in the interest of happiness

[cali]

OK, I'm tired of all this doom and gloom (not that there really was much of any to begin with). So I want each and every one of you to tell me two things:

1. Something thing about yourself that you love, or something that you have done that you're proud of. I don't care whether it was waking up on time, aceing a class, or having really great sex last night, I wanna know about it.

2. Something about fandom (whatever fandom you're in) that you love. Read an awesome fic last night? Made a new friend? or something more general, just tell me something about fandom that makes you smile.

I'll start:

1. I am really proud that I've been riding my bike to school. I love my bike. And I love the bike community here, and I love that I've been getting exercise, and helping the environment, and I get to school a lot faster now that I don't have to worry about parking.

2. I love the generosity of popfandom. I mean honestly, I've never seen more communities dedidcated to helping out other fen. image_direct and image_service for pictures, puppyshelter for footage, not to mention popmediafinders, popstoryfinders, pop_reference, poptrades, sdb_finders and so many more. Seriously, I am just amazed about the willingness of people to send eachother swag and share files and information. *hugs fandom* you are all awesome.

Comments

[without-me.livejournal.com]

1. I auditioned for a (small) solo in front of Gerry Schwartz without barfing on my shoes. (I didn't get the solo, but I was the understudy.)

2. What you said is true, of course, so here's a variation on it, which I already posted about in my LJ today: I love that writers are so generous. That they put their hard work out there for free, every day, sometimes to spec, and don't ask anything in return. I love that I can log on anytime I want and reread old favorites, or find new ones delivered to my friends list like gifts from the universe.

[hobaggins.livejournal.com]

1 I dress up as Luigi because Sam linked me as Luigi on her eLJay

2 thewhiteprophet [sam] dressed as Mario in return. :x!

[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

I love that my dad repeated one of my jokes in his lecture.

I did a ten things I love about fandom post a while back, but one more is:

I love the polyphonic narratology - that we're taking the same source material and instead of filling in the gaps to provide a more coherent whole, we're shattering it still further by providing such different fillers. We have so many different interpretations and different ways of telling the same story and each time we read Fraser And Ray's First Time we evaluate it on its own merit while at the same time letting all the other different versions of the same event (an event that's never taken place in canon, but which we're all willing to believe does exist for some value of existence) colour of understanding and acceptance of what's being postulated.

In other words, we rock big time.

[theantimodel.livejournal.com]

wow, you know what, I've never really thought of it that way but you're completely right, that's amazing. Doesn't fandom rock?