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auronlu ([personal profile] auronlu) wrote in [personal profile] owlmoose 2016-01-22 09:20 am (UTC)

I managed to build a core of meta-writers on Tumblr by being in fandoms of old things. Final Fantasy... a bit harder to find, but there's people. Admittedly my FF Fandom on Tumblr in the past few years has been heavily skewed towards meta through images: someone posts fanart, and we geek off the art.

What's curious to me is that classic Who fandom on Tumblr thrives and prospers in meta-land. Lots of Meta. Challenges, questionnaires, prompts, photosets with commentary, audio clips with commentary, fanart with commentary — it's hard not to engage in those discussions, despite Tumblr driving us batty. I think it's partly the nature of that fandom: it's a 50+ span of material, much of it from the 60s through the 80s, and people have to give at least a little meta/context for everything they share, because nobody in fandom is familiar with all of it.

I've seen meta-posts for Steven Universe like that. Interestingly, Harry Potter tends to drive a lot of long meta-posts, which makes me think this could be more true of older fandoms where the initial "oo shiny" has worn off, and the people sticking with the fandom are going deeper.

Obviously that would be easier on DW, except (a) Tumblr's where the action is and (b) being able to embed audio clips, video clips, or incorporate images into meta can be handy. I find myself missing it now when I don't have a quick-and-easy mechanism for doing so.

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