wyntir_knight | Snowflake Challenge

Day 14

In your own space, talk about what you think the future holds for fandom.

I'm a fanfic writer so I will be focusing on that.

Fandom will survive. We started with 'Zines that were very much underground. We survived Anne Rice and the old litigious days. We survived the Great Strike Out and all the other attempts to silence us. We will survive this. It's hard to see all of these people pulling the old "Think of the children!" hand-wringing and wailing, all their arguments that certain types of fic harm survivors (even when they are written by survivors) but we will survive this too. We aren't going anywhere.

Now, onto my own fandom of choice, I am hoping that the new Bumblebee movie injects some new life into the Transformers fandom. Even if it doesn't, we survived the Kiss Players, we can survive anything. And to paraphrase one Tumblr post: Every once in a while the Transformers fandom wakes from its slumber and you are able to glimpse eternity.