Anecdata of various import
Jan. 3rd, 2015 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee341. In my New Year's Resolutions, I committed to posting at least once a week. I've been feeling disconnected from fandom for a long time now and not truly actively fannish about anything except maybe reading FFA, and I don't know if you can call taking a vicarious interest in the mean things people want to say to their bosses a font of fannishness.
In a fit of curiosity about how often I'd actually been posting last year, I went to the archive only to discover to my surprise that I'd posted a hell of a lot more than I thought I had. I posted at least once every week in 2014 with the exception of one week in February, one week in March, and a four week stretch that lasted from September 19 to October 18. I averaged about two posts a week, and posted six times! one week in May. I am truly shocked, y'all. I expected to see that I'd been posting about once a month, maybe twice.
So now I'm not sure how committing to do a thing I'm already doing is going to have any impact on feeling disconnected from fandom in general and y'all in particular. LOL
I suspect that a lot of what I miss is getting feedback on fic, so committing to posting one fic a month should help there. And if I make weekly perfume posts, I might continue to meet people in perfume fandom and generate interesting conversations as a result.
2. I'm reading an academic book right now that could be so interesting. The author is talking about the significance of the blush in Victorian novels, and in the introduction she references Cher and Estee Lauder ads and an interesting documentary about skinheads that came out shortly before she wrote her book, and I should be digging this--except I'm not, and here's why. There's a way to talk about important stuff without sounding like an asshole, and this lady is not accomplishing it. Especially if you're throwing around pop culture references and making jokes with them, doing so in the middle of a sentence about the reification of the Foucauldian rhizomes and the textures of the evaluative binary (note: I just made that shit up and it sounds about like what she's writing LOL). It's like tonal whiplash. I do see value in specialized language in my discipline; however, I am a firm believer in writing as clearly, concisely, and plainly as possible (all while still using big girl vocabulary words!). I feel like many more people agree with me now than otherwise as I find much of the recently published scholarly stuff I read very approachable. But, man. The nineties. So much ridiculous posturing and saying everything in a much more complicated way than necessary.
In a fit of curiosity about how often I'd actually been posting last year, I went to the archive only to discover to my surprise that I'd posted a hell of a lot more than I thought I had. I posted at least once every week in 2014 with the exception of one week in February, one week in March, and a four week stretch that lasted from September 19 to October 18. I averaged about two posts a week, and posted six times! one week in May. I am truly shocked, y'all. I expected to see that I'd been posting about once a month, maybe twice.
So now I'm not sure how committing to do a thing I'm already doing is going to have any impact on feeling disconnected from fandom in general and y'all in particular. LOL
I suspect that a lot of what I miss is getting feedback on fic, so committing to posting one fic a month should help there. And if I make weekly perfume posts, I might continue to meet people in perfume fandom and generate interesting conversations as a result.
2. I'm reading an academic book right now that could be so interesting. The author is talking about the significance of the blush in Victorian novels, and in the introduction she references Cher and Estee Lauder ads and an interesting documentary about skinheads that came out shortly before she wrote her book, and I should be digging this--except I'm not, and here's why. There's a way to talk about important stuff without sounding like an asshole, and this lady is not accomplishing it. Especially if you're throwing around pop culture references and making jokes with them, doing so in the middle of a sentence about the reification of the Foucauldian rhizomes and the textures of the evaluative binary (note: I just made that shit up and it sounds about like what she's writing LOL). It's like tonal whiplash. I do see value in specialized language in my discipline; however, I am a firm believer in writing as clearly, concisely, and plainly as possible (all while still using big girl vocabulary words!). I feel like many more people agree with me now than otherwise as I find much of the recently published scholarly stuff I read very approachable. But, man. The nineties. So much ridiculous posturing and saying everything in a much more complicated way than necessary.
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Date: 2015-01-04 04:16 am (UTC)Ew, no, you're reminding me of 70% of the classmates in all the college classes I've just left behind, especially, unfortunately, feminism. Though my Feminist Philosophy professor had this awesome way of listening politely to some kid spout off a ramble full of douchebaggy buzzwords and going "ah, you mean ______?" in one sentence. ;)
I'm sorry to hear you're not feeling very fannish about anything right now! Is it more of a lack-of-fannish-source-material problem, or a lack-of-fannish-participation problem? Finding new fandoms is easy, but finding participation venues is not so simple...
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Date: 2015-01-05 01:04 am (UTC)And I don't get inspired to seek out a fandom for stuff I'm enjoying either. We watch a lot of shows religiously, and I just don't bother to seek out fic for them or whatever.
It's a very different experience than the one I had the in lead up to Serenity or while SGA was still airing.
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Date: 2015-01-06 02:15 am (UTC)Whenever I become uninterested in seeking out new fandom stuff, I try to go through my old bookmarks to find fics that I liked but hadn't left any feedback on, and indulge any fannish interest by writing reviews. ;)
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Date: 2015-01-09 01:10 am (UTC)I used to belong to a now defunct comm that had twice monthly challenges; you got matched someone else's prompt and wrote that. It was like a mini-Yuletide twice a month, except for m/m in Buffy. It was really useful to me to have an assignment.
Thank you for the suggestion. I will ponder how to implement that.
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Date: 2015-01-11 05:51 pm (UTC)Also, I can't remember for sure if I said thank you for sending a card, so if I haven't, thank you!
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Date: 2015-01-12 03:36 am (UTC)