i already thought tumblr was too ephemeral and it's much more lasting than discords are
I really feel this... Even though I have been on Tumblr for more than twice the time I was on LJ, I never really stopped thinking of it as an imperfect upstart that had serious flaws. But I didn't know how good I had it! And, like, I do like fandom on Discord and I have made some lovely friends there, but it's just... it's terrible for archiving converations, etc., to the point of it being almost impossible. And it moves so fast and even if you're on there every day it's easy to miss things. Also, some servers are... very weird and bad. I'm thinking specifically of one run by a friend of a friend that was fully a cult, imo, based on the approximately three days I spend on there before I noped out. Like, per the rules you had to say a specific phrase whenever to announce the admin whenever they joined a conversation in a voice channel, for instance. Also, it was both strictly 18+ and strictly SFW in a very sex negative and judgemental way that implied that if you wrote/drew/etc. NSFW fanworks you were a filthmonger who was befouling the source material with your vile pornography and you would be immediately banned and then anyone who talked about you there afterwards would be banned. And... okay, yeah. Nah. I'll be over there writing fic about fisting, thanks. Have fun genuflecting to canon's representative on earth over here, though, guys, it seems like an extremely normal and not at all controlling place where artificial hierarchies are being created and abused...
EDIT: pressed send prematurely, whoops!
i fucking wish fandoms lasted longer than a month or two before the next tumblr beloved season or movie dropped and everyone ran to binge that instead
Oh my god, this!!! It is so exhausting to never get to bed down in anything before everyone loses interest and to be expected to be fannish about whatever the hip new thing is because that's what's currently airing/was recently released, whether you thought it was that good, or it felt inspiring to you as a fan creator or not. Also, like, this idea that if a show is cancelled that everyone has to pack up and move out of the fandom, because what's the point? Huh??? I feel like fandom has been commodofied as free publicity for a lot of shows and because various people have leveraged fan petitions/campaigns, etc. to try and save their shows, and it has been successful or semi-successful enough that it's worth doing, a lot of people kind of feel like... that's what fandom is for? To boost the profile of canon. When, uh, no? I'm not saying it's not never that, but it's certainly not only that and I would never think of that as being my primary motivation for wanting to be in a fandom.
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Date: 2023-03-13 08:24 pm (UTC)I really feel this... Even though I have been on Tumblr for more than twice the time I was on LJ, I never really stopped thinking of it as an imperfect upstart that had serious flaws. But I didn't know how good I had it! And, like, I do like fandom on Discord and I have made some lovely friends there, but it's just... it's terrible for archiving converations, etc., to the point of it being almost impossible. And it moves so fast and even if you're on there every day it's easy to miss things. Also, some servers are... very weird and bad. I'm thinking specifically of one run by a friend of a friend that was fully a cult, imo, based on the approximately three days I spend on there before I noped out. Like, per the rules you had to say a specific phrase whenever to announce the admin whenever they joined a conversation in a voice channel, for instance. Also, it was both strictly 18+ and strictly SFW in a very sex negative and judgemental way that implied that if you wrote/drew/etc. NSFW fanworks you were a filthmonger who was befouling the source material with your vile pornography and you would be immediately banned and then anyone who talked about you there afterwards would be banned. And... okay, yeah. Nah. I'll be over there writing fic about fisting, thanks. Have fun genuflecting to canon's representative on earth over here, though, guys, it seems like an extremely normal and not at all controlling place where artificial hierarchies are being created and abused...
EDIT: pressed send prematurely, whoops!
i fucking wish fandoms lasted longer than a month or two before the next tumblr beloved season or movie dropped and everyone ran to binge that instead
Oh my god, this!!! It is so exhausting to never get to bed down in anything before everyone loses interest and to be expected to be fannish about whatever the hip new thing is because that's what's currently airing/was recently released, whether you thought it was that good, or it felt inspiring to you as a fan creator or not. Also, like, this idea that if a show is cancelled that everyone has to pack up and move out of the fandom, because what's the point? Huh??? I feel like fandom has been commodofied as free publicity for a lot of shows and because various people have leveraged fan petitions/campaigns, etc. to try and save their shows, and it has been successful or semi-successful enough that it's worth doing, a lot of people kind of feel like... that's what fandom is for? To boost the profile of canon. When, uh, no? I'm not saying it's not never that, but it's certainly not only that and I would never think of that as being my primary motivation for wanting to be in a fandom.