I was trying not to repeat too many of your items, but I was like, but I really LOVE AUs! and rec are such a natural thing to talk about! -- so in the end I repeated a bunch anyway :P
That's one of the joys of fandom - the diversity of our interests and passions.
Definitely! This has been my favorite challenge day to browse through, because people have written about so many different wonderful things, in different ways.
I met my beta because I wrote to say I loved a story she'd written. Turned out we only lived an hour and a half apart and after several conversations we met in person and that was the start of a friendship that has been going on for the last 15 years.
I love stories like this! <3 (though I'm sorry you're now separated by an ocean)
And, yeah, I have a number of fandom friends who absolutely became "real life" friends in a similar way. One member of Zoom Best Chat is someone I met through the sorting community I mentioned, who turned out to live only about an hour away, and then even closer when she transferred to a nearby uni, and every couple of months we'd get together for dinners full of geekery and shoving books and DVDs at each other, and talking about our families -- she pretty much watched my kids grow up, I hope to be able to celebrate her wedding once Covid allows wedding celebrations to be a thing again. It's definitely been over 10 years of friendship now, and as you say, we never would have met if it wasn't for fandom :)
That's one of the joys of fandom - the diversity of our interests and passions.
Definitely! This has been my favorite challenge day to browse through, because people have written about so many different wonderful things, in different ways.
I met my beta because I wrote to say I loved a story she'd written. Turned out we only lived an hour and a half apart and after several conversations we met in person and that was the start of a friendship that has been going on for the last 15 years.
I love stories like this! <3 (though I'm sorry you're now separated by an ocean)
And, yeah, I have a number of fandom friends who absolutely became "real life" friends in a similar way. One member of Zoom Best Chat is someone I met through the sorting community I mentioned, who turned out to live only about an hour away, and then even closer when she transferred to a nearby uni, and every couple of months we'd get together for dinners full of geekery and shoving books and DVDs at each other, and talking about our families -- she pretty much watched my kids grow up, I hope to be able to celebrate her wedding once Covid allows wedding celebrations to be a thing again. It's definitely been over 10 years of friendship now, and as you say, we never would have met if it wasn't for fandom :)
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