love letter to fandom
Dear BSG Friends and Laura & Bill Chums,
Battlestar and especially Bill and Laura have given me so much:
1) Laura has eased my fear of aging. She came along just as I was edging toward life's midstream -- and she was lovely and strong and respected and adored.
2) I started thinking about BSG and running -- and I lost 50 pounds. Which I have kept off -- more or less.
3) Fandom wildly improved my sex life. I had been married for 15 years when I met BSG -- and reading and writing porn gave me a new lease on sex.
4) I wrote! When I met this fandom, I chose the name 'whatever' because I never expected to read much -- much less write! -- on the site. I just wanted to poke around a bit. Hours of reading wonderful writers finally gave way to me trying my hand. Writing gave me huge satisfaction.
5) Friends. Friends. Friends. When I had trouble with my kids, when my husband had a breakdown, when I had job issues.... I would post and people would answer. And it meant a lot. And it was dazzling to hear first hand about the floods in Australia, to get a Christmas card from Norway, to see friends finally get the right to marry here in the US...
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU...
Love,
Beth
"Whatever"
Battlestar and especially Bill and Laura have given me so much:
1) Laura has eased my fear of aging. She came along just as I was edging toward life's midstream -- and she was lovely and strong and respected and adored.
2) I started thinking about BSG and running -- and I lost 50 pounds. Which I have kept off -- more or less.
3) Fandom wildly improved my sex life. I had been married for 15 years when I met BSG -- and reading and writing porn gave me a new lease on sex.
4) I wrote! When I met this fandom, I chose the name 'whatever' because I never expected to read much -- much less write! -- on the site. I just wanted to poke around a bit. Hours of reading wonderful writers finally gave way to me trying my hand. Writing gave me huge satisfaction.
5) Friends. Friends. Friends. When I had trouble with my kids, when my husband had a breakdown, when I had job issues.... I would post and people would answer. And it meant a lot. And it was dazzling to hear first hand about the floods in Australia, to get a Christmas card from Norway, to see friends finally get the right to marry here in the US...
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU...
Love,
Beth
"Whatever"