[ where do we go from here ]

[winterlive]

my own cee has said a thing about the exodus which i think you should read. it's about where those of us who are leaving should go, what we should be trying for.

fandom_flies is trying to work up something new, something from scratch. same with scribblit. and i think those are admirable aims, like, i think that's fair, but they've talked to each other and instead of deciding to pool their lumber and their workers and their time to build a big ark, they have decided to diverge. go their own ways. that's not what fandom needs.

the american statesman and orator henry clay once said: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance...The Union, sir, is my country.

i feel the same way about fandom. the ideal is the same: harry potter fen and star wars fen, artists and vidders and writers, friends and total strangers - we all have one thing in common, and that's that we are all us. of course, we have our insane cousins and crazy uncles and cat lady aunts that we'd lock in the attic and feed fish heads to if we were worse people, but every family does. if there's one thing i don't want, it's to lose the notion that there are dozens of people out there that i just haven't found myself in the same fandom as yet, that there's so many awesome people that will come through my flist soon. you guys, warts and all, are my community. i care about you; no matter how ridiculous you sometimes get, no matter if we fight on the issues of the day, i would miss you if you were gone.

so when we go somewhere, i want to go together.

cee makes a few excellent points about journalfen as a potential place to go. what do you guys think? do you think it's better to start from scratch, or what? wherever we go, i want you with me.

*holds ur hands*

Comments

[cityphonelines.livejournal.com]

I do say that if there's a mass migration, it should be to JF. One because of what JF stands for, two because before all this JF is the only alternative journal service I frequented, three because after all these years they deserve our support, four because scribblit (or anything else new) is gonna take awhile and as the days go by and there's no word from the man (damn the man, save the Empire) their position becomes clearer.

They want us gone.

[winterlive.livejournal.com]

NO. KIDDING. see ya, 6A, you assholes. JF is good, at least for the interim, and we'll see what develops with this new brouha.

y'know, what with crossposting to all the other journals, if one continues to respond to all comments everywhere, i think it's a question of where one reads one's flist. the links you make in your posts will come from there, the comments you make come from there. i still check my LJ flist all the time, but what happens when everybody's crossposting and my flists are the same? it'll be the same no matter what flist i check.

see what i mean?