WORLD OF TEXT FINAL FANTASY FANDOM EXPERIMENT: ANATOMY OF A FANDOM

[auronlu]

 So, over the past two days, I've watched the classic Who world of text graffiti wall explode into an incredible outpouring of the entire collective mind of a fandom, often with many different people writing simultaneously, and it was hilarious and awesome and eye-rolling and amazing. Every in-joke is there (often in triplicate.) Every meme. Every point of canon contention and discontinuity. Subfandoms. Amazing ascii art. Drabbles. Shipping discussions. Meta discussions. Discussions of the production team and trivia and mistakes. Vile puns. Jokes. Pranks. Touchy-feely comments about fellow fans. People posting their fandom blog URLs and ages and networking and chitchatting about this and that. Polls. More in-jokes. It's just...

• HERE IS YOUR BRAIN
• HERE IS YOUR BRAIN ON OUR FANDOM
• ANY QUESTIONS?

Now, Final Fantasy fandom is a good deal smaller than classic Who fandom — they've got a good 30 years headstart on us, after all. We're all scattered to the winds and busy with real life and work and other things. So I don't expect anything on that scale. But I'd love to see what happens if we put our minds to it. Sort of like capslock_ff in the old days but with meta discussions and everything else thrown in, too.

Are you with me? 

Then enough expository banter; GO TO THE FINALFANTASY WORLD OF TEXT and start posting. Stream of consciousness. Anything Final Fantasy. ANYTHING.

Comments

[cumuluscastle]

It's fun. Thanks for starting it.

[nan]

Oh man, this is so much fun. :D

[mintywolf]

This is the best thing! I just wish we could draw on it too. (I don't know how to do ASCII art.)

[stealth_noodle]

I've barely had time to add anything yet but it is AMAZING. I just wish there were a better way to look around than awkwardly clicking and dragging with my trackpad (or maybe there is, and I haven't discovered it yet).

[pete_thomas]

Hm. For some reason, the cursor isn't showing up for me to type in, and all I'm seeing is a blank page. Thoughts?

This discovery is most wonderful, however.

-EDIT- NVM. It worked after some loading. I feel like I'll write more here than I'll ever write in NaNo in my life.