A Blast From the Past

[tiggymalvern]

I woke up this morning, and found this wonderful comment, on one of my old Trigun fics.



And wow, it’s just taken me back about 16 years. It’s amazing to me that a tiny, niche manga fandom that seemed to have died out around 2007 has still been gaining new fans in all the years since. I still get the occasional comment from new people who only just read the manga.

And it’s really reminded me of two things. One is how MUCH I miss the old LJ/DW-style fandoms, with communities, where everyone could have discussions in one place, and everybody could see and reply to everyone else’s thoughts and comments, and then (even better!) go back and easily find them again when you wanted to. It all felt so much more friendly and inclusive than tumblr does, where anybody new feels like they’re struggling on the fringes of a fandom, barely seen.

And the other is that I should finish uploading my back-catalogue of fanfics, because I still have a couple of fandoms I haven’t put on AO3. It really does mean something to people to have them there, it’s not just me collecting all my stuff in one place to be a completionist.

Also, anyone who thinks there’s no point commenting on older fics because the authors won’t care about that stuff any more, you are so, so wrong.

Comments

[bymyverytoes]

Gosh, we're all getting old :) And what a lovely surprise, well-earned.

[tiggymalvern]

Yes, we are! I'll have to keep churning out the fics while I still can :-)