Drink up, my hearties.

Day 11

Share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

After Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl came out - the first and only, thank you - I wanted to join the conversations, so I got an invite code and joined Livejournal. Once I got there, I met a lot of people, many of whom I'm still in touch with across several social networks. After that, I was in the right place to start meeting new people when new fandoms came along - and when old fandoms got a resurgence - and find ways to talk to fans face-to-face - and get emotional and creative support when I needed it - and know where the new networks were springing up - and that the Snowflake Challenge was running -

- so without that movie I wouldn't be here, writing this entry. And without that movie, I wouldn't be participating in fandom as I know it. And without that movie, I wouldn't have met a bunch of my friends.

Given that, it's pretty safe to say that movie changed my life in a way most things I watch and read and listen to simply haven't.

Saturday night drabble.

Day 12

In your own space, create a fanwork. Make a podfic, an icon, a sketch, a meta, or a rec list. Arts and crafts. Cross stitch. Draft an essay about a particular medium. Put together a picspam or a fanmix. Write a review of book you love, a ship manifesto, a you-should-be-listening-to-this-band essay. Create something. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Golden State, 100 words, MCU. Thanks to fandom-chat for helping with the commas.

Fresh fruit all year, that was a plus. A backyard garden, also nice – oranges, once an almost unspeakable luxury, now free for the taking whenever he wanted one. No subway to speak of and hardly any buses, but it was more walkable than it seemed at first. And a place without quite so many memories, well. But that part he wasn’t sharing. Not yet, at least, not when oranges were enough.

“What, are you planning on opening a west coast branch?” Tony asked him when Steve said where he was moving.

He’d had to laugh: “I’m just following the Dodgers.”