[ SECRET POST #2118 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2118 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I get a lot more weirded out by 12 year olds writing porn than by 35+ year olds writing porn/being in fandom.

The only reason I am a little "hmm" at 35+ people in fandom is because I've already lost almost all interest in writing fic or participating in fandom, and I'm only 20. So it's not a judgement on anyone, it's just that I can't see myself being in your place.

[hiyami]

These things can come and go though.
I lost interest for some things in fandom, then found a different media fandom that made me feel like participating again. I used to be hard into novel, then manga, then TV show... all of that seem "been there, done that, won't invest that much time into that again, just enjoy reading / watching the original material".

And then I discovered a band I liked and felt the need to talk about with others, got sucked into boards to keep up with the news first, and ended up making friends there so staying for the conversations... even reading fic occasionally even though I was very against RPF before that.

It's always a conjunction of what you find and what you need. That new fandom happened in my life when work and real life events made me need an escape again.

[patch592]

Overall it's less intense and I don't have nearly the amount of fandoms I once did but when something sparks my interest I'm back to reading fic, joining comms etc just like I did way back when.

[insanenoodlyguy]

It's such hilariously bad porn though!

[(Anonymous)]

Like the person before me wrote, the interest in fandom comes and goes. There are some years that I don't have any interest in participating in fandom, and the next year I'm happily reading fic or drawing things. But I have to say that I've lost all interest in going to cons or squeeing after actors, so you could say my fandom experience has become more passive after I turned 20.

[(Anonymous)]

Just thirding that fandom interest isn't always a consistent thing. There are some periods where it's what I spend the majority of my free time doing, and some where I don't so much as look at fic for weeks.

[author_by_night]

To add to that, I think that a "fact of life" is that we sometimes associate our former or fleeting interests with having been younger when really, we just found new interests or new people who introduced us to different things. Also, interests can reinvent themselves in different ways. I know someone who used to be a complete Granola Girl, and she's not really anymore... but she does still have a few organizations she supports that show she hasn't completely shed the Granola Girl. She just realized she kind of likes meat and can't really spend all day damning The Man.

[(Anonymous)]

In my experience, most of the around 35 crowd are mothers who've gotten into a rut and use fandom as an escape. 20 year olds are often college students who have a four to six year window before they start a career and have less time.

[kallanda_lee]

Some of us are neither,you know - though I still have a couple of years to go till 35.

[(Anonymous)]

Get more experience. I'm 41, and I'm not in fandom because I'm in a rut - it's an enjoyable escape when I need to relax but it's just one part of my life.

[(Anonymous)]

I have way more free time now that I'm working than I did when I was in school. When you are a student, you're never really "off the clock" except between semesters/terms - there's always more studying you could do or an assignment you could start working on early.

I'm sure it would be different if I had kids, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Actually for me fandom is a good escape when I'm so busy that if I don't use something to distract me for a bit I'll have a break down.

Like right now when I should be working but I'm checking f!s

[ariakas]

That does not explain the number of lawyers and med students on my list. I ask them how the heck they have the time for fanfic, but their response is that they don't have time for other hobbies. Those require going somewhere, or doing a specific thing - fandom just requires the occasional scribbling when you have a moment or browsing sites on lunch break. So it's fandom or no life at all.

[(Anonymous)]

As others said, you need to widen your experience bracket. I'm 35 (in a couple of months) and have no children, nor have I got a rut. In fact, I recently broke OUT of my rut to start up a whole new life. So.... No.

[lauramcewan]

well, this one didn't even know about 'fandom' in this sense until age 35, so I'm still a young'un, I guess, in fandom years! :)

[sienamystic]

I didn't even really start until I was thirty, if you don't count the irl-only mini-MacGyver fandom my best friend and I had (complete with fic writing and long discussions about villain motivations). I watched X-Files and hung out a little on the Usenet group, ditto for X-Men and things, but I didn't write a fic and put it up on the internet until 2005. It just...happened.

[fireez]

Same here. Same age group, too. I mean, I geeked around with my friends (mostly Trekkies and X-Philes) and hung out on a few yahoo groups (anyone remember those? :P), but it wasn't until 2009 that I really got to be active in fandom, and started being more extroverted about my fandom thoughts and activities, including writing fic and participating in kinkmemes and such. So yeah, there definitely isn't any kind of age limit on fandom. Neither on how old you can be to participate, nor on how old you can be to discover how much fun it is :).

[rainne]

I miss Y!groups! LOL

[(Anonymous)]

I still belong to a couple of active Y!groups. They aren't as popular as they used to be, true, but they still exist.

*cuddles mah groups*