I had no idea what I was doing. That's probably why I wrote as much as I did.
This makes me kinda sad! I really miss that enthusiasm and uh, innocence? Of just being so excited about fandom and having the chance to share it with other people and not being hit yet by all that insecurity and negativity. And I totally agree about Mary Sues -- they're really not a bad thing. They're just a symptom of inexperience. Nobody's out there writing a fic that would be omg so amazing if only there weren't a Mary Sue in it. If there's a Mary Sue in it, it's probably not that great to begin with, but everybody has to go through that phase -- and that phase is awesome! And fun! Let the newbies enjoy it!
I'm feeling sort of lost right now in terms of internet hangouts, too. There's a been a real dispersal from LJ and people don't seem to be migrating to a specific place, so I get overwhelmed trying to follow different services, and nothing appeals to me in quite the same way LJ/DW does.
I've often considered changing my name too, or just making a new journal and starting over again from the ground up. But I keep talking myself out of it as too much work, and I just can't seem to really get into the source material for more active fandoms, since I feel like a lot of it is mainstream TV and I'm tired of stories about attractive able-bodied contemporary heterosexual white humans. So instead I'm quietly playing in my own little fandom pool, writing for small/dead fandoms or my own originalish stuff, but I really really miss the social and sharing aspects of fandom. I need to take another stab at getting into Dragon Age, but I'm both overwhelmed at the sheer amount of content there, and I hated the battle system in the first game.
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This makes me kinda sad! I really miss that enthusiasm and uh, innocence? Of just being so excited about fandom and having the chance to share it with other people and not being hit yet by all that insecurity and negativity. And I totally agree about Mary Sues -- they're really not a bad thing. They're just a symptom of inexperience. Nobody's out there writing a fic that would be omg so amazing if only there weren't a Mary Sue in it. If there's a Mary Sue in it, it's probably not that great to begin with, but everybody has to go through that phase -- and that phase is awesome! And fun! Let the newbies enjoy it!
I'm feeling sort of lost right now in terms of internet hangouts, too. There's a been a real dispersal from LJ and people don't seem to be migrating to a specific place, so I get overwhelmed trying to follow different services, and nothing appeals to me in quite the same way LJ/DW does.
I've often considered changing my name too, or just making a new journal and starting over again from the ground up. But I keep talking myself out of it as too much work, and I just can't seem to really get into the source material for more active fandoms, since I feel like a lot of it is mainstream TV and I'm tired of stories about attractive able-bodied contemporary heterosexual white humans. So instead I'm quietly playing in my own little fandom pool, writing for small/dead fandoms or my own originalish stuff, but I really really miss the social and sharing aspects of fandom. I need to take another stab at getting into Dragon Age, but I'm both overwhelmed at the sheer amount of content there, and I hated the battle system in the first game.