon it, it seems.
Don't really want to, either.
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OK, that makes me sound like an extremely creepy hermit or something.... but I am just so grateful for all the smiles I get from the fic I read, or the amazing art that gets posted.
There's one author in particular that I miss incredibly, I feel like I am going through serious withdrawal. She lives in NY, and I thought maybe Sandy turned her life upside-down or something, but it looks like she's really just not posting here anymore. :(
Not that it makes that much of a difference, but I'm here for the long haul, so there'll always be at least one loyal fan here for ya!
:)
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If my fave authors who wrote SPN continue to write in the urban fantasy/horror genre, I would so totally buy their books! Maybe they're just not writing at all anymore. I dunno. But I like to support the creatives I've met on-line, and I can't do that if they disappear.
I'll be here on LJ spreading the SPN love for the foreseeable future. It's still fun for me; I still have stories to tell and pictures to paint. So come sit by my fire. :D
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Whatever. I'm not going anywhere, either fandom or LJ-wise.
. . . you're not leaving, are you? *clings*
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Bu HELL NO, I'M NOT LEAVING. Not for the foreseeable future. *clings back*
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I just can't help feeling a little personally abandoned, as though "That's all I was to you? One tiny part of SPN?"
pretty much spot-on defines how I feel about some of the departures. Been there, felt that.
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I'm also aware that part of the reason I'm so obstinately sticking to Spn in spite of what I do feel, objectively, is a serious loss of direction and some very weak writing, is just because I can't afford to lose the social network that comes with it. My fandom friendships do extend beyond fandom, but I think they also need some fandom matrix to hold them together.
I don't know. It's depressing. It makes me depressed. But I'm not going anywhere.
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A fandom may be the matrix, but it's got wider ripples than that. We can be ripples together.
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I see lots of people making a real effort to keep it alive and kicking. I think Tumblr has been the cause of a lot of that also. Though there's no doubt over the last few years there's been a big drop off.
*clings*
ETA; Not going anywhere. Too many lovely people over here. There may be less of us but what we lack in numbers we make up in quality! :)
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I do get that folks lose interest or real life takes them away, but it's okay to keep your fandom friends, regardless. We will be support! We're not just the errant, odd fan; there's a real person attached to these fingers, and in whatever way we can, we care.
There may be less of us but what we lack in numbers we make up in quality! Go, Team Long Haulers! :D
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