I'm sorry to hear that you've faded back into lurking since the slow heat-death of lj. I only stepped back into fandom in 2014 after a very long time away from it, and the fandom I got immediately attached to was SPRAWLING and active, and it's everywhere, on nearly every platform (except dreamwidth, it's pretty much crickets). Twitter turned out to be great for that fandom because there's a critical mass of fans sharing & chatting.
But what I love twitter for, is its absolutely MASSIVE DMs. I'm a part of a 45-person fannish DM for a fanfic series of all things, and we basically use it like an IRC channel that only invite peeps can show up to. I appreciate the... out-of-the-public-eye space that gives me. My online persona and my professional persona aren't well-separated. I'd prefer not to spam all of my acquaintances with my love of fic, if I can absolutely avoid it. xD
In all of these different pockets of fandom I've found, the uniting feature is I've found them through fic challenges. (I'm kind of a big bang addict. O:) Even if I wasn't participating in them directly, in some of the best fic challenges, there's a wonderful sense of community that can get created. One challenge that I ran, we had a chatzy chatroom, and the writers, artists, and other fandom people who were just interested in talking could all hang out. It was massively fun. I'm not sure if I'm trying to pitch participating in a bang or not. (Especially since there's only one currently running DC one. I've been thinking on that too. Hmm. xD)
I was surprised by Gotham's lack of traffic too! But I think another nonny in the thread nailed it when they said it's probably due to an underage Bruce. He does seem to be one of the lightning rods for shipping in dc fandom (as well as Dick Grayson and Clark Kent).
So far, in the CW universe, there's been a bit of sweet romance, but no pairing or shipping dynamic that just clicks with me. And I can understand that. I generally don't ship easily. When I do, I fall into that fandom hard and never want to claw my way back out again.
Re: Other DC Kinkmemes?
I'm sorry to hear that you've faded back into lurking since the slow heat-death of lj. I only stepped back into fandom in 2014 after a very long time away from it, and the fandom I got immediately attached to was SPRAWLING and active, and it's everywhere, on nearly every platform (except dreamwidth, it's pretty much crickets). Twitter turned out to be great for that fandom because there's a critical mass of fans sharing & chatting.
But what I love twitter for, is its absolutely MASSIVE DMs. I'm a part of a 45-person fannish DM for a fanfic series of all things, and we basically use it like an IRC channel that only invite peeps can show up to. I appreciate the... out-of-the-public-eye space that gives me. My online persona and my professional persona aren't well-separated. I'd prefer not to spam all of my acquaintances with my love of fic, if I can absolutely avoid it. xD
In all of these different pockets of fandom I've found, the uniting feature is I've found them through fic challenges. (I'm kind of a big bang addict. O:) Even if I wasn't participating in them directly, in some of the best fic challenges, there's a wonderful sense of community that can get created. One challenge that I ran, we had a chatzy chatroom, and the writers, artists, and other fandom people who were just interested in talking could all hang out. It was massively fun. I'm not sure if I'm trying to pitch participating in a bang or not. (Especially since there's only one currently running DC one. I've been thinking on that too. Hmm. xD)
I was surprised by Gotham's lack of traffic too! But I think another nonny in the thread nailed it when they said it's probably due to an underage Bruce. He does seem to be one of the lightning rods for shipping in dc fandom (as well as Dick Grayson and Clark Kent).
So far, in the CW universe, there's been a bit of sweet romance, but no pairing or shipping dynamic that just clicks with me. And I can understand that. I generally don't ship easily. When I do, I fall into that fandom hard and never want to claw my way back out again.