Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Day 2
Jan. 2nd, 2017 05:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonyphoenix
Day 2: In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life.
I never saw Buffy when it was first on tv but I did catch episodes - 2 per week of Buffy and 1 of Angel, all seasons non-related as far as I know - in repeats. But not for long. Just as I was getting into it, the station stopped showing Buffy reruns.
And then my mother died. My friend Susan lent me her DVDs a season at a time. Since I had two weeks between loans, I watched it all, episodes, commentary, anything that was on those DVDs. Then I found fanfic. Within 6 months of my mother's death, I was writing fanfic. Writing not only helped put a distance between me and my grief, but it allowed me to start playing with who I wanted to be. Between anemia, dysfunction at work, grief, and depression it was as if I'd fallen into a pit. Writing got me out of that pit.
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Date: 2017-01-02 10:55 pm (UTC)It's one of the things that I really love about fandom - it's so lovely to have a place that you can just escape to and be creative without judgment. I found that fandom really helped me when I moved schools in my late teens and had zero friends (I was a strange teen and didn't really fit in anywhere until I went to uni and found a multitude of strange people who accepted me as I am!). It was a place I could escape to after a day of being almost completely alone and just sit and chat and create and read everyone else's amazing creations!
=)
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Date: 2017-01-03 12:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-04 02:53 am (UTC)Grief and depression are so difficult to deal with.
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