So! There's a big fandom friending thing going on - your host is ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
theladyscribe. If you're looking for more people writing fic and talking about shared interests, go find, go find!. It's already four pages long and likely to grow more.
But I'm not participating. (I may end up doing December Dailies on a shared baseball/tarot theme, analyzing cards from said Baseball Tarot deck at request of audience. Yea/Nay?)
Because I feel excluded. Which is a bit odd to be saying, considering I watch media, and read books, and listen to podcasts, and otherwise comment when others are talking about their media diet. I'm even trying for detailed media analysis of a classic series of science fantasy, so I don't think I'm somehow outside the community of fandom in many ways and places.
However, the way things are constructed for the friending, I feel like there's an incredible weighting toward those who regularly write fiction in their fandoms. Which I do not.
So, what's being asked, outside of a Dreamwidth user name?
tumblr username
other platforms (please specify):
I realize tumblr has made it very easy to be fannish, with the ability to reblog and with the focus on single things making a post, really. And other locales are likely to be AO3 and so forth. Not really much of an issue, but since I have neither tumblr nor AO3 account, or anywhere else, really, apart from the company I keep on other platforms and locations, I'm already putting up a sparse profile.
active/primary fandoms:
inactive/secondary fandoms: (fandoms you like to read/watch but maybe don’t fic or otherwise engage in)
I don't really consider anything in my media diet a primary affair (or even a few somethings), and the inactive commentary suggests that engagement is primarily fiction made in that fandom. It's possible for "commentary on that piece of media" would count as engagement, but I don't do that here, instead appearing in other places to talk with people in their domain. I don't think I've done much for posts on those matters. So, it's pretty easy to define me completely out of active fandoms and to make all of mine inactive ones or secondary ones. Which is a pretty pitiful profile, if I'm not really anywhere and don't really have anything that I'm active in.
I post about: (fandom, real life, combination)
And then, the options here suggest that one speaks of fandom, or of one's personal life, or a combination, but not really any other options. Since I'm a linkspammer with an eye toward current and newsworthy events, and the other eye with the magpie's avarice for shiny things, and only rarely do I dive into introspection or work-type talk, I'm an "other" in this category, too, talking and explaining too much, with too little in the keywords department or the published work portfolio to be easily scannable and to have a decision made about.
So I don't think I'd be much in gathering people as friends during this affair, even if there are wonderful people out there who would be great conversation partners and very insightful.
Which goes to the other part of the lack of participation - to have assembled a corpus of work in various fandoms or original working requires an investment of time that I'm not able to produce, as well as being inspired to write things (which, frankly, I haven't been, except for that one plotbunny that I will get around to when I have a very large amount of uninterrupted time and no other projects to work on). To be a reviewer or reader takes time and reading and kudos left. I'm neither of those things. I'm hanging out in meta land, ready to talk character development or plot speculation or overall theme, which I think is a part of fandom, just not one really served by this friending thing.
This isn't to say it's bad or that people shouldn't participate, just that I'm probably am edge case who thinks I'm a bigger slice of the pie and doesn't feel included, when I'm really just on the edge of the bell curve.
theladyscribe. If you're looking for more people writing fic and talking about shared interests, go find, go find!. It's already four pages long and likely to grow more.But I'm not participating. (I may end up doing December Dailies on a shared baseball/tarot theme, analyzing cards from said Baseball Tarot deck at request of audience. Yea/Nay?)
Because I feel excluded. Which is a bit odd to be saying, considering I watch media, and read books, and listen to podcasts, and otherwise comment when others are talking about their media diet. I'm even trying for detailed media analysis of a classic series of science fantasy, so I don't think I'm somehow outside the community of fandom in many ways and places.
However, the way things are constructed for the friending, I feel like there's an incredible weighting toward those who regularly write fiction in their fandoms. Which I do not.
So, what's being asked, outside of a Dreamwidth user name?
tumblr username
other platforms (please specify):
I realize tumblr has made it very easy to be fannish, with the ability to reblog and with the focus on single things making a post, really. And other locales are likely to be AO3 and so forth. Not really much of an issue, but since I have neither tumblr nor AO3 account, or anywhere else, really, apart from the company I keep on other platforms and locations, I'm already putting up a sparse profile.
active/primary fandoms:
inactive/secondary fandoms: (fandoms you like to read/watch but maybe don’t fic or otherwise engage in)
I don't really consider anything in my media diet a primary affair (or even a few somethings), and the inactive commentary suggests that engagement is primarily fiction made in that fandom. It's possible for "commentary on that piece of media" would count as engagement, but I don't do that here, instead appearing in other places to talk with people in their domain. I don't think I've done much for posts on those matters. So, it's pretty easy to define me completely out of active fandoms and to make all of mine inactive ones or secondary ones. Which is a pretty pitiful profile, if I'm not really anywhere and don't really have anything that I'm active in.
I post about: (fandom, real life, combination)
And then, the options here suggest that one speaks of fandom, or of one's personal life, or a combination, but not really any other options. Since I'm a linkspammer with an eye toward current and newsworthy events, and the other eye with the magpie's avarice for shiny things, and only rarely do I dive into introspection or work-type talk, I'm an "other" in this category, too, talking and explaining too much, with too little in the keywords department or the published work portfolio to be easily scannable and to have a decision made about.
So I don't think I'd be much in gathering people as friends during this affair, even if there are wonderful people out there who would be great conversation partners and very insightful.
Which goes to the other part of the lack of participation - to have assembled a corpus of work in various fandoms or original working requires an investment of time that I'm not able to produce, as well as being inspired to write things (which, frankly, I haven't been, except for that one plotbunny that I will get around to when I have a very large amount of uninterrupted time and no other projects to work on). To be a reviewer or reader takes time and reading and kudos left. I'm neither of those things. I'm hanging out in meta land, ready to talk character development or plot speculation or overall theme, which I think is a part of fandom, just not one really served by this friending thing.
This isn't to say it's bad or that people shouldn't participate, just that I'm probably am edge case who thinks I'm a bigger slice of the pie and doesn't feel included, when I'm really just on the edge of the bell curve.
