Okay, I've now thought about commenting since your post appeared on my flist. I can't do the meme because I have no fannish cycles to speak of. ;) But I do care about H/D. And I want that +20K fic. ♥
um, you forgot the step where you write and post brilliant and original and intriguing fic like "Now the Shining Sun is Up" and "No Other Superstar" and "IDK, My BFF Hermione?" and lots of people care, or at least some of us care very much?
Ditto what khalulu said. You're one of the most interesting, passionately thoughtful people I know in fandom, and parts of this post made me very melancholy thinking about the extent to which I fail at expressing my appreciation for people, like you, who are so fiercely alive and engaged with the things I care about
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Also, oh, dude, I'm sorry. I'll edit the post. I didn't mean to make it seem like whine whine no one cares. I have this problem of being unwilling to speak unless to say something to impress the whole room. This is my own problem, not anyone else's, and when I get into a new fandom (...basically a new room...) it gets multiplied tenfold. I am aware that there are people online who care what I think. I just sometimes feel like no one is listening to me, and it means that when I get into a new fandom I often don't talk about it. I should also mention that while the above is my normal route for getting into a fandom, it didn't happen that way with H/D.
I hate that you wouldn't post it, especially if it's because it seems to you that no one cares.The 20K fics of which I speak (there are many) don't get posted because they're WIPs. I find that 20-30,000 words is my first stumbling block on the road to the long form fics I mentioned. By long form, I mean 100-300,000 word stories. I've only ever actually
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Glad I misunderstood. :)) I might have been a little too ready to think the worst because there's someone on my flist who's been slipping into a major depressive episode and of course the issue of readership and response is always there even for confident people.
It's hard to navigate the getting-into-a-new-fandom thing on LJ. I've got my toes in several, but my flist is predominantly (though not totally) H/D. I feel constrained about posting things I know the majority of people won't give a shit about. So I end up, when I do a rec post, making sure there's some H/D in there. And then when people from the new fandom check out your journal, it doesn't look very invested in that new fandom. Awkward. I have several friends who started new journals for their new fandom involvement.
Although I seem to have almost completely misinterpreted your post, it did lead me to think about my own actions in keeping a sense of community--of a listening community--going, through comments and conversations. And that's good.
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Also, oh, dude, I'm sorry. I'll edit the post. I didn't mean to make it seem like whine whine no one cares. I have this problem of being unwilling to speak unless to say something to impress the whole room. This is my own problem, not anyone else's, and when I get into a new fandom (...basically a new room...) it gets multiplied tenfold. I am aware that there are people online who care what I think. I just sometimes feel like no one is listening to me, and it means that when I get into a new fandom I often don't talk about it. I should also mention that while the above is my normal route for getting into a fandom, it didn't happen that way with H/D.
I hate that you wouldn't post it, especially if it's because it seems to you that no one cares.The 20K fics of which I speak (there are many) don't get posted because they're WIPs. I find that 20-30,000 words is my first stumbling block on the road to the long form fics I mentioned. By long form, I mean 100-300,000 word stories. I've only ever actually ( ... )
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It's hard to navigate the getting-into-a-new-fandom thing on LJ. I've got my toes in several, but my flist is predominantly (though not totally) H/D. I feel constrained about posting things I know the majority of people won't give a shit about. So I end up, when I do a rec post, making sure there's some H/D in there. And then when people from the new fandom check out your journal, it doesn't look very invested in that new fandom. Awkward. I have several friends who started new journals for their new fandom involvement.
Although I seem to have almost completely misinterpreted your post, it did lead me to think about my own actions in keeping a sense of community--of a listening community--going, through comments and conversations. And that's good.
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