Commas and ampersands.

[hannah]

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.

Fandom is going to be early adopters, lovers of novelty, boundary-pushers, spelunkers to the depth of what constitutes good taste. Fandom is going to go feral, running out into the wilds, and come back together to reinvent civilization with all its rituals and routines. Fandom is going to pick up its pen and write, hit the keyboard and set it on fire, grab its pencil and sketch out a love song. Fandom is going to have a great time. Fandom is going to eat itself. Fandom is going to break the internet, again. Fandom is going to take the tools given to it and create something unanticipated and completely fantastic. Fandom is never going to have more than one bed. Fandom is on its way for a complete deconstruction followed in short order by a swift and thorough reconstruction. Fandom is going to remember what it lost and try its best to built it again, perhaps not better but for certain as best as it knows how. Fandom is here, was here, will be here.

What the future holds for fandom is that it's going to have fandom in it. What fandom needs is to be there, for people who need it - for people looking for that queer spark, for people looking to find new friends.

When people set out to find their people, they're trying to figure out who they are. And that's where fandom comes in.

Because fandom is where you found yourself.

I think that what the future holds for fandom is fandom itself. The surface level aspects will change - for example, where to find the porn - and the etiquette is going to keep shifting - say, shipwar protocols - and fandom itself will keep on going.

Comments

[teigh_corvus]

Every time I re-read that, I cry. And your take on the theme is spot-on and gorgeous. Whenever a question like this is posed in a challenge, you just KNOW that someone's going to voice that tangled, complex love, that spark that sent us asking in the first place. This? Is that.

Thank you.

[hannah]

You're welcome. And now I'm blushing.

[dreamkist]

I linked to your post - it's perfect!

[hannah]

Thank you!

[thenewbuzwuzz]

<3

[hannah]

<3 to you, too.

[kass]

This post is beautiful.

[hannah]

Thank you.

[spikedluv]

What a gorgeous post. So well said.

And regarding the following, truer words . . .

Fandom is never going to have more than one bed. *g*

[hannah]

It's true! It never will! Somehow something always comes up!

[akamarykate]

This whole thing is lovely; the line also led to me busting out a snort in the middle of the office:

Fandom is never going to have more than one bed.

[hannah]

Thank you.

Somehow the reservations always get mixed up, or they're always out of extra cots. It's maddening.

[vyctori]

I've been feeling really pessimistic about fandom for a long time. This gives me heart.

Thank you. ♥

[hannah]

You're welcome.