I have been randomly dropping in to read the comments at this discussion /off topic post again, and I saw that someone was complaining that the fill/feedback comments have droppped. I admit, I have stopped actively participating at the kink-meme, not because of wank or any related topics / seriouos discussions such as race or rape culture or similar, but simply because, in the beginning (lets say January /February) I was here more active, for reading the fills, and leaving prompts and trying to comment on fills as much as possible. now after 4 month of SW TFA fandom, there is simply so much daily updates at ao3, that I am kinda using up all my free time reading there, leaving kudos or feedback. Thats all my time permits during a full normal 9-10 hrs workday. is there any one else here, having gone through the same transformation? means shifting the focus from the kink meme to ao3? (sure, being here is fun, but for me, its too much to be able timewise to follow, as in contrast to ao3 where I can handle 10-15 updates per day or so.) I am not one of those old school LJ'ers of the last decade who are sitting around and mourning the death of LJ activity, nor am I ranting against tumblr. I think, tumblr is a fantastic ressource for fandom art and artists, I have several blogs there even subscribed via RSS feeds, but together they have like over a 500 to 1000 feed entries in a week? not looking at the feed for 1 week, and the update counter went over the top basically. (and I am still not sure, how tumblr works in terms of giving kudos or feedback, so instead of saying to the artists directly, your drawing is gorgeous, I am reblogging , and leave the comment to that art? sort of?) and about 99% of all authors in SWTFA have their tumblr account in the notes, saying, come there and squee with me. or talk to me there. And I am wondering, in this tumblr age, would it be ok to ask the respective artist, can I have your email address, so that I could squee the old fashioned way with you via email? like no pinstagram, instagram, tumbrl, livejournal, ao3 comments, dreamwith or anything? just very very yahoo groups decade like, with email? is it nowaways strange to ask for a fellow fen's email address? is it too intrusive and strange? weird? stalkerish? I admit, I am out of the loop regarding fandom etiquette, and maybe I am overthinking stuff, but in my opinion, it would be more weird to not mulling about it. For instance, if I read a great story PWP on ao3, and I was all but drooling about that pornish piece, to suddenly being completely thrown off the track, because the author uses "Penis" (which for me is a term out of the sex ed 101 biology book rather than for porn , slash or het) instead of "cock": is it something worth telling the author? especially in some public space such as the comment space on ao3? I want to be encouraging , and not making authors angry, or worse, insecure about their writing abilities. Especially in an fandom like SW TFA; where every second story seems to start out apologetic for shipping or writing Ray/Kylo fic or Hux/Kylo fic, or whatever. Poe/Kylo. Hux/Poe. Finn/Hux. Mitaka/Finn. I swear I have never seen a fandom where the artists and authors apologize so much for their preferences of pairing (no matter whether its non-con, or romcom).
ok, that went totally overboard , and I simply wanted to explain, why I don't feel like the kink meme is slowing down, even if I am not here much, and therefore cannot be objective.
better go back to ao3, reading and leaving kudos there. Its seems to be the safest course of action.
participating in the kink-meme dropping, after ao3 fic updates are high?
I admit, I have stopped actively participating at the kink-meme, not because of wank or any related topics / seriouos discussions such as race or rape culture or similar, but simply because, in the beginning (lets say January /February) I was here more active, for reading the fills, and leaving prompts and trying to comment on fills as much as possible.
now after 4 month of SW TFA fandom, there is simply so much daily updates at ao3, that I am kinda using up all my free time reading there, leaving kudos or feedback. Thats all my time permits during a full normal 9-10 hrs workday.
is there any one else here, having gone through the same transformation? means shifting the focus from the kink meme to ao3?
(sure, being here is fun, but for me, its too much to be able timewise to follow, as in contrast to ao3 where I can handle 10-15 updates per day or so.)
I am not one of those old school LJ'ers of the last decade who are sitting around and mourning the death of LJ activity, nor am I ranting against tumblr. I think, tumblr is a fantastic ressource for fandom art and artists, I have several blogs there even subscribed via RSS feeds, but together they have like over a 500 to 1000 feed entries in a week? not looking at the feed for 1 week, and the update counter went over the top basically. (and I am still not sure, how tumblr works in terms of giving kudos or feedback, so instead of saying to the artists directly, your drawing is gorgeous, I am reblogging , and leave the comment to that art? sort of?) and about 99% of all authors in SWTFA have their tumblr account in the notes, saying, come there and squee with me. or talk to me there. And I am wondering, in this tumblr age, would it be ok to ask the respective artist, can I have your email address, so that I could squee the old fashioned way with you via email? like no pinstagram, instagram, tumbrl, livejournal, ao3 comments, dreamwith or anything? just very very yahoo groups decade like, with email? is it nowaways strange to ask for a fellow fen's email address? is it too intrusive and strange? weird? stalkerish? I admit, I am out of the loop regarding fandom etiquette, and maybe I am overthinking stuff, but in my opinion, it would be more weird to not mulling about it.
For instance, if I read a great story PWP on ao3, and I was all but drooling about that pornish piece, to suddenly being completely thrown off the track, because the author uses "Penis" (which for me is a term out of the sex ed 101 biology book rather than for porn , slash or het) instead of "cock":
is it something worth telling the author? especially in some public space such as the comment space on ao3? I want to be encouraging , and not making authors angry, or worse, insecure about their writing abilities. Especially in an fandom like SW TFA; where every second story seems to start out apologetic for shipping or writing Ray/Kylo fic or Hux/Kylo fic, or whatever. Poe/Kylo. Hux/Poe. Finn/Hux. Mitaka/Finn. I swear I have never seen a fandom where the artists and authors apologize so much for their preferences of pairing (no matter whether its non-con, or romcom).
ok, that went totally overboard , and I simply wanted to explain, why I don't feel like the kink meme is slowing down, even if I am not here much, and therefore cannot be objective.
better go back to ao3, reading and leaving kudos there. Its seems to be the safest course of action.