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I spruced up my userinfo. It's remained unchanged for years, and most of the banners for the various big bangs and fic communities have become broken links to nowhere. So I swept them all away. I never intended to, of course; when I posted them, I expected they would sit there until LJ itself vanished into the void, a visual history of where I've been in fandom and what I've offered to it.
But fandom is fickle and ever-changing, and it doesn't remember or care about dead fandoms like CSI or fifteen-year-old fics spawned by long-forgotten fic challenges. Hell, it barely cares about fic written last month for extant fandoms. So why cling to things that don't matter anymore or maybe never did? No one is going to clamor for my ancient Jim Brass fic because they were drawn in by an outdated banner and a link on a site few visit these days. No one wants to know the ficcing history of a lonely hermit plodding along in small dead or moribund fandoms. So away with them, these useless mementos no one will miss when they're gone. One less thing for Roomie to do when age, time, and indifference finally win.
But fandom is fickle and ever-changing, and it doesn't remember or care about dead fandoms like CSI or fifteen-year-old fics spawned by long-forgotten fic challenges. Hell, it barely cares about fic written last month for extant fandoms. So why cling to things that don't matter anymore or maybe never did? No one is going to clamor for my ancient Jim Brass fic because they were drawn in by an outdated banner and a link on a site few visit these days. No one wants to know the ficcing history of a lonely hermit plodding along in small dead or moribund fandoms. So away with them, these useless mementos no one will miss when they're gone. One less thing for Roomie to do when age, time, and indifference finally win.
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