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Snowflake Challenge Day 13
Challenge 13.
In your own space, share a favorite memory about fandom: the first time you got into fandom, the last time a fanwork touched your heart, wild times with fellow fans (whether on-line or off-line), a lovely comment you’ve received or have left for someone. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I began my fandom-ness in Babylon 5 and Tolkien back in the early 2000s, right after the first LOTR movie came out. I got into some Yahoo groups and wrote both character fic and real person fic. I got tired of the infighting among the writers of both so I made my own Yahoo group - LOTR Adult Fiction. It grew and grew and became Of Elves and Men, a website that was up and running from 2004 onward until we finally had to take it down in 2018 because the hosting site was no longer a good place to have it and I had no way to move it elsewhere. It is now in the process of being loaded onto Ao3.
I told you that to tell you this. I made a LOT of friends in the LOTR fansom and am friends with many of them to this day. From this group, I became involved in an RPG and I played Gil-galad. One day, Gil-galad met another elf named Oropher who was hungry and cold. He took him in, gave him a banana (it was all he had) and some purple socks. After a few weeks, I asked Oropher's person about herself and we became friends - best friends. She lives in Germany and me in the eastern US. Up until the pandemic, she's visited twice a year since 2005 and we've visited her and her family in Germany twice so far. We talk every week and chat online as often as we can.
Sooo - fandom has given me more than I can ever pay back.
When People talk about the evils of the internet, I have to disagree that it's as bad as they say, since it's given me so much!
In your own space, share a favorite memory about fandom: the first time you got into fandom, the last time a fanwork touched your heart, wild times with fellow fans (whether on-line or off-line), a lovely comment you’ve received or have left for someone. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I began my fandom-ness in Babylon 5 and Tolkien back in the early 2000s, right after the first LOTR movie came out. I got into some Yahoo groups and wrote both character fic and real person fic. I got tired of the infighting among the writers of both so I made my own Yahoo group - LOTR Adult Fiction. It grew and grew and became Of Elves and Men, a website that was up and running from 2004 onward until we finally had to take it down in 2018 because the hosting site was no longer a good place to have it and I had no way to move it elsewhere. It is now in the process of being loaded onto Ao3.
I told you that to tell you this. I made a LOT of friends in the LOTR fansom and am friends with many of them to this day. From this group, I became involved in an RPG and I played Gil-galad. One day, Gil-galad met another elf named Oropher who was hungry and cold. He took him in, gave him a banana (it was all he had) and some purple socks. After a few weeks, I asked Oropher's person about herself and we became friends - best friends. She lives in Germany and me in the eastern US. Up until the pandemic, she's visited twice a year since 2005 and we've visited her and her family in Germany twice so far. We talk every week and chat online as often as we can.
Sooo - fandom has given me more than I can ever pay back.
When People talk about the evils of the internet, I have to disagree that it's as bad as they say, since it's given me so much!