*blows dust off*
Sep. 10th, 2020 04:01![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superborbThe combination of finally leaving schooling behind forever (PhD, get!) and having a ton of extra at home time during the pandemic times has finally gotten me to want to engage in fandom again. I've also been extra nostalgic the last two days, and longing for the good ol' days of LJ. (That one is probably the leaving school and remembering high school times.) For the last oh, 10 or so years, I've been at the outskirts of fandom, mostly chilling on AO3 and occasionally commenting, but I've finally reached the point where I want to talk with people! To squee! Is that term too outdated now?
I've been drifting through cdrama fandoms for a while, and it seems like it'll stick around in my headspace, so I assume it'll be a good jumping back point.
My main joy has been MDZS / the Untamed, but from what I gather, the fandom is mostly on Twitter/Tumblr, maybe with some Discord for flavor? Leaving aside learning a new platform, my problem with those is they're such firehoses of ... large images, which I've always found intimidating! Give me a good wall of text anytime. What to do!
I should go back to that old mainstay of mine -- back in hikago days when I didn't know anyone, I was known for things like commenting on every single blind go fic. I can't imagine fandom has changed so much that that is unwelcome, even if the art heavy style of Twitter/Tumblr is foreign to me.
I've been drifting through cdrama fandoms for a while, and it seems like it'll stick around in my headspace, so I assume it'll be a good jumping back point.
My main joy has been MDZS / the Untamed, but from what I gather, the fandom is mostly on Twitter/Tumblr, maybe with some Discord for flavor? Leaving aside learning a new platform, my problem with those is they're such firehoses of ... large images, which I've always found intimidating! Give me a good wall of text anytime. What to do!
I should go back to that old mainstay of mine -- back in hikago days when I didn't know anyone, I was known for things like commenting on every single blind go fic. I can't imagine fandom has changed so much that that is unwelcome, even if the art heavy style of Twitter/Tumblr is foreign to me.
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Date: 2020-09-10 11:58 (UTC)I have also been sucked into the MDZS abyss - and I keep seeing familiar names (once I figure out who people were once upon a time on LJ/DW at least...). I am on tumblr but I haven't quite worked out how this translates into actual conversation. Maybe twitter is better?
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Date: 2020-09-10 13:35 (UTC)Yes, I have been seeing some familiar names too! I think I did initially get sucked in because a few people that I was subscribed to on AO3 started writing for it. I think the Asian source material + big fandom must attract people from anime fandom... The poor mapping between people's nyms on AO3 and like, tumblr/twitter is also frustrating to me though. How do I track people back to their fannish home!
Twitter/Discord seem better for conversations, but Tumblr seems to have the longer meta type posts that I like... On Twitter they're just like 50 tweet threads, which is borderline unreadable to me. IDK...
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Date: 2020-09-10 17:10 (UTC)I'm resigned to the fact that I'm just not going to get used to twitter/tumblr for fandom/ficcy stuff - the format does not grab me - and my participation will just have to be fic at AO3. In any case, MDZS has been a huge joy these (omg, 14) months so I should just go with that and enjoy what I can.
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Date: 2020-09-10 19:02 (UTC)Now that I'm thinking of it, you must have been one of the first people I saw getting into MDZS, so I probably have you to thank for it!