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[(Anonymous)]

i knooooooooooow me too!

[(Anonymous)]

like I feel like I need to come in with a list of references from other fandoms

[(Anonymous)]

Sweet summer child.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been writing fanfiction for fifteen years and I just got my very first mean comment today and wow it's weird how shitty and off it made me feel for a little bit. I didn't think I would care.

Re: Glaring Plothole

[(Anonymous)]

new poster but MAYBE OKAY??????

[(Anonymous)]

I'm so sorry bb! It's hard to brush off comments like that, even if it's just one out of a whole group of positive feedback. I hope you're feeling better! That person is a dick.

[(Anonymous)]

Man, that sucks. I think it's always going to strike a little hard because a writer puts a bit of themselves in their work and an attack is often going to feel personal for that reason.

If it helps at all, they are tearing down which is easy and pointless, you've built something which is difficult to do and always worthwhile. This of course goes for all writers.

How old is everyone?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm 27 and I'm gonna be real I feel old af. Please tell me I'm not the fandom granny.

Re: How old is everyone?

[(Anonymous)]

30. GET OFF MY LAWN.

Re: Glaring Plothole

[(Anonymous)]

I bet you that was a force technique developed by Anakin Skywalker.

Re: How old is everyone?

[(Anonymous)]

YAYYY really, you don't know how happy you're making me. I'm scared I'm writing all this porn and then it turns out everyone is wayyyyy younger than me.

[(Anonymous)]

It sucks when you put something out there and someone is mean about it. Constructive criticism is okay, but mean? Fuck 'em.

Re: How old is everyone?

[(Anonymous)]

We can be old together! And sigh at the ship fights. I've seen some shit, man. I've been through the Harry Potter fandom. Ya'll can't be worse than that back in the day.

Re: How old is everyone?

[(Anonymous)]

I never really had any problems in the HP fandom bc when everyone else was off fighting about Harry/Hermione vs Ron/Hermione or whatever, I was off in a dark corner shipping shit like Harry/Pansy and Percy/Oliver and Sirius/Petunia.

Re: How old is everyone?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, the good old days.

(Percy/Oliver, yaaaaaaaaasssssss)

[(Anonymous)]

ITA. One of my current fandoms is overrun with modern AUs that read like sanctimonious social justice warrior lectures and it's so annoying. I'm cool with exploring different facets of identities in fic, but there's a way to do that so it doesn't sound like a regurgitated textbook.

Re: How old is everyone?

[(Anonymous)]

PERCY/OLIVER WAS SUCH A DAMN GOOD SHIP.

Re: How old is everyone?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, hey, 29 year old Harry Potter fandom veteran here, too!

I've been through a lot of gigantic, popular fandoms and I'm happy to just sit here and read porn while ignoring the kids and their ship wars and ~social justice soapboxing~ and internalized issues in the name of shipping.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, he did mentally torture her. And yes, people are saying the same thing about Kylo Ren and Poe, so it's not just a gender thing.

Re: How old is everyone?

[(Anonymous)]

Ha! Yessss. We can have our own little corner of 'elderly' fans.

Re: How old is everyone?

[(Anonymous)]

Not gonna lie, sometimes I like being that "old" fan who gets to school all the youths about fandom back in the day. Like whenever a minor scuffle is treated like a big dramatic fandom explosion, I'm just like...."oh have you even heard about the msscribe or Cassandra Claire dramas from HP?? Or the LOTR RPF tinhats?" (It still baffles me that there are people in fandom who only know Cassandra Clare for her published books and not her Harry Potter fics)

Though, even us "old" fans have nothing on the original Star Trek and Star Wars fans with their underground slash magazines. They were the real heroes of fandom.

Re: How old is everyone?

[(Anonymous)]

Back when they literally had to mail things out to spread their fics. We're spoiled by the internet compared to them.

I've been through fanfic forums, hilariously old websites that were coded by the writers, fanfiction.net before they purged the smut, livejournal, AO3...

And then I read kids on tumblr wondering when they'll stop being fans and be an 'adult'.

Re: How old is everyone?

[(Anonymous)]

This just makes me nostalgic for that one website where the ships were titled S.S. Whatevers.

God I feel old.

Re: How old is everyone?

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously. I'll take the old Geocities websites and message boards and Yahoo group mailing lists over having to physically mail anything.

I remember when The Pit purged all the smut and also when the LiveJournal blacklisting happened and everyone boycotted LJ for awhile.

Though, to be fair to those tumblr kids, I said similar things during my LJ fandom days. I suspect many of them will grow out of it and move on to happily being an adult fan and reading the porn and fluff and angst and ignoring the fandom drama.

Re: How old is everyone?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, I just want to tell them that I was once a middle schooler reading SS Guns n Handcuffs fic and now I am someone's wife and have a 401k and I'm still up at 2am writing TFA smut. Embrace what makes you happy!