Fandom musings

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X-Posted but slightly tweaked from my DW

I think I've sort of got used to being in small-ish fandoms. I mean the Merlin fandom is growing but I joined back in the beginning where there weren't many people writing fic, and I joined the Smallville fandom when most of the BNFs and such had already moved on to other things.

The Supernatural fandom scares me, and this is maybe why I never really got involved before. It's just so huge, and the sheer amount of wank that is generated is scary in itself. I've already almost been dragged into a debate on whether Wincest is worse than angel!porn.

I had a quiet little corner where I read a few fics but now I've made the mistake of joining comms and my flist has exploded to the point where I'm probably going to have to start actually filtering comms because I can't keep up with it all.

But at the same time, and I was talking about this with airinshaw at the Merlin meetup yesterday, nothing tops that excited and gleeful feeling you get when you discover a new fandom. So, I like it but I kind of don't at the same time.

I'm having fun leaving prompts over at spn_hurtcomfort and I've just signed up to do a flashfic at deancastiel so it's not all bad. I just feel a bit overwhelmed by the whole thing

I'm going to write some more of my Colin/Bradley fic and try not to think about it I think. Although I've just seen someone has taken the same prompt as me for the challenge and I feel embarassed about my crappy fic now :(