quoted for ultimate truth:

[lotesse]

schemingreader, Writing Fan Fiction: Doing Something or Doing Nothing?: Fandom is weird. It's a great way to meet new people and to reconnect with old friends. There's no better way to meet a lot of goofy intellectual oddballs of the type you want to hang out with all the time. The way you meet them is, you sit in a room by yourself and type while imagining fictional scenarios. Then you sit in a room by yourself and read stories. Then you sit in a room by yourself and type responses and read other people's responses.

Of course, you type "ha ha ha" or "lol" or "I <3 u" a lot.

In essence, it's a way to fall in love with a lot of people who are far away and whom you might meet once or twice if you're really lucky. It's somehow both social and isolating, at the same time.

Comments

[sara]

...well, given that what I used to do was read stories and not really have anyone to talk with about them, it seems like something of an improvement, at least subjectively....

[lotesse]

It's the best kind of improvement there is! Because being in love with all of you beats not being in love at all by a whole bunch - oddly enough, I almost think it's easier to fall in love this way, without all the pressures and immediacy of meatspace.