Things
Question: When you feel yourself starting to lose your love for a particular fandom (or ship), what do you do? Reread your favorite fics? Go back to the source material to try to rekindle the flame? Give yourself a break for a bit and then go back to it? Let yourself drift to something new, because no obsession lasts forever?
Just curious. :-)
In other news, I have signed up for 14valentines. Never done it before, but it sounds like a fun, rewarding way to celebrate women -- and women's friendships and communities and achievements -- each day for the first two weeks of February. Here's a summary of what the comm is about, in case anyone else wants to take the plunge along with me:
14 Valentines was a concept slash project pioneered by rageprufrock in 2006, and going into its fourth year, based on the idea of fandom as a community of women and their allies and the power of the relationships there. It's meant to raise awareness -- and hopefully as a result increase participation in community women's groups. 14 Valentines will run for two weeks (14 days) for the first half of February, ending on Valentine's Day, also Vagina Day, Victory Against Violence Day and is in a large part inspired by Eve Ensler, her amazing Vagina Monologues, and the organization that grew out of that movement, the V-Day foundation.
The mission of 14 Valentine's isn't to solicit money for the cause -- as anybody who has worked at a nonprofit knows, money does not fix all or even some of the problems -- but instead of remind everybody that there is a cause, that it touches each of us every day and that we should embrace the agency we're lucky enough to have and do something good with it. We're all global citizens -- we're a global sisterhood, too. That said, if you want to contribute money to some of the organizations we feature, that's awesome too.
Just curious. :-)
In other news, I have signed up for 14valentines. Never done it before, but it sounds like a fun, rewarding way to celebrate women -- and women's friendships and communities and achievements -- each day for the first two weeks of February. Here's a summary of what the comm is about, in case anyone else wants to take the plunge along with me:
14 Valentines was a concept slash project pioneered by rageprufrock in 2006, and going into its fourth year, based on the idea of fandom as a community of women and their allies and the power of the relationships there. It's meant to raise awareness -- and hopefully as a result increase participation in community women's groups. 14 Valentines will run for two weeks (14 days) for the first half of February, ending on Valentine's Day, also Vagina Day, Victory Against Violence Day and is in a large part inspired by Eve Ensler, her amazing Vagina Monologues, and the organization that grew out of that movement, the V-Day foundation.
The mission of 14 Valentine's isn't to solicit money for the cause -- as anybody who has worked at a nonprofit knows, money does not fix all or even some of the problems -- but instead of remind everybody that there is a cause, that it touches each of us every day and that we should embrace the agency we're lucky enough to have and do something good with it. We're all global citizens -- we're a global sisterhood, too. That said, if you want to contribute money to some of the organizations we feature, that's awesome too.