That brought back memories

[cornerofmadness]

of when livejournal was king and it would get attacked and go down and we'd all freak out. Keep in m ind that there wasn't much else in social media at the time other than MySpace (does that even exist any more?)

It's amazing how much you begin to rely on these outlets. I know some of you got yours back relatively fast but mine was out a full 24 hours.

The only thing of relevance I posted was this

it's a holiday call and unlike dreamspinner which is only m/m this open call is for all LGBT representation and I thought some of you might like it.

When Holidays Attack




Day 14 - In your own space, talk about what you think the future holds for fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I honestly don't know. I love seeing the uptick here at DW (I was never a Tumblr fan, sorry) but I suspect it will be brief. Fandom needs a better more interactive home.

As for me, I know my fandom interactions will be relatively minimal for two reasons. 1. I write professionally now and usually only take out the holidays for fan stuff and 2. My fandoms are old. Some of them are going to need a cane pretty soon. I haven't found much in recent years that has captured me the way Star Trek, Buffyverse and Fullmetal Alchemist did. Oh there are shows I love like Lucifer but I'm not really moved to do that much fiction for them.

Comments

[enemytosleep]

Yeah I was out for 24 hours as well. It was so nostalgic hahaha

[cornerofmadness]

And the weird part was I can sometimes go days without looking at it but knowing I couldn't look at it means I was testing it every 5 minutes

[enemytosleep]

Exactly! I was also really wanting to update the Needy Stockings list at fandom_stocking, so not having access yesterday actually stressed me a tiny bit.

[cornerofmadness]

same here. I had another chapter to the long one and if I don't get off my butt yours will be finished for that mini big bang wipbigbang is running...

[enemytosleep]

I debated adding my monster fandom_stocking to that challenge as well. I really would like to have it done before February.

[cornerofmadness]

hahaha so now we have a plan...

[enemytosleep]

LMAO, basically. If it's February and I'm still drafting, I'll add it to the challenge to get it done before the 15th.

[cornerofmadness]

I'm not signing up until the 19th. WHo knows maybe I'll finish the Buffy one tonight or tomorrow and then can mostly finish yours...

[spikedluv]

It's been lovely! If only DW was for everyone. I do still want to have access to pretty GIFsets. *g*

[cornerofmadness]

I don't blame you there. Can they not do that on DW? (I literally have no idea)

[spikedluv]

I think it has something to do with the amount (aka, lack of) storage on DW. I've only uploaded photos I had saved to Tumblr, but it sounds like you can host them there, too? I don't really know about that part.

Also, I think the lack of a reblog is an issue. Though you'd think they'd be happy that people weren't stealing their stuff and reposting it instead of reblogging. If they posted announcements to comms they'd get a lot of traffic and actually be able to reply to the people commenting on their hard work. (I say this as an author who has no idea about what artists go through or want. o_O)