Snowflake Day 14

[lightofdaye]

Day 14

In your own space, talk about what you think the future holds for fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I have no idea. I'm no good at switching platforms. Hopefully activity will return here or go to other platforms that are about.

For HP in itself, it's shrinking and shrinking. Few fests, fewer people, even the big slash ships are being affected. It's odd but the new canon just isn't generating the same interest in the same way.

Or as I said, I've not moved enough with the times to know where it is.

Comments

[lightofdaye]

Oh discord is a bit like new and improved skype right? Instant messaging and voice conversation?

I do know exactly what you mean about Tumblr. Plus, I just never got the hang of find new stuff on it either.

I'd love to read any new canon thoughts you have! But the new play/movies are entirely different beast from reading the books for sure.

[torino10154]

I'm the worst person to try to explain it because I undoubtedly under-utilize it and therefore don't know all the features. It's more like chat rooms, with different topics having their own "channel." We've got stuff like fest promotion, rules and faqs, writing support as well as general Snape discussion, fic recs, etc. You can send private messages and you can probably communicate other ways I just never have. LOL Apparently on big servers, the conversation can just fly by but we're a smallish group so there are flurries of activity then it gets quiet again for a bit.

I do recall trying to search for stuff when I first started looking at it and yeah, had the same issue. I suppose if I'd truly cared I might have tried harder but since I'm pretty happy with the journals and AO3, it never really mattered.

Oh, well, I'm just a grumpy old lady, really. What I was going to say was that I am very character/individual driven. Not just in fandom either. Like when my sports teams change players it takes AGES for me to get used to it (and to forgive them for it! LOL). So in my case, Fantastic Beasts doesn't interest me at all because those are virtually all new people. It's another universe entirely. The issue with Cursed Child is while you know I like Next Gen characters, it's taken most of the people I like and put them in a place I wouldn't want them to be, for lack of a better explanation. It's simply an AU I don't care for. I think many (??) of the HP people who are into it aren't in our corner of fandom. They aren't the shippers. They're the mainstream HP fen who love ANYTHING JKR does. Again, I know that's not entirely true. I know people here who are into both. That's just my general (and generalizing) take on why we don't quite make a universal HP fandom. We're branches but some have really headed off in wildly different directions and it's only the name that is the same.

[lightofdaye]

Oh I understand what you mean entirely.

Fantastic Beasts is both new characters and movie only, and TBH I was never that keen on the HP movies and visual design so it's not the same.

And, I have massive NextGen headcanons that of course TCC doesn't live up to. I shouldn't blame it for that but everything I here about what it actually did with them seems to bland and uninspired.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I found them very interesting.