I've been thinking about social networks and fandom for a while, specifically since LJ introduced the crosspost to Facebook/Twitter feature and everyone freaked out. ( This got long. )
Hmm. I see the point of your first paragraph, but from my perspective, the internet CAN work like that--keeping posts in smallish communities--and LJ supports that in a lot of ways that Facebook and Twitter doesn't, hence the divide
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Friends locked communities might work like that, but I don't think general LJ content does - if it's open, it's open and if it's friends locked, then you have to know the person (at least in the LJ sense of friending) to read it. The locked to logged in users thing on AO3 is more like a blend of the two
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I probably comment too often and am just getting irritating. That being said, I love your posts--and I think you should post your fic to more comms because it's so original and refreshing. AO3 would be a really easy way for you to do that because of the way searches work on there. I find it WAY easier to find random fic over there and I think you'd find more bandom readers if you cross-posted over there and then you'd get more comments. I want you to get more comments on your fic because I'd actually like to talk to other people about your fic.(I know this sounds crazy and stalkerish, but I think you're exploring things in an intersting way that is worthy of more meta conversation--I mean I enjoy your fic knowing virtually nothing about bandom
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Awww, you're not irritating at all! I love talking fandom! I've been reading things at AO3 more often recently (I have issues with their aesthetic, and also I don't find the interface for finding things very intuitive, but it would probably make sense if I spent more time there), so I will probably put all my fic up there eventually. I'm not sure how much that would help with people talking fandom with me here, though. There seems to be something of a divide between AO3 and LJ where if people don't use the same username - and you don't know they use the same username - it's a lot harder to figure out who they are here. I don't know how much meta conversation you'll get in the comments to a story. Fandom doesn't seem to have much in the way of a structure for literary criticism of specific fic. You do get it in people's recs sometimes - here, for example
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I loved this reply so much! And it was great to read the meta about h50 and s/d and then I read the fic being analyzed (I'd already read and loved El's DADT fic) and it just about melted my brain and all the rest of me too. So, thank you for that. I'll check out the two meta comms.
I will absolutely and completely respect your boundaries around keeping your identities separate.
Thanks for that. It's only now I feel comfortable with acknowledging a separate online identity, much less my real life one. I understand what you're saying, but I really don't mesh well with most of it. Being a fan is almost like being a different person for me, while still keeping basic elements of myself, and it's kind of freeing.
Posting regularly to LJ...that was a phase for me that I liked, I guess, not just doing it, but reading what others say. Then I got super-busy with work, and passed out of it. I also got a lot picky about the concept of friends. I'm demanding, and attention-seeking. If you don't talk to me and I spend a lot of time talking to you, I see that as an unequal exchange, and I'm out. I agree with norwich36 about not WANTING to talk to people I interact in meatspace with, about slash.
I understand that other people's choices are not mine! I'm just not good at being only parts of myself. I've never even managed to maintain a fannish sock puppet for more than a few weeks. (With the exception of my appropriate for @replying to celebrities Twitter, which I rarely post with and mostly use so they won't have to click back to fan fic discussion about themselves if they happen to click on my username in a @reply and so I can keep my Twitter manageable - I follow celebrities with that one, so if I'm busy, I can keep up with just the people I know on my other one and leave the celebrities for later
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Thanks for that. It's only now I feel comfortable with acknowledging a separate online identity, much less my real life one. I understand what you're saying, but I really don't mesh well with most of it. Being a fan is almost like being a different person for me, while still keeping basic elements of myself, and it's kind of freeing.
Posting regularly to LJ...that was a phase for me that I liked, I guess, not just doing it, but reading what others say. Then I got super-busy with work, and passed out of it. I also got a lot picky about the concept of friends. I'm demanding, and attention-seeking. If you don't talk to me and I spend a lot of time talking to you, I see that as an unequal exchange, and I'm out. I agree with norwich36 about not WANTING to talk to people I interact in meatspace with, about slash.
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