I'm finding it a bit sad as well, because Snady was my pimp.
Snady was in my head for so much of this; she did so much to help shape the fandom I knew. She was better than anyone at both enjoying the hell out of fandom (and fannish source), and at pointing out flaws in things without making it personal at all; Joanne's Slashfic Hall of Fame was a complete eye-opener for me, as was the first Vid Review I went to, which Snady was running.
I miss the show discussions on the mailing lists; forums sometimes can provide the discussion space I remember, but the blogs don't offer it.
That's how I find it, too, and sadly I'm not very clued-in to the forum scene. I said to someone upthread that it makes it hard for me to feel like I'm "in" a fandom, without the discussion, because that was always how I differentiated things; I could be reading in dozens of fandoms, but I was only *in* the three or four fandoms I was on discussion lists for, because those were the ones where I wanted to immerse myself in the source and the conversations.
So mostly these days I wind up talking to a couple of local friends, and to a small group of people on IRC.
And yet that said:
And by then the media for all the different conversations had changed so much that I pretty much stopped participating, and now just talk to my friends,
This is something I struggle with, as things change, because the fact of being active in fandom matters as much to me as being around my friends. It took me about 8 years to get used to the idea of participating in journal-based fandom; I've never liked it as much as lists, and for many years, it made me actively unhappy and stressed out to even read it (like, with physical symptoms). Dreamwidth helped with that, for some reason I still haven't figured out, and I've been able to be active (ish) here.
Just in time for fandom to hie itself off to even more scattered, noise-heavy climes. *facepalm* But I'm trying to get a grip on Tumblr and Twitter so I don't lose touch completely.
OTOH, we also have things like the AO3, which has become my primary fic-reading place these days; so much easier than trying to find stuff posted across a thousand personal journals you may never have heard of!
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Snady was in my head for so much of this; she did so much to help shape the fandom I knew. She was better than anyone at both enjoying the hell out of fandom (and fannish source), and at pointing out flaws in things without making it personal at all; Joanne's Slashfic Hall of Fame was a complete eye-opener for me, as was the first Vid Review I went to, which Snady was running.
I miss the show discussions on the mailing lists; forums sometimes can provide the discussion space I remember, but the blogs don't offer it.
That's how I find it, too, and sadly I'm not very clued-in to the forum scene. I said to someone upthread that it makes it hard for me to feel like I'm "in" a fandom, without the discussion, because that was always how I differentiated things; I could be reading in dozens of fandoms, but I was only *in* the three or four fandoms I was on discussion lists for, because those were the ones where I wanted to immerse myself in the source and the conversations.
So mostly these days I wind up talking to a couple of local friends, and to a small group of people on IRC.
And yet that said:
And by then the media for all the different conversations had changed so much that I pretty much stopped participating, and now just talk to my friends,
This is something I struggle with, as things change, because the fact of being active in fandom matters as much to me as being around my friends. It took me about 8 years to get used to the idea of participating in journal-based fandom; I've never liked it as much as lists, and for many years, it made me actively unhappy and stressed out to even read it (like, with physical symptoms). Dreamwidth helped with that, for some reason I still haven't figured out, and I've been able to be active (ish) here.
Just in time for fandom to hie itself off to even more scattered, noise-heavy climes. *facepalm* But I'm trying to get a grip on Tumblr and Twitter so I don't lose touch completely.
OTOH, we also have things like the AO3, which has become my primary fic-reading place these days; so much easier than trying to find stuff posted across a thousand personal journals you may never have heard of!
I miss the 'old days'. And I miss Snady.
But oh yes, this. Dammit.