Challenge #3: Write a love letter to fandom. It might be to fandom in general, to a particular fandom, favourite character, anything at all.I'm not good at love letters - or letters at all, really! Epistolary has never been my strong suit. (Which is why this is late, haha. Shh, it's only by a few days!)
So I'll just say: complications and all, I'm glad fandom's here. I got started when I was a sheltered teenager who had no idea what I was getting into, and while fandom probably wasn't the
best way to learn how the world worked outside the local homeschool group, it was definitely one of the kinder options. I've made all of my best friends through fandom at this point - first through Transformers, and then in Ace Attorney (which I was so nervous to get into, because I'd been into exclusively Transformers for a decade, and how did fandoms about humans even
work? And then everybody was so lovely and welcoming). I've lost touch with a few of them over the years, but I still remember all of them. (If we ever talked back on FFN and you've found this somehow, I still think about you!)
Admittedly, I haven't really caught up to fandom on most social media these days. I never made it over to Twitter or Tiktok before -gestures at everything-, or the newer sites people seem to have migrated to from there. But I've found people on all the sites I
do hang out on, and that's been really nice. So...thanks, fandom! Here's to another few decades.
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fandom_empire next week... And now it's 3k words and not even close to being finished. With way more mental health stuff than I had intended. FML
