ye olde lj fandom

[alexiscartwheel]

I've seen several posts floating around Tumblr in the last week lamenting the demise of old-school LJ fandom, which prompted me log on and check my old f-list, which came with the pleasant surprise that some old friends have been posting recently! (I mirror all my posts at LJ, but because my f-list seldom shows much besides posts from communities I

Comments

[jo_blogs]

I'm thinking so much about this at the moment. When I joined Tumblr I started conversations and found people who seemed interested in having them. But it didn't continue. There is literally one person in my fandom who is *like me* - i.e. female, over 30 and primarily there for old-style fandom, fanfic and writing. The fandom gatekeepers make things really difficult and it's hard to encourage conversation about things I'm interested in

[alexiscartwheel]

The few people that I have found through Tumblr with whom I have conversation about fandom are mainly friends of friends. And primarily, we don't actually have those conversations on Tumblr, they're through email, text, or even twitter. The fact that all my conversation happen somewhere else highlights how ill-suited the Tumblr format is for conversation

[sea_thoughts]

I would say there's a difference between criticism and hate. I would define hate as insulting and demeaning a character with no basis. The problem is that some people can't even take criticism of what they love.

[alexiscartwheel]

There definitely is! Unfortunately Tumblr often seems to conflate the too. If I were for instance, to say that I'm not a big fan of a character because the way his character is developed in inconsistent way, with his personality traits changing from episode to episode to suit the needs of the plot, Tumblr fandom at large would probably tell me to stop being so negative. (And possibly start a hashtag campaign to love said character