A tourist in discord-land.
Me in mid-July: "I'm all inspired by Con*strict! I'm gonna post more fannish stuff here!"
Me in late-August: "Oh, hi!"
The Con*strict peeps prompted me to go peek in at the Q/O discord, to see that it's still a joyous, bubbly fandom. So I did peek in, and it was definitely a lovely, fun bunch of people, with a very similar feel to the people of MA circa 2000.
But not the forum my soul needs.
I liked chat as a side-thing back in the day, a place to procrastinate on uni work and occasionally fall into fabulous playful fannish conversations. It was no substitute for the email lists, where conversations could carry on over days, regardless of timezones, with time to mull your answers and your dirty jokes and your plot bunnies, and people would have juicy, chunky, multi-paragraph things to say.
In some ways it's nice that discord conversations are sorted into separate channels, so there's a place to talk about cats, and a place to talk about hardcore non-con fantasies, but the channels chopped up conversation in a way that made me not want to bother. Having a great chat on an art channel, where a picture made me want to suggest a story, but no, the story suggestion has to leave this conversation where it is relevant to these people, to go in a different channel for story recs, where no one was talking. But not the main story recs channel, the porny story recs channel. Oh no, wait, got to delete it out of the porny recs channel, because it should go in the porny non-con story recs channel. And now the conversation is dead.
(That's their way of doing things and good luck to them, it's totally not my business to tell the fen how to do their thing, I'm just saying, not for me.)
Of course, it didn't help that I'm not into Q/O anymore. I don't have anything to say about current fic, so I was just the old-aged pensioner popping in on the fun young people to say, "Back in my day..."
Is there a Trek discord anyone could recommend? It will probably still not be my kind of forum, but I'd like to be able to drop in on Trek fannish conversations. I would hopefully poke around.
I don't think there are any fannish forums left for multi-paragraph-style conversations. My brain misses that so, so much. I want conversations that make me think composed thoughts. In a place that feels like a community. Con*strict has really reminded me how fucking lovely it was to be part of a fannish community. A group of randos gathered in a park to share a common interest, of which I'm a member; such a different experience to lj & dw with their personally-curated friend lists, where everyone has their own patch of land with their fences up.
Me in late-August: "Oh, hi!"
The Con*strict peeps prompted me to go peek in at the Q/O discord, to see that it's still a joyous, bubbly fandom. So I did peek in, and it was definitely a lovely, fun bunch of people, with a very similar feel to the people of MA circa 2000.
But not the forum my soul needs.
I liked chat as a side-thing back in the day, a place to procrastinate on uni work and occasionally fall into fabulous playful fannish conversations. It was no substitute for the email lists, where conversations could carry on over days, regardless of timezones, with time to mull your answers and your dirty jokes and your plot bunnies, and people would have juicy, chunky, multi-paragraph things to say.
In some ways it's nice that discord conversations are sorted into separate channels, so there's a place to talk about cats, and a place to talk about hardcore non-con fantasies, but the channels chopped up conversation in a way that made me not want to bother. Having a great chat on an art channel, where a picture made me want to suggest a story, but no, the story suggestion has to leave this conversation where it is relevant to these people, to go in a different channel for story recs, where no one was talking. But not the main story recs channel, the porny story recs channel. Oh no, wait, got to delete it out of the porny recs channel, because it should go in the porny non-con story recs channel. And now the conversation is dead.
(That's their way of doing things and good luck to them, it's totally not my business to tell the fen how to do their thing, I'm just saying, not for me.)
Of course, it didn't help that I'm not into Q/O anymore. I don't have anything to say about current fic, so I was just the old-aged pensioner popping in on the fun young people to say, "Back in my day..."
Is there a Trek discord anyone could recommend? It will probably still not be my kind of forum, but I'd like to be able to drop in on Trek fannish conversations. I would hopefully poke around.
I don't think there are any fannish forums left for multi-paragraph-style conversations. My brain misses that so, so much. I want conversations that make me think composed thoughts. In a place that feels like a community. Con*strict has really reminded me how fucking lovely it was to be part of a fannish community. A group of randos gathered in a park to share a common interest, of which I'm a member; such a different experience to lj & dw with their personally-curated friend lists, where everyone has their own patch of land with their fences up.