I was just browsing MUNCLE

[leethet]

And it's mindboggling to observe that there're nearly two hundred members. The MFU fandom has moved online (by that I mean LJ, of course) in a pretty big way here - I'm guessing most of these people came along within the last couple of years. It's all good, of course, but it's very startling.

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This should really take off when the DVDs come out, eh?

Oh yeah. I think there'll be lots of new folks and even new energy from old folks. :-)

And I think you're right - each new cohort, even when they come in separately, change the conversational topics and mood of the party.

This is true but I was actually thinking of the fact (well, I think it's a fact) that each new generation (and I don't mean "generation" in an age sense, although that can be part of it) brings in a perceptible shift in writing tone/style - now, sometimes that's good (harder edged stuff with less girlifying of the characters seems to be one benefit of more recent fics in this fandom [generalizing here!]) sometimes it's not so good (the tendency of fandom butterflies to dabble for a while, producing a bunch of Any Two Guys stories, then move on) - but just as I was shifting my energies into HP we got a batch of multifandom people coming into MFU. There was a shift toward LJ, which I heartily approve, and for the most part good fiction (although, yes, there was some ATG stuff in there too, IMO).