It sucks and we are all worse for it.ĭon’t fear age. Declaring that younger people should have nothing to look forward to and that older people should stay separated and lonely sucks. That drive towards separation and puritanism sucks. There’s this strong implication that if an older person wants to interact with a younger person, there is something inherently predatory about that. Over the past decade, there’s been a really toxic movement towards keeping different ages strictly separated, both in and outside of fandom. On both sides, even! I went to Philcon a few years ago, which tends towards older fans, and an older woman I was talking to sadly told me that she thought fandom was dying out, because she never saw younger fans any more. I started getting into fandom already knowing there was a road ahead for me as I got older, full of handmade costumes and late night movies and shelves of pewter dragon goblets and mixed-aged road trips to meet ups and conventions.Īnd it kills me that so many people don’t know that sort of community even exists. Absolutely as intense and weird and hilarious and fun as any fan in their teens or 20s. I am forever grateful my friends dragged me into that, because it was my first introduction to fandom in older adults. They’re the people who get really into medieval reenactment, the fighting and crafts and cooking, they have kings and queens and knights and events and a good percentage of them (but not all!) work or have worked at Ren Faires. In college, my friend group collectively got into the SCA - Society for Creative Anachronism. I was going to leave comments in the tags, but I decided this was important enough to put on main. Tbh shoutout to the over 40s on tumblr, sorry the internet acts like yall belong in the retirement home when ur literally just regular adults with hobbies RSS feeds were a great way to keep track of things before the rise of the platforms, and (if we’re smart) they’ll be great again. *You can set up your subscriptions in one reader and import them into another by exporting an OPML file. Try using public RSS-Bridge instances or Happyou Final Scraper to generate feeds for sites that don’t have them (Pillowfort, Patreon, etc). (If you know an artist who exclusively posts to Instagram, you may want to gently suggest that they crosspost elsewhere…)Īlso see how to find the RSS feed URL for almost any site. Facebook: Feedbro can use public Facebook group/page URLs as feed URLs.Otherwise, Instagram doesn’t have RSS feeds, and due to aggressive rate limiting on their part, it’s not so simple to generate a feed URL. Instagram: Feedbro can use Instagram profile and hashtag URLs as feed URLs.Youtube: Go to a channel in a web browser, view page source, and use Ctrl-F/Command-F to find a link that starts with “ ”.Tumblr: Use /rss or /tagged/ my%20art/rss to follow a blog’s “my art” tag (as an example).Otherwise, use / username/rss (or other Nitter instance) (You can get a CSV file of all the accounts you follow using “Download a user’s friends list” on Tweetbeaver) Twitter: Feedbro can use Twitter profile URLs as feed URLs.
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