On Laziness and Fandom

I guess I've talked to a few people about this and I've seen a few posts here so I'm gonna go off. It's not that I've forgotten how to use Dreamwidth/LJ-style platforms, so much as culture within fandom has shifted and fandom collectively has changed -- different people now, different values.

As lazy as reblogging was, it also offered a great way to get visibility and through visibility, you met people and made friends and then you could have those long metas about the things that you mutually loved. With Dreamwidth, there is a smaller stream of content coming in (at least for me, setting it up) so I feel like a lot less is missed but also finding content and the creation of new content isn't intuitive.

Dreamwidth is less a platform designed to blow hours of your day -- something we were both spoiled and cursed with re: Tumblr -- and more of an old school idea. You check the updates, reply to friends or communities, maybe post a thing, and then close. What are we to do with all of this time -- actually create content? Is this a joke?

At the same time, perhaps it will get better as I find more people I know and meet more people. I think part of what makes it hard is the abysmal search function.

I guess time will tell.

About Me;

Hi, Dreamwidth! My name is August. I have been in fandom for about eleven years and fannish for even longer. I live in Washington state with my fiancee, where I work in finance. Eventually, I plan to go to grad school and get a job in academia. I love indie music and traveling and alcohol.

My passions are history, literature, and fandom -- no order implied. I write fic and live to meta. I wallow around in guilt/redemption tropes and you can usually find me writing things that don't have firm happy endings. Because life doesn't even offer that. My fandom interests change at the drop of a hat, but you can usually find me in Star Wars, X-Men, Sherlock, and Harry Potter circles.

What else? My oldest and strongest is Grindeldore. I run the annual Grindeldore Holiday Exchange on Tumblr and AO3. My AO3, Tumblr, Discord, and Playmoss are also Kierkegarden. If I'm on a platform, you can usually find me pretty easily.

Please don't hesitate to say hi and chat with me! One thing I'm super worried about with the Great Tumblr Purge is that fandom is gonna lose its centralization and connectedness. So please! Stay a while, comment, etc. I love conversation.