Fandom Snowflake Challenge #12

Fandom Snowflake Challenge — January 23rd

❄ Challenge #12 on snowflake_challenge.

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Fellow Fan Love

Make an appreciation post to those who enhance your fandom life. Appreciate them in bullet points, prose, poetry, a moodboard, a song... whatever moves you!

I'm going to talk about two people who have enhanced my life because of fandom, rather than enhancing my fandom life. Though they both do enhance my fandom life, simply by being friends with whom I know I can talk about fandom stuff, but...

Percy and Meadowlark! Since time isn't real, I don't actually remember how long I've known them, so surely it has been forever.

Percy, though, started out as a friend of a friend before I very firmly claimed them as my own. :) A college buddy was writing BBC Sherlock fic, and where I was one of their beta readers, Percy was the other. We got to chatting and we turned out to be quite compatible! We ended up meeting when they came out to visit our mutual friend, too. They started betaing my fic—and they're still my long-standing beta reader, though only if the fic isn't too spooky, lol. They send me interesting bits of fandom off of social media that I'm not on, and I get to absorb their second-hand-fandom joy for ones that were never on my radar before (delightful). They listen to me rant about niche headcanons and help me spool out fic ideas that I may or may not end up writing, but are always fun to brainstorm.

Meadowlark is one of my roleplay forum friends. I had a years-long deep obsession with a particular book series, and I would hunt through the avidgamers/proboards/zboards forums for places to set up new fandom OCs and putter around with other people equally as obsessed with the worldbuilding of this fandom as I was. (The characters? Eeehhhhh. The world though. Hell yes. I still want to write eight billion AUs for all of my other fandoms using it, lol.) I don't believe either of us have anything to do with that particular fandom anymore, but our writing styles mesh well and she's an excellent roleplay buddy. I ended up moving close by, and when we met up to chitchat, we hit it off. I've actually managed to hang onto her, too, which is absolutely a heckin' triumph.

It's just so interesting to me how much fandom has brought into my life, including literal whole-ass people. Especially since I discovered it what I consider 'late' for all that I've been a fangirl since I first learned to get excited about Nancy Drew novels. And maybe it's cliche, but this kind of friendship always reminds me of Wicked, because I listened to the soundtrack on repeat back when it came out and it's now baked into my brain.


Like a comet pulled from orbit (Like a ship blown from its mooring)
As it passes a sun (By a wind off the sea)
Like a stream that meets a boulder (Like a seed dropped by a bird)
Halfway through the wood (In the wood)
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
I do believe I have been changed for the better
And because I knew you
Because I knew you
Because I knew you
I have been changed
For good.

-For Good from Wicked (Broadway 2003 version~)

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