[ SECRET POST #2695 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2695 ⌋

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Comments

[lunabee34]

I always think three things when I see sentiments like these expressed.

1. I've been to a handful of fan conventions like Writer Con that were entirely about fans meeting each other rather than celebrity guests, I've met many of the people on flist/circle in RL, and many of my flist/circle have posted pictures of themselves. The body types represented seem to be pretty much the same ratio of what I see in RL. I've got some internet friends who are thin and some who are overweight and some who are old enough to be my mama with all the wrinkles that might entail. There's no One True Fan Body.

2. I think that many people who invest a lot of time in fandom want to be BNFs, or if not BNFs then to get a satisfying response to the fanworks they make or the discussions they start. I know I do. One of the things I've learned over the last ten years in fandom is that in general, the people who become BNFs or some version of that are the people who can afford for whatever reason to spend the most time on the internet. They get the episode coda out there before anyone else. Their fic is epic in length because they have more writing time. I think the response you get in fandom is often directly proportional to the responses you give others, so these people are frequently and quickly commenting on other people's posts and linking to them and reccing things. I think many of us think that if we were just able to spend more time on the internet interacting in fandom than we could increase our social cache. I think sometimes it's a bit of sour grapes to imagine that the people who get three pages of comments on how cute their cat is when she sneezes are able to be online all the time because they're losers in some way.

3. I think about how much wider and wonderful the world is for people who are disabled or who are homebound for other reasons than it used to be. I think about how much wider and wonderful the world is for *me* than it used to be. I never imagined as a kid that I'd have an adulthood in which I regularly interact with people who live halfway across the world. I never imagined an adulthood in which I could literally spend every single day of my life reading cool stuff for free without leaving my home. And I think how the quality of life has increased for people everywhere as a consequence.

[(Anonymous)]

I like everything about this comment. :)

[lunabee34]

:)

[(Anonymous)]

I think I love you for this comment. Especially point #3. That seems to be something very few people can even comprehend.

*teary eyed*

[lunabee34]

*hugs*

I truly believe that people 25 and under don't understand how amazing and powerful the internet is except as an abstract intellectual exercise. They've never lived without it or smart phones or GPS or what have you and so it's just part of what's normal.

[(Anonymous)]

You are a beautiful person.

[lunabee34]

Awwww. *blushes*