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"At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."
So, I turned 40. It was pretty great. I'm happy with where my life is right now: a job I love, a lovely environ I continue to enjoy exploring, starting up this year's Wars Outdoors: The Empire Strikes Back in the Park.
I'm still flailing a LOT when it comes to fandom and how to do it. I am still active in DWRP. I've joined the local Sherlockian scion society (my fandom name is "Play-acting Busybody") and I've been accepted to speak at Left-Coast Sherlockian Symposium.
But I don't know how to do this anymore. I keep hearing everyone's going to twitter, okay, fine. But I can't find any guide to doing so as someone coming from a really different medium. Do I use my own name? (Doing so is weird because PORN but not doing so erases my primary fannish contribution at this stage, which is my acting/producing and very public.) Where do I find "my" people? How do I avoid all the shit I don't want to see? (I don't mean blacklisted stuff--I mean just endless ads and retweets I cannot care less about.) I feel like in other communities, there are/were "guides for n00bs" or something. I can't find anything about how to access this space in a way that makes sense. And I've had an account for years--so obviously it hasn't been intuitive for me at all.
Anyway, yeah, I sound like a curmudgeon, and see above re: 40, but believe me I'm as tired of bemoaning the state of fandom as anyone is of hearing it.
I'm still flailing a LOT when it comes to fandom and how to do it. I am still active in DWRP. I've joined the local Sherlockian scion society (my fandom name is "Play-acting Busybody") and I've been accepted to speak at Left-Coast Sherlockian Symposium.
But I don't know how to do this anymore. I keep hearing everyone's going to twitter, okay, fine. But I can't find any guide to doing so as someone coming from a really different medium. Do I use my own name? (Doing so is weird because PORN but not doing so erases my primary fannish contribution at this stage, which is my acting/producing and very public.) Where do I find "my" people? How do I avoid all the shit I don't want to see? (I don't mean blacklisted stuff--I mean just endless ads and retweets I cannot care less about.) I feel like in other communities, there are/were "guides for n00bs" or something. I can't find anything about how to access this space in a way that makes sense. And I've had an account for years--so obviously it hasn't been intuitive for me at all.
Anyway, yeah, I sound like a curmudgeon, and see above re: 40, but believe me I'm as tired of bemoaning the state of fandom as anyone is of hearing it.
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Your Twitter problems are super relatable.
I've had a Twitter forever, and lurk there sporadically. When I joined I wasn't sure how professional I needed it to be, and kept avoiding making any sort of guideline for myself, so I never got in the habit of tweeting or even locating and following people. My reading list is really haphazard. I keep telling myself to just dive in and be fannish AND editor...ish, because screw it, but now it's like this weird little hurdle to get over. I dunno, brains are dumb.
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