And I miss forums. Remember forums? Sigh. And even the old mailing lists...
I never really got on with forums for fandom. They were too nerve-wracking for me! I did belong to a couple, though, but my forum tactic was always to hang about in the off-topic section discussing a different fandom to the one the forum was for, because that was way safer. I used, and still do use, one of them for family history - the format seems to work for that for me.) I think because fic was always where I started out - I never used mailing lists, I sort of skipped that era with lack of internet after uni, but I have fond memories of newsgroups, which were my first experience of fandom, especially alt.drwho.creative. radw was terrifying, so I retreated from any discussion sites into the fic-writing side. adwc was so small and we were all so polite! I mean, we gave concrit freely and at length in a way that would have us ousted from modern fandom in a heartbeat, but the one time we had a bust up we all immediately agreed it had been a misunderstanding and apologised profusely at each other.
Although, geez, I appear to have just discovered the secret to getting actual meaty comments, at least in one fandom: take the characters who keep getting happy endings in fic but shouldn't and write 7k words of it not happening! (Fandom is so weird and wild. I would not have predicted that ever.)
Oh, that's great! And I'm not really surprised - your fic is always really good anyway.
but I'll make an exception for you if you like. Because unlike a lot of writers in OUaT fandom, I trust you. :)
Aww, that's very kind! Don't worry, you read them at the time, when I was moaning about this back then (in... ooh, 2014? lol, I should get over it, shouldn't I?) I think crossposted that little batch of OUaT stories to LJ, so you presumably read them there instead. But you did, because I remember us talking about it after, even if I may have forgotten everything else since. (You were kind about the Terrible No Good Swan Queen fic, though.)
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I never really got on with forums for fandom. They were too nerve-wracking for me! I did belong to a couple, though, but my forum tactic was always to hang about in the off-topic section discussing a different fandom to the one the forum was for, because that was way safer. I used, and still do use, one of them for family history - the format seems to work for that for me.) I think because fic was always where I started out - I never used mailing lists, I sort of skipped that era with lack of internet after uni, but I have fond memories of newsgroups, which were my first experience of fandom, especially alt.drwho.creative. radw was terrifying, so I retreated from any discussion sites into the fic-writing side. adwc was so small and we were all so polite! I mean, we gave concrit freely and at length in a way that would have us ousted from modern fandom in a heartbeat, but the one time we had a bust up we all immediately agreed it had been a misunderstanding and apologised profusely at each other.
Although, geez, I appear to have just discovered the secret to getting actual meaty comments, at least in one fandom: take the characters who keep getting happy endings in fic but shouldn't and write 7k words of it not happening! (Fandom is so weird and wild. I would not have predicted that ever.)
Oh, that's great! And I'm not really surprised - your fic is always really good anyway.
but I'll make an exception for you if you like. Because unlike a lot of writers in OUaT fandom, I trust you. :)
Aww, that's very kind! Don't worry, you read them at the time, when I was moaning about this back then (in... ooh, 2014? lol, I should get over it, shouldn't I?) I think crossposted that little batch of OUaT stories to LJ, so you presumably read them there instead. But you did, because I remember us talking about it after, even if I may have forgotten everything else since. (You were kind about the Terrible No Good Swan Queen fic, though.)