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F!S Anon Meme (the Tenth?)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

Some ground rules:
1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with captchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it!

List of General Threads (for easy access!)
a. Vid Rec thread
b. Positivity thread
c. What do you think of other F!S members?
d. Best Comments thread
e. Canceled Shows thread
f. Confessions thread
g. TMI thread
h. Which fictional character would you be...
i. "Is this offensive?"
j. In the good ol' days of fandom...
k. Popular fanfic you don't like
l. Really weird things you read in fanfics

Comments

Re: In the good ol' days of fandom...

[(Anonymous)]

People were wittier in the heyday of LJ. One aspect I don't like about Tumblr nowadays is that, for some reason, everyone dumbs down over there, like it's cute or something.

Re: In the good ol' days of fandom...

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. Both on LJ and outside, really. I was just talking to a friend about Cleolinda's M15M. Or Cassandra Clare's LOTR Secret Diaries - I wasn't exactly a Cassandra Claire fan, but I still foundthe Very Secret Diaries or whatever they were called hilarious. People were actually funny.

Re: In the good ol' days of fandom...

[(Anonymous)]

I miss M15M. I still check the journal every so often because she PROMISED there'd be a Breaking Dawn Pt 2 parody :(

This may be nostalgia talking but I feel like even my average LJ commenters were the soul of wit compared what I see on my dash these days.

Re: In the good ol' days of fandom...

[fingalsanteater]

Oh my god. I loved Cleolinda. I have a book with some of her M15M scripts (yes, some of them were published). There was another site called Breadbox Movies or something that was a similar concept that I loved too.

Re: In the good ol' days of fandom...

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh, I think I know what you're talking about! It was movies in two minutes or something, and they did books too. Pretty fun.

I have Cleolinda's M15M book too! I should read it.

Re: In the good ol' days of fandom...

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, even on LJ itself the wit has vanished. I miss it.

I can't vouch for Cleolinda, but she did do so many parodies/recaps I imagine it got a little tiring for her after a while. I've tried doing my own recaps, and honestly, they're more work than you'd think. So I can understand why she'd move on to other ventures. But yeah, I miss her too.

Re: In the good ol' days of fandom...

[fingalsanteater]

Writing comedy is hard, for sure. I used write recaps in more of a review style and it's fun, but so time consuming. I miss writing that crap.

We are all old and tired and we just want to lazily squee now, I think. At least, that's how it is for me.

Re: In the good ol' days of fandom...

[(Anonymous)]

Now I want to write an LJ entry, but yes, in short I think that's a lot of it. Especially when you consider that a lot of the people we mentioned/think of generally were probably college aged - yes, in some ways college kids are busier, but it's easier to do those sorts of things while taking a break from studying (after being done with classes by 2 PM) than it is when you work all day and have a half-hour lunch break. I don't feel like being snarky at 8 PM at night.

Re: In the good ol' days of fandom...

[(Anonymous)]

I follow her on a couple platforms, and I can confirm that she's said M15Ms are seriously draining, which is why they were always rare and have gotten rarer. She still does occasional television recaps (more factual/analytical and less parody than the M15Ms but still funny), though; she did the entire first season of Hannibal and is currently working on recapping the second (she got the first two or three done, then got way behind and gradually realized that with the way the season was going, it would probably be better to hold off until we'd seen everything before she started trying to analyze things seriously).

Re: In the good ol' days of fandom...

[(Anonymous)]

I miss fan-specific websites. Yes, they had the tendency to turn to shit after a while, but at the same time it was nice having forums, fanfic, fanart, and news in one space as opposed to scattered around LJ.