maybe I'm just yelling at a cloud, but

[anghraine]

One of the disconcerting things about trawling my old LOK tags—which I'm otherwise having fun with, for an AGHHH MY FEELINGS value of fun—is just how many people are gone. I was a NNF in Avatar fandom, but it's like ... Tumblr will show that something originally had, say, fifteen notes, and now there are two. I'm reblogging almost entirely from my previous reblogs because so many OPs have completely deactivated. I was excited to get two! whole!! asks.

Partly it's people leaving Tumblr, I imagine. But it seems different than a lot of my other fandoms, which I also came to late. I was wondering on Twitter if it's just ... LOK was a fandom that ran on ship wank, pretty much, even though that's not primarily what the show was about (esp later on), and maybe it was just the newest flashy thing for migratory fandom before they moved onto TFA and whatnot. Once the shipping got resolved and the discourse died down, maybe there just wasn't much left for the fandom.

It does seem to be how a lot of modern fandoms are working, though. Of course migratory fandom has always been a thing, and of course I can be pretty migratory myself (not usually in sync with the wider fandom, but in my own way!), but things seem more and more ephemeral. It doesn't help that the platforms are increasingly ephemeral, too.

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Comments

[alias_sqbr]

*shouts at that cloud with you*

[anghraine]

*fistbump*

[thatvolyova]

Yeahhhhhhhhh :/

[anghraine]

I'm glad(?) it's not just me!