Top moments in fandom
Though I've been in one fandom or another since I was 11, I didn't have a community till I got into Due South in 2005. To have one, now, finally, at all, is pretty damn awesome.
1 The Promised and the Delivered. R/R and F/K/V may have started with three fictional cops written by other people over a decade ago, but these pairings were built by fans, out of the scars of our conflict, the strength of our collaboration, and our determination to keep the characters in love snarking giggling arguing dancing angsting lying in the wet spot alive. They're ours. They're something that never should have existed but does, and that makes them special.
2 Knowing that I'd taught myself enough Photoshop to get there from here (Warning: non-explicit 'cest and pretensions to iconage)
3 Realizing that, in this fandom, sometimes even luke-warm fic brings all the rockstars to the yard.
4 Blogging in the shadow of china_shop, spuffyduds, mergatrude, and the rest of you.
5 Being asked to make the banner for ds_match team reality.
6 Reccing this, and utterly, utterly meaning it.
7 Every icon that practically made itself and every icon that required coaxing, teasing, meditating and dragging into existence. But that's a whole different list.
8 Fell in love, as Fraser, with my own Ray. Knew that if I ever got up the nerve, I would know what not to do, and what to do, by reading Speranza’s Enduring Distance.
To be a list forever, I hope, in progress.
1 The Promised and the Delivered. R/R and F/K/V may have started with three fictional cops written by other people over a decade ago, but these pairings were built by fans, out of the scars of our conflict, the strength of our collaboration, and our determination to keep the characters in love snarking giggling arguing dancing angsting lying in the wet spot alive. They're ours. They're something that never should have existed but does, and that makes them special.
2 Knowing that I'd taught myself enough Photoshop to get there from here (Warning: non-explicit 'cest and pretensions to iconage)
3 Realizing that, in this fandom, sometimes even luke-warm fic brings all the rockstars to the yard.
4 Blogging in the shadow of china_shop, spuffyduds, mergatrude, and the rest of you.
5 Being asked to make the banner for ds_match team reality.
6 Reccing this, and utterly, utterly meaning it.
7 Every icon that practically made itself and every icon that required coaxing, teasing, meditating and dragging into existence. But that's a whole different list.
8 Fell in love, as Fraser, with my own Ray. Knew that if I ever got up the nerve, I would know what not to do, and what to do, by reading Speranza’s Enduring Distance.
To be a list forever, I hope, in progress.