part 353 whalers on the moon

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We've been here over a year now! I can hardly believe it! Dreamwidth's been pretty good, I'd say, with almost no downtime to speak of and all that! Anyway... how is your spring going? Or I guess it's almost summer, isn't it? Hopefully it's been well! I've been catching up on work and new movies, all very exciting stuff, I'm sure.

Enjoy part 353!

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Re: Irritating fandom stuff

[(Anonymous)]

the fact that i really don't have a decent fandom home anymore. ugh.

i miss the old days of livejournal - the OLD old days before the sjw virus spread, where yes there were some wanks and drama but maybe because there was no reblog function, it was all more contained and cordoned off. and you could easily hang in only certain portions of fandom and ignore others.

and people really, really communicated with each other. long, wordy discussions, and reviews. i've grown so lazy and rusty i find that i have difficulty coming up with good compliments even nowadays. you know? like i read a fic and all i can pull together for a comment is WOW A!A I LOVED THAT FIC! because i've forgotten how to say what i want to say.

mind you, i'm not saying that it's bad or not good enough to leave comments like that, i'm sure authors still appreciate it, but i'm saying that it used to be the norm to have at least let's say 20%+ of comments to be longer and more deeply thoughtful (and not the sort of thoughtful that's really thinly-veiled bossiness in which reviewer kisses ass about the good writing but then passive aggressively whines about use of tropes/characters/pairings/kinks that they don't care for, +/- insinuation that it's ~problematic~ or ~offensive~ if not done according to reviewer's taste/headcanons/etc)

blegh, nostalgia.