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

[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.