Fandom Snowflake Challenge #5

[aadler]

Taking on the meme/challenge here.

Fandom Snowflake Challenge #5

Talk about what has improved in your life thanks to fandom. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment here saying you did it.

Whether or not any part of my life actually improved because of fandom, I’ve drawn pleasure from it, and writing in Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been the near-total focus of my fiction output over the last 25+ years. Watching the Buffy episodes — and reading and writing in that fandom — was something I shared with my kids for years, to the point where I’m getting ready now to introduce my granddaughter to my efforts in a story I’ll write specifically for her. I enjoyed the first two WriterCons (the only ones I ever attended), and spent years trading stories and story recs and commentary with some fun and interesting people.

I don’t see any of those things as huge, but all of them were positive. If I hadn’t been doing that, I’d have done something else, which might — who knows? — have been even better.

What I had, though? It was good enough.

Comments

[prisca]

Sharing some fandom interests with your children and now grandchildren is so great; my boys always were interested in entirely different stuff.

[aadler]

Whether or not she has any actual interest is yet to be determined. We’ll find out, though.

[ngtskynebula]

How sweet! I tried teaching my younger brother the ways of fandom but it didn't catch his attention that much (he's not big on reading, overall). I'm hopeful it'll grow on him eventually, though.

[aadler]

Some of it depends on where you are in your life at a particular time. Both my kids outgrew it, my daughter to go into different areas and types of fic/entertainment activities, my son to build a family and work on starting his own business. Since I was in my forties when I made my latest dive into these things, it can happen ANY time, but it varies by individual. And, obviously, the appeal just isn’t that strong for some. As long as you’re enjoying your own, that’s probably enough.