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author_by_night ([personal profile] author_by_night) wrote2018-01-03 08:32 am
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Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Fandom Memories

One of the prompts for the fandom snowflake challenge - which I'm not officially doing, but I have seen around - is to write about your memories of fandom. I've done SO MANY of those. So instead, I thought I would do it in a totally meta and unique way.

I went back in time to 2003, and interviewed a Harry Potter fan, known as  Fan of Fandoms Past (FFP).Last time I did this, it was to recap PoA. 

(Quick non-meta note: FFP is basically a parody of teenage Harry Potter fans in 2003. Particularly Marauder fans. Particularly the ones I was friends with. And myself.)

 


Me: Wow, January of 2003. Fifteen years ago.. 

FFP: So is Bush still President in 2018?

Me: Think about that for a minute.

FFP: Oh right. Okay. Is The Apprentice still on? 

Me: ....maybe we shouldn't talk politics. So, fandom.

FFP: OMG fandom is INSANE right now. We can't wait for the fifth Harry Potter book.

Me: Really?

FFP: Fans are saying that Remus and Sirius will totally hook up. Hey, is that true?

Me: No. Remus... ends up with a woman. Fandom blows a gasket, but a lot of Remus/Sirius shippers contend that he's bisexual.

FFP: I sometimes think Dumbledore's gay.

Me: You do?

FFP: Hot4Sirius and I were just talking about that on AIM, actually. Oh, hold on, Hot4Sirius just invited me to a mini chatroom with our other friends, LoupGarou and QuidditchChaser! 

Me: Do your friends have real names?

FFP: I just told you. Hot4Sirius, LoupGarou and QuidditchChaser.

Me: No, I mean - never mind.

FFP: They don't agree with my theory that Dumbledore's gay. They're probably right. Maybe it'll be like in that RPG I'm in, Dumbledore and McGonagall just got married.

Me: Aren't they a few decades apart?

FFP: Do you really think that'll ever stop fandom?

Me: .. fair point. So, what other fandomy things do you do?

FFP: Well, right now I'm working on a petition for Dumbledore to get SOX for Christmas. 

Me: Don't you mean socks?

FFP: No, SOX. They're better than socks.

Me: Alrighty, then.

FFP: We've done serious things, too. We all raised money to get a card with Order of the Phoenix hints on them, but lost the auction. The money went to a literacy fund, and... we all realized that was way more important in the first place. 

Me: Wow. That's actually pretty cool.

FFP: Yeah. It was a good life lesson.

Me: So, are these people on the internet your real friends? Even though you don't know them?

FFP: Of course! And I do know them, I just know them in a different way. Also, in a way, they know me better than anyone else. At school, I'm a mousy girl who reads in homeroom. Online, I'm me. The real me. The one all those preps and posers don't see -

Me: - okay, we get it, you're an emo teenager IRL. So, you'd say that fandom rocks?

FFP: No.

Me: Oh?

FFP: Fandom ROX.

Me: Well, I'd better get back to 2018, because I'm a grown up with a job now. But thank you.

FFP: Quick question - Sirius lives, right?

Me: Huh?

FFP: He survives the fifth book? He has to survive, right? And he, Remus and Harry become a happy family?

Me: ... a fangirl never tells. 
 


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[personal profile] krait 2018-01-03 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha, those were the days!

I miss HP fandom a lot, when I stop and think about it.
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[personal profile] hildigunnur 2018-01-03 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Sugar Quill speak! :D

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[personal profile] chocolatepot 2018-01-04 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, FFP! He totally does! You hold onto that hope!