Snowflake Challenge: Day Fourteen

[tangeriner]

Day 14

In your own space, talk about what you think the future holds for fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

The thing about writing the same OTP, off and on, for two decades is you've literally seen it all. Fandom just... keeps trucking along. Changes, evolves, moves: you just gotta roll with it. And you can make fandom wherever you want, provided you're willing to change, too. I never really got into Tumblr, so if I wanted to be fannish, I had to change the way I did that. Reach out to people who may not share my fandom, but get the fandom thing, so even when I was merrily typing away in my small fandom of choice, I wasn't alone. So I don't really know what the future holds (and can't really begin to guess tbh), just that I'm confident it will be somewhere that I can settle in. Even though I did zero writing or reading for three years -- I definitely moaned to friends that my fannish love was dead, because it was upsetting to me, to lose that feeling -- fandom was still there when the spark returned. Some of it in the same places (Dreamwidth!), some of it in new places (Discord!), but it was there, right where I left it, ready to welcome me back.

Because fandom just keeps trucking along.

Comments

[spikedluv]

Changes, evolves, moves: you just gotta roll with it. And you can make fandom wherever you want, provided you're willing to change, too.

Very good points!

[tangeriner]

Thanks! I'm so happy I realized stressing myself out with Tumblr was counterproductive. Dreamwidth, I will love you forever. :D