Hello, Fellow SPN Fans!!

[aka_vamp]

So I know this comm basically just gets fic crossposts and the like these days, but apparently it was originally an SPN fandom hub of sorts? So why not see if we can get it to be that again?

Especially now, during the worst hiatus ever 😱 😷 😱

Maybe we could start with a headcount? Make some new SPN connections? Do the friending thing?

Say hello, maybe tell us a bit about yourself :D

(hello mods, if you're still around!!)

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[treefrogie84]

Treefrogie84... everywhere

Started watching live with s10, although i was looking for fic while s9 was still airing (judging by what i was reading in those early days, 9.07 was when i found ao3, but i'd been reading on ff.net for longer-- ff.net was brand freaking new when i stopped engaging in fandom and by the time I came back, we'd all moved to ao3).

Mostly i do fic and some light meta, but very little of the meta ever gets posted anywhere.

[aka_vamp]

Hi!!!

I wandered from my first time in fandom perhaps around the same time. A lot of fic was still on handcoded archives back then, but I do recall FFn existing.

When I came back, most people were still posting on FFn. AO3 existed, but it hadn't gotten mainstream adoption yet (at least in the fandoms I was in).

[treefrogie84]

I wonder if ff.net ever got the wide spread adoption that ao3 has. Because I quit reading fic (for... shitty reasons that have a lot to do with my ex) in 2009 and either the HP fandom never moved beyond handcoded archives or it was a late thing. I guess HP has diagon alley or whatever it was though, which omitted the need for FF

I feel old now.

[aka_vamp]

I remember reading HP fic on FFn 2010-2013ish. There was still a lot going on on independent automated archives, and on LJ at the time, too, but I didn't spend much time at all in those places.

I feel like FFn is still *the place* for a significant part of fandom. I spent some time on fandom reddit a few years back and FFn was still HIGHLY popular. It was very blokey over there as well, though, so perhaps that's it?

I almost want to report that it felt like FFn also skewed younger as well, but it almost doesn't make sense to me considering it's such a dinosaur of a website and I can't fathom how it would appeal,

[treefrogie84]

I still get the occasional email for when an author posts something, but short of a single author i know, who's writing for some anime i've never heard of (and is also quite young), i don't know anyone who still posts there.

but that might also be because i'm on the tumblr side of fandom, not twitter or reddit. Or i was, until tumblr instituted the porn ban. so now i'm pretty much homeless online (except for discord)

[aka_vamp]

I felt homeless for a really long time. Starting to feel like I've finally got a roof over my head these last few weeks on DW.