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Day 15: In your own space, write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, or to your flist/circle/followers. Share you love and squee as loud as you want to. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so

Dear Fandom,

It'll be forty years this summer when I first dipped my toe into your waters and it's been four wonderful decades. I remember fondly your paper zine days and sometimes I miss them still. They brought me to a community of like-minded individuals which I so needed as a complete outsider in high school. In college you and I found other groups of people who enjoyed Dungeons and Dragons, and Robotech and Star Trek and Elfquest and so many others.

You introduced me to people who would become lifelong friends and to those who would encourage me to write my own stories. I would not be a published author today without fandom. It was, at least back then, a safe place, to learn to write, to learn how and how not to form a story. Fandom was as helpful as any writing class I've ever taken. Some of those I met in fandom followed me to my professional writing and that is a wonderful thing.

I followed you online to FFN, to email rings and boards back in the early days, to livejournal where I've stayed for a decade or so. I should probably branch out a little more but these days we're in more of a long distance relationship until I find my next big love.

Oh sure, we fight some times. I will never understand shipper wars. You can like your ship without bashing mine, I swear it's possible.

So here's to forty wonderful years. I'm raising a glass to the next forty because I plan on being 90 attending comicons, just so you know. I'm almost old enough to cosplay Laxwanna Troi and I'm looking forward to it. So here's to forty more.


Speaking of fandom, check out the Star Trek story evil_little_dog wrote for me here !

ETA - Just after I posted, fandom_stocking went live. You can see all the great fan stuff I got this year, Lucifer, TBBT & Dr Who icons and X-Files, Black Butler and Attack on Titan stories! See them here