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]

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.