Oh lord.
Please, please somebody stop me from wanking up a storm in my and/or someone else's LJ any more than I already have.

'Cause talking about "the fragility of fandom's place in the wider world of the internets" makes me want to LET SLIP THE DOGS OF BITCHSLAP.

Jesus fuck, people. As shocking as it may seem, fandom existed before LJ. Hell, fandom existed before the internet, even! Shocking, I know! And if-- IF-- by some tiny infinitesimal chance, fandom as a whole gets booted from LJ? FANDOM WILL NOT WITHER AND DIE. We'll find some new space to colonize and commence spreading like a fungal infection.

Maybe that's what's been bugging me about this whole shitstorm. I have very little patience for premature, uninformed doomsaying. Like, for example, declaring that bringing in Amanda Tapping is going to RUIN SGA FOREVER AND EVER before season 4 has even aired anywhere in the world, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms right there.

Dude, I love LJ because it's easy (heh) and centralized. But it is not the be-all/end-all of fandom. I've seen people going on about how they're so disappointed by LJ, feel so outraged and betrayed, and these are the people who apparently had a much higher opinion of the folks in charge than I ever did. LJ is not your girlfriend who braids your hair at sleepovers and pinky-swears with you on "chicks before dicks!" They do dumb-ass shit. Expect them to do dumb-ass shit. All you folks moaning on about how LJ has broken your trust and whatnot? I humbly suggest you just be grateful that they actually took the trouble to admit and correct their mistake, then move on with your lives.

...thank God I didn't write any of this in my actual LJ. That could've ended badly!

sigh.