Wow! And Some Rambling Musings
May. 21st, 2014 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
przedWill you look at that. It's not even one in the morning and I'm all packed up for MediaWest. I may actually get a good night's sleep and on the road early.
I'm looking forward to seeing everyone (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
st_crispins! sc_fossil! silver_cyanne? anyone else?) at the con this year, but my squee is somewhat subdued this year. I don't know if it's just that I've finally had it with the organizational stupidities and downright vindictiveness of the MW con comm, or the fact I will be the sole representative of the current fandom of my heart (Take That, in case you had any doubt), or if I'm beginning to gafiate a bit from fandom, or what.
I doubt I'm ready to pull away from fandom entirely--it's too much a part of my identity--and I'm sure I'll have a ball once I'm in Lansing. And though I'm feeling that this may be my swansong at MW, there's BistoCon to look forward to, and vague plans afoot to attend Escapade next year.
Okay, that's enough introspection for one evening.
I'll see some of you soon at MW, and the rest online!
I'm looking forward to seeing everyone (
st_crispins! sc_fossil! silver_cyanne? anyone else?) at the con this year, but my squee is somewhat subdued this year. I don't know if it's just that I've finally had it with the organizational stupidities and downright vindictiveness of the MW con comm, or the fact I will be the sole representative of the current fandom of my heart (Take That, in case you had any doubt), or if I'm beginning to gafiate a bit from fandom, or what.I doubt I'm ready to pull away from fandom entirely--it's too much a part of my identity--and I'm sure I'll have a ball once I'm in Lansing. And though I'm feeling that this may be my swansong at MW, there's BistoCon to look forward to, and vague plans afoot to attend Escapade next year.
Okay, that's enough introspection for one evening.
I'll see some of you soon at MW, and the rest online!
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Date: 2014-05-24 04:15 am (UTC)Tumblr is horrible for discussion and fic. And the SJW stuff really does become a bit much. (It's one of the ways you can just tell how young their user base is.)
Fandom is certainly fractured, although I suppose part of the problem is also that there's just so many more people in it than there were back in the day.
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Date: 2014-05-24 04:23 am (UTC)The frustrating thing about the SJW stuff is what could be accomplished if that energy could be harnessed in ways that really bring about change... but then that's not what it's really about.
I sometimes wonder whether there really are more people or if it's just a product of how much more visible the whole thing is. Large public sites like Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter bringing about much more exposure to non-fans and to the creative teams as well.