Metafandom; and a question.

[hmpf]

Maaaan, I didn't realise how much I missed metafandom and the way it expands my mind...

And, speaking of meta - does anybody know what happened to cathexys? I hadn't gotten around to catching up with her LJ yet and then, just when I wanted to start, it was suddenly gone. I know I've been out of the loop for ages, and I wasn't really close friends with her or anything, so I'm probably not *entitled* to know if there's something intensely private going on here, but if there is something publicly known about this disappearance I'd be really grateful to know. I liked reading her thoughts. Had a few really nice conversations with her in 2003 or so, back when I was really active for a while.

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[carenejeans.livejournal.com]

There's a short note in isiscolo's LJ here. Apparently she just had to step away from LJ for a while.

Thanks.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Good to know nothing terribly tragic happened.

[bimo.livejournal.com]

Maaaan, I didn't realise how much I missed metafandom and the way it expands my mind...

Oh dear, metafandom...

I think, there's a certain addictive quality to it. Personally, however, I'm never quite sure whether to read and enjoy, or to stay away and ignore. For some reason, I don't feel all that comfortable with the amount of fannish navel-gazing going on at that place. While some of the essays and rants are extremely well thought through and definitely worth reading, an awful lot of the stuff that is being posted there simply isn't (at least in my opinion ;-)).

Also, metafandom never fails to make me realise how desperately out of touch I've become with today's fandom. I don't share people's utter fascination with slash, don't fancy any 'OTPs', don't obsess over [insert politically correct topic of the day].

I fear this makes me quite a bit of a hopeless dinosaur, doesn't it? ;-)

Metafandom addiction ;-)

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

I agree that not everything on there is terribly well written/argued etc. But, keep in mind:

1.) If it were, it would take up even more of our time to read and reply there because we'd need to read *everything*! It's already taking up more time than I can afford, and I'm only reading a choice few of the discussions! *g*

2.) We're on LJ, not at an academic conference. It's perfectly all right to just toss out your ideas in a random fashion sometimes, and then enter into a conversation with people about them. Not everything has to be academia-worthy essay writing. I rather like the less 'intellectual' discussions sometimes.

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>I don't share people's utter fascination with slash, don't fancy any 'OTPs', don't obsess over [insert politically correct topic of the day].

Neither do I. But occasionally things come up (like, for example, the recent discussions about obsession - reasons, intensities, etc.) that I happen to be thinking about a lot already, and it's interesting to see what other people think about those things.

(Although perhaps that obsession discussion was on fanthropology... I don't remember. Anyway, it *could* have been on metafandom quite easily.)