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storieshaped) wrote2015-11-04 10:46 pm
storieshaped) wrote2015-11-04 10:46 pm
late night
Still trying to figure out how I want to handle this journal.
Feels weird to be back to blogging in a fannish sphere after so long in not doing so.
Sure, I've got my tumblr and twitter but (at least until recently with twitter) they've not been really a fannish space for me. More like a fannish lurking place.
I really do want to try to connect with fandom again but I don't feel like I know how to do so.
I've been posting on longformfandom but I'm not really connecting the way I remembered doing so in my younger fannish years.
Which is frustrating as there are so many lovely seeming people out there. Also, I see people who I remember from when I use to be an active from my fandom past 9not close fannish friends just people active back then) and it's comforting to see them but it feels like such a weird thing to reach out and say, "Hi, remember [insert fandom here]?" when it's obvious we've both moved on.
Also, my definition of "fandom" is so much more than just movies, tv, and books.
Like warcraft. That's a big fannish love of mine but it's not one where I have "fanfic" needs. More like, this is what I love let me drown you in it!, rather than oooh STEREK!
Does that make sense? Is this what getting back on the date wagon feels like?
Feels weird to be back to blogging in a fannish sphere after so long in not doing so.
Sure, I've got my tumblr and twitter but (at least until recently with twitter) they've not been really a fannish space for me. More like a fannish lurking place.
I really do want to try to connect with fandom again but I don't feel like I know how to do so.
I've been posting on longformfandom but I'm not really connecting the way I remembered doing so in my younger fannish years.
Which is frustrating as there are so many lovely seeming people out there. Also, I see people who I remember from when I use to be an active from my fandom past 9not close fannish friends just people active back then) and it's comforting to see them but it feels like such a weird thing to reach out and say, "Hi, remember [insert fandom here]?" when it's obvious we've both moved on.
Also, my definition of "fandom" is so much more than just movies, tv, and books.
Like warcraft. That's a big fannish love of mine but it's not one where I have "fanfic" needs. More like, this is what I love let me drown you in it!, rather than oooh STEREK!
Does that make sense? Is this what getting back on the date wagon feels like?
The joys of a middle-aged fan. :P
In other news, I really need to remember how to do the mood icon thingy.