Snowflake Challenge Day 10

[bay_alexison]

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 admit I've been feeling eh over certain aspects of fandom. At certain points, I thought I belonged to a group, only for some people to ignore me and favor someone else. Besides that, there would be harassment and gatekeeping going around ("why ship x when you can ship y" for instance). However, I learn that it's better to have fun with a few close friends than to try to fit in.

So, a short love letter to my friends that I bonded over various fandoms and that I still talk to even when we go on to have different interests. Sometimes we might share new interests, which is nice.

Also special shoutout to my friends from the Pokemon fandom that I've been friends with the longest. Many of them also support my niche story and ship, which I was convinced that no one but me is interested in. Some of them also convinced me that maybe I should seriously think about attempting original writing.

The FE3H fandom deserves an honorable mention, too. While it does have its bad side (the harassment and gatekeeping mentioned earlier), there's also the good side. The Felix/Annette community in particular have been very sweet and supportive of one another. Also, the VAs from that game are cool and love to interact with the fans. It's also the series that I enjoy writing at the moment and still have many ideas for.

And I think that's it! Here's hoping 2021 I have a better fandom experience!

With love and fandom,
Bay