General wah

[valis2]

I am catching up on the LJ flist, and I'm getting sadder and sadder.

I knew already that the HP fandom would be endangered by the end of the series, but now it's fragmented as well, and I'm really having trouble wrapping my head around having multiple journals. I'm a control freak, as you all know, and I hate the idea of cross-posting, but I also hate the idea of not cross-posting, and I hate the idea of having one main journal, and I hate the idea of having journal-specific entries, and I just feel like I'm watching my internet journaling experience take a nose dive.

Also, I find the idea that HP's parent corporations are going to put the smackdown on slash very chilling. (I can't remember where I read the entry now, damnit.)

*glooms about*

ETA: Oh, and this bit about everyone defriending LJ people so they don't have to read multiple entries? Understandable, but... *glooms even more*

Comments

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, flux is what flummoxes me the most. I hate change. A lot. And this is a big change to something that I've been very involved with--something that's a very large part of my life. So I'm very resistant and sad and hurt and at the same time I'm very cynical about this, and I can recognize how silly it is to get so bent out of shape. Heh.

I just hate that everything is spreading out, y'know?

[scribbulus-ink.livejournal.com]

I've seen a lot of people resisting the migration because they don't like change, and that's totally understandable. It's not easy or fun to have things in a state of upheaval.

I'm okay with change, so this isn't affecting me the same way; I'm also so disgruntled with the way LJ has been handling things that I'm just ready to get out.

I've also been in online fandom long enough to accept that fandom = change. I started off on listserv mailing lists, then people moved to e-groups (later yahoo groups), and then people moved to LJ. In that time, ff.net rose and fell as the popular archive, and archive fragmentation began once ff.net stopped accepting NC17 stories. So migration is nothing new, really; it's just more forced and less organic this time.