Late-night musing things

[burntcopper]

If you got to robinhoodbbc's profile, you may notice that other comms are listed. :wails: It was pre-emptive, dammit! (How to tell one has been part of fandom for too long : you can predict the basic splits and what lines they'll split along straight off.) I won't be able to predict the ships and what'll cause the shipper wars before the show even starts, but I can at least get a quick 'n' dirty fix in for people to post stuff. No, I'm not precious about modding. Never done it before. I just... filled a gap. Mind you, seriously surprised that a fandom that has at its base been going in fairly constant popularity since about the 13th century hasn't had those lj names snapped up yet. Hmmp. Suppose the RoS lot, who were the last major permutation of this fandom, and still going, tend to label themselves as RoS fans primarily, and thus snap up those permutations - see rosfic. (Prince of Thieves does not count, as it's more like one fic every blue moon on the asteroids of the moon of Eris, I think it's actually impossible to do more than giggle over Maid Marian and her Merry Men and Men in Tights, and we do not speak of the unclean thing that was filmed in the colonies.)

Another thought : Was flitting around a few people's sites, and looking at the date some fandom sites were last updated. Some of them, it's been *years*. I only kept my BtVS/Angel sites around a year or so after losing interest, and I'm pretty sure It's Been Emotional, pretty though it is, last gasp of nostalgia that it is, will be going the way of the dodo next time I get my ruthless streak going. Along with Adaptation, which never really got off the ground properly, and probably the fridge site. Christ, I may even start a new archive site for the new fandom, along the lines of Wraithbait, archiving the fic. Been a while since I did much web stuff, and it'd be interesting.

Just pondering, for the people who create stuff and then leave it up for years (taraljc, for example), any reason why? Nostalgia? Pretty? Lack of 'wanna smash!' compulsion?

Work do was... work do. I asked lots of questions, we found out what it is Marketing actually *does*, large amounts of people seem to have no idea what it is Production does, unless you're part of Editorial (we're Editorial Production. We liase.) and all seem to be fairly unaware that these are the people who control the end result, it was concluded that the entire company would like a detailed 'who does what' list so we a) don't have to make pathetic bleating noises when we have no idea who to ask, and b) stop Customer Services randomly forwarding queries to us on subjects we have no idea about whatsoever.

There was an art competition to draw an animal you felt represented the company, with two categories - best representation and best artistic, voted for with different coloured stars stuck on there at lunchtime. Turns out I'm one of the few people who can actually draw in the entire company aside from Trevor the designer and Tom in our group. And yes, I did draw a horse because it was one of the few things I could remember how to draw realistically from memory. 'Er... Freedom! Ahead of the pack!' James, looking over my shoulder : 'Guinness!' (the surfing advert). He does have a point. Trevor won artistic. :pout: Unfair advantage. Still, came out of the day with a plus : five extra bonus holiday days for entire company next year! Wheee!

*Finally* started Temeraire. Go away, glorying in the astolat prose. Also, the whole 'oh, this is *so* clearly converted M&C fanfic that got away from her' and spotting the bits.

The head cold rages onwards. What's this thing you call balance?

Comments

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case it's usually a case of a) genuinely (if usually foolishly) believing I will get back to it someday and b) leaving the sites up as a resource, even if they are never updated, becasue people still have them bookmarked and may find them useful. And people are always discovered fandoms at their own rate, regardless of how long ago thsoe fandoms were new and shiny. They're always going to be new and shiny for someone, somewhere...

[beccaelizabeth]

Just pondering, for the people who create stuff and then leave it up for years (taraljc, for example), any reason why?

It's like libraries. Stuff was written. Unwriting it seems Wrong somehow.