So many cobwebs to clean out!
Jun. 22nd, 2013 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragojustineSo. I went away due to law school, and I stayed away for too long. And then when I realized I needed to find an online community again, I found one that ended up being really psychologically not healthy for me. And so here I am, I guess, going… take me back? Please?
1. What can I be watching/obsessing about that has a good fandom right now?
2. Where is the action? Lots of things I liked are dead now and I’m just feeling a little bit… lost. Like, Sweet Charity is dead- where are the actions now? Are kinkmemes still a thing? I don’t even.
3. Is it possible to be all fannishly participatory on DW/LJ/AO3 alone, or am I now required to have a tumblr? Or is it something else entirely that I am too old and stupid now to know about?
4. Fandom specific
a. Oh my god did I have Strong Feelings about IM3. I'm weeks too late, but... it didn't leave much room for the Avengers fandom to breathe, did it?
b. My Little Ponies: This is a thing, right? I love the art on equestriadaily, but are there specific coms or people I should be following here for MLP?
c. Who are the big name people I should be reading for Game of Thrones, and/or where are the best recs?
d. Does anybody other than me care about The Borgias?
I feel so lost. It’s like when I first discovered fandom proper and have no idea how the hell to start, but now it’s sad because I used to. I will basically never have the time again that I did before but I am worse without a lot of those fannish habits so I need to figure out new ones I do have time for.
So... I got two cats. And graduated law school. And got married. In that order. Now I'm studying for the bar and there are some major medical things coming up and then I start my Big Girl Job.
The Big Girl Job is terrifying and I really want to just start it already, rather than worrying about my ability to be fit in/be taken seriously/handle the workload, but there has to be this weird three month limbo period before I can do that. And I guess I'm technically a newlywed but it doesn't feel any different than living in sin but maybe it will any day now. And the aforementioned looming medical stuff. And, you know, the bar.
The result of all this is that I feel a little bit like Wile E Coyote right in that moment between stepping off the cliff and looking down. Between two months ago (when I was a single law student) and three months from now (when I will be a married associate) my life is changing completely and totally in every single dimension in ways that I can't entirely be confident I can handle and I would very very much like to skip this scary transition bit and skip to the new status quo, please.
The wedding was good, though. Everything about the wedding was good. Except for my grandmother trying to take naked pictures of me- could have done without that. But it felt very right and like everything I hoped for and like a ridiculous crazy experience I'll remember with my best friend and like a solid foundation and Big Life Transition. Which may be why the current feeling that nothing has changed is a bit unsettling.
1. What can I be watching/obsessing about that has a good fandom right now?
2. Where is the action? Lots of things I liked are dead now and I’m just feeling a little bit… lost. Like, Sweet Charity is dead- where are the actions now? Are kinkmemes still a thing? I don’t even.
3. Is it possible to be all fannishly participatory on DW/LJ/AO3 alone, or am I now required to have a tumblr? Or is it something else entirely that I am too old and stupid now to know about?
4. Fandom specific
a. Oh my god did I have Strong Feelings about IM3. I'm weeks too late, but... it didn't leave much room for the Avengers fandom to breathe, did it?
b. My Little Ponies: This is a thing, right? I love the art on equestriadaily, but are there specific coms or people I should be following here for MLP?
c. Who are the big name people I should be reading for Game of Thrones, and/or where are the best recs?
d. Does anybody other than me care about The Borgias?
I feel so lost. It’s like when I first discovered fandom proper and have no idea how the hell to start, but now it’s sad because I used to. I will basically never have the time again that I did before but I am worse without a lot of those fannish habits so I need to figure out new ones I do have time for.
So... I got two cats. And graduated law school. And got married. In that order. Now I'm studying for the bar and there are some major medical things coming up and then I start my Big Girl Job.
The Big Girl Job is terrifying and I really want to just start it already, rather than worrying about my ability to be fit in/be taken seriously/handle the workload, but there has to be this weird three month limbo period before I can do that. And I guess I'm technically a newlywed but it doesn't feel any different than living in sin but maybe it will any day now. And the aforementioned looming medical stuff. And, you know, the bar.
The result of all this is that I feel a little bit like Wile E Coyote right in that moment between stepping off the cliff and looking down. Between two months ago (when I was a single law student) and three months from now (when I will be a married associate) my life is changing completely and totally in every single dimension in ways that I can't entirely be confident I can handle and I would very very much like to skip this scary transition bit and skip to the new status quo, please.
The wedding was good, though. Everything about the wedding was good. Except for my grandmother trying to take naked pictures of me- could have done without that. But it felt very right and like everything I hoped for and like a ridiculous crazy experience I'll remember with my best friend and like a solid foundation and Big Life Transition. Which may be why the current feeling that nothing has changed is a bit unsettling.
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Date: 2013-06-24 12:28 am (UTC)Teen Wolf has writing of a very erratic quality and generally terrible CGI, but the characters are fascinating and the actors are good to downright amazing. Plus, werewolves! The fannish output is prolific, to put it mildly, and quality is all over the board. Hannibal has stellar writing and stellar acting and a fanbase that's split between gleeful pitch black humor ("It's a cooking show!") and strangely oblivious ("Hannibal is redeemable! Will can save him!"). The first half of the fandom spends a lot of time laughing at a) the show, and b) the second half of the fandom. Or just eating popcorn and watching their increasingly desperate justifications for Hannibal's behavior. The fic is a minor note, overall - there may be an increase now that it's between seasons, but I suspect the writing is so very good, we're just not feeling the drive to fill in a lot of plot holes. The art/image/gifset production, however, has been quite enjoyable.
Tumblr has very shiny things, but its user interface is horrific and the user base is... ah... an entity unto itself. I do love the flood of visual fanart that it has produced, but I feel a good decade and a half (if not two) out of step with the general community. Your mileage may vary, but it tends to be, if not explosive in atmosphere, then at least a bit of a roller coaster. It's very lurkable, though, and an account can be useful.
Big note: if you do end up following links to Tumblr, you'll at least need a couple tricks. The main one is to know that you can add "/mobile" to the end of a URL for the mobile version of a page, and the other is the source of a couple bookmarklets, primarily "Zap Style Sheets", which works where the /mobile trick doesn't. (I also use Zap Images to eliminate moving gifs in the sidebar that you can't scroll past, just because I find them distracting.) Some of the personal page font size/color choices are, well, I'm honestly not sure how they're legible to anyone, but you do have experience with law textbooks, so you may have an advantage in that area. :P
(How did this get so long already?)
Pinboard is bookmarking central at the moment, if you weren't around for that (it's all fuzzy now...), but I think that covers it. HI HI HI!!