[ SECRET POST #5398 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5398 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It is the lack of a central lynchpin for fandom to coalesce around these days that does it. No Usenet group, no webring, no forum, no mailing list, nothing. Without those social hangouts, everyone is screaming into the wind on their own. And that means when one person runs out of puff, there is no way for any others to pick up the button and build on it. Even the pit of voles was a better place to build a fandom and some decent fanon than the incessant drabble and smut machine that is ao3. Even old liveournal did it better. I don't know how we build that back. There can be no discussion when there is nowhere to discuss it in.

Also the super short seasons, which are all one story, leave very little areas to build fandom in. A solid long running series with twenty-twenty six episodes a year, each of which is, in essence, a mini movie each week, that all gives loads of material for fans to delve into.

What do I want? I Want It All Back The Way That It Was. #JMS

[(Anonymous)]

This. All of this.

[(Anonymous)]

This is it exactly! I haven’t been able to engage with fandom in any meaningful way since LJ but there is also less and less to engage about. I don’t have much time to watch things and it was easier when things aired on a schedule. I need a reason to clear time to watch stuff but the media just isn’t worth it for me.

[(Anonymous)]

Same.

Yeah, the waiting was excruciating, but it was an enjoyable kind of excruciating. (At least for me.) It meant that I had time to wonder about what would happen next, to speculate, maybe to write a fic or two.

[(Anonymous)]

Hard disagree about AO3 being a worse place for fandom than FF.N.

I can see where you’re coming from otherwise.

[(Anonymous)]

The Pit has its faults, but I've never had to wade through five pages of badly written drabbles, all by the same person who appears to block upload individual drabbles, each with a mountain of tagspam longer than each one's word count, in order to find a decent fic over fifteen hundred words in length. I've repeatedly had to do that on AO3. The pit is designed for the ease of readers, AO3 is for writers who can't write but want to abolish the concept of copyright.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh okay, you’ve definitely got a point there.

[(Anonymous)]

AO3 lets you sort by word count, so you should literally never have to wade through a mountain of individually uploaded drabbles. AO3 has its issues, but that’s just you tormenting yourself for the hell of it.

[(Anonymous)]

You can also exclude authors you don’t like from your searches. AYRT just enjoys suffering.