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[ SECRET POST #2496 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2496 ⌋

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Is where you want to start: if it's a small fandom, start looking in the small fandom LJ comm then go on to whichever comm is of most interest to you, read the rules, check out the posting history to see who posts there and how, then join and have fun.

If it's a large fandom, you can just search by interest, and be careful to respect the rules of whichever comm you join: large fandoms are sometimes a lot to take in at first, not point stumbling just because you're new.

Then you can expend your search to Dreamwidth where a lot of people have migrated, though most LJ communities are still more active than DW communities in most cases.

Tumblr is more useful for the pics and gifs, frankly. Most of the really fun stuff (fics, news, discussions, recs, help and meta) happens in LJ comms, not Tumblr. The level of interaction with other fans is also a lot more fun than anything possible on Tumblr. This is not a value judgement on Tumblr (which I am not qualified to give), just a technical fact. Also using Tumbler seems a lot harder than using LJ for newcomers...

Huh, I have more fun on tumblr than with the activities you listed *shrug*
And no, degrees of fun you can have are not technical facts.

You can search here:
http://smallfandomfest.livejournal.com
http://smallfandombang.livejournal.com
http://smallfandomflsh.livejournal.com

or check Crack van:
http://crack-van.livejournal.com

The advantage of these is that you usually get a reference to a pimp post, which usually include where to find the other fans for your specific fandom!

Obviously, this will not help you if the fandom is essentially dead. But age is not the only factor to evaluate how active a fandom is. As a Professional fan (30+ years and counting!), I can tell you that Pros has a very active LJ presence which shows no signs of decreasing.

"Tumblr is more useful for the pics and gifs, frankly. Most of the really fun stuff (fics, news, discussions, recs, help and meta) happens in LJ comms"

lol I love it when people show how little they understand of tumblr

...I've been on tumblr for two years and still scratching around for a decent amount of discussion and meta, and if I want fic recs that's pretty difficult too. So I'm just on there to enjoy the pretty and lulz and post long meta on my blog that would have gotten a heap of responses anywhere else. Entitled? Not really...

DA

Tumblr, imo, isn't that great a place for discussion. The dicussions held there are hard to follow, especially if the post in question has a lot of notes. Tumblr is a good place to post fic, gifs, meta, blog, etc. But I don't think it is suited for discussing those things.

mte. my fandom probably has about five times as much fic on tumblr as it does in the lj comm, which is dead, jim, dead. there's also a lot more discussion and meta that happens on tumblr on a regular basis than there ever was even back when the lj comm was still alive.

who the fuck even uploads fic on tumblr, what a stupid idea. upload on LJ/AO3 and pimp on tumblr is where it's at.

that's what i meant when i said fic-- they upload it to ao3 or ff.net and then link it on their tumblr.

You, for example. Tumblr contains NO discussion for my fandom, period.

livejournal has been so dead for everything for a while now

Not for my fandom (which is centered around canon from the 1930's, so I guess we're old fashioned that way), stop lying.

The thing is... if everyone complaining about that (including me, I'm guilty of it) would step in and go crazy with discussion (and commenting on discussion posts, that's the whole point), and maintaining communities instead of starting them and pretty much abandoning them, stuff like that... then maybe we'd have something like old!LJ again. Instead everyone's being sporadic and throwing in the occasional discussion or whatever, and nobody pays attention.

Even at the comms I go to that are still active, half the conversation is about stuff that has nothing to do with the show. Whoop de do.

Wrong. Just wrong.

Tumblrites, enjoy your shitty platform. Just stop trying to talk down ours, 'k?

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