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Nostalgia for prior fandoms/characters...
Jan. 22nd, 2012 10:02 amI was already in a Weird Phase, and now it seems to be morphing to Even Weirder. For me, that is. Because I never "go back" to write old fandoms/characters. I just... can't. I don't know what it is or understand it or necessarily even want it to be that way, but it's how I've been for... well, forever in fandom.
Now suddenly, due to the Canadian Shack meme, or the stars aligning just so, or in some sort of need for that nostalgic/bittersweet feeling I get when I revisit old fandoms, I seem to be full of character voices for old fandoms. Huh.
That made me wonder, how do other people experience their fandoms? The answer could be different for different modes of participation, too. For me always in the past, I neither wrote OR read OR looked at art etc. I just... was done. Some people, I think, continue reading but stop writing, and some people always continue to participate in older fandoms, just not as intensively.
So how is it for you? And have you changed in your answers, like I seem to be? Because I was always mono fannish, but have been multifandom for a while now, following and reading quite an array of fandoms (when I have time, sporadically). And now I appear to be actually writing characters I thought I'd never write about again -- not because I didn't still love them, but just because of what I said, how once I move on, I can't write the older ones any more.
How do all of you, anyone reading this, experience fandoms? Has that changed? What do you like/dislike about how you experience fandoms? Do you like the time "between" fandoms or not? Or not have one? Can you write/draw/create in older fandoms even as newer ones come along?
Now suddenly, due to the Canadian Shack meme, or the stars aligning just so, or in some sort of need for that nostalgic/bittersweet feeling I get when I revisit old fandoms, I seem to be full of character voices for old fandoms. Huh.
That made me wonder, how do other people experience their fandoms? The answer could be different for different modes of participation, too. For me always in the past, I neither wrote OR read OR looked at art etc. I just... was done. Some people, I think, continue reading but stop writing, and some people always continue to participate in older fandoms, just not as intensively.
So how is it for you? And have you changed in your answers, like I seem to be? Because I was always mono fannish, but have been multifandom for a while now, following and reading quite an array of fandoms (when I have time, sporadically). And now I appear to be actually writing characters I thought I'd never write about again -- not because I didn't still love them, but just because of what I said, how once I move on, I can't write the older ones any more.
How do all of you, anyone reading this, experience fandoms? Has that changed? What do you like/dislike about how you experience fandoms? Do you like the time "between" fandoms or not? Or not have one? Can you write/draw/create in older fandoms even as newer ones come along?
