Snowflake Challenge: Inspired

[author_by_night]

 Talk About A Creator/Someone Who Inspired You. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

 

 

An admin/webmaster of a site I used to frequent (and still visited) used it as means to cope with and eventually leave an abusive relationship. It might have saved her life, actually. She's just such a great admin overall - honestly, probably one of the best admins ever, no joke. We haven't interacted a whole lot 1:1 (just here and there), but I kind of love her.

Of course , the fan community overall has been inspiring. I've been in two fandoms, one super large and one so small it was pretty much just one website in the end. There've been ups and downs, especially the Harry Potter fandom (we... definitely put the "fun" in dysfunctional), but what I see at the end of the day is the love and the power. I've talked about all that before, though (both for this challenge and in general) so I won't teal deer.

One thing that does come to mind is the time that a teacher said something very cruel to me, and an older online friend made me tell my parents. That was hugely important, because I wasn't going to, but with her being older and wiser she of course knew I had to. Overall as a teen in fandom, I had a lot of great mentors. Sure, I cringe at some of the memories (I had teenage moments), but I'm also grateful for the people who gave me guidance.
 
tl;dr FANDOM inspires me! Even if it's definitely been on CRAX once or twice or a million times. :)

 

Comments

[seleneheart]

We as a fandom talk about the love, but the power doesn't get mentioned as much. As a collective, we are indeed powerful.

[sperrywink]

What stellar examples! We often forget how our fannish lives can inspire us in our "real" lives and improve them too!

[author_by_night]

Definitely! And those are just two. I could go on for hours and hours and hours if I let myself. (In fact, I almost did, and cut it for time.) It's amazing how it isn't just about the virtual world, but the real world. I mean, even just meeting people from all walks of life holds a lot of power, doesn't it?

[sperrywink]

It does hold a lot of power! And, yeah, real life and fannish life have definitely commingled for me as in just that way.

[paulamcg]

What wonderful examples! At least in my case, fandom interaction has been a very real part of my real life and affected its other parts.

[spikedluv]

FANDOM inspires me!

Wonderful post! Thanks for sharing it.

[pauraque]

I had the same experience of being mentored a lot by older people as a teenager in fandom. It was a really important thing and shaped me in a positive way.

[lunabee34]

I'm glad your friend was looking out for you.

[silveradept]

Fandom definitely has its moments, whether for good or WTF.