December Daily: a look back

krait - "I pick December first, and will start things off with some backward reflection: Talk about a fandom you're no longer active in."

Some of my old fandoms feel like looking back on former relationships, and some of them feel like looking back on crushes. You know, an old relationship is like "Yeah, we had some good times together even though we weren't great for each other in the long run," but an old crush is more like "What the hell?"

Like: I don't feel that I've fully left Due South. If a story in the fandom comes over my dash I'll read it happily. If I get a chance to see a current photo of the leads, I'll certainly take it. I've been thinking about doing a rewatch, since eps are a lot easier to find now than they were when I was writing it. It's not quite that I sleep with my ex (because to do that here I'd have to WRITE something), but I certainly have no hesitation about reading sexy letters from my ex.

I started reading DS in '98, and looking back on it today, what strikes me is how much technology has changed the way I do fandom. 1998. No YouTube or Netflix to look for episodes. No ep guides. No engaging with other fans on DW, Tumblr, Twitter, Discord ... mostly just emails on mailing lists. No AO3.

Even in the episodes and the stories I see a lot of change. It's hilarious how many stories revolve around telephones. Like, wired-into-the-wall telephones, where if somebody called Fraser they'd have to talk to someone and leave a message, which he could fail to receive in a way that caused plot to happen.

Also there was no spandex in the trousers.








( Prompts and How To Leave One - behind cut )