TW fandom is just so big. I was really into it for about a year, and then Children of Earth came out, and, well, like the DCU reboot it killed the fandom for me. I just lost all enthusiasm. Even rewatching the first three seasons with my boyfriend and seeing it through new eyes didn't help. Though getting a friend into it helped--she loves Janto and Tosh--until she inevitably got to Exit Wounds and COE... Yeah.
The familiarity of LJ is what I have trouble leaving. I like my layout and my comms and everybody. I made an insane journal back when it looked like fandom was moving there, then again to Dreamwidth, but the problem is that while my friends for the most part moved, the comms didn't, or at least not with the volume. And then having to move entries over, and everything... As much as Livejournal is so much made of horrible, painful fail, I can't leave. I'm even going to give them their 20 bucks for a paid account again soon so I can get my icons back and edit comments.
I think canonically Ianto really does start off as the "tea boy;" I forget what Jack introduces him as in Everything Changes, but it's definitely not archivist. I know he spends the first many episodes just making coffee, ordering food, and cleaning. We must be reading different fics, as I don't remember a reference to Ianto's mom being committed at all! I don't recall ever thinking about his mother, really, just that his dad is a jerk.
Also, I'm not sure if you've noticed this with TW, or if I'm just really sensitve to it, but I found the fandom not welcoming at times because it truly wasn't. More than one person put in the header that if the fic is a spoiler for particular episodes, then why is the person considering reading TW fic. Like, I started reading fic before I got my hands on season 2, but why should I feel ostracized because I haven't yet seen Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang? I'll just not read the story so I'm not spoiled. It's like people don't realize not everyone has the ability to watch every show when it comes out, or even years later. I also like a spoiler warning if particular episodes are going to be mentioned so that I can get a basic timeline of where the story fits.
Outside of batfic_contest, Bruce/Clark, and the occasional Nightwing or Tim story, I barely read DC anymore, but I'm not sure if it's because my tastes have changed or if there's really not a lot of fic anymore. Even Bruce/Clark has dropped off a lot, and that's a really popular pairing with a steady comm.
The splintering doesn't help--where everyone used to use LJ now there's Tumblr, AO3, etc. Everything consolidated would be awesome!
Dude, weepingcock, oh man, the way people seem to think the body and sex work is just horrifying. Like, how do you become old enough to use the Internet and not learn the basic process of human reproduction?
Outside of "cock" I think I probably use "shaft" the most. Anything else sounds weird or simply not sexy!
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The familiarity of LJ is what I have trouble leaving. I like my layout and my comms and everybody. I made an insane journal back when it looked like fandom was moving there, then again to Dreamwidth, but the problem is that while my friends for the most part moved, the comms didn't, or at least not with the volume. And then having to move entries over, and everything... As much as Livejournal is so much made of horrible, painful fail, I can't leave. I'm even going to give them their 20 bucks for a paid account again soon so I can get my icons back and edit comments.
I think canonically Ianto really does start off as the "tea boy;" I forget what Jack introduces him as in Everything Changes, but it's definitely not archivist. I know he spends the first many episodes just making coffee, ordering food, and cleaning. We must be reading different fics, as I don't remember a reference to Ianto's mom being committed at all! I don't recall ever thinking about his mother, really, just that his dad is a jerk.
Also, I'm not sure if you've noticed this with TW, or if I'm just really sensitve to it, but I found the fandom not welcoming at times because it truly wasn't. More than one person put in the header that if the fic is a spoiler for particular episodes, then why is the person considering reading TW fic. Like, I started reading fic before I got my hands on season 2, but why should I feel ostracized because I haven't yet seen Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang? I'll just not read the story so I'm not spoiled. It's like people don't realize not everyone has the ability to watch every show when it comes out, or even years later. I also like a spoiler warning if particular episodes are going to be mentioned so that I can get a basic timeline of where the story fits.
Outside of batfic_contest, Bruce/Clark, and the occasional Nightwing or Tim story, I barely read DC anymore, but I'm not sure if it's because my tastes have changed or if there's really not a lot of fic anymore. Even Bruce/Clark has dropped off a lot, and that's a really popular pairing with a steady comm.
The splintering doesn't help--where everyone used to use LJ now there's Tumblr, AO3, etc. Everything consolidated would be awesome!
Dude, weepingcock, oh man, the way people seem to think the body and sex work is just horrifying. Like, how do you become old enough to use the Internet and not learn the basic process of human reproduction?
Outside of "cock" I think I probably use "shaft" the most. Anything else sounds weird or simply not sexy!