I am experiencing that inevitable part of most fandom, the melancholy of looking around and realizing that folks have wandered off while YOU had wandered off, and now that you're back and inspired, they aren't.
I wonder how
nidrig is doing, with the baby and all. (I also wonder where I've stashed my copy of her "Still Life" Auron portrait, auuuugh.)
I especially wonder aboutmneme_forgets, who used to give the most incredibly astute/frank feedback and critique. No wonder she burned out.
Other folks too.
Most of the rest of those who used to spam the pages of
ff_press are intermittent now, as I am. Bless the new blood!
There's certain people I want to poke and say, "Read this! Read read read! What do you think? I wrote it partly based on your past feedback!" but I can't, because I realize I never got around to reading/reviewing some of their best. Or else they've got real life now. Or both.
Also, self-plugging such as I'm doing now is... hm... the fandom equivalent of telemarketing. Annoying, and even when the product's good, the nag-call irks the customer.
Right now, I can't seem to stop checking for readers/comments. So consider this a shameless plug, with the understanding that I've been utterly LOUSY about keeping up and commenting, so... I have no excuse for asking others to do so. :)
Shameless plugs aside, I am very grateful that I caught the cusp of FFX fandom, even though I came to it about 4 years after everyone else. Sorry I slipped away before it had quite begun to fade to newer ones.
At some point I really need to play XII, eh? :)
I wonder how
nidrig is doing, with the baby and all. (I also wonder where I've stashed my copy of her "Still Life" Auron portrait, auuuugh.)I especially wonder about
mneme_forgets, who used to give the most incredibly astute/frank feedback and critique. No wonder she burned out.Other folks too.
Most of the rest of those who used to spam the pages of
ff_press are intermittent now, as I am. Bless the new blood!There's certain people I want to poke and say, "Read this! Read read read! What do you think? I wrote it partly based on your past feedback!" but I can't, because I realize I never got around to reading/reviewing some of their best. Or else they've got real life now. Or both.
Also, self-plugging such as I'm doing now is... hm... the fandom equivalent of telemarketing. Annoying, and even when the product's good, the nag-call irks the customer.
Right now, I can't seem to stop checking for readers/comments. So consider this a shameless plug, with the understanding that I've been utterly LOUSY about keeping up and commenting, so... I have no excuse for asking others to do so. :)
Shameless plugs aside, I am very grateful that I caught the cusp of FFX fandom, even though I came to it about 4 years after everyone else. Sorry I slipped away before it had quite begun to fade to newer ones.
At some point I really need to play XII, eh? :)
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I'm not sure I agree. There were a lot of conversations about self-promotion back in the day, which led me to think that some level of it is a good thing. Busy lives, busy Internets... sometimes I appreciate the reminder that there's something out there I need to check out. Plus, it helps us fight our (women's) training that we shouldn't put ourselves forward. It would be better if our fandom had a culture of recc'ing other people's stuff, but in the absence of that, I think tactful self-recc'ing is not only not tacky, but necessary.
So I'm still around, still reading (although bad bad bad about leaving feedback; I'm working to get myself back in the habit, but it *will* take work), not writing nearly as much right now but still nursing lots of ideas. Maybe if enough people come out of the woodwork, we can pick up critical mass again.
But honestly, your one critique/comment that turned up a gaping hole in my backstory has done more to improve the plot than anything I could've come up with on my own, so I keep wanting to say, "thanks!" and "look!" Only there's not much to see because the backstory's hiding there in the back and won't really pop into the foreground until later.
I really do wonder what happened to
Oh FFXII, I could not bring myself to read anything yet because I have yet to complete it due to my PS2 decided to die on me! ;o;
Meanwhile, I'm the Old Lady of Utena fandom, apparently, as most of the folks I interact with are just short of half my age.
I've never been much for *writing* FF10 fandom. FF4 and FF6 were always my babies, and now 12 as well. But I do love to read in it.
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