Snowflake Challenge Day 13 and other randomness

Day 13: In your own space, write about a moment in fandom that meant a lot to you. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


I've been active in fandom since 1977 so I've had quite a few moments.

Like meeting Gene Roddenberry, Majal Barret, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, George Takei, & Amber Benson.

Meeting Maggie Stiefvater last year in Cincinatti.

that moment when Leonard Nimoy friended me on twitter.

Or that one yesterday when someone read and gave kudos to over a dozen stories of mine on A03. And hey the enthusiastic response I got to some of my celebrate_fma stories this holiday.

But some of the best moments are all the friendships I've made over the years. I've known some of my fandom friends for 30 years (including Paulle who passed away last week). We've been together through multiple fandoms (Elfquest, Star Trek, Buffy and more). two of them have opened their homes to me when I had nowhere to go. I've been able to crash in so many places with friends or hang out with them at any rate (and that includes a few fun days in London).

I've found people willing to beta read my original fiction and can there be better fandom moments than that? That someone loves you fan fiction so much they'll follow you into new territory?

One of the best fandom moments for me happened last year at Animazement where I was the author selling books and someone knew me and was so excited to meet me. It's things like that which helps to keep me writing.


And in real life news...okay I have none other than I forgot my purse AGAIN and lab was 10 minutes late as I waited for my secretary to arrive with keys. I also went out drinking at 3 pm because well, this week seemed like it was a month long. I found out the local brewpub in Athens has something called a frambozen, a brown ale with raspberry and it was fantastic. (the rest of the beers were not good. two were grapefruity and the 11% Imort Ale had a bizarre finish I still can't place. I need to work on a beer journal because seriously I drink so much. But having the bartender know you helps because there was DEFINITELY more firecracker shrimp in my order than normal.

I broke a promise to myself and got 2 more books out of the library (since I have a storage unit to house my books, I made a promise to get less library and read more of my own TBR pile so I can get these books out of here!) But to be fair, I have a weird challenge that said read a book with a read spine an the only one I can see on any of my shelves is one I've read before and AM keeping and a dictionary.... And the other is the latest Flavia de Luce novel and my usual source did not carry it this time. Sigh.