alexcat | Day 14 -15 Snowflake Challenge

Day 14

In your own space, talk about what you think the future holds for fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I have no idea. Fandom as I knew it is mostly dead. The loyalty and close friendships seem to be a thing of the past and the tropes and such are so bizarre now that finding a niche is hard sometimes. I guess I have a we'll see attitude right now since the great migration from Tumblr.

Day 15

Talk about why you participated in Snowflake &/or what you got out of it. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I like SC - it's great fun and makes a person think... I notice lots of people seem to be uptight about it - they seem to miss the point all together. It's a fun way to reconnect with fandom with the idea of being involved in even a tiny way. I've met some new peeps most years and hope to this year as well. I plan to do them as long as I can and they continue.

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I think fandom is what you make it. For a while, years ago, I was hanging out with some very bitter, cynical fans who were always arguing about the downfall of fandom (very judgy about what other fans were doing, very defensive about what they were doing) and just had to step away for a long time because fandom had become sort of toxic… except it wasn't fandom that had become a toxic place, it was the handful of people I had been choosing to hang out with that were toxic. (In hindsight, I can now see so many instances where they were undercutting my self-worth in real life as well as fandom.)

Look for the fun stuff that still excites you and ignore the grumps who make everything stressful.