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bossymarmalade) wrote2021-11-22 03:03 pm
bossymarmalade) wrote2021-11-22 03:03 pm
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i picked up my life exactly where i left off 1000 years ago
I'm in a tumblr comicbook RPG and one of the Youths has informed us that the professor in the university course she's in has assigned them to read up on RaceFail.
Which is, in a word, surreal.
I know it's been just over twenty years since the whole imbroglio went down (twenty! YEARS!) [ EDIT: lol it's ten years but who can tell what time is anymore, not me ] but man. I look at that Fanlore entry and it's still vivid, and reading all those names, dear to my heart even now, brings back what it was like at the time. How new these conversations were in social media and online fan-spaces, and where we're at now.
I haven't posted on here in donkey years, and when I stopped it was because I was so burnt out -- I needed to take that break. Every time I come back, though, I remember what a pivotal time this was in my personal development.
Anyhow, that's all. Love to all you gorgeous creatures. <3
Which is, in a word, surreal.
I know it's been just over twenty years since the whole imbroglio went down (twenty! YEARS!) [ EDIT: lol it's ten years but who can tell what time is anymore, not me ] but man. I look at that Fanlore entry and it's still vivid, and reading all those names, dear to my heart even now, brings back what it was like at the time. How new these conversations were in social media and online fan-spaces, and where we're at now.
I haven't posted on here in donkey years, and when I stopped it was because I was so burnt out -- I needed to take that break. Every time I come back, though, I remember what a pivotal time this was in my personal development.
Anyhow, that's all. Love to all you gorgeous creatures. <3
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It's odd to think there were people on the internet in 2009 who weren't active in RaceFail. (Was that 20 years ago? 12 years? The last two years feel like a whole decade between them, certainly.) RaceFail was so formative for me personally - reading that fanlore summary is like an instant warp right back into that period, college, midway through the grimmest year. I'm glad it's being taught and remembered now; I found it one heck of an education at the time, more rawly important than anything in my assigned classes. I swear it aged me at least a year in a month. So many important people, so many friends, who I first met then. It was the last big anything I participated in on LJ; Dreamwidth opened in beta that May.
I'm so glad we're still here. <3
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The girl in this university course just turned 22, I believe, which is ALSO bonkers to think about. I am honestly astonished that people are learning/being taught about this stuff; my fannish interactions having narrowed down to tumblr has made me feel that there's no thread of fannish history being maintained, and each new wave of Youths thinks they're the very first ones inventing this all. There's often a sense of deep suspicion and downright dismissal of us fandom aunties who came before them.
I hear you SO MUCH on feeling like RaceFail aged us, fast. As much as that list of names in Fanlore is like seeing old friends, it's also like seeing *fallen* comrades. We were up against so much and it wore a lot of us down.
But! Look at where things are now, how much is taken as foundation that we had to struggle to even have *heard*. I'm so glad we're still here, too. <3