Meandering fannish post.

[cherry]

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.

Comments

[lynnmonster.livejournal.com]

Oh!

I was checking the ds_flashfiction friendslist -- which is a great way of getting a survey of the LJs of people into the fandom -- and I just had to comment...

Both The Due South Fiction Archive (http://www.squidge.org/dsa/) (which houses all types of fics, and has a new and improved posting interface/comment feature) and due Slash (http://www.dueslash.com/) (which is, obviously, slash-centric) are up and running and very current. I know there are lots of authors (including me) who don't automatically post the archives, but there's still stuff being posted all the time. Plus, both sites have recently undergone improvements which I think will make them even more user-friendly.

Happy reading!

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

I was checking the [info]ds_flashfiction friendslist -- which is a great way of getting a survey of the LJs of people into the fandom -- and I just had to comment...

Welcome to the jungle! I'm always enthused when I get a LiveJournal comment.

Both The Due South Fiction Archive (which houses all types of fics, and has a new and improved posting interface/comment feature) and due Slash (which is, obviously, slash-centric) are up and running and very current.

Thank you for the recommendations. I'll be sure to check both out. I was attempting to browse the backlog of the ds_flashfiction memories, but found the number (and lack of summary) daunting.

I know there are lots of authors (including me) who don't automatically post the archives...

I find that I'm that way in general now. I forget about archives, which is what spawned the original poll. Well, that and avoiding work. I hadn't posted to ff.net in *forever,* and I realized that I'd forgotten to post to Silverlake. LiveJournal has provided nice little circles in which to post fan works, but I wonder if it's at the cost of the larger community.

[firebird308.livejournal.com]

I sometimes get feedback from FF.Net. And sometimes it's even worthwhile! (i.e. not 'yur stry suxs' or some other badly spelled thing like that)

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Hrm. Very interesting. I get some upon occasion, and it tends to be positive, but sometimes in the 'ur story is gr8. wheres the sequel?' way. Not that it always is, but as I said, the volume of feedback I generate tends to be rather small.

[firebird308.livejournal.com]

I only get feedback something like two times a year.

(Of course, my not posting anythingnew for a year or so probably has something to do with that...)

[brooklinegirl.livejournal.com]

Hey! I sent the fic back to you - at your hotmail account. Let me know if you don't get it!

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

I've got it, but Hotmail has it tagged as having a virus...

Eep?