Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Day 2

[tommygirl]

Don't worry. I'm not going to spam my friends list. I figure I would just do two today to get the ball rolling. And I'm avoiding doing some of my work. After this, I really need to focus on trying to create some gifts for fandom_stocking

Day 2: In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This was hard for me to narrow down because I'd say there were a few that changed my life. Like I read the book Outsiders when I was ten and I adored it. Every year until my late twenties, I would read that book at least once a year. I gave a copy to my little bit when she was ten because that book was just something special to me.

That said, I think the thing that really changed my life was the broadway play, Rent. I was a Renthead. I've seen the show an obscene amount of times. I got to know the cast and the crew. I stood in the lines with other fellow Rentheads before it went to the lottery for the cheap, good tickets. And I walked away with lifelong friends because of that show. It's weird to me that it's been twenty years, but a lot of those same people that I met because of a shared love of a musical that just clicked with us...they're still in my life, still some of my best friends. And I can't imagine my life without any of them.

Comments

[heartturnsblue]

Just stumbled upon your post--I listed The Outsiders for this day of the Snowflake Challenge too! I still don't know for sure what it is about it, but it just spoke to me at 12 and still does now.

[tommygirl]

I think Outsiders did start me on my love of close siblings in fandoms that seems to have stuck all my life, but yeah, I think Outsiders was one of the first things I really loved aside from Kermit the Frog. Hee.