I saw your post and wanted to pipe up with my two cents, but I see a lot of people have already said it better.
I'm still talkative enough to want to throw in, though.
I’ve been in fandom in some way or another since-- lord, 1997 or so? ((where does the time go?)) -- and so my answer is: I miss archives with lots of exclamation points all over. Maybe big sparkly text. I quite literally grew up in fandoms that were based in archives – I actually have a post about that over here on my DW. But all of those archives were personally run, and a lot of my old 'home bases' are dead, now. AO3 is set up so that it won't go defunct, which is a delight and a perpetual joy for me.
I didn't start posting fic until I was on Livejournal, mostly because I considered everything I wrote horrible, but it took me ages to get used to the livejournal interface and presentation of fiction. It still feels vaguely unnatural and wrong, despite that I’ve been around LJ (and now DW) for five years or so. It's counterintuitive to me, and especially on Livejournal, it kind of forces a closeness that I'm not actually at all interested in having with a lot of writers.
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Date: 2010-03-18 03:55 pm (UTC)I'm still talkative enough to want to throw in, though.
I’ve been in fandom in some way or another since-- lord, 1997 or so? ((where does the time go?)) -- and so my answer is: I miss archives with lots of exclamation points all over. Maybe big sparkly text. I quite literally grew up in fandoms that were based in archives – I actually have a post about that over here on my DW. But all of those archives were personally run, and a lot of my old 'home bases' are dead, now. AO3 is set up so that it won't go defunct, which is a delight and a perpetual joy for me.
I didn't start posting fic until I was on Livejournal, mostly because I considered everything I wrote horrible, but it took me ages to get used to the livejournal interface and presentation of fiction. It still feels vaguely unnatural and wrong, despite that I’ve been around LJ (and now DW) for five years or so. It's counterintuitive to me, and especially on Livejournal, it kind of forces a closeness that I'm not actually at all interested in having with a lot of writers.