Snowflake 2021 #10
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jedi_of_urthChallenge #10
In your own space, write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, creator, episode, or it could be your fandom friends. Share your love and squee as loud as you want to. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Dear fandoms of the past,
In what now must be considered decades of fandom activity, there have been fandoms of all sorts of investment. Some of you I was madly devoted to for years only for the passion do fade and another to rise in your place. Some have been moments of connection where you were the right media for the right time. Some have never been what you would call a fandom love, but only a long or short term interest that lasted while other fandoms took precedence. But all of you are important.
Some I may never return to, either because I've changed or because out time together didn't end well so it's hard to return to the feeling that were once so important. Some I will return to every year or few years and for a while I will be just as immersed in you are I once was; I'll move on again, but you will always be there when I need you. And some will fade from memory with only an occasional thought that, yeah I did enjoy that once. But whatever out relationship is now, that doesn't mean you weren't important.
It may be almost painful to watch even an episode of Full House as an adult; but as a kid, didn't miss an episode, hardly even a rerun, because I couldn't get enough. It may be hard to watch B5 lately because so many of the actors have died that it's become haunting to watch scenes between Garibaldi and Franklin or G'Kar or Zack or Sinclair (really Jerry Doyle's death tipped over the scales for me, he spends so much time interacting with other now dead cast members that there are a lot of haunting moments), or the dinner scene in Sleeping in Light where half of them are now absent friends. It may feel wrong to return to Buffy, because my memories of the year or two I spent in that fandom are still so well preserved and so connected with a particular time in my life that in many ways I don't want to reevaluate them or the show at a different time. I may have outgrown Harry Potter or have walked away from Heroes or just not feel the need to go back to Avatar the way others do.
I may forget details, either about you or my feelings about you. It may get harder to answer questions about you for memes. I may never be able to write fic about you because even if I have a vague idea, it doesn't feel worth reacquainting myself with canon enough to see if it's something I want to work on. I may have missed the chance to make vids about you because I never found the right song at a time when I was making vids and thinking about you. I may not remember you well enough to write meta about you.
But that doesn't mean you weren't important. In fact, think of yourselves as absent friends, in memory still bright.
With love,
Tori / jedi_of_urth
P.S. I may be processing some real life feelings in this letter to TV shows
In your own space, write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, creator, episode, or it could be your fandom friends. Share your love and squee as loud as you want to. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Dear fandoms of the past,
In what now must be considered decades of fandom activity, there have been fandoms of all sorts of investment. Some of you I was madly devoted to for years only for the passion do fade and another to rise in your place. Some have been moments of connection where you were the right media for the right time. Some have never been what you would call a fandom love, but only a long or short term interest that lasted while other fandoms took precedence. But all of you are important.
Some I may never return to, either because I've changed or because out time together didn't end well so it's hard to return to the feeling that were once so important. Some I will return to every year or few years and for a while I will be just as immersed in you are I once was; I'll move on again, but you will always be there when I need you. And some will fade from memory with only an occasional thought that, yeah I did enjoy that once. But whatever out relationship is now, that doesn't mean you weren't important.
It may be almost painful to watch even an episode of Full House as an adult; but as a kid, didn't miss an episode, hardly even a rerun, because I couldn't get enough. It may be hard to watch B5 lately because so many of the actors have died that it's become haunting to watch scenes between Garibaldi and Franklin or G'Kar or Zack or Sinclair (really Jerry Doyle's death tipped over the scales for me, he spends so much time interacting with other now dead cast members that there are a lot of haunting moments), or the dinner scene in Sleeping in Light where half of them are now absent friends. It may feel wrong to return to Buffy, because my memories of the year or two I spent in that fandom are still so well preserved and so connected with a particular time in my life that in many ways I don't want to reevaluate them or the show at a different time. I may have outgrown Harry Potter or have walked away from Heroes or just not feel the need to go back to Avatar the way others do.
I may forget details, either about you or my feelings about you. It may get harder to answer questions about you for memes. I may never be able to write fic about you because even if I have a vague idea, it doesn't feel worth reacquainting myself with canon enough to see if it's something I want to work on. I may have missed the chance to make vids about you because I never found the right song at a time when I was making vids and thinking about you. I may not remember you well enough to write meta about you.
But that doesn't mean you weren't important. In fact, think of yourselves as absent friends, in memory still bright.
With love,
Tori / jedi_of_urth
P.S. I may be processing some real life feelings in this letter to TV shows
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Date: 2021-01-20 07:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2021-01-20 08:22 pm (UTC)Thank you for taking part.
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Date: 2021-01-20 11:26 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2021-01-20 11:34 pm (UTC)It's kind of like English and the word love; we could really stand to have a few different words for the different types of ways we love.
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Date: 2021-01-21 09:09 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2021-01-21 06:14 am (UTC)This is very true to the way I think about fandoms. Like, fandoms that were important to me never really leave me, even if I don't think about them day to day and may have forgotten the order of plot points and such.
because so many of the actors have died that it's become haunting to watch scenes between Garibaldi and Franklin or G'Kar or Zack or Sinclair
:((( yeah
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Date: 2021-01-24 03:56 am (UTC)Just found out, it's gotten worse.
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Date: 2021-01-24 04:50 am (UTC)I flashed back to this conversation as soon as I heard about Mira Furlan :(
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Date: 2021-01-24 10:30 pm (UTC)To absent friends, and the memories we had.