Phoenix Blade is actively being revised and there are plans for more stories set in that universe once that's done and Forthright is just as productive as ever (how on Earth does she do it?) but I agree with your overall point, there are natural beats in any fandom when several things all happen to end close together and the next big thing hasn't started yet.
I'd be making recs at IYFG but I don't like posting to a list unless I've read all the posts. I break that rule from time to time if I think nobody else is likely to have said what I have to say but nobody wants three people all recommending the same fic so I hold off. If it's like other quarters by the time I DO get caught up the rec period will be over.
My biggest problem with IYFG isn't the wank, lord knows it has more than its share, but the antique list serve structure that Yahoo uses. I'm on dialup and I can either wait for each...individual...post...to...load or try to follow the conversation in the digest where things aren't always in order. Moving to LJ isn't a solution since it isn't designed to do the same things that a forum does but if I can get caught up in time to make the recommendation I think moving to Delphi Forums or some other host with a better format would make a difference.
The pairing that I hate right now is Hiei/Kagome, mostly because most (not all) of the people writing it have no qualms about completely screwing over their characterizations, and the characterizations of the entire supporting casts of both shows in order to wedge them into the plot the author wants to do.
You get that with Sesshoumaru/Kagome but there are still enough people willing to put in the hard work of dealing with them as themselves and still getting them together that I don't automatically skip over all the stories about the pairing.
You may be right about people only seeing one small corner of fandom and thinking it's the whole thing. I follow stuff at LJ, FF.Net, Media Miner, Yahoo, Paper Demon, Y!Gallery, and some private sites and I'm still out of the loop on some things, like the contest communities, that I simply don't have time for. It may be that people who haven't been fans for 6 or 7 years just don't know what's out there. Perhaps a directory or links page would be a good idea for the IYFG website if they don't have one already.
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Date: 2008-12-21 03:53 pm (UTC)I'd be making recs at IYFG but I don't like posting to a list unless I've read all the posts. I break that rule from time to time if I think nobody else is likely to have said what I have to say but nobody wants three people all recommending the same fic so I hold off. If it's like other quarters by the time I DO get caught up the rec period will be over.
My biggest problem with IYFG isn't the wank, lord knows it has more than its share, but the antique list serve structure that Yahoo uses. I'm on dialup and I can either wait for each...individual...post...to...load or try to follow the conversation in the digest where things aren't always in order. Moving to LJ isn't a solution since it isn't designed to do the same things that a forum does but if I can get caught up in time to make the recommendation I think moving to Delphi Forums or some other host with a better format would make a difference.
The pairing that I hate right now is Hiei/Kagome, mostly because most (not all) of the people writing it have no qualms about completely screwing over their characterizations, and the characterizations of the entire supporting casts of both shows in order to wedge them into the plot the author wants to do.
You get that with Sesshoumaru/Kagome but there are still enough people willing to put in the hard work of dealing with them as themselves and still getting them together that I don't automatically skip over all the stories about the pairing.
You may be right about people only seeing one small corner of fandom and thinking it's the whole thing. I follow stuff at LJ, FF.Net, Media Miner, Yahoo, Paper Demon, Y!Gallery, and some private sites and I'm still out of the loop on some things, like the contest communities, that I simply don't have time for. It may be that people who haven't been fans for 6 or 7 years just don't know what's out there. Perhaps a directory or links page would be a good idea for the IYFG website if they don't have one already.