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I can't believe I'm here
Dec. 4th, 2018 12:43 pmThere's something kind of hilarious and sad about starting a Dreamwidth (again) in this Year Of Our Lord 2018. I am pretty sure I've had one before but I'm too lazy to go back through my email and find out what the username is. I had a Livejournal from 2002ish to 2008ish, and I still visit LJ for the sole purpose of reading the comments on ONTD posts.
I'm here because I'm fleeing Tumblr, or preparing to flee Tumblr, like so many other people in the wake of FemalePresentingNippleGate. I didn't post or create NSFW content, really. I'm sure I've liked a ton of it over the years (eight of them, I'm pretty sure) that I was on Tumblr. I'm not deleting now, not before I can see what the site is actually going to become, but I'm not waiting around to see what happens, either.
I guess the thing I'm trying to do by creating this DW is to figure out my own relationship to fandom again; I've been a passive consumer for years, ever since I fled the Sherlock fandom's bitter embraces. I haven't written fic in a donkey's age and I've avoided getting involved in a lot of conversations. Part of this is wanting to keep a professional remove; part of it is because I thought I had to save serious thinking for other spaces.
I miss old LJ though. I miss being part of a community. I miss fic exchanges and having a beta and all that. I miss owning my own fandom in my own life.
We'll see where DW takes me. This might be the last entry I ever post in here. But by creating it I've carved out my own little space, for me to use and populate as I see fit. Let's see where it takes me.
I'm here because I'm fleeing Tumblr, or preparing to flee Tumblr, like so many other people in the wake of FemalePresentingNippleGate. I didn't post or create NSFW content, really. I'm sure I've liked a ton of it over the years (eight of them, I'm pretty sure) that I was on Tumblr. I'm not deleting now, not before I can see what the site is actually going to become, but I'm not waiting around to see what happens, either.
I guess the thing I'm trying to do by creating this DW is to figure out my own relationship to fandom again; I've been a passive consumer for years, ever since I fled the Sherlock fandom's bitter embraces. I haven't written fic in a donkey's age and I've avoided getting involved in a lot of conversations. Part of this is wanting to keep a professional remove; part of it is because I thought I had to save serious thinking for other spaces.
I miss old LJ though. I miss being part of a community. I miss fic exchanges and having a beta and all that. I miss owning my own fandom in my own life.
We'll see where DW takes me. This might be the last entry I ever post in here. But by creating it I've carved out my own little space, for me to use and populate as I see fit. Let's see where it takes me.
