Please don't feel bad about the ficathon! I was pretty hard-assed about sticking to the deadlines this year, and you're not the only one who didn't make it.
I appreciate the offer of an offer, though. :D
Regarding fandom ... yeah, god. Well, you know how I feel about that. Even though SGA fandom seems to have calmed down a lot, I still don't feel particularly comfortable in it (and I fully expect a whole new round of bitching, bitterness and misery when Stargate Universe begins airing). I agree with you that the wankery gets out of control when there's no new squee to focus on (or in SGA's case, apparently, just the *possibility* of having nothing new was enough to do it ...) And I also think that, with Livejournal making everything so interconnected, people's moods tend to feed off each other and reflect that -- if most people are having fun, the whole fandom's having fun, but the more fans get (vocally) dissatisfied, the more miserable the overall mood of the fandom gets. For a while, the fandom was going in my direction; then it veered off in a radically different direction, which happens. It was nice while it lasted, is all.
But I really do believe that you get out of fandom (and life) what you put into it, so unless I start having so much trouble dealing with it that I leave fandom -- permanently or temporarily -- I do plan to focus on the fun bits and try to enjoy myself. I had a long out-of-fandom spell prior to SGA (I hadn't been fannishly active, writing fic and such, since about 2003, 'til I started up again in '06) and perhaps I'll come to the point, again, when I just need to step back and take a break for a while.
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I appreciate the offer of an offer, though. :D
Regarding fandom ... yeah, god. Well, you know how I feel about that. Even though SGA fandom seems to have calmed down a lot, I still don't feel particularly comfortable in it (and I fully expect a whole new round of bitching, bitterness and misery when Stargate Universe begins airing). I agree with you that the wankery gets out of control when there's no new squee to focus on (or in SGA's case, apparently, just the *possibility* of having nothing new was enough to do it ...) And I also think that, with Livejournal making everything so interconnected, people's moods tend to feed off each other and reflect that -- if most people are having fun, the whole fandom's having fun, but the more fans get (vocally) dissatisfied, the more miserable the overall mood of the fandom gets. For a while, the fandom was going in my direction; then it veered off in a radically different direction, which happens. It was nice while it lasted, is all.
But I really do believe that you get out of fandom (and life) what you put into it, so unless I start having so much trouble dealing with it that I leave fandom -- permanently or temporarily -- I do plan to focus on the fun bits and try to enjoy myself. I had a long out-of-fandom spell prior to SGA (I hadn't been fannishly active, writing fic and such, since about 2003, 'til I started up again in '06) and perhaps I'll come to the point, again, when I just need to step back and take a break for a while.