I think that happened with a lot of people around the same time, because suddenly all the big prolific names dropped out and the non-tumblr fandom really died down. It's still one of the only fandoms I've ever written in, and my roommate and I still discuss and share stories/art/jokes all the time, but I've stopped being involved in the online fandom altogether. It didn't help that my ships are almost all considered rare pairs and I was never all that into Kane/Toews (especially not now) or Crosby/Malkin (unless it was vary well written, which hasn't happened in a long time).
Sorry, I just don't run into people who were part of that fandom back when I enjoyed the social aspects of it, so I couldn't help having lots of feelings at you.
I was a rarepairs person too (and in a smallish fandom like hockey RPF, that could be tough). I'm kind of lucky that a bunch of the hockey RPF people I followed on tumblr/twitter also jumped into Star Wars at the same time so I can follow them to this shiny new fandom. :D
I welcome your hockey RPF feels, anon. I kind of miss what the fandom used to be, sometimes.
Only a few authors working with that vast an amount of potential characters automatically means fans of most teams/players are out of luck, even if they're immensely shippable. And the popularity of certain teams automatically relegates other teams to villain status (says a Flyers fan, haha).
Oooh, who's doing SW fic now? Because I always need more recs.
Off the top of my head, I know of Mardia, Thisissirius, magneticwave, verity, hapakitsune, and amosanguis, who have all written fic for TFA fandom, and I think Ellievolia is working on something. And there are some people I follow on twitter and tumblr who post and tweet about TFA but haven't posted any fic yet!
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Re: RPF
(Anonymous) 2016-01-30 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)Sorry, I just don't run into people who were part of that fandom back when I enjoyed the social aspects of it, so I couldn't help having lots of feelings at you.
Re: RPF
(Anonymous) 2016-01-30 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)I was a rarepairs person too (and in a smallish fandom like hockey RPF, that could be tough). I'm kind of lucky that a bunch of the hockey RPF people I followed on tumblr/twitter also jumped into Star Wars at the same time so I can follow them to this shiny new fandom. :D
I welcome your hockey RPF feels, anon. I kind of miss what the fandom used to be, sometimes.
Re: RPF
(Anonymous) 2016-01-31 12:09 am (UTC)(link)Oooh, who's doing SW fic now? Because I always need more recs.
Re: RPF
(Anonymous) 2016-01-31 05:06 am (UTC)(link)Off the top of my head, I know of Mardia, Thisissirius, magneticwave, verity, hapakitsune, and amosanguis, who have all written fic for TFA fandom, and I think Ellievolia is working on something. And there are some people I follow on twitter and tumblr who post and tweet about TFA but haven't posted any fic yet!