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wyntir_knight
Day 15
In your own space, write a love letter to Fandom in general, to a particular fandom, to a trope, a relationship, a character, or to your flist/circle/followers. Share your love and squee as loud as you want to. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so
I had been thinking about this all day yesterday and flip flopping on what to write. Part of me wants to write a love letter to a character because that's easy. Another part of me wants to thank some people who have meant a lot to me over the last year in particular. So I finally thought, let's do both.
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To all the people who take the time to comment on or leave kudoes on my stories:
You have not idea what that all means to me. I am a person who has been consistently ignored my whole life. I talk and people interrupt me. Constantly. I go to speak and people ignore me. There are times when I wonder if I am in fact invisible, mute, or just that boring. It feeds into my depression, but when one of you hits that little heart of a story of mine, or takes the time to comment on it? That just means the world to me. It means that you not only saw what I put out there, but you liked it too! Those little things help to push back the darkness a little and I want to collectively thank you all for that. And this also applies to people who comment or like on Tumblr or here on Dreamwidth. Even a simple "I like that" can make the world of difference to a person who is as insecure as I am, and I want to thank you all for that help. One day I'll actually believe what people tell me and will be less insecure and co-dependent. You're all helping me to achieve that. So thank you. So very much.
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Dear G1 Smokescreen:
I know that the fandom either doesn't like you or forgets that you exist. You slip into the background save for when people need all three Praxians or when people need a "Nice Guy" villain for their story. And I get it. You got one episode devoted to you and you've pretty much not appeared in the comics at all, and that one episode wasn't very flattering. But I wanted to say that you are my favourite character. You were portrayed as a flawed character who gave into his vices in a moment of weakness but did everything he could to set things right again. You did what was right even though you had everything working against you and I always thought that that was a good portrayal of those of us who are fighting against our vices every day. You had the potential to be a wonderful shade of grey in an otherwise black and white world and I'm sorry that the fandom seems to have almost collectively decided that you are a monster because of it.