Fandom misc

[sholio]

SSR Confidential is happening again this year - I think I forgot to post a notice here, but tag set nominations are open through March 12th. Here's a text list of all nominated characters and relationships currently in the tag set. Signups will open on *quickly checks* March 15.

muccamukk is hosting a sprint of an AC episode rewatch, starting a couple of days ago and ending in early April, to fit in all the episodes with time left to write. Here's the rewatch schedule and the rewatch tag for episode discussion posts.

(I posted a couple of comments over there today before realizing fairly quickly that I was going to have to nope out. I kinda already suspected this was a show that's too close to my heart for me to be able to dissect its flaws without ending up in a downward misery spiral, and yepppp. It's no one's fault and nothing to do with the discussion, it's just that my mode on this show is very firmly set to "roll around in squee" and not "critically analyze". Anyway, it looked like the discussion was going well and had raised lots of interesting points, so I hope people enjoy it!)

On other topics, I have had a Tumblr post I made in support of lurkers blow up over the last couple of days - here's a reblog with some of my additional comments. It went from under 100 notes two days ago to around 1900 and still climbing. I'm drowning in notes! They're eating all my other notes! I wish it was possible to turn off notes on just one post on Tumblr, but I think you have to do it globally.

In spite of everything I dislike about Facebook, it has two features I really wish Tumblr would implement: the ability to hide just one specific post without unfollowing a person, and the above-mentioned ability to turn notifications on or off on a post-by-post basis.

Comments

[sholio]

Yeah, people definitely exist all up and down the natural lurker to natural non-lurker spectrum. I suppose I'm somewhere in the middle ... I lurk a LOT, but I also typically de-lurk pretty quickly in new fandoms if there's an easy way of interacting, especially if I'm familiar with the commenting platform already.

I'm not even sure if I realized that you *could* interact with authors when I first started reading fanfic online. It was mostly on private websites and I was way too shy to email someone out of the blue like that. Though when I was cleaning out my inbox awhile back, I found a reply to an email I sent back in circa 1999 about someone's Stargate fic, so apparently I did do it sometimes!

[sheron]

Heh! I remember leaving pages and pages of feedback in "address books" on geocites, as that was sometimes the only way to contact the author :D

And of course, emailing people based on the addy they supplied with the text of their fic. I remember I once emailed someone about a fic they posted years earlier and I was like "you probably don't care, but this fic was sooo great etc etc" and the author replied! I remember thinking "wow, what it must be like to write a fic where someone will want to send you a comment years after it was published". Ah, the innocence of youth. XD

Though I did lurk on all the mailing lists, mostly because I was pretending that I was over 18 to be able to join stuff that had slash XD

[kore]

OMG, address books -- and guest books! I remember those. Where you'd see everyone else's comments in a long wall of text.