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Day 3: What's a favorite, or at least memorable fandom meeting/interaction that you've had?
Over twenty years of being in fandom - actively in fandom, that is, including meeting other fans, authors of fanworks, going to conventions before the MCU changed the fannish landscape...
One of the favourites is definitely meeting fellow Discworld fans at Sydney Central Station, and walking up to a guy who was holding up the hardcopy version of The Fifth Elephant and watching people double-take. (It was the late 90s.)
Another one is travelling to the USA for the first time in 2000 to meet a group of Melanie Rawn fans - along with the author herself. I walked past the trio who'd come to collect me at the gate (it was before 9/11 and they could do that then) because I didn't recognise them and they weren't sure if that was me... They kept me from being skittled the first time I crossed a road, and were fascinated by our colourful Aussie notes when I completely forgot that I was in another country and pulled Australian currency to pay my part of the bill. And when it came to meeting Melanie for lunch, she sat down, looked around and asked, "Where's my Australian?"
There was meeting Jason Momoa one year at a Melbourne convention while dressed in Number Six Cylon's red dress. That was around 2009, maybe?
There were the almost-annual visits with the SJHW - the Sam/Jack Horsewomen (because, of course, Sam/Jack as a pairing would inevitably bring the apocalypse, according to the slash fans of the day) often at Gatecon in Vancouver. I tied those visits in with visits to other fans all over the USA - Chicago, DC, Atlanta, LA, Sacramento, Little Rock AR, Houston, Raleigh NC - and a few outside it: London, Bristol, Birmingham, York...
I don't know about favourite. I've had so many wonderful interactions with fans over the years, made friends that I've had for twenty years or more (one of whom I saw at Hamilton the other week, quite unexpectedly), and been anchored within fandom, by fans, for...well, ages. First in LJ, then on DW, and also on AO3 and ff.net and Tumblr - to name the biggest ones.
In spite of feeling perennially lonely when it comes to interests, fandom has been good to me insofar as it has allowed me to meet and befriend fellow fans.
Over twenty years of being in fandom - actively in fandom, that is, including meeting other fans, authors of fanworks, going to conventions before the MCU changed the fannish landscape...
One of the favourites is definitely meeting fellow Discworld fans at Sydney Central Station, and walking up to a guy who was holding up the hardcopy version of The Fifth Elephant and watching people double-take. (It was the late 90s.)
Another one is travelling to the USA for the first time in 2000 to meet a group of Melanie Rawn fans - along with the author herself. I walked past the trio who'd come to collect me at the gate (it was before 9/11 and they could do that then) because I didn't recognise them and they weren't sure if that was me... They kept me from being skittled the first time I crossed a road, and were fascinated by our colourful Aussie notes when I completely forgot that I was in another country and pulled Australian currency to pay my part of the bill. And when it came to meeting Melanie for lunch, she sat down, looked around and asked, "Where's my Australian?"
There was meeting Jason Momoa one year at a Melbourne convention while dressed in Number Six Cylon's red dress. That was around 2009, maybe?
There were the almost-annual visits with the SJHW - the Sam/Jack Horsewomen (because, of course, Sam/Jack as a pairing would inevitably bring the apocalypse, according to the slash fans of the day) often at Gatecon in Vancouver. I tied those visits in with visits to other fans all over the USA - Chicago, DC, Atlanta, LA, Sacramento, Little Rock AR, Houston, Raleigh NC - and a few outside it: London, Bristol, Birmingham, York...
I don't know about favourite. I've had so many wonderful interactions with fans over the years, made friends that I've had for twenty years or more (one of whom I saw at Hamilton the other week, quite unexpectedly), and been anchored within fandom, by fans, for...well, ages. First in LJ, then on DW, and also on AO3 and ff.net and Tumblr - to name the biggest ones.
In spite of feeling perennially lonely when it comes to interests, fandom has been good to me insofar as it has allowed me to meet and befriend fellow fans.
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