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[rynne]

I've had an odd relationship with fandom lately. It's sorta funny--for more than two years, I was pretty much strictly Harry Potter. Then Star Wars grabbed most of my attention for a year (splashed with a few other occasional fandoms), Kingdom Hearts for a few months, and now X-Files. And you know, I love all my newer fandoms, but I rather miss the days of being only HP, and having only HP people on my flist. Not because I don't enjoy reading the journals of people I've met through other fandoms, because I do, but because the people reading my LJ knew and were interested in the kinds of things that I would usually post. Part of the reason I've not been posting much lately is because I don't want to bore people who don't care about my Fandom Du Jour, and while, yeah, it's my journal and I can post whatever the hell I want in it, I feel rather like Remus in that I want to be liked, or at least interesting. But a side effect I've noticed is that, in not posting very often and in rarely commenting to others, there goes most of the friendly interaction that I count as one of the most valuable experiences of fandom.

One of my biggest problems has always been that I'm not very assertive, and that I really don't want to bother people, even if I'd like to talk to them. That's something I really need to improve on if I want to make new friends and keep up with older ones, which I most heartily do.

Comments

[terredancer.livejournal.com]

Watching you go through the X-Files fandom is kind of surreal, since that's the online fandom I started in and continued on in until HP stole my attention away. :)

[jurhael.livejournal.com]

Kingdom Hearts has eaten me alive. EEsh!

[arislanchan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I feel a bit like that when I get a new fandom (but clearly, I just keep talking anyway >.>) but... I really don't think you should worry about boring people! I enjoy reading random posts on my flist, even if they're about a fandom I know nothing about (and I've become interested in new fandoms that way, and vice versa)
I think you should post more~ :D

[imadra-blue.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I know how you feel, but you got it worse than I do. Just post what you want. People who aren't interested will scroll, and those who are will read.

[marauderthesn.livejournal.com]

Go ahead and post what you want. If you worry about people being bored, maybe you can put things behind a cut that says "X-Files Stuff" or something. :) (Not that you would have to, but you could if that worries you.)

[lotusflower85.livejournal.com]

I have been reading (with the exception of the Kingdom Hearts stuff, i'm not familiar with that), even if I haven't been commenting. I wouldn't worry about boring anyone - and i'm always here if you want to talk SW or fandom :)