lebateleur | Snowflake Challenge: Challenge #13

Challenge #13

In your own space, share a favorite memory about fandom: the first time you got into fandom, the last time a fanwork touched your heart, wild times with fellow fans (whether on-line or off-line), a lovely comment you’ve received or have left for someone. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Years ago, I sent ma soeur the first season of Adventure Time on DVD. Technically, it was a gift for my (at the time very young) nephew, but I had a feeling the writing would appeal to his parents as much as the colors, voice acting, and character designs would appeal to him. I was right on all counts.

Ma soeur called to squee to me about how they all loved it. In turn, I squeed back at her about my undying love for Tree Trunks, because everything about Tree Trunks--from her overreaction to a fly on her pie, to her good-natured Dunning-Krueger evaluation of her adventuring prowess--is pretty much the closest anything's come to capturing my own quirks and flaws in animated form.

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We were both very sad when Polly Lou Livingston, her voice actor, passed away last year, particularly as, in the years since I sent those DVDs, we'd watched the series together several times during visits, and were both currently rewatching it in our respective homes.

So I was both surprised and absolutely delighted to open my Thingsgiving present from ma soeur last year to find this:

This hand-crocheted Tree Trunks has occupied pride of place on my bedside table ever since. She is definitely a fanwork that touched my heart 💖 and one that brought our fandom interaction over Adventure Time full circle.

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