Snowflake Meme.

[curiouswombat]

Day Six said "share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life".

I found this quite difficult - everything I read probably makes my life a little different to how it would have been if I hadn't read it.

Finally I chose Lord of the Rings not for any of the reasons you might expect.



My reading had been anything I laid hands on as a child - books my grandmother won at school, the Biggles books and adventure stories passed on from the son of my father's friend, James Bond books of Dads, modern classics from my English teacher, lots of fiction from the school library. But there was no fantasy in it at all.

At university someone in the Chaplaincy took a copy of The Fellowship of the Ring from a cupboard and suggested I might enjoy it... He was absolutely right. I set off to absorb as much fantasy as I could get my hands on.

Some 12 years later I met S2C on a blind date. He not only read fantasy but played D&D. And I knew what he was talking about, loved some of the same books, wanted to learn to play D&D. And so the person who suggested I 'might like this book' actually set the foundations for my marriage. Pretty much defines something that changed my life I think!



Day 7 said create a fanwork. A drabble, a ficlet, a podfic, or an icon, art or meta or a rec list. A picspam. Something.

That was easy - I wrote a drabble for the current challenges at Tolkien Weekly - Which is here - and I'll post it on my journal when I have finished the current challenges, as it is part of a set.

Day 8 is today. This is really difficult. It says create a love meme for yourself. Let people tell you how amazing and awesome and loveable you really are.

Mu first reaction was 'Oh no, I couldn't possibly!' But the challenge also says this kind of emotional bravery is really inspiring... Sometimes it's the hardest thing in the world.

And many of my friends doing the challenge have girded their loins and posted this one on their journals.

So feel free to regard this post as my Day 8 'love meme'.

Although I still feel embarrassed asking people to tell me why they are my friends - so in true Brit fashion do feel free to skip on by! But, as just_ann_now said A word or two, please? Just so we can check the box?

Comments

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

I'm your friend because you are such a cheerful, stoical, optimistic person that it always makes me feel better to read one of your posts or to get a comment from you. You give such a lot to your family and your community, and to your online friends (even if we can only salivate enviously at the baking pics!)

And, of course, because you're a fellow Pervy Elf Fancier (even if we ultimately prefer different elves - means we don't fight over them!)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I wish someone would work on a way of sending cake over the internet - it would be so much more useful than a 3D printer.

Your personal Elf is very fanciable - if ever you mislay him you will know where to look :)