Fandom Snowflake Challenge #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.
I've always been an avid reader and made up my own little stories in my head but, surprisingly, I didn't write them down. My essays at school always received comments like great story, you have good imagination but even then, though I enjoyed the essays and stories I wrote for school, I never wrote for myself.
Fast forward to the early 2000s when I decided to get satellite tv. As I love sci-fi that was the channel I was most drawn to and one of the first shows I fell in love with was 'The Sentinel'. Googling something entirely unconnected one day, I inadvertently found a reference to a story in The Sentinel fandom and I was hooked. In those days Fandom, you lived via Yahoo Groups and I joined in. Booting up my computer and connecting to the internet with an old dial up modem to check the Groups. In those early days much fanfiction was hosted on writers' individual pages, which meant on many occasions having to search via The Wayback Machine to find a recommended story as the site it was housed on no longer existed. Some posted on ff.net and WWOMB (now SquidgeWorld) allowing stories to be saved for posterity.
It's amazing how far you've come in twenty years, Fandom. Livejournal and Dreamwidth brought so many people together with the various communities for their fandom or for multi-fandom events and most stories are now housed on archives rather than individual sites which means that so many more stories will be saved for future generations to find and fall in love with.
Fandom you have also enabled me to have the pleasure of attention Stargate Conventions in the UK, Vancouver and Chicago. I've attended ComicCons, Collectormania and Memorabilia events in the UK and met so many new friends in person, along with actors from so many shows.
I'd like to thank you Fandom for being here through good and bad, and to everyone who contributes in so many ways to keep our fandoms alive. To the authors and artists, who so generously post and share your work. To those who run the archives where our stories are housed. To those who run the coms, challenges and events for us all to enjoy and take part in and to all who take part in the challenges keeping our fandoms alive and kicking.
Fandom wouldn't be the same without all of you.
Love
Sue
I've always been an avid reader and made up my own little stories in my head but, surprisingly, I didn't write them down. My essays at school always received comments like great story, you have good imagination but even then, though I enjoyed the essays and stories I wrote for school, I never wrote for myself.
Fast forward to the early 2000s when I decided to get satellite tv. As I love sci-fi that was the channel I was most drawn to and one of the first shows I fell in love with was 'The Sentinel'. Googling something entirely unconnected one day, I inadvertently found a reference to a story in The Sentinel fandom and I was hooked. In those days Fandom, you lived via Yahoo Groups and I joined in. Booting up my computer and connecting to the internet with an old dial up modem to check the Groups. In those early days much fanfiction was hosted on writers' individual pages, which meant on many occasions having to search via The Wayback Machine to find a recommended story as the site it was housed on no longer existed. Some posted on ff.net and WWOMB (now SquidgeWorld) allowing stories to be saved for posterity.
It's amazing how far you've come in twenty years, Fandom. Livejournal and Dreamwidth brought so many people together with the various communities for their fandom or for multi-fandom events and most stories are now housed on archives rather than individual sites which means that so many more stories will be saved for future generations to find and fall in love with.
Fandom you have also enabled me to have the pleasure of attention Stargate Conventions in the UK, Vancouver and Chicago. I've attended ComicCons, Collectormania and Memorabilia events in the UK and met so many new friends in person, along with actors from so many shows.
I'd like to thank you Fandom for being here through good and bad, and to everyone who contributes in so many ways to keep our fandoms alive. To the authors and artists, who so generously post and share your work. To those who run the archives where our stories are housed. To those who run the coms, challenges and events for us all to enjoy and take part in and to all who take part in the challenges keeping our fandoms alive and kicking.
Fandom wouldn't be the same without all of you.
Love
Sue