A Life-Changing Fandom: A Reminiscence
As long as I had even one episode of QAF unseen, I stayed away from all Queer As Folk-related web sites. I hate to be Spoiled, and after the horrific ending of S1, I knew that there was always the possibility.... So I stayed clear. Then I watched Brian tell Justin that he wanted, "Your drawers in my drawers," and all bets were off.
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I loved this post. You made me smile,laugh & cry, its just oh so emotional.
I love your fics, I told you in a post last week, I re-read Announcements whilst away on holidays, certain scenes from that fic, have never left me, a beautiful story.
Like you I had to find "something" & living here in Sydney, I knew nothing about fandoms & the internet, BUT I knew I had to find someone who was hurting like I was (513 killed me) So I Googled Gale Harold & like you I lurked around, read comments, found a gazillion sites, which lead me to the Yahoo Spoilers Board for B&J, which lead me to the BJFic site & the rest is history. I read vamphiles The End Done Right, which lead me to the LJ & to me! "sexy p" I'll never forget Vamps, she told me "welcome to the LJ, have fun, but it's soooooooo addictive" & she was right. I love it here, have many, many world wide friends, & of course flying to NYC & meeting Gale in Jan07 was & will always be a dream come true, shit I finally met him, & then I knew that BK really had "left the building" it was surreal, just only proved to me, what a wonderful actor & talent he truly is.
So yay for us all, for QaF, for B&J & for the fanfic that keeps it all alive. For friends all over the world, I truly hope we all get to meet up next July in NYC, what a weekend we'll have, I tell people & they look at me & think I'm NUTS!! but I feel sorry for them, they missed the boat, but I'll never forget it, never even when I'm old & grey (ill never be grey I dye my hair many colors lol) & thank the lord for that,,hugs you Jackie.xx
PS your Xmas card arrived today, I loved it, great pic of you all, hope you got mine to.
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