Exactly. My only active recourse, if you could call it that, is to try to prepare for a time when FA can be brought back into fandom control. I prefer sooner rather than later, but it’s a process regardless.
However, there is a discouraging feel seeing how things are slowing down at such a pace, like elastic pulled too tight the momentum to act in any fashion is fading fast. I know that’s how it goes, and it is compounded by the fact that there isn’t a clear alternative short of preparing for an opportunity that may never come and branching out in the meantime.
That is the absolute bitch if playing the long game. All that initial energy to rally behind something, to answer the call for action dissipates and all one can do is wait. It isn’t exciting, it isn’t stimulating, it is work by way of patience and preparation that feels so idle.
One more reason I came to encourage people to spread their presence, I guess; it makes it feel like I’m at least doing
something, even if it is so small. I know the proverb on eggs and baskets, but having gone to get eggs from a coup a time or two, I can rightly say I never carried more than one and it never caused me trouble; all you have to do is watch the damn basket. The snag here is that people unknown and untrusted are in control, and that’s the sort of thing that makes all the difference.
On an unrelated note, did this thread get hijacked for the night? It’s like a writing exercise for analogies, similes, and the like.
This is like saying that the peanut butter in the peanut butter and jelly sandwich is on the wrong side, that it should be on the top slice with the jelly on the bottom. It truly doesn’t make the slightest difference.
The only problem I have with tagging systems is that they are so rarely used half as well as they could be. It’s why when I was looking up the stolen art, I went to e621; there are people that dedicate time to tagging, correcting and adding them as necessary.
Got to love the efficiency, right?
