Meandering fannish post.

Dear Plague;

Fuck off and die.

Smiles,
Cherry

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Now that that's out of my system: the results of that poll I did are in.

Video killed the radio star.

Ahem. It seems that livejournal has supplanted the mailing list as the preferred medium of communication. Though, to be fair, the poll had no options for preference or frequency, so the skew could have been less or more than was apparent.

(Note: The ever popular 'You're just avoiding doing your work now, aren't you, Cherry?' has been discarded due to lack of actual relevance.)

It appears that almost everyone posts their fic to their own LJ and their own sites. Those who do not post fic to their LJ seem to be those I know to write mainly long, chaptered pieces. On the whole, personal mailing lists seem (especially) to be falling by the wayside. Those who maintain them tend to be the ones who don't post fic to their journals.

-- I mean, I kind of maybe forgot I had my own mailing list. And it's possible that I never even told people I had one other than by pouncing on individuals in AIM, which could be why my membership is in single digits. (That, or as another questions yield, people just friendslist journals. Yay for my having a tiny friendslist! -- Okay, this is due to the fact that I'm not interesting. So.)


Okay, I'm probably not telling you anything you didn't know.

My friendslist at this point seems to consist of three groups of people: People from Testy Toad's MB (the West Wing family from back in the day), OTLers (comics fic), and a few new Due South people.

I've been out of West Wing for so long that I have no clue what's going on. The largest bulk of my friendslist is OTLers, and, um. Well, we all witnessed the slow and painful demise. There are a few people still writing comics fic, but most of them seem to have moved on to other fandoms or just moved on. Some produce X-Men stuff on the side, and there's been a marked rise in DCU, but it's not quite the same.

I'm still new to Due South, so I can't say much anything at all about the state of that fandom. I do know that ds_flashfiction is a major hub, and ds_noticeboard has a huge audience, but don't even know if there is an active DS archive. I know Silverlake has a respectable section, but. Um. I seem to have been forgetting to post things anywere lately. Blame it on the plague.

What have your experiences with FF.net been like? I find I don't usually turn up much (or any) feedback from there.

Do you measure an fandom's level of activity by number of stories posted, quality of stories posted, or feedback generated? If we're going with the last, I was more active in Due South with one 800 word story than I was in comics fiction for all three years combined.




-- And, okay, I'm old now, and possibly exaggerating a bit, because it was the second, 1000 word, story which pushed me over the comics fic three year total. --


Also, I think I need a Due South icon.