A World Away

In your own space, share a favourite memory about fandom: the first time you got into fandom, the last time a fanwork touched your heart, crazy times with fellow fans (whether on-line or off-line), a lovely comment you’ve received or have left for someone.

The Rayearth fandom is sort of my extended family. There are so many things that have happened to me because of the friends I have made through the Cephiro Forum and fanfiction. I mean, we've had multiple meet-ups and keep in constant contact with discord. A bunch of us even exchange Christmas cards.

But I suppose my favourite memory is more of a long rolling snowball of many memories all orginating from over eleven years ago, when a certain Rayearth fic was posted over on Fanfiction.net and I started to read it.

A few months later, I created the forum mentioned above and the author and I started talking regularly for a while, especially while she was studying abroad in a more convenient time-zone, before going our separate ways for a few years. (I missed her more than I like to admit sometimes in those years...)

Years later, when she resurfaced on Tumblr, I made FuckYeahRayearth to get her attention (yeah, down , that happened...), and we got to talking again. Then I invited myself over to visit soggy England. Then I visted again, and again, and... well, one thing led to another and two and a half years ago we got married.

With a subtle Rayearth theme, of course. (There was also a steam train!) Our dresses were the colours of our shared OTP, and the bouquets were made from the first volume of the manga.



Basically, the Rayearth fandom is so far entangled with my life that I wouldn't be where I am right now without it. I don't know what I would be doing, or even who I would be if I had never clicked that fic.

Can your best fandom memory be your entire life as it currently is?