To whom it may concern:

[allira_dream]

To whom it may concern:

I've been a member of fandom since I was fourteen years old. Fanfiction, as stupid as it might seem to someone who isn't involved in fandom on the large scale, actually DID save me from a number of atrocities I could've made up as a teenager to 'fit in'.

Comments

[reversedhymnal]

I don't want to say what I have to say as though it's a joke, or belittling. I don't want people to think that it's less, or making less of what you just said. Because it's not. Because, for me, what fandom did was just as important as what fandom did for you.

I learned about sex from fandom. I was twelve, in a new place, losing my old friends - who were losing themselves to vices I still don't (thank the gods) understand - and ignorant. I hated being ignorant. I learned the mechanics of sex from a Sailor Moon lemon when I was twelve, and I have never regretted that.

I have no idea what mistakes I may have made, otherwise, because no one else was going to tell me anything. Not my parents, not my siblings, not my teachers. My friends, perhaps, and I would have trusted them then, but I don't trust them now. They were as young as me, after all.

It snowballed after that. Fandom taught me acceptance, it taught me the beauty of creation, it taught me that it's okay to be different, and that even when you think you are alone, you're not,

[rosethornli]

Wow... Beautiful, both of your pieces, Nina-san, Erica-san.

While its been nearly the same for me, in a general sense, I don't think I could state it that well.

Rose. Li

[tsubasa_lupin]

Some other boy or girl will read what I wrote and will think 'It's not only me. It's not bad that I think this. I am not alone'.

*Raise hand*

[tiam_atardecer]

Totalmente de acuerdo con todo lo que dices, porque también el fandom me dio y me ha dado muchísimo. No sólo me permitió conocerte, por un lado, lo cual me tiene aquí, leyendo tu journal, y lo cual agradezco

[green_wing]

Your words express so much emotion, thank you for putting into writing what most of us can't quite pluck up the courage to say out loud *hug*

[randomsome1]

Better put than my collection of links.

I don't see that you've joined fandom_counts yet . . .

[allira_dream]

I have! With all my journals! Unless that between all thirty of them I could still remember, I got confused and didn't join with this one... *goes to check*