This is an incredibly subjective and personal account, with no clear moral or narrative, because that's how it wanted to come out. I then poked at things some more and wrote
A decade in online fandom social justice: Abridged, which is a bit more structured and not quite as ridiculously long.
I've been inspired to write this by seeing other fans trying to sell their own, equally subjective narratives that contradict mine as The Objective Truth, and it annoys me. The most recent example is
this deeply flawed essay by Franzeska. Here's some criticisms by POC:
a thread on ffa wherea POC looks back on their own experiences of lj fandom and
Fans Of Colour Are Not To Blame For Fandom's Erasures: A response to That Meta.
( brief discussions of rape, death, and abuse, lots of discussions of bullying, lots and lots and LOTS of words )
