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Nablopomo #3
Jul. 3rd, 2010 03:38 pmEveryone here where I live seems to think it's the 4th of July... well, folks, it's not. Not sure why the parades and celebrations can't be held on a Sunday.
I have been thinking of retiring. From what, you ask? Writing LOTR. The fandom is not dead but it is rather... tired I think. All the new things I am seeing are much like the first things I saw years ago. Mary Sues. People who write totally out there AU's are hailing themselves as great writers and offering ZIP files of their great works. Canon fiction seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur. Or maybe I am the dinosaur. I am not seeing much commentary here at OEAM or on the Yahoo groups about anything anymore though I do think there are still some readers and writers out there. I am just not sure I have a lot more to say in the fandom.
Will I leave the fandom then? No. I think OEAM is one of the last good archives left. And we are one of the only ones that is not self-posting, which I like. I had hoped adding fandoms would make it livelier but so far, I have not seen that. I cringe every time someone has the nerve to post to the yahoo groups a link to their fic somewhere else. I should be like other group owners and bust them but why bother?
I read a little in the Sherlock Holmes fandom... wondering when it will die down. I write a bit of Stargate fiction though I don't think anyone reads it. Is fanfiction dead then? If it's not, where is it? Twilight? *Shivers with revulsion*.
And that is today's post!
I have been thinking of retiring. From what, you ask? Writing LOTR. The fandom is not dead but it is rather... tired I think. All the new things I am seeing are much like the first things I saw years ago. Mary Sues. People who write totally out there AU's are hailing themselves as great writers and offering ZIP files of their great works. Canon fiction seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur. Or maybe I am the dinosaur. I am not seeing much commentary here at OEAM or on the Yahoo groups about anything anymore though I do think there are still some readers and writers out there. I am just not sure I have a lot more to say in the fandom.
Will I leave the fandom then? No. I think OEAM is one of the last good archives left. And we are one of the only ones that is not self-posting, which I like. I had hoped adding fandoms would make it livelier but so far, I have not seen that. I cringe every time someone has the nerve to post to the yahoo groups a link to their fic somewhere else. I should be like other group owners and bust them but why bother?
I read a little in the Sherlock Holmes fandom... wondering when it will die down. I write a bit of Stargate fiction though I don't think anyone reads it. Is fanfiction dead then? If it's not, where is it? Twilight? *Shivers with revulsion*.
And that is today's post!