Well actually, I may be misspeaking on the time period in question. The "year" I reference is, IIRC, from spring of 2007 through late summer/early fall of 2008. It's all the posts (newsletters, announcements, recruiting, "love stories"/what OTW means to me, first wave of annual reports, etc. along with the comments on them) from the LJ comm... that one that was all yellow. (IIRC) *gets very fuzzy on time* *and colors*
I'm a constant victim of "fandom time" syndrome... The sense of time where you remember each con vividly, and exactly when favorite actor X quit your favorite show and the first episode without zir (*waah!*), and the release of movie X and the friends you saw it with, and everything you said about it afterwards and the very first drabble you wrote in that storyverse ... But you can't remember whether that banning wank was in 2005 or 07 or was it even 2008? And when your *new* Fandom OMGILU group split away from the *old* parent WTFBBQ list? (Or even when it was ezzackly that you stopped being mainly active on the lists and moved to LJ? Woah. We made that crossing on the Ark with Noah, wazznit?)
I say thank goodness it's the dates and details of the wanky shit I never remember well, even though every first-time fandom love affair I've ever had remains brightly burnished in my mind. Or at least, lovingly backlit by the golden glow of nostalgia. *g*
As to OTW and communic's -- I should hope and expect it has changed! LOL. That was part of my thinking, actually, when I set aside the data from my analysis of that first year - I could compare against a later period to see what the shape and style of changes were. (See, I still want to *make* it come out really positive! B/c hay: it's *my* women's safe-space, fandom; my only genderqueer communitarian home in the galaxy. I want it to always be stellar and awesome, or at least heading there!)
Funny again, though (in the OMG way, not the ha-ha one) how many in fandom only and always judge other fans, comms, etc. by "OMG WHAT SHE DID 7 YEARS AGO HOW CAN YOU EVER TRUST HER IN ANY WAY AGAIN?!?!?!?" Fans can be an oddly unforgiving lot! I've never quite figured out *where* that trait comes from. Although I suspect it's got something to do with the many younger/newer fans who haven't been around long enough to make half the mistakes that can be made, and contemplate nearly all the others.
Wank and fandom, ugh. That pairing is my least favorite, yet most often seen! SOMEBODY TELL ME WHYYYYY
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Date: 2010-01-09 03:22 am (UTC)I'm a constant victim of "fandom time" syndrome... The sense of time where you remember each con vividly, and exactly when favorite actor X quit your favorite show and the first episode without zir (*waah!*), and the release of movie X and the friends you saw it with, and everything you said about it afterwards and the very first drabble you wrote in that storyverse ... But you can't remember whether that banning wank was in 2005 or 07 or was it even 2008? And when your *new* Fandom OMGILU group split away from the *old* parent WTFBBQ list? (Or even when it was ezzackly that you stopped being mainly active on the lists and moved to LJ? Woah. We made that crossing on the Ark with Noah, wazznit?)
I say thank goodness it's the dates and details of the wanky shit I never remember well, even though every first-time fandom love affair I've ever had remains brightly burnished in my mind. Or at least, lovingly backlit by the golden glow of nostalgia. *g*
As to OTW and communic's -- I should hope and expect it has changed! LOL. That was part of my thinking, actually, when I set aside the data from my analysis of that first year - I could compare against a later period to see what the shape and style of changes were. (See, I still want to *make* it come out really positive! B/c hay: it's *my* women's safe-space, fandom; my only genderqueer communitarian home in the galaxy. I want it to always be stellar and awesome, or at least heading there!)
Funny again, though (in the OMG way, not the ha-ha one) how many in fandom only and always judge other fans, comms, etc. by "OMG WHAT SHE DID 7 YEARS AGO HOW CAN YOU EVER TRUST HER IN ANY WAY AGAIN?!?!?!?" Fans can be an oddly unforgiving lot! I've never quite figured out *where* that trait comes from. Although I suspect it's got something to do with the many younger/newer fans who haven't been around long enough to make half the mistakes that can be made, and contemplate nearly all the others.
Wank and fandom, ugh. That pairing is my least favorite, yet most often seen! SOMEBODY TELL ME WHYYYYY
*hugs you*