Fandom, Evolution and Dinosaurs...

[scatteredlogic]

I promised a longer post, and so here it is. ;) It's a few days late, but things have been busy. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of truly interesting news to tell you. I've been dealing with personal stuff, but who hasn't? So many other people have been handling more traumatic events than anything I've been through recently, so bemoaning the

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[erised1810]

oh man. usenet. and those warm tinklignsounds of 14k modems. ymmmmm.
yeah, it's exploded in a big way. i remember joining fictionalley in2003 and singing out four years later saying' this place has outgrown me'. and i always always always look around in afourum for at least six months before i say anything. it's fun now to just lounge around and snap up something interesting every now and then. i should get on rereading the hp books so I can move on to something else.

[scatteredlogic]

Oh, yes. That sound of the modem connecting. LOL Things certainly have changed. Some of it has changed for the good, and some of it has just changed. ;)

[orpheus_samhain]

I've always thought that your first fandom was Labyrinth :)

[scatteredlogic]

Nope, my very first fandom was The X-Files under a different name, and I shed that ID when I moved on to Labyrinth. I think I even have some unfinished XF fic around on the hard drive somewhere. ;)

[valis2]

Lovely to see you, m'friend!

I'm always fascinated by the way fandom develops. I have been exploring a lot of the eighties TV show fandoms recently, and I often see interesting things. Like how some fandoms have almost no fanfic whatsoever, and then I think, they might have been in the list era, instead of the zine era or the LJ era, and that's why so little of it is on the net--but then I think, maybe it just didn't resonate with people the way, say, Starsky & Hutch did.

This was a really engrossing entry!

[scatteredlogic]

Thank you! I've been around, but lurking mostly. There's too little time in a day. :(

Every fandom had different rules and different expectations, but I'll admit I'm always surprised to learn that there are fandoms without a lot of fanfic on the net. I think I've been spoiled by the fandoms I've followed, since most of them were fairly prolific regarding fanfic.

I'm always fascinated by how fandom changes, but sometimes I've found that it can change right from under you. ;)

[valis2]

I'm actually writing a little LJ entry about the different fandoms I've been exploring and their lack--or overabundance--of fic. I'm so fascinated by this.

One of the huge surprises is that the TV show Reba has a very high number of fanfics. Seriously.

[scatteredlogic]

Oh, I'll be interested to read that entry!

One of the huge surprises is that the TV show Reba has a very high number of fanfics. Seriously.

Wow! I wouldn't have guessed that to be the case, but that just goes to show you what I know. ~grin~

[voxangelus]

*squish* Plenty of room for dinosaurs, especially encouraging ones ;)

[scatteredlogic]

~squishes back~ I'm glad to hear it. I was getting concerned for a bit, there. ;)

[mundungus42]

I enjoyed reading this immensely! I started in X-Files too, fortunately in the Gossamer era, so I guess I'm more of a fandom giant sloth, but I like many of the recent changes that I've seen. Wank seems far less widespread these days because more people are savvier about it. And there's always FandomWank if you miss the old days... :D

[scatteredlogic]

I guess I'm more of a fandom giant sloth

Okay, that made me laugh out loud! Gossamer was around when I was there, too. I think it pulled all the fic from several of the lists and was sort of the ff.net of the X-Files set. You could (and still can) find terrific and really awful fic there. ~grin~

And there's always FandomWank if you miss the old days...

I don't think I miss them quite that much. ;P