So much YES to this. (And hi!!! *waves madly*) Speaking for myself, I haven't drawn anything in at least a year now, I think, and I only recently re-visited a Watchmen fic I've been writing. I have two of them that I've promised myself (and the characters) that I'll finish, come hell or high water, but I really am doing it mostly out of my own sense of honor. :-/ I tell myself that I'm not drawing because I don't have a good work table, or because our scanner is too old, or because I can't get the hang of my drawing software, but the fact is just that I don't feel the pull of the characters right now - there's nothing they need from me at the moment. It makes me sad to think about it, but I content myself with the reminder that if I do ever encounter a character who needs something, I'll likely be among the fans working to arrange it for them. ;D And in the meantime, this vid came very much to mind:
> I don't feel the pull of the characters right now - there's nothing they need from me at the moment
love this. Rings true for me too.
HI RADISH. Everyone kind of dispersed. We're alumni now.
There is a new kinkmeme http://watchmen-km.dreamwidth.org/287.html, if you're missing a kinkmeme. And someone posted centaur fic to AO3 recently, so the magic isn't totally dead :D
This is a beautiful essay, especially all the little insights into your life, which sounds fantastic, btw. Wish I didn't identify with it so much, missing fandom but out of its groove for a lot of the same reasons. And facebook, yes! Social media has moved en masse to a too-much-exposure model. I like having a consistent fandom identity, but separate from my real-life one. Can't fangirl with my relatives and (bless their hearts) lovely but stodgily conservative friends hanging over my shoulder. And my real life is pretty great just now, but in an energy-intensive way...still daydream out plots, but getting head and time together to actually type isn't working out.
Still, I'd felt before like fandom didn't fit me any more, and then Watchmen came along and sucked me back in. It could happen again.
I love what you've written here and can really relate to it as I've gone down much the same path. :) I haven't written any fic or done any fanart in ages, but it's reassuring that it's always available in that other world of ours. <3
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love this. Rings true for me too.
HI RADISH. Everyone kind of dispersed. We're alumni now.
There is a new kinkmeme http://watchmen-km.dreamwidth.org/287.html, if you're missing a kinkmeme. And someone posted centaur fic to AO3 recently, so the magic isn't totally dead :D
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Still, I'd felt before like fandom didn't fit me any more, and then Watchmen came along and sucked me back in. It could happen again.
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