the days when it was called fraldarddyd...days BEFORE it was called anything... the 1st community zine early 2020..
dmlx community being overly enthusiastic in 2021 to the point there were so many fics despite the fandom being niche was so important this is what tons of passion does to a fandom 🥹
YES I remember the emerging arguments of fraldarddyd vs dimilix, like it was so funny how badly some of us wanted to keep mispelling our own ship name lshdsfjkdfs
but honestly I think the way sworn had a community zine component really set the tone of how all in this fandom was gonna be. we just
all wanted to dimilix so much together!!!! and I love that we're still dimilixing six years later...... the GRIP this ship has is so insane (and special)
right! theres so much there one finds themselves always circling back. if im being honest dmlx kind of ruined other fandom content for me when it comes to stuff like fic. set the bar too high i keep getting into new things going to look@fic+not finding the masterpieces im used to from dmlx ppl 🥹
NO FOR REAL I keep trying to engage with new fandoms and like. truly nothing hits quite like dimilix fandom does ðŸ˜ðŸ˜” I have accepted I will go down with this ship....
theres plenty of things ive gotten obsessed with since, but its more, waves hand, a lack of unified passion in the fandom the way dmlx fandom was(/still is to an extent) 🥺
usually im yelling to myself abt things, but dmlx fandom everyone is yelling together LOL
So funny you say that because I didn't read fanfic at all until I went looking for dimilix fics because I always had this perception that there must be lots of excellent fics out there, but you probably had to really dig to find them, and I just wasn't interested in doing that. I just looked at art.
Then I went looking in the dimilix tag on ao3 and went, Wow! Guess I was wrong! This is all so fantastic!! But then cue me looking for fics from other fandoms and being like, Nope!! I was right!!! ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ I'm not complaining though because I'm just so happy such incredible people were drawn to dimilix.
the way i didn't even realize it was a rare pair because i see it all the time on my tlist from you so i thought everyone loved it that way... you all did so much
Yeah, there were much more popular ships for both of them back when the fandom was new. And the tension and surface hostility in their supports put a lot of people off
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dmlx community being overly enthusiastic in 2021 to the point there were so many fics despite the fandom being niche was so important this is what tons of passion does to a fandom 🥹
but honestly I think the way sworn had a community zine component really set the tone of how all in this fandom was gonna be. we just
usually im yelling to myself abt things, but dmlx fandom everyone is yelling together LOL