The Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Day 14
Jan. 14th, 2014 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ashesandghostffIn your own space, write a love letter. Write it Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, or to your flist. Share you love and squee as loud as you want to.
I thought about this one for a while, and decided yeah, I'm just gonna be predictable.
Dear podfic community at large,
Thank you.
Thank you for giving me, slowest writer in the world and mediocre artist, a way to participate and create within fandom without having to write or draw. I loved fandom for the first few months I was involved, but I did feel a bit of an outsider. I tried to write and draw but it didn't come easily and I spent far, far more time second guessing every word or line than I did actually creating. As soon as I tried podfic, though, it just clicked. I felt like a part of something, like a productive member of this crazy society. I love it so, so much.
Thank you for giving me an outlet for my urges to act and perform without having to be on a stage. My high school and college acting teachers despaired of me-- told me I had great talent and could really go far, but my performance anxiety is, quite literally, crippling. Podcasts were fun when I did them, but had no actual creative output or acting involved. I've always loved reading out loud but don't read enough old literature to do librivox. Podfic is perfect for me. I can act and do silly voices to my heart's content, locked away alone in a room with a microphone.
Thank you for giving me something to be excited about, and to look forward to. Even at my most miserable and depressed, podfic is a bright spot in my day. It's hard to feel down about yourself when the community is so supportive and encouraging. It's something I feel like I can do, even when I can barely crawl out of bed.
I thought about this one for a while, and decided yeah, I'm just gonna be predictable.
Dear podfic community at large,
Thank you.
Thank you for giving me, slowest writer in the world and mediocre artist, a way to participate and create within fandom without having to write or draw. I loved fandom for the first few months I was involved, but I did feel a bit of an outsider. I tried to write and draw but it didn't come easily and I spent far, far more time second guessing every word or line than I did actually creating. As soon as I tried podfic, though, it just clicked. I felt like a part of something, like a productive member of this crazy society. I love it so, so much.
Thank you for giving me an outlet for my urges to act and perform without having to be on a stage. My high school and college acting teachers despaired of me-- told me I had great talent and could really go far, but my performance anxiety is, quite literally, crippling. Podcasts were fun when I did them, but had no actual creative output or acting involved. I've always loved reading out loud but don't read enough old literature to do librivox. Podfic is perfect for me. I can act and do silly voices to my heart's content, locked away alone in a room with a microphone.
Thank you for giving me something to be excited about, and to look forward to. Even at my most miserable and depressed, podfic is a bright spot in my day. It's hard to feel down about yourself when the community is so supportive and encouraging. It's something I feel like I can do, even when I can barely crawl out of bed.
Thank you for giving me some truly lovely friends. Six months ago I barely knew podfic existed and only had a couple of local friends who made it occasionally. Now, mostly thanks to ITPE and this challenge, I have probably a dozen podficcers I'm lucky enough to call my friends, and I hope to meet many more.
I love podfic, and I love this community, and I'm just so, so grateful to be a part of it.
adoration,
AshesandGhost.
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Date: 2014-01-15 03:49 am (UTC)Lovely letter.