Good-bye, Anna!
Anna Shoeboxer for Life, shoeboxer4life, deleted her journal last Friday, the 21st of August 2009, and left, like she said she would. With her, fandom has lost a woman who I cherished most of all for her burning enthusiasm and her overwhelming honesty.
She is the one who posted links to the Shoebox Project so often that I finally broke down and went and discovered this, the Marauders' world and never once regretted it. I know Anna would love you all to go to cult_sbp and read this amazing piece of fanfiction and art, so go, go! It's like .... CRACK! :D
She is the one with the long, long comments, tackling everything from Draco's Deep Magic to why Harry tops, drawing connections between Remus/Sirius and Harry/Draco, between the Marauders and the Trio. Whenever I got a comment from shoeboxer4life in my mailbox, I knew I'll find something unexpected and brilliant, something which made me think in new ways.
She is the one with the sex posts in her flocked journal, always bordering on the TMI (as she herself would readily admit), always filled with deep insights into how desire is connected to love and friendship, how to juggle marriage, kids and fandom. I'll never forget Anna's epic post on anal sex, which to me was more of a revelation than many gay sex manuals.
Anna has left us her tribute to friendship, love and fandom, her amazing story, The Coherency Obstacle. It's Ginny/Astoria and Harry/Draco. I encourage you all to read it, even if you did not know Anna. It's one of those stories where personal experience comes together with wonderful writing, weaving a story which is both painful and sexy, so rich in detail, even funny at times and yet filled with such longing for a love that can never be fulfilled in RL, but only in stories like this.
I miss Anna already. May we meet again, Shoeboxer4life!
She is the one who posted links to the Shoebox Project so often that I finally broke down and went and discovered this, the Marauders' world and never once regretted it. I know Anna would love you all to go to cult_sbp and read this amazing piece of fanfiction and art, so go, go! It's like .... CRACK! :D
She is the one with the long, long comments, tackling everything from Draco's Deep Magic to why Harry tops, drawing connections between Remus/Sirius and Harry/Draco, between the Marauders and the Trio. Whenever I got a comment from shoeboxer4life in my mailbox, I knew I'll find something unexpected and brilliant, something which made me think in new ways.
She is the one with the sex posts in her flocked journal, always bordering on the TMI (as she herself would readily admit), always filled with deep insights into how desire is connected to love and friendship, how to juggle marriage, kids and fandom. I'll never forget Anna's epic post on anal sex, which to me was more of a revelation than many gay sex manuals.
Anna has left us her tribute to friendship, love and fandom, her amazing story, The Coherency Obstacle. It's Ginny/Astoria and Harry/Draco. I encourage you all to read it, even if you did not know Anna. It's one of those stories where personal experience comes together with wonderful writing, weaving a story which is both painful and sexy, so rich in detail, even funny at times and yet filled with such longing for a love that can never be fulfilled in RL, but only in stories like this.
I miss Anna already. May we meet again, Shoeboxer4life!