être dans la lune

I spent a good afternoon reading through most of the responses and much of what I might want to say in some clumsy half-baked fashion has already been said better. So I would encourage those interested in this discussion to browse through the posts. That said, I can summarise what I personally hope for — hope, because I have zero faith in my own predictive abilities, and I'm 99% sure even if I was good at it fandom would still manage to surprise.

So: I hope, moving forward, that more projects like those of OTW/AO3 spring up, and Dreamwidth for that, which take the needs of the fans as paramount. Corporations are never going to handle matters with the delicacy or respect fandom requires, and I'm getting a sense that many fans are tired of purges of what are essentially their fannish homes.

I hope to see a degree of revival in a journal-centric fandom, if only because that's where my comfort zone is and more importantly that's where responsive and interactive fandom takes place. I also hope something comes to fill the void tumblr, etc. has left behind with regards to visual fandom. Twitter is sort of trying right now, but it's the lack of organisation is exhausting.

Generally, I hope that fans can continue to find their communities. I have been struggling with this for a long time, and perhaps the fracturing of fandom as a whole will help me (backwards as it may seem) in finding a community I can feel at home in.

I have no doubt fans and their spaces will persevere, even if I don't know what forms those spaces will take. Whether it's dreamwidth, pfio, twitter, one of the many other sites I don't know about, or a whole new concept altogether that takes the reigns, I'll be along for the ride one way or another.