January Meme: Nostalgia

ratcreature wanted to know whether I'm nostalgic for anything, fannish or otherwise. Well, on a fannish level: ye olde days of livejournal at its peak had fannish interaction and discourse in a frequency and intensity that I don't think other fannish social media (that I participated in) had, generally speaking. If you narrow it down to very specific small circles, well, I've now been enjoying for nearly three years intense debate about a variety of 18th century characters and occasionally some other centuries over at cahn's journal with mildred_of_midgard ,cahn herself, felis, and occasionally some other guests, and that certainly matches anything I experienced in said old lj days. But the difference is that that lj at its best worked on a multifandom level that way.

Now, I enjoy being on Dreamwidth, and of course there are very good reasons to stay away from lj now, which is a fannish ghost town anyway. I'm not on tumblr, though I occasionally check some tumblrs related to my interests. I'm also not on discord. And because I'm quite busy rl, I don't think I could really cope today with the frequency of conversation I had on lj all those years ago in a great many fandoms. But nostalgia is rarely logical anyway.

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