I think things done "just for fun" can be and are some of the most valuable things you can do for yourself. Enjoying things and resting, people in general don't get enough of that, and it's really important for mental health. So I hope you get a lot of fun out of fandom! :)
And OMG, I miss the old internet so much. SO MUCH. I never got into fandom anywhere on social media, which means that after forums disappeared and lj died down (after 2012-ish) for a DECADE I never got into any conversations about fandom and I never made any new friends in fandom (when before this was ALL I did for approximately another decade, since 2002). I only made and consumed fanworks without human contact. This is also why I came back to dreamwidth, I thought it was my last chance to meet any people online. And it is indeed the best option, and I'm happy I did, but also the forms of interaction I really, really miss (one fandom forums ♡) might actually be gone for good. *sigh* (I also used to have more than 100 websites YES NOT A TYPO; more than 120 actually in the early 2000s, I don't really want to go back to that, but I did really enjoy it. :D)
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I think things done "just for fun" can be and are some of the most valuable things you can do for yourself. Enjoying things and resting, people in general don't get enough of that, and it's really important for mental health. So I hope you get a lot of fun out of fandom! :)
And OMG, I miss the old internet so much. SO MUCH. I never got into fandom anywhere on social media, which means that after forums disappeared and lj died down (after 2012-ish) for a DECADE I never got into any conversations about fandom and I never made any new friends in fandom (when before this was ALL I did for approximately another decade, since 2002). I only made and consumed fanworks without human contact. This is also why I came back to dreamwidth, I thought it was my last chance to meet any people online. And it is indeed the best option, and I'm happy I did, but also the forms of interaction I really, really miss (one fandom forums ♡) might actually be gone for good. *sigh* (I also used to have more than 100 websites
YES NOT A TYPO; more than 120 actuallyin the early 2000s, I don't really want to go back to that, but I did really enjoy it. :D)