Spreading the Fandom Love: My Cup Runneth Over - and I Don't Mind the Stain on the Rug

[red_satin_doll]

The last two weeks I've received a sudden and unexpected influx of gifts and blessings here on LJ, and just gotten quite a lot of pleasure out of my participation in this fandom. I've been wanting to acknowledge all the love coming my way and spread it out, but it's hard to put into words. Or rather, words I have by the ton; coherence not so much.

Comments

[velvetwhip]

Top 5 and The Herald are both awesome-in-a-jar and that's a fact!

Gabrielle

[red_satin_doll]

awesome-in-a-jar

DAMN STRAIGHT, SISTER!

(And also - HOLY MOLY you're fast! I had to re-edit and your comment was already here! Do you use magic or something?)

[velvetwhip]

Do you use magic or something?

Shhh! Don't tell anyone!

Gabrielle

[red_satin_doll]

Your secret is safe with me! *shifty eyes*

[clockwork_hart1]

I'm so glad someone thanked all these people that keep the fandom so prolific and fertile and wonderful. The Herald and BT5 are such wonderful things, and damn they must be hard work to keep running so smoothly.

YOU ALL DESERVE AWARDS

So Amen, AMEN AMEN AMEN

(was that a little too enthusiastic?)

[red_satin_doll]

(was that a little too enthusiastic?)

Not at all! I'm up for tons of enthusiasm this week so bring it on!

[kikimay]

This fandom is awesome and still so alive. I've been here - well, in the Italian fandom, but I guess it's the same - since 2006 and I'm still reading amazing fics. Bless you all!

[red_satin_doll]

I guess it's the same - since 2006 and I'm still reading amazing fics. Bless you all!

That's amazing - hey, there's a theme for one of my first polls "How long have you been in btvs fandom?" Coolness

[red_satin_doll]

I've been a member since late 2001/early 2002

Has it been that long? That's really aweseome IMO that the show can inspire that much love.

When I first came to LJ fandom I saw your comments on gabrielleabelle's LJ, so I had no sense of anyone being further back than 2008. Not until I started reading the_royal_anna's meta from 2003-2004. I thought of you as THE Xander Fan (can't have been an easy road to hoe!), is that still true?

I'm always jazzed by the fact that there are people stil active in this fandom who watched the show "back in the day". I've always loved history, I suppose, so maybe that has something to do with it? that this fandom has a history that is still shared and remembered, while newbies like me are continually welcomed in? Anyway, I like it. :)

[red_satin_doll]

Xander is very flawed and made a lot of questionable mistakes with no follow-up, not to mention that his character development is so subtle Learning to become a "better man" than his father? to treat the people he loves with respect (aka to not be possessive?) I think is pretty amazing, and I'm not his greatest fan, even. Xander can annoy the hell out of me sometimes but look at his parents, at where he comes from. And that's true of Buffy, Willow etc - none of them grow up in households that model great relationship skills; they have to struggle to pick this stuff up along the way

[debris4spike]

Aww - thanks for the thanks!

It is a great community - and glad to see it well supported again.

[red_satin_doll]

And thank you again for your artwork rec lists! There really was so much variety this time around.

(And your icon has me giggling, you know.)

[debris4spike]

That icon was one from a challenge where I had to use the word "yes" ... what else could I do???????

[red_satin_doll]

Oh but it's the question mark at the end that really "makes" it, you know?