GOSH I STILL LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS BAR.
Thankyou bucktommys, you are all superstars.
I truly appreciate how thoughtful the posts have been, how unafraid to show emotions you all have been and how lovely most of us have been to each other.
This is the fandom love song that I ADORE.
Because it’s the community that we become for each other. It’s the group chats and the mutuals and the friends that still pop in occasionally to say “hey, sorry I didn’t reply, I’ve been thinking about you though!” (that one is me, I’m sorry I didn’t reply!). It’s the peers we rely on to check our assumptions and the bravery and pure fucking strength of character to exist as a minority in fandom spaces. I love you. Thankyou for sharing.
At the end of the day, these characters become special to us, and to be loved is to be changed - transformed!
(Get it? Transformed? Transformative fiction?)
That means they belong to us. Please stay creating, not just for me - cuz I’m still in love - but for yourselves. This joy is still yours. It’s still ours.