I got dreams so wide like a country mile

This part really can't be said enough -- as much as I love journal-based fandom for connecting with *people* (and that's a much richer part of my fandom life than it was in archive-and-mailing-list days), it's ridiculously hard to find their creations when you aren't already following the person who happened to post it on the day they posted it. Even in the best case scenario where the creator tags everything assiduously and knows all the right comms and the newsletters pick the story up, and the READER also knows the right places to look, ALL of that is still backfill for the fact that you can't easily just go somewhere and look for it.