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what fandom is all about:
(I'll save the Srs Bsns for my next entry).
So because I am trying to get back into writing (I say that in every entry, don't I?) I've been spamming around in the Three-Sentence Ficathon, because it is a cool place to give and receive crazy things. And then someone put up a couple of LHM prompts, and I was feeling stupid enough to fill them. Bouncing comments after, the prompter mentioned that she was putting up the prompts as she was reading that sodding book for the first time.
Yeah, I did that ohmigawd, a virgin? chairdance I should have got over when I was 16. Bite me.
...but the weirdly touching part was when she thanked me for the fills and said they were 'a nice way to deal with the emotional stress and pain' contained within the LHM. And that? Is why I'm there. It is, in both general and specific terms, why I got in to fandom in the first place. It's not the entirety of why it keeps delivering, but it's part of it. We're sharing the sharp edges of our culture there, comparing scars.
(Hence one of the items on our You Know You're An LHM Fangirl When list: '...you honestly couldn't care less that you're not meant to write fanfic. It just happens.' No really, this is a basic form of cultural communication and I ain't stopping, or having anything to do with the 'official' HoV fandom, and I could rant for a long time about this but I am so not going to, especially not on motherfucking Dreamwidth of all places because what the fuck lol irony NO. I need to shut up now.)
So because I am trying to get back into writing (I say that in every entry, don't I?) I've been spamming around in the Three-Sentence Ficathon, because it is a cool place to give and receive crazy things. And then someone put up a couple of LHM prompts, and I was feeling stupid enough to fill them. Bouncing comments after, the prompter mentioned that she was putting up the prompts as she was reading that sodding book for the first time.
Yeah, I did that ohmigawd, a virgin? chairdance I should have got over when I was 16. Bite me.
...but the weirdly touching part was when she thanked me for the fills and said they were 'a nice way to deal with the emotional stress and pain' contained within the LHM. And that? Is why I'm there. It is, in both general and specific terms, why I got in to fandom in the first place. It's not the entirety of why it keeps delivering, but it's part of it. We're sharing the sharp edges of our culture there, comparing scars.
(Hence one of the items on our You Know You're An LHM Fangirl When list: '...you honestly couldn't care less that you're not meant to write fanfic. It just happens.' No really, this is a basic form of cultural communication and I ain't stopping, or having anything to do with the 'official' HoV fandom, and I could rant for a long time about this but I am so not going to, especially not on motherfucking Dreamwidth of all places because what the fuck lol irony NO. I need to shut up now.)