Fandom Snowflake: Day Twelve
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Day 12: In your own space, talk about what you think the future holds for fandom. What are your hopes and dreams for fandom? Do you have any predictions about what the next five years holds for fandom?
I don't anything particularly interesting to say for today's challenge, unfortunately. The thing about the future is that it's always unpredictable. Who knew that a website based around looking at photos of your Harvard classmates or posting no more than a short sentence at a time would become incredibly popular? But then Facebook happened, and then Twitter happened. I have no idea what the next big thing will be.
I hope it's something I like! I continue to be a grumpy old fogey and refuse to get a tumblr, even though there are several tumblrs I check daily. My twitter account lasted about a month before I got bored and stopped using it. I'm still very fond of LJ and its format, even though it's slowed down somewhat.
For me personally, I think fandom will continue to be where I spend too much of my free time. I probably will continue in tiny fandoms, as that seems to be my fate, from where I gaze upon big fandoms' fic, with their kudoses in the double digits, and curse. But as long as I have canons to enjoy, stories to write, and at least a few people to squee with, I will be happy.
Day 12: In your own space, talk about what you think the future holds for fandom. What are your hopes and dreams for fandom? Do you have any predictions about what the next five years holds for fandom?
I don't anything particularly interesting to say for today's challenge, unfortunately. The thing about the future is that it's always unpredictable. Who knew that a website based around looking at photos of your Harvard classmates or posting no more than a short sentence at a time would become incredibly popular? But then Facebook happened, and then Twitter happened. I have no idea what the next big thing will be.
I hope it's something I like! I continue to be a grumpy old fogey and refuse to get a tumblr, even though there are several tumblrs I check daily. My twitter account lasted about a month before I got bored and stopped using it. I'm still very fond of LJ and its format, even though it's slowed down somewhat.
For me personally, I think fandom will continue to be where I spend too much of my free time. I probably will continue in tiny fandoms, as that seems to be my fate, from where I gaze upon big fandoms' fic, with their kudoses in the double digits, and curse. But as long as I have canons to enjoy, stories to write, and at least a few people to squee with, I will be happy.
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Date: 2014-01-19 09:03 pm (UTC)That's good to know. I asked because I'm French and when January was called Janvier, I didn't realise until a page and a half later, when my brain went "Wait, January has a y in it and she called him by a name that didn't have a squiggly under it, WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?" which can get really annoying if it happens a lot, since each time throws you out of the story.
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Date: 2014-01-20 12:56 am (UTC)Yeah, I can see how being French would make random French use in texts very distracting! I think the name switches are mostly there to indicate "this conversation is happening in French", since many of the characters speak more French than English.