Snowflake Challenge Day 10
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turpsChallenge #10
In your own space, write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, creator, episode, or it could be your fandom friends. Share your love and squee as loud as you want to.
Dear Fandom,
I'm sitting here trying to think what to write, honestly, I'm not sure but will wing it instead.
Right now I'm sitting with the remains of a smile on my face after just reading two stories that made me very happy. I'm sure you know what I mean, when you've smiled so hard the ghost of that smile lingers for hours.
I'm looking around, and in front of me I have a print of Groot hanging on my wall. I have a Magic Mike XXL mug on my desk next to pins of Clint Barton and Bucky Barnes. I look to the side and I can see my Kobra Kid ray gun and the mask created by Mikey. If I turned I could see a shelf full of Funkos, mostly MCU with two dragons and riders from Game of Thrones. I have Musketeer cats and A4s of the Musketeers, and that's just a few of the things that are in this room.
Upstairs I have shelves full of Njunk from my popslash days, marionettes and bears and bobbleheads. I have signed photos of Trek actors hanging on my walls. I have a model of Voyager I use as a paperweight, and maybe right now you're thinking, why is she listing the stuff she has? And my point is, fandom is a huge part of my life, it's part of me.
And not just physical things. It's the emails. It's the comments. It's the laughter when I share funny moments and read them in return. It's wiping away tears when I read something sad. It's the people who reach out when I need them. Who held me up when I was drowning after losing my parents. It's anger when I see negativity directed at those who don't deserve it, and solidarity when I get that in return.
Fandom is dancing with other fans at a con. It's sitting with strangers who invite you to eat with them even when you're so nervous it's impossible to say more than a few words. It's going to Camp Sparkle and drinking copious amounts of coffee and tea. It's having people thread sparkly sticks in your hair. It's people who accept you unconditionally even when you're at your worst and feel socially awkward. It's laughing until you cry and having in-jokes about Lava Lamps and murder kitties and inviting people into your home to stay for as long as they want or need.
Fandom is watching things that will stick with you for years, reading things that make you laugh, cry and be pulled into another world. It's reading something that makes you think, the fuck am I reading?! But finishing it anyway, though maybe that's just me. It's having people that will always understand, where you'll admit to an obsession with The Hardy Boys when you're young and someone will say, me too!
Fandom is waking up from a dream about going to Camp and missing your friends and realising that you've known some of your fandom friends coming up to 20 years now, and having the knowledge they've watched my son grow. Media fandom friends, popslash fandom friends, bandom fandom friends, all labels worn off until they're just friends. Fandom is clicking with people instantly and watching others drift away.
Fandom is that insane rush of happiness when you find something new that makes you sit up and take notice, and you share that squee with others. But it's also the friends that stay beyond a shared passion or fandom, where the fannish connection has faded but that doesn't matter at all.
Fandom is things and shows and books and music and a thousand other things. It's happiness and sadness and shaking your cane at the newbies while reminding yourself that change is good and has to happen while missing what's gone before.
Fandom isn't all of me, but it's a huge part of me and has been for a long time.
In conclusion, fandom, I love you ♥
In case anyone is interested, the stories I've just read are Shortly, Sweetly, Mine. by ermengard which is a series of just lovely MCR prompt fills, each one so different and thoughtful.
Access All Areas (or: How Spencer Smith Got His Groove Back) by MistressKat which is an old Ryan/Spencer, but one I hadn't read before and it's the most fabulous AU I loved loads.
In your own space, write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, creator, episode, or it could be your fandom friends. Share your love and squee as loud as you want to.
Dear Fandom,
I'm sitting here trying to think what to write, honestly, I'm not sure but will wing it instead.
Right now I'm sitting with the remains of a smile on my face after just reading two stories that made me very happy. I'm sure you know what I mean, when you've smiled so hard the ghost of that smile lingers for hours.
I'm looking around, and in front of me I have a print of Groot hanging on my wall. I have a Magic Mike XXL mug on my desk next to pins of Clint Barton and Bucky Barnes. I look to the side and I can see my Kobra Kid ray gun and the mask created by Mikey. If I turned I could see a shelf full of Funkos, mostly MCU with two dragons and riders from Game of Thrones. I have Musketeer cats and A4s of the Musketeers, and that's just a few of the things that are in this room.
Upstairs I have shelves full of Njunk from my popslash days, marionettes and bears and bobbleheads. I have signed photos of Trek actors hanging on my walls. I have a model of Voyager I use as a paperweight, and maybe right now you're thinking, why is she listing the stuff she has? And my point is, fandom is a huge part of my life, it's part of me.
And not just physical things. It's the emails. It's the comments. It's the laughter when I share funny moments and read them in return. It's wiping away tears when I read something sad. It's the people who reach out when I need them. Who held me up when I was drowning after losing my parents. It's anger when I see negativity directed at those who don't deserve it, and solidarity when I get that in return.
Fandom is dancing with other fans at a con. It's sitting with strangers who invite you to eat with them even when you're so nervous it's impossible to say more than a few words. It's going to Camp Sparkle and drinking copious amounts of coffee and tea. It's having people thread sparkly sticks in your hair. It's people who accept you unconditionally even when you're at your worst and feel socially awkward. It's laughing until you cry and having in-jokes about Lava Lamps and murder kitties and inviting people into your home to stay for as long as they want or need.
Fandom is watching things that will stick with you for years, reading things that make you laugh, cry and be pulled into another world. It's reading something that makes you think, the fuck am I reading?! But finishing it anyway, though maybe that's just me. It's having people that will always understand, where you'll admit to an obsession with The Hardy Boys when you're young and someone will say, me too!
Fandom is waking up from a dream about going to Camp and missing your friends and realising that you've known some of your fandom friends coming up to 20 years now, and having the knowledge they've watched my son grow. Media fandom friends, popslash fandom friends, bandom fandom friends, all labels worn off until they're just friends. Fandom is clicking with people instantly and watching others drift away.
Fandom is that insane rush of happiness when you find something new that makes you sit up and take notice, and you share that squee with others. But it's also the friends that stay beyond a shared passion or fandom, where the fannish connection has faded but that doesn't matter at all.
Fandom is things and shows and books and music and a thousand other things. It's happiness and sadness and shaking your cane at the newbies while reminding yourself that change is good and has to happen while missing what's gone before.
Fandom isn't all of me, but it's a huge part of me and has been for a long time.
In conclusion, fandom, I love you ♥
In case anyone is interested, the stories I've just read are Shortly, Sweetly, Mine. by ermengard which is a series of just lovely MCR prompt fills, each one so different and thoughtful.
Access All Areas (or: How Spencer Smith Got His Groove Back) by MistressKat which is an old Ryan/Spencer, but one I hadn't read before and it's the most fabulous AU I loved loads.
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