lobelia321 | Entries tagged with fandom meta

Doing this rummaging around in the ruins of LJ has made me realise what a fantastic resource the archiving function is. LJ had it and still preserves it. DW has it. No other so-called social medium has it. With the advent of the algorithm came timeline-free chaos. The end result is that you can never pin anything to a particular historical moment (and I'm sure that is ideological) nor do you own anything as you can hardly ever find stuff you posted aeons ago (and that is definitely ideological).

The calm bureaucratic list of 'Archive' with its timestamps of day and hour is so reassuring.

I am so grateful that the AO3 inherited that archivists' legacy.

Current Mood: grateful

Going back to LJ to post Desert Prince ancient!fic (from 2003, and apparently even earlier to judge from the comments, argh), I re-read some of the comments / feedback. Really, it brought back with a sharp pang the whole flavour of LJ interactions, so absolutely opposite to all that is "social" media now. The banter, the fun, the back-and-forth, the hyperbole, the joy and the love.

I'm pasting some redacted comments into my AO3 uploads. They are as much a part of the fandom archive as the fic itself, if not more.

If you are at all interested, you can read them here on AO3.

Or behind the cut: (ETA: and now with correct "cut"; it's been too long that I've used this! ( Read more... )

Current Mood: nostalgic

Posted to LiveJournal on 6 May 2003. This post was important to me 22 years ago. So here is my blast from the past.

The four feet of fandom
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As far as I see it, my fandom has four feet (plus numerous toes): community, fic, boy-on-boy, and fandom.

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Current Mood: nostalgic

( Does anyone else get the sense that each fic they write has a particular tone or place? )

I finished my first constructive criticism review for

zarah5's project today!

Okay, short commercial break for self falling over in amazement at own efficiency and speed, and then on to ( musings about what I value in fics )

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