So ....
What do you call a 60-year-old who watches fanvids unironically, wonders about Transuranic Elements, has a favorite Doctor, a couple of OT3s, writes fic, has an unfinished WIP o'doom, too many action figures, an evening entertainment menu that includes 2-4 anime a night, who rereads favorite SF and fantasy books repeatedly (but who, in all truth, hasn't read much new fiction in the past 10 years - a little, not enough), who occasionally misses going to cons, and who understands everything that she just wrote despite acknowledging that some of it doesn't appear to be quite English?
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What do you call a 60-year-old who watches fanvids unironically, wonders about Transuranic Elements, has a favorite Doctor, a couple of OT3s, writes fic, has an unfinished WIP o'doom, too many action figures, an evening entertainment menu that includes 2-4 anime a night, who rereads favorite SF and fantasy books repeatedly (but who, in all truth, hasn't read much new fiction in the past 10 years - a little, not enough), who occasionally misses going to cons, and who understands everything that she just wrote despite acknowledging that some of it doesn't appear to be quite English?
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Besides, it's perfectly natural to wonder about Transuranic (and other) Elements!
Let me see what I can do....
I hope you're doing better, by the way.
Me, I don't care if some folk think it's inappropriate - collecting beer mats or football souvenirs make some folk happy, doing fannish things makes me the same way.
Thanks for the words of extremely practical observational wisdom!
I guess "male fan" is no longer the "unmarked state," if I am using that term correctly. We've come a long way, baby, even if we have a long way yet to go.
And yes, in reality, the unmarked state is no longer male. We have come a long way!
(The long way to go is marked by the assumptions of those who believe that fandom still defaults to male, preferably white male.)
Ha, when I first read your question, my very first thought was 'life goals'.
Ha, when I first read your question, my very first thought was 'life goals'.
I think I can safely say that although becoming a fan wasn't a life goal, it's certainly enriched my life. Heh.
*HUGS*
I have learned, over the years, that sometimes outside opinions of my worth should be paid attention to, much as my Baptist upbringing warns me against such a frivolous bit of puffed-up egotism. So, I'll accept that I can occasionally-to-intermittently be a pretty darned good human being.
All my love, my dear!
THat's what I call you.
Because all those other things? Are aspects to the great person that I've had the privilege to know for the last few years. Must be nigh-on a decade now, I think Mama-K!
(And yes, it's been almost exactly 10 years. I believe I started posting in the TARDIS MM over on TWoP in March of 2006. And reading Mama-K brought back so many memories!)
Thanks!