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Day 1: What's changed about your fandom life in the last 365 days?
Hmmm. Well. Not a new fandom, so that's not a surprise for me. I tend to be in fandoms for a long time, and I have high hopes I'm in this one long enough to finish the two massive stories I have planned.
I've been podficcing a lot more, and because of that, trying to learn some Chinese, so that's one thing. The other is the whole cold read thing. I am LOVING IT and I think people in general are responding to it really well, which is really exciting. I used to do cold reads just for a few people because they wanted stuff (and I still will do that if an author doesn't have a blanket permission statement), but now I can… actually post them? So that's been HUGE.
I've got a couple of new fandom buddies in the last year, which is an absolute delight because there is nothing like having that sort of enthusiasm in your life, when you share fandoms with people. Also I generally just really love people, so it's always awesome for me to get to know new ones.
I've reluctantly moved a lot of my actual people-based fandom interaction to Discord, which is far from my favorite platform, annoyingly. I generally still have a lot of my interaction with people I really like elsewhere, but so many fannish activities are on Discord that it's tough not to be there.
Work is stressful and getting worse, so I am also getting pickier and pickier about how I spend my time and fannish capital. But I keep hearing rumblings about (and have participated in) really bad fests. Poorly organized, exclusionary, generally kind of assholey. It annoys me. A big bang in my fandom basically forbade podfic outright – DESPITE BEING OPEN TO LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE, AND STEALING A LOT OF THE LANGUAGE ABOUT THEIR INCLUSIONARY RULES FROM ANTE UP LOSERS (seriously – they used my macaroni castle line, like, do not tell me that you didn't yoink that from Ante Up). I was SO ANGRY. Like, how DARE you steal something so dear to me AND THEN EXCLUDE ONE OF MY FAVORITE FANNISH ACTIVITIES. Fucking RUDE. I'm STILL mad about it, and I don't have a lot of clout in this fandom, but I'm stewing about it, and we'll see if I don't try to do something better. Every big bang I can find now is just fic and art, and just. SIGH. It's so tired. Do something better.
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on 6/3/21 09:19 pm (UTC)no subject
on 6/4/21 03:45 am (UTC)Why? Why?
on 6/3/21 10:47 pm (UTC)why? would someone forbid podfic?
I'm so sorry.
Re: Why? Why?
on 6/4/21 03:48 am (UTC)(They allowed remixes, though.)
Re: Why? Why?
on 6/4/21 09:05 pm (UTC)So sorry.
Re: Why? Why?
on 6/5/21 02:38 am (UTC)