The Corpse Brigadier

Huge fandoms kind of intimidate me. I used to be into Doctor Who (both before and after the RTD era began in 2005) and the moving from "We're a half dozen Americans who probably watched this show at 1 AM on PBS" to "This is an actual mainstream, popular thing where you can buy a dalek shirt at Walmart" was honestly sort of nerve-wracking. Big fandoms can give you so much more of a sense that people are scrutinizing you while simultaneously still feeling kind of lonely. It's hard finding the right balance!

As for meta, it honestly used to be my big thing back when I was into lit fandoms, and it's been really weird moving onto old timey video games where there isn't quite the same sense that meta is innately a part of interaction with canon. Don't get me wrong, there exists plenty of immensely fine video game meta that I've read (although FFT fandom seems tiny/dead enough that it's not so much a thing), but it isn't as prevalent in the way that--say--Shakespeare fandom meta is, and I really miss that. As for authorial commentary, I hadn't known that Trivia Tuesday was a thing (and this is really tempting me to look at my tumblr more than once every few weeks)! I hope it catches on in general though, because I'd really love to feel less awkward about my innate desire to just infodump about how I looked up information about monastical oblates or tried to chart out the exact dates of the Romandan conflict or stuff like that.