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[ SECRET POST #4111 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4111 ⌋

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considerably, though in ways people might find subtle unless they've been in fandom more than 10 years.

10 years ago was 2007. I was still required by fandom ettiquette to put a "warning" for anything involving homosexual anything (including boys kissing) on the header of all fic. granted, in 07 that was starting to be phased out, people were starting to really be of the "really? don't we ALL write and read slash? how is this still controversial?" attitude but many writers, especially posting on LJ, still warned for it just in case. because LJ had recently suffered Strikethrough so a lot of people were still leery.

we also almost never warned for rape, incest, or triggers. warnings were for angst and character death and that's about it.

I went to a lot of cons in that era and 07 was really the explosion of anime conventions and anime-in-the-mainstream. since then all the licensing/dubbing companies except Funi and Viz have gone out of business, about half of the cons that started up between 05-09 have failed and vanished, and the word "cosplay" has been coopted by internet fandom at large to mean all costumes at all conventions and not just anime costumes at anime conventions.

My local con is actually growing every year. They've started renting out two buildings instead of one now because they literally couldn't contain everything in the one anymore. So things are looking good con wise where I am anyway.

Maybe I'm a purist, but anime cons seem more and more like general nerd cons to me.

It's still majority anime/Japanese focused. There's a game room and non anime stuff but it's def an "anime convention" still.

10 years ago was 2007. I was still required by fandom ettiquette to put a "warning" for anything involving homosexual anything (including boys kissing) on the header of all fic. granted, in 07 that was starting to be phased out, people were starting to really be of the "really? don't we ALL write and read slash? how is this still controversial?" attitude but many writers, especially posting on LJ, still warned for it just in case.

It's interesting that this was also the era that people remember as an awesome golden age of permissiveness and freedom

Well, you were more likely to have people yell at you for writing about how sinful it is for two men to hold hands, but it was also likely that others would defend you and recognize that the homophobe was full of shit. Nowadays if someone yells at you for writing something "sinful," people will either join in or ignore the spectacle out of fear they'll get yelled at next.

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eh...it was and it wasn't. the real era of "omg slash is so taboo" is a few years earlier, I'd say very early 00s, but it was still lingering a bit around 07-08 while some fandoms were just. exploding with permissiveness and pushing boundaries. it kind of depended on the fandom. Kingdom Hearts fandom around that time was just bonkers, kinky shit everywhere to roll in like catnip.

Hooboy, the KH kinkmeme around late '07 used to make my eyes burn.

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