Well, this is my four-thousandth post. That's a lot of posts.
*squints*
Yep, that's
quite a lot of posts. In celebration of this, I give you a brief history of my life in fandom and what it has taught me.
( From Star Trek to Star Wars, and all the un-Sci-Fi stuff in between )This does not cover every fandom that I love, or even every fandom that I've written in. It just covers some of the ones that I felt taught me important lessons that I've carried with me, not just into new fandoms, but into life. Lessons about viewing the world and the people around me. Lessons about questions and about answers.
And, in every fandom that I've entered, I've encountered at least a few bright and wonderful souls that I've stayed near, people that I couldn't imagine not deeply caring about, no matter where my fandom interests take me. People like
fox1013 and
brooding_soul, my first friends on the internet, who I met on MBTV before I'd ever signed up on lj or heard of its existence. People like
kita0610 and
ros_fod, who I've gone through emotionally-tough times with, and who I'm exceedingly grateful to know.
Honestly, I could run down my flist and call out dozens (hell, hundreds) of names. You,
all of you, give my life color and life beyond anything that I could have imagined. I keep thinking that I
should do some sort of flist culling, but every time that I call up that edit page, I realize that I can't part with a single one of you. People that I've known from the *NSYNC days, people that I have discovered searching out new fandoms... each of you brings a vivid shade of color to my flist and to my life. Here, there's a flash of hobbit love that I couldn't do without, and over there, the
Harry Potter flame burns bright and I want to bask in the fire.
I love them all. I still love them all.
And I don't see that love going
anywhere any time soon.
In celebration of such a day as this (four thousand posts, man!), I just want to say that, if you want to know, I will tell you
why I think you're all types of wonderful. Comment to receive love. As simple as that. I have Saturdays off, so I should have pretty good response time today, too.