fandom yay and nay

[schmerica]

I actually went to check out the fanfic_hate thread on Smallville, but it turned out to be incredibly horribly boring. Honestly, if I'm going to go to the effort and guilt to go through all of that, you'd think it could at least be entertaining in a car-crash or I'm-a-horrible-person-for-reading-this sort of way. Instead it just seems to be round #8,000,124 of the "Smallville is mean to newbies" argument.

On the other hand, I am anticipating the ds_undercover stories with much excitement. So much new fic by so many cool people! All at once! Whee!

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[copracat]

No one puts in the effort anymore.

I know. Ain't nothing like the serious wars we used to have in the old days. Tsk. Those newbie fandoms with their baby kerfuffles.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heh. I think I'm too recent for a lot of the *really* classic fandom kerfuffles, really.

[copracat]

No, you were early SV, first season, yeah? You haven't missed a thing.

Checking on when you started postign SV, I just went back to read one of the first feedback emails I ever sent you (yes, I keep it) and I said, " I wish you'd gotten into fandom years and years ago so there was megabytes of your stories to be read. I wish time would go faster for me and slower for you so you could write more and I could read it more often."

And then you turned out to be amazingly, wonderfully prolific. And there are megabytes.

Yay. :)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I was thinking too recent in fandom in general, not SV in particular. Although now that I think about, maybe that's not true either -- new crazy things do sprout up all the time. It's just easy to go "Everything really crazy-ass and weird happened before my time!" (The due south fandom I entered, for example, is a cute little fluffy bunny.)

(I remember that feedback! It made me all warm and fuzzy and happy then, and it does now, too. Thank you!)