The joys of fandom #298
Dec. 28th, 2004 01:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusYes, it's the latest installment.
Let's talk about this obsession for self-promotion, shall we? Like the people who use mailing lists as the forum for their little mutual appreciation societies to pat one another on the back for their mediocre and unimaginative fic, because surely that's what they're for? Where the author posts interminable WIPs apparently solely for the purpose of their friends raving over every installment and their own vapid and cliqueish responses to that ego-stroking.
And then people wonder why there's no good fic in that fandom any more...
Let's talk about this obsession for self-promotion, shall we? Like the people who use mailing lists as the forum for their little mutual appreciation societies to pat one another on the back for their mediocre and unimaginative fic, because surely that's what they're for? Where the author posts interminable WIPs apparently solely for the purpose of their friends raving over every installment and their own vapid and cliqueish responses to that ego-stroking.
And then people wonder why there's no good fic in that fandom any more...
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Date: 2004-12-28 06:55 pm (UTC)Where's the encouragement to take risks, to write something a little less by-the-numbers, if what you're currently producing garners such adulation? Why take the risk and possibly lose the ego-strokes?