Snowflake Challenge #3

[pronker]

Get it all out. Scream into the void.

Ahhhhheeeeoooorrrrrooooohhhhohireallyshouldstart. typing. *ahem*

I've had a few disappointments and weird things happen, it's true. I was involved with a letterzine eons ago that had bizarre feuds-by-snail-mail which involved arguments three months apart due to the mailing schedule. I wasn't one of the feuders but it sucked to read erudite LOCs that said basically, "You stink." And then there was the time in that same fandom that a fan mailed letters quite often just to me off the list, with politically interesting content; he was Canadian and after a few months of my non-political replies pointing out that what we had in common was the fandom, he wrote me a Dear Jill letter saying, sadly, that I would 'join the file of his other correspondents who started well and disappointed him.' Later I discovered that he lived with his family in a remote part of Ontario, was disabled, and that fandom filled his days with both joy and despair. Well, shit. I felt bad that I had a family to help support complete with babeez and I couldn't be all things to all people, I guess. I simply didn't desire to delve into American politics to provide 'content' to him to keep up our correspondence. He drew nice 'illos' for the letterzine. :/

Another time, in an online RPG group in another fandom, three LJ friends played great guns for years and then a big fat fight broke out with mass defriendings and growing crankiness. That sucked for us watchers, and particularly for one watcher who formed a community just to comment on the RPG. Bleurgh.

Hee, refurbishing my imported-from-LJ journal has shown me that introspection is not my long suit because slinking back to 2007 hurt my head.

In conclusion, here's a pet peeve about fanartists: Stick to one name! I just begin to follow someone, cheer on their developing talent and blammo, they succumb to fandom drift. I do not mind, but then they change their name so I can't stalk them anymore, er, I didn't mean that, you know. Artists, perhaps it's not you, it's me because the artistic temperament strains my understanding.

PS Authors, finish those WIPs! Gosh! Don't you know that this online writing is work and you're supposed to finish it? Forget about fun until you hit 'complete' on the story. Don't make me transfuse you with my Type O+ Danish-American work ethic! *removes tongue from cheek*