Snowflake Challenge Day 15

[imhilien]

Day 15

In your own space, write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, or to your flist/circle/followers. Share your love and squee as loud as you want to.

Fandom, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. It creates community between different people who can be willing to go that extra mile.
For example, when Babylon 5 was on in the mid-90's, we were a year behind the US here in NZ *, which was frustrating. So someone from my sci-fi club knew someone in the US who would record half a season at a time on video tapes (remember those?) and mail them to NZ so we could get together in weekends and binge-watch them +. There was literally no other way then for me to see them ahead of schedule. But thanks to fandom, I was able to.

* Babylon 5 was screened on Saturday afternoons, despite repeated requests by the public to put it on in the evenings. Grr, Hulk Smash stuffs.

+I still have fond memories of binge-watching the first six episodes of Season 4, it was epic.

Comments

[spikedluv]

Fandom peeps are great that way! *g*

[imhilien]

Thank you. :)

[vilakins]

I saw a videotape of the pilot, borrowed from someone at work, then had to wait ages till it started showing here. Yep, 2pm on Saturdays IIRC; we had to hope the recording worked. It's still one of my favourite shows despite the anticlimax of what the Shadows and Vorlons were. Mystery so often works better than revelation, but the characters made it totally worth it.

[imhilien]

The characters were great, you could really relate to them at times.

[silveradept]

Oh, how much easier it is now to get your materials on time. You could probably have a good time sharing stories with the early anime fans.

[imhilien]

Thanks for that. :)