I actually found LJ looking for Buffy analysis and fic! (And boy, did I get it.) Then I was in that whole Buffy-Angel-Firefly wing, altho I arrived just a little too late/wasn't in the right circles for Farscape my beloved, and I just could not get into SPN at all, and kind of gently drifted away....like, I loved Force Awakens but the fandom was a real mess. Loved Fury Road, but I didn't feel super-fannish about it (and I was never in online fandom for some of my first big fandoms, like X-Files, Law & Order, original Trek, etc., altho I was on Usenet for B5). I didn't see BBC Sherlock until looong after it aired. Blah blah, my point, did I have one.
-- I used to say the personal aspect of LJ went to Facebook/Twitter and the fannish one went to Tumblr, which is oversimplified (and there's still lots of personal blogging on DW), but it's different than that....What got me back into fandom in the first place was MCU, and it wasn't even Iron Man or the Avengers, but I heard people talking about the Winter Soldier and I still saw that like a year after everybody else. But it felt like there was a lot more for me to enjoy in that fandom, even while trying to bulldoze through the college AUs and omegaverse series and so on, lol. But users hadn't fled Tumblr for Twitter and Discord yet, and there was still a lot of discussion on DW.
Whereas with The Old Guard, I adored that movie but AO3 (understandably!) went with the canon slash couple and Tumblr went for a LOT of sociopolitical and historical analysis of the freaking Crusades, and I was just like, no, no no no, I don't want Tumblr "insights" about religious wars, thank you. I still felt part of the fandom after Fury Road came out, in 2015, but by the time Old Guard did -- only five years later! -- I was like, okay, if I spend a lot of time and create very elaborate filters on AO3 I can find a handful of fics I really like, and there's pretty gifsets and even some meta now and then I like on Tumblr, but either I'm 180 degrees out of synch with everyone or they're all on Discord or both. And that's kind of a crummy feeling. And Google does NOT work anymore, so even if people are doing meta or fic just on the web without the social network sites, so it's not even like when I went looking for Buffy fic and stumbled on peoples' personal archives and that led me to LJ.
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-- I used to say the personal aspect of LJ went to Facebook/Twitter and the fannish one went to Tumblr, which is oversimplified (and there's still lots of personal blogging on DW), but it's different than that....What got me back into fandom in the first place was MCU, and it wasn't even Iron Man or the Avengers, but I heard people talking about the Winter Soldier and I still saw that like a year after everybody else. But it felt like there was a lot more for me to enjoy in that fandom, even while trying to bulldoze through the college AUs and omegaverse series and so on, lol. But users hadn't fled Tumblr for Twitter and Discord yet, and there was still a lot of discussion on DW.
Whereas with The Old Guard, I adored that movie but AO3 (understandably!) went with the canon slash couple and Tumblr went for a LOT of sociopolitical and historical analysis of the freaking Crusades, and I was just like, no, no no no, I don't want Tumblr "insights" about religious wars, thank you. I still felt part of the fandom after Fury Road came out, in 2015, but by the time Old Guard did -- only five years later! -- I was like, okay, if I spend a lot of time and create very elaborate filters on AO3 I can find a handful of fics I really like, and there's pretty gifsets and even some meta now and then I like on Tumblr, but either I'm 180 degrees out of synch with everyone or they're all on Discord or both. And that's kind of a crummy feeling. And Google does NOT work anymore, so even if people are doing meta or fic just on the web without the social network sites, so it's not even like when I went looking for Buffy fic and stumbled on peoples' personal archives and that led me to LJ.