#(the reason I thought of this is I've been binging videos on old HP fandom drama and I wish I was alive for it)

[wisteriasymphony]

if I could go back in time to like 2001 would it be funny if I transcribed the entirety of miraculous ladybug and workshopped it to look like a draco malfoy x cho chang fanfic and posted it to fiction alley. whether it bombs or gets wildly successful I feel like the false implications of mlb being related to a Harry Potter fic would be hilarious. Did Astruc initially write it as a Beauxbatons DraCho fic where Beauxbatons students fight dementors by merging with their patronuses into super-personas? Or did he take that from the original "author" (me) and steal it? Or was this the biggest coincidence ever?

[labbydragon]

I've been binging David M's videos about Cassandra Clare's fanfiction and the memories of the olden times have me thinking.

I was an actual child at the time, and while I was never involved with the specific community that produced all the HP drama, I was an avid drama watcher via all the usual snark blogs. I was however, more involved in Labyrinth fandom at the time. Never a Known Entity myself but I wrote fic and commented on plenty of fic and art on FFN and DA.

At the time, I thought it was wonderful that I was in a fandom where I often interacted with adults- because in Labyrinth fandom, at least in my experience, the adults were all very kind and generally excited to see a young person (they could always tell by my writing style, lol) who was interested in a movie that was made before they were even born. It was always things like, "I really liked this keep up the good work! Don't forget to read over your work a day or two after you write it, misspellings and grammatical errors might pop out at you better when you've been away for a bit." Encouragement, advice, general comradery.

But that wasn't always how adults were behaving in other fandoms- HP fandom was especially rife with whole adults going nuts on children, which was perhaps a reason I kept quite in those corners, not that I didn't lurk in them though.

As an adult now, I'm not very active in fandom per say. I read a lot of fic but I don't write it or even comment on things the way I used to. Coming back to this Tumblr blog is perhaps the most I've begun "interacting" with fandom via rebloging. Yes I make Youtube videos about media sometimes but I haven't done many as works of fandom right now- though I do think I'll be making some works of fandom type videos in 2024. But, ruminating on the old days has me thinking that while I certainly don't want to be the kind of adult who would discourage teens in fandom, I'd also like to not at all interact with them at all. Thought that is exceedingly unrealistic on the parts of the internet that still remain functionally anonymous. I simply have no desire to knowingly interact with young teens, not even to repay the kind mentorship I experienced in my youth. That isn't a role I'm willing or able to fill at the moment, as it feels fraught with issues I simply didn't see being on the child's side of the equation.

Anyway, just a little ramble- practically a diary entry- as Tumblr was sort of made for.