Rosie Lea.

[hannah]

In 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.

Comments

[umadoshi]

I've never actually had any of the fannish blends, but I dearly love that they exist. *^^*

[hannah]

The fact that some of the blends are in "ships" and can be purchased at a discount if ordered together tells me Adagio is one of the savviest companies out there.

Fannish impulse and crossover into crafting

[jenna_thorn]

similarly but not exactly, I love fannish knitting, not just the stuff like crocheted toy daleks (or BB-8) and such but the one removed or "inspired by" items, like the Bigger on the Inside shawl which is Dr Who, but not the fourth Dr's scarf or Alistair's Rose shawl.

[hannah]

Stealth fandom clothing is always delightful.

[satismagic]

Ohhh, I had completely forgotten about fandom tea blends, damn yes.

Fandom DOES always find a way.

Now I want to make fannish chocolate...

[hannah]

Do you mean you make your own chocolate molds?

[satismagic]

Zotter offers the option of making your own chocolate like adagio does with teas. You pick the base chocolate, the filling, and even a topping (everything from nuts to rose blossoms).

The downside? Zotter is really expensive. On the other hand, it's been reviewed as one of the best chocolates of the whole world, and it's fair trade and organic...

[hannah]

Save up for a birthday gift to yourself.

[kiki_eng]

That is really cool, and I wonder now at not seeing it so often in coffeeshop AUs, people making tea blends for each other the way they find their perfect coffee drink, but I guess there are more coffee writers out there? Or it could just be down to the difference in tea culture. I feel like with coffee it is find your one true coffee and with tea it is 1) Drink lots of tea. 2) Profit.

Anyway, yeah, tea and tea blends and fannishness: interesting.

[hannah]

I think it's just that most people writing coffeeshop AUs are Americans, so the cultural trend points more towards coffee over tea as casual-yet-intimate beverages.

[kiki_eng]

Mmm, maybe? I think Andrew Garfield said that he worked in, like, a Starbucks or something when he came to America and that he had this romanticised idea of it that was crushed by the reality of customer service/being a barista. So, I think it might be part of the mythology of America, too, so other people would go I am writing Americans, therefore coffee.

[hannah]

I can honestly buy that.

[scripsi]

I didn't even know this was a thing. But I love the idea of it!

[hannah]

You'll love it even more when you try some. If they don't ship to your country, I'm sure you can get someone to buy you some samples and mail them over.

[scripsi]

I will certainly check it up!