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. *^^*

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.

[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...

[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.

[scripsi]

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