[ SECRET POST #5214 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5214 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I haven't thought about Xanga in forever. What a blast from the past.

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds like a sweet experience!

[(Anonymous)]

Amen. I think about this kind of thing a lot. Social media has changed so much over the 15 or so years I've been in fandom and now I just don't know where I fit into it anymore. A "calm, insular fandom experience" is literally all I want and I don't know where to find it. Everywhere I go it's discourse this and drama that. Especially because my current main fandom is a kpop group, so it skews pretty young, and most people don't know what fandom was like before Twitter and in some cases, even before Tumblr.

And, like, I get that there have always been inter- and intra-fandom wars and wank, and admittedly I'm probably wearing rose-tinted glasses to a certain extent but I feel like with my first fandom, I was so lucky - we had our own little LJ community and we all respected each other and I don't remember any major drama going down. I just want that again. :(

I think that's partly why I've come back to F!S after several years of not being around (and was very pleasantly surprised to find it still active). I don't know most of the fandoms that are talked about anymore but I feel like we're all of a "generation" of fandom that maybe none of us are quite ready to say goodbye to...?

[(Anonymous)]

Same nonny. That's the experience I crave too. And I think you're right about us all being an older generation.

[(Anonymous)]

Lol damn as a fandom Olde, I really felt this.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you on the k-pop fandom thing because k-pop fandom can get really crazy. Not on everything else though. Maybe I just had terrible luck. (Nah, who am I trying to fool, I was just the outsider among outsiders.)

[(Anonymous)]

Lol i feel like I'm a bit younger than a fandom Olde (proper olde, like zines and the 90s) but I got into fandom and had such a great experience on a little ship specific forum that also had affiliate links to other ships in the fandom -- it didn't have to be a fight! At least not in our corner. And you could appreciate other characters and ships too! It was low key and fun. I do miss it, but I'm glad I was able to have it. I'm just a bit reluctant to participate actively in fandom these days because it seems to require more involvement (and drama) than I care to indulge in.

[(Anonymous)]

Xanga was my pro-ana hangout, so I can't exactly say my nostalgia for it is uncomplicated. But man my memories of that place are vivid.

[(Anonymous)]

Xanga!

It's where I had my very first blog (and bitched about everything in middle school lol). I kinda wish I had been active in fandom spaces, but I learned how to fuck with html/css through it!

Tbh, i didn't even know there were fandom spaces. I kept to myself with the exception of one other classmate who had one (i think she was in a fan group for gravitation) out of fear of creepy men on the internet out to find 11 y/o girls.

I do go back from time to time, but it never returns. I just want to blog again lol. It sounds like you had a nice time, OP!

PS: George Harrison was the hot (and underrated) one imo.

[greghousesgf]

I agree with you so much about George

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Right?! I won't deny that i thought Paul Mccartney was the cutest one growing up, but George always kinda caught my eye. It wasn't until I got a bit older that it really hit me George was the best looking one. And on top of that -- no one ever talks about him!!! At least not in any conversations I've had re: the Beatles. It was always Paul, John, or Ringo. And so for a while i thought I was making George up too! Lol

[(Anonymous)]

You might like "Waiting For The Beatles: An Apple Scruff's Story" by Carol Bedford. She was one of the intense Beatles fans who hung around Apple studios all day and night and some of them broke into Paul's house. But she was a George fan, and it's really interesting looking at that subculture and how different (and sometimes the same) it is from fandom today.