Snowflake Challenge: Day 13

[llaeyro]

Day 13
In your own space, write about a moment in fandom that meant a lot to you. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I'm not sure I have a lot to say about this one. I started reading fanfiction so many years ago, but I've been in for months and out for years. I had a burst of activity in 2012-13, then came back at the end of 2015 and before that/in between, purely lurked. So I missed most of fandom's big moments, basically. I've met up with fandom folks on two occasions. The first, I was very overwhelmed and unsure of myself because of my own issues and not really knowing how to interact with people through LJ. Public comments left on pages were alien to me, compared to the chatrooms and private IM friendships I was used to. Everyone was super, super lovely but I was quiet and ridiculous and everyone was probably thinking 'who even is this person whose name we can't pronounce' *g* The second time was smaller, and I've grown up (in some respects...) and I really clicked with someone =)

That was the moment, actually. Sheltering from the rain outside the tube station, chatting away to ely_baby and neither of us wanting to go even though it was cold and wet! We met up again the very next day, and took a little walking tour of some of my favourite places, mostly revolving around HP and food. We'd never crossed paths before, because we run around in very different parts of fandom yet we have a lot in common when it comes to HP feels and opinions on coffee and fudge =D

Long comments on your works are incredible, especially on the longer ones, or ones you felt a connection to. Even more so when the story is annonymous, and/or when the commenter is someone you admire. I find that, although the general contentment of validation lingers, the comments themselves don't really stay with me, though. It's other people's stories that stay with me. I find myself thinking of their characters, the spells or creatures or situations they crafted for weeks or months or years after reading. Sometimes it's just a moment, a feeling, an image, an atmosphere that comes back to me. Sometimes I can't even place it, but still, you created that. You imprinted that image into my brain. Lessons and morals and witty one-liners come to me from your stories, and affect me day-to-day. They inspire, advise and often educate me. They are part of what continues to shape me, as a writer and as a person.

And that means a lot to me. ♥

Maybe I did have a fair bit to say, after all ;)

Comments

[alisanne.livejournal.com]

I am so glad you and Ely get along so well. <3
You're both awesome!

[llaeyro]

♥ you're awesomer :B

[capitu]

Everyone was super, super lovely but I was quiet and ridiculous and everyone was probably thinking 'who even is this person whose name we can't pronounce'

*lol* I think most of us have had that moment.

*HUGS*

[llaeyro]

Then I disappeared from fandom for two and a half years LOL *hangs head in shame*

It's good to know I'm not the only one :P thank you ♥

[ely-baby.livejournal.com]

I don't receive notificationssssssssssssssssssssss!!! I have no freaking idea why, but I do not!!!! Yes, I have my notifications on, but I have no clue why I don't receive them - especially when someone mentions me!!! >.<

Honestly, we did totally clicked that evening, didn't we? LMAO! I remember we even took like twenty minutes before we noticed that if we moved ten feet to my left - your right - we would be sheltered by the Green Park Tube station. *g*

Soooooooo, by the way, I've just finished my essay which is due on 24 January, and afterwards my second module doesn't start until mid February, so basically, what I'm trying to say is: WE SO TOTALLY NEED TO MEET UP AND DO SOMETHING!! Are you free any weekend from now to mid-February? What shall we do? I have something for you, too, you know.. we need to meet upppp!! :D I should also be free from the 11 of February to the 19 cause it's half-term and all the kids go back to Italy, but I want to volunteer in a museum or something. But otherwise, I am free most of the time on weekends! Let me know! xxxx

[llaeyro]

Well... I've not been free at weekends really because it's my show coming up, the pantomime! So we've been rehearsing a lot. The show is next Friday and Saturday, and again the following Friday and Saturday. I'm working both Sundays too, but not until 7pm on the first one. You're welcome to come see it if you want, but I know it's an awfully long way! You could of course stay over, if you don't mind that we won't actually spend much time together!

What's a lot easier, though, is that I've got two weeks off work in the middle of Feb! We've booked it off as holiday, to sort things out around the house mostly, but we can definitely do some things!! <3

[ely-baby.livejournal.com]

Urgh. Working the upcoming two Saturdays.. :(

Yesssss! We should definitely do something mid-February! Especially because - as I said - I am working every weekend up until half-term, basically.. :-/ I am volunteering at Rainham Hall from the 15th to the 19th of February, but I'm free from the 11th to the 14th and I am volunteering only in the morning anyway! And Rainham Hall is in the East so it shouldn't be too far from your house!

So looking forward to seeing you and doing things!! :D <3 xxxx