Reminiscing

So I was happily skipping back to the station after the fun that is a two-hour all-you-can-drink welcome fest, when el Pope comes up to me and says, "Have you talked to [....] yet? She's apparently really into Death Note and Bleach." And I did talk to [....], who turns out to be none other than demeter918, who is indeed a huge fan of Death Note and Bleach, and lives not twenty minutes away from me. Here is a dramatic recreation of our converstation.

Her: Death Note, Death Note Death Note.
Me: Bleach Bleach Bleach.
Her: Death Note, Death Note Death Note.
Me: Bleach Bleach Bleach.
Her: Death Note, Death Note Death Note.
Me: Bleach Bleach Bleach.
Her: Death Note, Death Note Death Note.
Me: Bleach Bleach Bleach.
Her: Death Note, Death Note Death Note.
Me: Bleach Bleach Bleach.
Her: Death Note, Death Note Death Note.
Me: Bleach Bleach Bleach.
Her: I'm really into slash, too.
Me: YAY.

It's so funny how one collides with other fen at the most random moments. I met takadainmate and cienna through a mutal friend, and didn't give them too much thought until I noticed the Mandarake bags sitting at their feet on the train. "Oh, you guys went to Mandarake? What kind of stuff do you like?" Which then turned into a discussion of various series which started at HnG and FMA before nudging its way toward KMM (I remember thinking, if they've heard of this one...) and further. This then led to me meeting girl_starfis, cathion, and ice_kristall at Comiket last year. I can't for the life of me remember how amasugiru and I got to talking fandoms, only that we did. (DNA's Satoshi, perhaps?) leviosa8 was introduced to me by the lovely ook, whom I got to know via HP fandom. teal_geezus I met in a KMM comm, and then ended up doing conference calls with her, fragilistikal, and several other fen besides. I've run into several other fen who live/have lived in Ann Arbor, where I spent some of my childhood and almost did undergrad. And of course, no discussion on these lines would be complete without mentioning metal_dog5, who has been my beta reader since I was in high school. We've known one another for over a decade, folks, and we owe it all to the good old MKRA.

So anyway, fandom is a cool place.

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