ladyyatexel replied to your post: I’ve spent so much time in smallish fa…
I’m terminally in small fandoms. DS9 is a smaller town than TOS and TNG, and my Doctor Who stuff is all Classic and BF, and now B5, and YEAH. I sort of wish I were into bigger things! better for art exposure, etc. alas~
I guess both large and small fandoms have their advantages and disadvantages. Larger fandoms have the possibility for far more exposure, but also the possibility of being overlooked, while smaller fandoms make it much easier to get to know people. The smaller ones tend to be the ones I feel I can engage with better. Larger ones feel a bit, I don’t know, more impersonal.
Yeah, I think that as much as I wish I was in a large fandom where I could get a proper exposure to my work, I will always kind of like these little fandom nooks I keep getting myself into. It’s like my brain is not satisfied until I am nestled in a little crack in a cranny in a hole in the wall. I can’t just be in a small general fandom, I have to zero in on not the main character, and then zero in on a ship with that character. Then I find my people.
I get that ‘impersonal’ feeling so hard, though, wow. I’ve often thought that about the New Who or ST: TOS fandoms, that there’s not a little community to get attached to, really, and they feel just like massive oceans with currents happening miles away somewhere. So even if you are probably getting new fanfic every other day (this would be amaze~~), you don’t end up with the kind of ‘I am tumblr family with everyone in this tiny fandom boat with me, we are like a webring from 1998′ feeling you get when it’s you and like a dozen people on a particular thing.
