Favourite

[kiki_eng]

hollowhearts asked, "what's been your favourite experience in fandom thus far?"

SGA was my first real social fandom and easily the closest I've ever been to being monofannish. readbystarlight and I were in the same corner of fandom, reading the same fics, and sharing that was a joy.

We got together one day with a couple of friends and played Taboo, which is a game where you're given cards that have a word that you need to get your partner to say, and you're not allowed to say that word or a short list of related words. You try to get through as many words as you can before the timer runs out, and everyone takes turns being their team's clue giver.

readbystarlight and I were partners, and we cleaned up. More significantly, playing together was joyful. All of the McShep fic that we'd read had given us a slew of shared reference points. It was a real manifestation of that shared lexicon and the kind of delight and fun of being immersed in a fandom together.

I think that "John Sheppard is a-", yielded "pilot!" I think that "penguin"'s clue was just "crack!fic". It was a creative and collaborative volleying back and forth that was a lot of fun, if perhaps a somewhat unfair advantage over the opposition.

A lot of what I love about fandom is that collaborative creative shared joy, and I love the ridiculousness of harnessing that to win a word game.

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[vriddy]

A lot of what I love about fandom is that collaborative creative shared joy

Yes!! This is such a lovely story :D The shared references is something I really miss at times, when friends move in different fandoms. But it's really nice when it works out this way :D Sounds a well deserved victory haha.

[kiki_eng]

The shared references is something I really miss at times, when friends move in different fandoms.
Yeah, it's been a few years since I've had that level of kind of, living in a fandom, and I think more still since I had someone there with me. I am nostalgic.