Fingers crossed that the current job becomes more permanent.
Although my situation is different, I know what you mean about fandom activities slipping to the way side when readjusting to a different work/life/daytime schedule.
What kinds of fresh perspectives do you want to see in DA fandom? I watched tons of new people pour in over the past year+. While they brought in different perspectives, it rapidly became not my kind of fandom. I still think the problem is strongly rooted in how tumblr works as a system: one defends their territory using their blog to amplify/soapbox their message. If they are a shitstirrer, they raise a ruckus within a tag. No sense of community, no community walls like LJ's comms. Tons of reasons to compete (aka, soapbox) and very few reasons to cooperate (aka, build communities around smaller common interests).
Although it doesn't help that Bioware's writers have created a media franchise that is the fantasy RPG equiv of ONTD.
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Although my situation is different, I know what you mean about fandom activities slipping to the way side when readjusting to a different work/life/daytime schedule.
What kinds of fresh perspectives do you want to see in DA fandom? I watched tons of new people pour in over the past year+. While they brought in different perspectives, it rapidly became not my kind of fandom. I still think the problem is strongly rooted in how tumblr works as a system: one defends their territory using their blog to amplify/soapbox their message. If they are a shitstirrer, they raise a ruckus within a tag. No sense of community, no community walls like LJ's comms. Tons of reasons to compete (aka, soapbox) and very few reasons to cooperate (aka, build communities around smaller common interests).
Although it doesn't help that Bioware's writers have created a media franchise that is the fantasy RPG equiv of ONTD.