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[jain]

I've been trying to avoid this realization for a while, but my interest in popslash is...waning. I really don't want to lose everything that made this fandom so wonderful for over two years, though, so I'm cutting back on my formerly obsessive popslash reading and trimming my friends list, and hopefully a bit of absence will cause the love to flood back. To anyone whom I've recently defriended and who wondered why: it's not you; it's me. You're all fascinating and insightful people (or I wouldn't have friended you in the first place). I'm just trying to regain some perspective.

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[xoverau.livejournal.com]

Awwww.

Yeah, my love's been mainly sustained by writing chat-style with a few obsessive friends. It's hard to fall out of love with characters when they inhabit your head and love other characters in other people's heads, and that experience also gives them life beyond the outer world. But I know what you mean about that love being hard to sustain under constant exposure, and a break might be just what you need.

[jain]

But I know what you mean about that love being hard to sustain under constant exposure, and a break might be just what you need.

That's exactly what I was trying to articulate. Being surrounded by so much fannish enthusiasm and having a constant influx of fantastic new stories to read is wonderful, of course, but after a while it just got to be overwhelming.