Rosie Lea.
Jan. 14th, 2016 10:31 pmIn your own space, share your love for something fannish: a trope, cliché, kink, motif, theme, format, or fandom.
Because I've already talked about superpowers-as-metaphor previously, and at great length - now for something completely different.
Fandom tea blends. Because the fannish impluse always finds a way. Crafting blends to match a particular character or pairing in some way, shape, or form - by mimicking what they'd drink, or translating their essential traits into a particular flavor profile and building a tea from that - is a particular method of fandom engagement which couldn't have existed on anything approaching a wide scale until a few years ago, when the Internet made distribution of such blends viable and easy. Its newness is still delightful. The thought people put into the fandoms, and the flavors, and the idea that this is a gateway into tea itself regardless of any fandom connection to a nice oolong, always makes me smile. Fandom always finds a way.
Because I've already talked about superpowers-as-metaphor previously, and at great length - now for something completely different.
Fandom tea blends. Because the fannish impluse always finds a way. Crafting blends to match a particular character or pairing in some way, shape, or form - by mimicking what they'd drink, or translating their essential traits into a particular flavor profile and building a tea from that - is a particular method of fandom engagement which couldn't have existed on anything approaching a wide scale until a few years ago, when the Internet made distribution of such blends viable and easy. Its newness is still delightful. The thought people put into the fandoms, and the flavors, and the idea that this is a gateway into tea itself regardless of any fandom connection to a nice oolong, always makes me smile. Fandom always finds a way.
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