Maybe I'm just temporarily burnt out on fandom or something

[drakyndra]

Erm, for no adequately explained reason - and this is my brain I am unable to explain the rationality of right here, which may be a problem for me - I have not as yet seen the most recent Doctor Who episode.

I mean, I have in it my possession. Pretty much everything I have heard about it seems rather good. It sounds like the sort of thing I'd like. I had plenty of time to watch it this afternoon.

And yet, I can't bring myself to watch it.

WTF, brain?

_{...I probably won't get to watch it for a while, either, given this is a busy week in terms of Uni work.}

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[partly-bouncy.livejournal.com]

From what I've seen and heard from others, a lot of people are going through burn out and are having a much lower shit tolerance. There seems to be a general blah regarding fandom overall. :/

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

It's weird that it's all happening at once, though.

[partly-bouncy.livejournal.com]

Meh. I don't know. There are probably some external things contributing to the feeling for the masses: The economy is not doing really well, people are tired of the current political system (at least in the US), there isn't much news happening, feelings of blah held over from the Writers Strike (at least in the US), continuing bad news out of Iraq, the politics involving China that are beginning to drag. There just isn't much happy, happy news. Or much news of interest to fandom period.

(Mashable, a blog site I follow which tracks social networking news, commented that things have been really slow. Most of the news is same old, same old. There isn't innovation. I get the feeling a lot of bloggers in that area are having similar issues to fandom.)

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Well, that's a rather more... sociological answer than I was expecting.

It's just more weird since I was all over fandom just a few days ago, but I've just trailed off very quickly and I don't know why.

[partly-bouncy.livejournal.com]

Ah. Whoops. I've spent a couple of hours talking about the subject with a friend on AIM, exploring all the possibilities of why things have felt so quiet and subdued in fandom for the past few months.

Unhappy wanking? silver_sporks make you happier?

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I seem to have accidentally caught the tail end of someone's meta, then.

I think I'll just toddle off to one of my less involved fandoms. And, you know, do Uni work.