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⌈ Secret Post #2445 ⌋

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[Breaking Bad]

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[Cillian Murphy]

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[Robert Downey Jr.]

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[Star Trek]

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[Homestuck]

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I'm...not seeing how that was passive-aggressive. I mean, I can see how, absent a few specific words and phrases, it can be misinterpreted, but I'm not seeing passive-aggressive.

I just mean that I have certain plans for my life, ones which could be very time-consuming. I consider those plans a lot more important than fandom, but I still hope to have time for fandom at that stage of my life. I don't necessarily expect to, but I hope to. However, that's literally decades down the road, so who knows what will happen.

Fandom is a hobby. My career is not. Career > Hobby.

I mean, great for all those fans that manage all those responsibilities along with fandom. I am glad to for them, really. But right now, I'm only a student and an intern, and I sometimes have trouble keeping up with fandom. I fully expect that once I get into my career at full swing, my time will be even more constrained and I will have to choose between fandom and career. I will pick career over fandom every time. If I barely have time to, say, WATCH a TV show, how I would be expected to be able to keep up with fandom activity of that TV show? To read and write fanfic or participate in discussion?

Fandom is already shifting from a medium that makes it easy to play catch-up on past fandom activity (i.e. fanzines to mailing lists to journal sites, etc) to ones that tend to depend on near-constant presence in order to stay on top of fandom (namely Tumblr and the sites like it/connected to it). When I got into fandom nearly a decade ago, I could leave fandom for a month and come back, and it would be easy for me to spend only a day or two and be caught up on all the major fandom activity. Now, I stay out for a week and it's nearly impossible to catch up. And it isn't just Tumblr, either - I remember first getting into F!S and being able to find a lot of activity for an entire day, sometimes two, after the secrets were posted. Now, most of the activity happens within half a day of the secrets being posted. Not nearly as drastic as much of the rest of fandom, but certainly noticeable. I fully expect that over the next couple of years and decades, this trend will only get worse. And as such, I fully expect that I will have to make choices about what I do with my time, and as much as I love fandom, there are a lot of other things in my life that take priority over it. Right now, I have the luxury to spend a lot of time in fandom, and it is one I value and treasure, in large part because I know it will not last. I definitely expect that the time I can spend on fandom will be curtailed as my life goes on, and I sure as hell won't be surprised if one day I look up and realize I'm basically not in fandom at all, that's how little time I have to spare for it.

I would LOVE to still be active in fandom alongside my career and other going-ons in my life, well into old-age. But again, I'm a college student slash intern and I'm already having trouble with doing so, and I've been seeing nothing but upward projection in terms of how difficult it is to participate in fandom when you are not there all the time. So yes, I do expect to have more important things to do with my life by then. I hope it's not too time-consuming, but considering how fandom is now and how it's been progressing for the last decades, I have low hopes for how it will keep going over the next few decades, and what that means for my ability to fit that into my life.

But right now, I'm only a student and an intern, and I sometimes have trouble keeping up with fandom.

I don't know what career you're planning on going into, but now that I'm out of school and doing my career, I have way more free time. (Ie. Last year was my first year without school, and I read 58 books [many of which were Super Extra Long]. The years I was in school it was between 15 - 34 books/year, many of which were YA novels or just very short in general. Or school books that I was forced to read for class).

Oh, #deity, this. After 4 years in undergrad and 5 years in grad school (and 3/4 to full time for all of it), I finished and had SO MUCH TIME. I read! I traveled! I watched TV! I got into fandom! I took up new hobbies! All while simultaneously kicking ass at my job (presented at 6 national conferences, wrote about 20 technical reports, and 2 peer reviewed journal articles).

I'm going into a career hinging on law, advocacy, and politics, any one of which tends to be time consuming, let alone all three. And that's without a bunch of other stuff I plan to do with my time as I get older.

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