What I find fascinating is that I don't think we've seen a crisis that pushed fandom into this kind of action before. We've bypassed cat macros, for the most part, and gone straight on into Doing Things. Does it feel like a shift in the wind to you?
And I think the shift largely has to do with timing. Not only is this mess INSANE, but it comes up as we approach an election I think fandom people care about (not as fandom people, but as who they are that makes them fandom people) and again because HP fandom got hit so hard in all of this -- right when all of us have been hugging and crying over this thing that has been so important to us for the last decade. LJ caught when we weren't ripping each other apart and oh how convenient that has proved! LJ also caught us at a moment when it's legitimate and acceptable to be in fandom -- I mean look at how fannish activities have help get all sorts of people published like Cassie Clare and Jaida.
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Date: 2007-08-09 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-09 03:12 pm (UTC)And I think the shift largely has to do with timing. Not only is this mess INSANE, but it comes up as we approach an election I think fandom people care about (not as fandom people, but as who they are that makes them fandom people) and again because HP fandom got hit so hard in all of this -- right when all of us have been hugging and crying over this thing that has been so important to us for the last decade. LJ caught when we weren't ripping each other apart and oh how convenient that has proved! LJ also caught us at a moment when it's legitimate and acceptable to be in fandom -- I mean look at how fannish activities have help get all sorts of people published like Cassie Clare and Jaida.