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cesperanzaSo this was a tough year where I spent a lot of time in the hospital (being the sandwich generation suuuuuucks)...but everyone survived and is fine and I learned that I am actually really pretty awesome under stress. I also learned (rediscovered) that I have the best friends in the entire universe. Even my husband was like, wow, how would we survive without your friends?
LET'S NEVER FIND THAT OUT.
Anyway, fandom was one of my happier places this year. I've long had a theory that people sometimes drift away from fandom when they're really happy - you see it when people get new sexual partners, new jobs, new lifestyles, increased commitments to other things. Fandom, otoh, is a great place to be if you're tired, sick, disabled, breastfeeding, bored, underutilized, stressed, isolated, or just need awesome pleasure served up to you JUST THE WAY YOU LIKE IT ALL THE TIME FOR REASONS, DAMMIT. Fandom totally came through for me this year with awesome fic and art and meta and vids and er, crafts (sob - I totally needed Marvel crafts!) - so thank you, fandom, for being great when I needed you to be great.
A few more thank yous:
Thanks, awesome friends, for dragging me to CA: The Winter Soldier the week after my kid came out of the hospital--THAT WAS THE FANDOM I NEEDED WHEN I NEEDED IT.
Thank you, CA:TWS, for your operatic multivalent shippiness and operatic soulmate story.
Thank you, Tony/Steve shippers, for your many excellent insights into Tony Stark and Steve Rogers. (One of my more hilarious LJ posts from earlier this year, pre CA: TWS: I think I'm starting to get what's so interesting about Steve Rogers. Ha. Ha, ha, ha ha.)
Thank you, Bucky Barnes, for finally giving me an attainable makeup look. (PS - for those of you wanting to try it, angry raccoon looks great pretty much on everybody, it turns out.)
Tumblr, you still scare me a little (your endless scrolling makes me dizzy) but I think I am starting to like you; thank you for the nonstop fanart and also for the many pictures of Chris Evans trying not to look anxious and of Sebastian Stan a) kissing boys b) posing like a supermodel in a vodka ad or c) frantically trying to think of something to say and failing. They have been very entertaining! :D
Anyway, I wrote a bunch of fic (mostly MCU, Steve/Bucky) this year and am primed to write a whole ton more, so I'm pretty optimistic about 2015.
LET'S NEVER FIND THAT OUT.
Anyway, fandom was one of my happier places this year. I've long had a theory that people sometimes drift away from fandom when they're really happy - you see it when people get new sexual partners, new jobs, new lifestyles, increased commitments to other things. Fandom, otoh, is a great place to be if you're tired, sick, disabled, breastfeeding, bored, underutilized, stressed, isolated, or just need awesome pleasure served up to you JUST THE WAY YOU LIKE IT ALL THE TIME FOR REASONS, DAMMIT. Fandom totally came through for me this year with awesome fic and art and meta and vids and er, crafts (sob - I totally needed Marvel crafts!) - so thank you, fandom, for being great when I needed you to be great.
A few more thank yous:
Thanks, awesome friends, for dragging me to CA: The Winter Soldier the week after my kid came out of the hospital--THAT WAS THE FANDOM I NEEDED WHEN I NEEDED IT.
Thank you, CA:TWS, for your operatic multivalent shippiness and operatic soulmate story.
Thank you, Tony/Steve shippers, for your many excellent insights into Tony Stark and Steve Rogers. (One of my more hilarious LJ posts from earlier this year, pre CA: TWS: I think I'm starting to get what's so interesting about Steve Rogers. Ha. Ha, ha, ha ha.)
Thank you, Bucky Barnes, for finally giving me an attainable makeup look. (PS - for those of you wanting to try it, angry raccoon looks great pretty much on everybody, it turns out.)
Tumblr, you still scare me a little (your endless scrolling makes me dizzy) but I think I am starting to like you; thank you for the nonstop fanart and also for the many pictures of Chris Evans trying not to look anxious and of Sebastian Stan a) kissing boys b) posing like a supermodel in a vodka ad or c) frantically trying to think of something to say and failing. They have been very entertaining! :D
Anyway, I wrote a bunch of fic (mostly MCU, Steve/Bucky) this year and am primed to write a whole ton more, so I'm pretty optimistic about 2015.
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Date: 2015-01-01 03:58 am (UTC)Happy New Year!
Date: 2015-01-01 07:15 am (UTC)That's a great way of saying it; I've usually been a little more caustic or jaded when waxing on about [why they or I are even here]. I speak of myself and those years that my entire life/lack of one seemed to revolve around fandom and the psychological reasons for it, but you've put a nice positive spin on it, as yes, I did very much need it at that time. ♥
Best to you and yours!
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Date: 2015-01-01 03:50 pm (UTC)Here's to a year of many fewer medical emergencies.
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Date: 2015-01-02 12:45 am (UTC)I'm so glad you found the fandom you needed when you needed it and that the friends from fandoms past had your back when you needed them. May we all be similarly blessed when things go pear-shaped.
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Date: 2015-01-05 05:08 pm (UTC)::pets you::
My first had croup once that was bad for a couple of hours and I thought I was going to murder people who were trying to help because they weren't Helping Fast Enough.