but I just haven't worked out the time to do it (and I have so many screencaps already...).
And then you're supposed to eat and do schoolwork WHEN, exactly? (Without an existing fanbase/audience to rally around it, I daresay it would be frustrating anyway.)
in favor of short, shallow tweets and GIFs and general Tumblr sort of activity.
Yeah, it's a bit like what happened when TV became popular decades ago and movie attendance dropped, then tv had to compete with home video, then with computers then....it's been getting faster and faster. (I really DO NOT think the human brain was meant to handle this amount of information at the speed we're trying to do so. No wonder ADD is becoming so pervasive. We can't pay attention for any length of time any more because we're not encouraged or rewarded for doing so. That's in addition to all the directions life tears us in on top of that.)
seeing a lot, lot less activity in favor of short, shallow tweets and GIFs and general Tumblr sort of activity.
There have been times when I've read a fanfic and not really wanted or had time to do a review but wanted to let the author know I've read it, and wished there was a "like" function as with Facebook. And I don't even go on my facebook page all that often (I mostly ignore it because it's an ADD nightmare). And even some of my "meta posts" for Buffy, where otherwise I might have written paragraphs of description, I've just placed a couple of screencaps together for comparison and let readers draw their own conclusions. It's a lazy way for me to "write an essay" without writing an essay; the irony being that it takes a lot of damn time to find, sort, store and edit those caps in the first place. http://red-satin-doll.livejournal.com/15801.html
BTW - by FF are you referring to Ff.net (Fanfiction.net) or another site? comlodge reported to me recently that she's gotten some very good numbers re: readers there, as opposed to AO3 but I hadn't asked about actual feedback. I used to post on Ff.net in the Moulin Rouge cat over ten years ago, haven't done so in ages; and for some reason I'm not really attracted to the site anymore. (Maybe I remember it as being dominated mostly by a lot of really horrible prose, with a few rare gems to be found in the muck, if you looked carefully. Or maybe it's memories of trying to format that thing. Oh, the trauma *raises hand to forehead and sighs*)
I don't have a smartphone but my sweetie has an ipod - she's gone from hating computers to using them reluctantly, to having a desktop, a laptop and her ipod is her CONSTANT companion. She looks up her emails on the laptop but I can't figure out how she can stand that little screen.
She's talked about getting an iPad for me as a replacement for the desktop i.e. a computer that I can use for my stuff instead of her laptop and I feel like, um, ok, cute toy, but I can't imagine sitting in front of that screen for any length of time and do any serious work on it.
Watching the Buffy fandom slowly die is just painful on top of it.
And every time on LJ lately I've seen someone post an opinion to that effect it's generated a very long convo thread. It's not as lively - but if the fandom a few years ago was mostly centered on the comics and the controversy thus surrounding them - well, it's probably a double-edged sword. More activity, more people discovering the fandom, but more anger and arguing as well. (And the revival of the shipper wars oh hurray everyone really wanted that, didn't they? */end sarcasm*)
In other words, I refuse to believe the fandom is dying. Just resting a bit.
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And then you're supposed to eat and do schoolwork WHEN, exactly? (Without an existing fanbase/audience to rally around it, I daresay it would be frustrating anyway.)
in favor of short, shallow tweets and GIFs and general Tumblr sort of activity.
Yeah, it's a bit like what happened when TV became popular decades ago and movie attendance dropped, then tv had to compete with home video, then with computers then....it's been getting faster and faster. (I really DO NOT think the human brain was meant to handle this amount of information at the speed we're trying to do so. No wonder ADD is becoming so pervasive. We can't pay attention for any length of time any more because we're not encouraged or rewarded for doing so. That's in addition to all the directions life tears us in on top of that.)
seeing a lot, lot less activity in favor of short, shallow tweets and GIFs and general Tumblr sort of activity.
There have been times when I've read a fanfic and not really wanted or had time to do a review but wanted to let the author know I've read it, and wished there was a "like" function as with Facebook. And I don't even go on my facebook page all that often (I mostly ignore it because it's an ADD nightmare). And even some of my "meta posts" for Buffy, where otherwise I might have written paragraphs of description, I've just placed a couple of screencaps together for comparison and let readers draw their own conclusions. It's a lazy way for me to "write an essay" without writing an essay; the irony being that it takes a lot of damn time to find, sort, store and edit those caps in the first place. http://red-satin-doll.livejournal.com/15801.html
BTW - by FF are you referring to Ff.net (Fanfiction.net) or another site?
I don't have a smartphone but my sweetie has an ipod - she's gone from hating computers to using them reluctantly, to having a desktop, a laptop and her ipod is her CONSTANT companion. She looks up her emails on the laptop but I can't figure out how she can stand that little screen.
She's talked about getting an iPad for me as a replacement for the desktop i.e. a computer that I can use for my stuff instead of her laptop and I feel like, um, ok, cute toy, but I can't imagine sitting in front of that screen for any length of time and do any serious work on it.
Watching the Buffy fandom slowly die is just painful on top of it.
And every time on LJ lately I've seen someone post an opinion to that effect it's generated a very long convo thread. It's not as lively - but if the fandom a few years ago was mostly centered on the comics and the controversy thus surrounding them - well, it's probably a double-edged sword. More activity, more people discovering the fandom, but more anger and arguing as well. (And the revival of the shipper wars oh hurray everyone really wanted that, didn't they? */end sarcasm*)
In other words, I refuse to believe the fandom is dying. Just resting a bit.