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.

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[sparrow2000]

Thanks for the shout out, hon. I really do love my fandom. I discovered the BTVS fandom in 2002 and have made my home here ever since and it's posts like yours that reinforce all the great reasons why I love it so much.

buffyversetop5 really is a great resource isn't it. And the same with su_herald - I've discovered so many wonderful fics that I wouldn't have come across if they didn't exist, so they do our fandom a great service - we can't thank the mods enough for their work.

[red_satin_doll]

I'm just trying to give back what I've been given many times over! We can't pay one another but we can show our appreciation in other ways, and those little things matter so much - sometime it can get me through my day or make me smile.

I'm really impressed how many fans, like yourself, have stayed with this fandom for ten years or more. THAT is awesome staying power.

we can't thank the mods enough for their work.

I'd be all for draping the banquet halls in silk, hiring minstrels, slaughtering a pig...er, tofu...something...etc and breaking out the wine - but my budget won't allow!

[red_satin_doll]

**Blushes**

I'm grateful I found this community, and to have some energy to give! (Last year was pretty spotty on my end.)

[punch_kicker15]

Adding another Amen! I'm relatively new to this fandom too, and am just amazed at how much fantastic stuff there is out there. I truly appreciate the work that gets done to corral it into the Top 5 and Sunnydale Herald sites--it helps me find things I never would on my own, both the new stuff and the older classics.

Also, the Dawn and Anya gifs make grin.

[red_satin_doll]

it helps me find things I never would on my own, both the new stuff and the older classics.

Exactly, and I suspect that having access to that material is a key element of keeping this fandom alive; every culture depends on it's history, it's storytelling tradtions, it's "libraries" (printed or not). Lose all that and the culture dies itself dies because there's nothing to build upon.

think of the great libraries of Alexandria that preserved old/existing knowledge and became a center for the exchange of new ideas.

Also, the Dawn and Anya gifs make grin.

I just realized I need more Anya gifs.

[zodiac_sign]

LOL! I love your title, I don't know why :P

[red_satin_doll]

I love your title

Oh good, because that is the single part I probably worked on longer than anything! Srsly I AGONIZE over post titles to ridiculous amounts.