Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2014 - Day 6

[dahlia_moon]

Fandom Snowflake Challenge - Day 6

In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

(No, the date at the top is correct--I skipped days 4 & 5 because I wasn't comfortable doing them at /all/. I have different comfort levels than most people, I've found. But the fun shall resume! For day anyway.)

Let's see, something that impacted me?? BOOKS. It's a general category, I acknowledge, but it's influenced me in major ways. I did not like reading at all when I was wee. I can remember the book(s) that turned me into a bibliophile clearly to this day--The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner. I can't remember which number in the series it was--there are well over 100+ books in the series--but I can remember that I was so captivated by them. I'm sure there have been other books that I loved/had read to me that fascinated me at the time but none had stayed with me for as long as The Boxcar Children books did.

My tastes have turned toward other genres, have picked up more mature ones along the way, but my first love will always be mysteries.

Someday, I will actually make my way over to The Boxcar Children museum too. Did you know there was a museum? I didn't, until recently.

Comments

[punkpinkpower]

Pssttt- Hi Dahlia. You were my day 4- to friend someone I had long admired and wanted to but for whatever reason hadn't. I just wanted to actually say "hi" and wave at you enthusiastically. *waves*

[dahlia_moon]

Hi! *waves enthusiastically back*

See, you were someone I had seen in the PR fandom a lot while I lurked (primarily on Ao3), but I couldn't gather up the courage to friend you on here. That's what that note up there at the top explaining why I missed days 4&5 were about.

I had seen day 4 and then I seized up in over-thinking things and I couldn't actually make myself go talk to anyone or friend anyone--and there are a lot of fandom folk who I kinda politely stalk online because I find them awesome people but I convince myself that somehow me friending them on other social media would be "bothering" them or something silly.

But I love getting friended! So that was me basically being frustrated at myself that I couldn't be as courageous as some people (like you! I do absolutely love your PR fics and maybe if I were braver, we'd have been on each other's reading lists a lot sooner).

[punkpinkpower]

Heh! I remember way back when, I think on ff.net we exchanged some sort of pleasantry, but that was before I was very social in fandom outside a small group, and sometimes I have to get up the energy or have a particular motivation before I got looking for new people!

But I love your stories too and I am sorry I didn't friend you sooner! Hooray for the snowflake challenge for pushing me in the right direction! <3

[lil-1337.livejournal.com]

The original book in the Boxcar Children series is one of my favorites. I read and reread it a lot as a child.

[moon-destiny.livejournal.com]

heeee! someone else who knows the books too! Besides one or two other people online, I get a lot of blank looks in real life when I mention loving those books as a child. Ahh, I guess it's to be expected, it's not reasonable to think everything you love so deeply will resonate with other people like it resonates with you. Nor should it! But I'm still shocked there are people out there in the world who don't know about the Boxcar Children.