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Something I need
Recently I talked about missing Metafandom. I also talked about the slowing down of my flist/dwircle. The ~great slowdown is, I think, partly an actual LJ/DW slowdown (the natural life cycle of a social networking platform coming due), and partly due to my particular network of friends and acquaintances moving on. There are, of course, parts of LJ/DW that are as energetic as ever--I'm just not connected with them. And it's not only me.
My personal plan is to join new communities, put myself out there, and chat with people who are hosting vibrant conversations, and interested in making new friends. I've embraced Twitter, Tumblr and anonmemes, but I'm still attached to this form of social networking, and I want my LJ/DW experience to lively. So I'm going to make that happen.
But in addition to that, I need something, and that is a list of link/meta collecting sites, newsletters, and people. Everything from When Fangirls Attack, to individual Delicious accounts tracking the conversations of particular fandoms. I need it like burning. I'm not looking for a masterlist, so much as various masterlists, from different parts of fandom. Or even just links to particularly good link collectors and newsletters,. MOAR META, MOAR TALK, MOAR MORE, is what I'm saying. One of the most satisfying parts of fandom meta, as opposed to reading reviews or author blogs, is its extremely social character. It's not just the post, it's the comments, the reaction posts, the followups, the quick development of arguments and counter arguments--and it's all for us, by us.
So do me a favour? Link me to whatever you've got, regardless of fandom. Link me to your meta recs, your favourite meta writers, newsletters, blogs, Tumblrs-- WHATEVER. Link me to other people seeking meta, and them to me. Let's get a big exchange going, if we can, my fellow travellers in slow LJ/DW-land, because the main thing is, I want to talk to other fans and I want to create meta, with other fans, and I know that a bunch of you do as well.
I mean, fuck it, let's just build a new network, right?
ETA: Strategies. Share with me your strategies for finding meta (and meeting new people), when so much of the infrastructure (comms, people) we relied on has, well, dispersed or withered away.
My personal plan is to join new communities, put myself out there, and chat with people who are hosting vibrant conversations, and interested in making new friends. I've embraced Twitter, Tumblr and anonmemes, but I'm still attached to this form of social networking, and I want my LJ/DW experience to lively. So I'm going to make that happen.
But in addition to that, I need something, and that is a list of link/meta collecting sites, newsletters, and people. Everything from When Fangirls Attack, to individual Delicious accounts tracking the conversations of particular fandoms. I need it like burning. I'm not looking for a masterlist, so much as various masterlists, from different parts of fandom. Or even just links to particularly good link collectors and newsletters,. MOAR META, MOAR TALK, MOAR MORE, is what I'm saying. One of the most satisfying parts of fandom meta, as opposed to reading reviews or author blogs, is its extremely social character. It's not just the post, it's the comments, the reaction posts, the followups, the quick development of arguments and counter arguments--and it's all for us, by us.
So do me a favour? Link me to whatever you've got, regardless of fandom. Link me to your meta recs, your favourite meta writers, newsletters, blogs, Tumblrs-- WHATEVER. Link me to other people seeking meta, and them to me. Let's get a big exchange going, if we can, my fellow travellers in slow LJ/DW-land, because the main thing is, I want to talk to other fans and I want to create meta, with other fans, and I know that a bunch of you do as well.
I mean, fuck it, let's just build a new network, right?
ETA: Strategies. Share with me your strategies for finding meta (and meeting new people), when so much of the infrastructure (comms, people) we relied on has, well, dispersed or withered away.
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idk about meeting new ppl beacuse i'm socially awkward even online, but this is how i found meta for xmfc:
1. i joined the most active communities i could find (those would be oldfriends and erik_charles, both shipper comms, which was fine by me since it was my otp as well).
2. i hunted down discussion posts and created some of my own. whenever someone sounding sensible and smart showed up, i stalked their journals/tags.
3. VOILÀ!!!
sister magpie is a good person to follow
I do know I'd try and put meta links in comicstore_news but people would bitch (because fandom meta was around at the time) so there wasn't a need, but that's faded away. Sad times. So now, I do try and put the odd meta in the comic store links on my day off.
With LJ, I don't think the attacks have helped it though. Even on sites like ONTD- the posting has slowed down due to the DDOS attacks. Meh.
Man, I'd love to get back into writing meta again, because it seems watching all these bloody comic book movies coming out I have ~feelings~ about diversity, especially since I read an interesting post about the fact that with the development of comic book movies, diversity in Hollywood acting has actually decreased over the years.
Re: Okay...
Comics fandom... I always have something to say in comics fandom. I can't seem to gather the wherewithal to post really thought out meta, and instead just spew it out shotgun style. Probably school isn't helping.
We need to develop a comics meta-circle, but, you know, with someone else doing the heavy organizational lifting.
Okay...
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My main stalking strategy is to find interesting people and see who they have friended. And to read my DW Network (I think that's how I ended up here?). That said, most of the lively ongoing fannish conversations these days seem to be on anonmemes (which I love).
some people who post interesting meta:
comms:
Feeds (good for finding blogs to follow):
hathorlegacy_feed (has some fandom content)
geekfeminism_feed (again, may or may not be relevant to interests)
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But thank you for the rec!
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