Snowflake Challenge #2
Jan. 3rd, 2025 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pronkerThis stands as a favorite fandom memory, genesis, what have you. It's the fannish sense of community that I treasure the most. If you've heard this story before, bear with me.
Bjo Trimble began a letter-writing campaign to Save Star Trek and somehow my friend the Superfan discovered it. She was the one who scribbled reams of Star Trek fanfic collaborations from us all onto legal pads and who came up, honestly, with stuff like plots while the rest of us supplied the longing sighs over Shatner, et al.
Superfan, who later became my first apartment roommate, was more smarter, more fannish, more dating-ish, more social-ish, just more. She organized our clique of five into writing letters to NBC during our almost-weekly sleepovers at our mutual friends' house. Friends' Mom, who had owned a bakeshop along with her ex-Navy cook husband, prepared pancakes and all sorts of goodies for us the next morning every time. Loved that family. Still do; we're meeting in spring.
That moment of fannish glory, added to the fact that there was a Season Three for Star Trek and what we did worked, remains empowering.
Bjo Trimble began a letter-writing campaign to Save Star Trek and somehow my friend the Superfan discovered it. She was the one who scribbled reams of Star Trek fanfic collaborations from us all onto legal pads and who came up, honestly, with stuff like plots while the rest of us supplied the longing sighs over Shatner, et al.
Superfan, who later became my first apartment roommate, was more smarter, more fannish, more dating-ish, more social-ish, just more. She organized our clique of five into writing letters to NBC during our almost-weekly sleepovers at our mutual friends' house. Friends' Mom, who had owned a bakeshop along with her ex-Navy cook husband, prepared pancakes and all sorts of goodies for us the next morning every time. Loved that family. Still do; we're meeting in spring.
That moment of fannish glory, added to the fact that there was a Season Three for Star Trek and what we did worked, remains empowering.
