the effects of fandom in everyday life

[heresluck]

For a couple of weeks now, the lid of my wee Toshiba netbook (which I love and highly recommend, by the way) has been wobbly, and a few days ago a very tiny screw fell out of... somewhere... and landed behind the computer. I wasn't sure where it came from, but I suspected the hinge. (Mind you, I wasn't sure how a screw could fall out of the hinge,

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[celisnebula]

Sweet! I can definitely relate. Because if fandom, I can do limited coding, I can fix stuff (that I honestly wouldn't have ever done), honed my editing skills (from beta), so now I do editing jobs at work because my English is tres bien, and I guess most importantly, I've learned to be more social. At heart, I'm a hermit, but because of fandom I want to go out, do things and meet people who are fannish like myself.

[heresluck]

Oh yes, the social part is huge for me too -- I'm both introverted and shy, but fandom makes me want to talk with people. :)