It might be too soon to say this, but I absolutely do not believe that these are the best days of your life, and it's all downhill from here. Supernatural might forever reign supreme as the most all-encompassing, life-changing fandom you've ever been involved in, but it will NOT be the last fandom you love. You're too much of a passionate fangirl to let it all end here and never find anything else.
You know why I believe this? I once had a fandom like that, based around the Lord of the Rings movies. Boy, I've been a fangirl for years, but nothing ever hit me like that, to the point where I was not only attending conventions, but also little moots of fangirls who came from all over the world just to sit and talk in person about the phenomenon. We wrote and shared fics face to face (something I'd never even considered doing before), exchanged addresses and phone numbers -- hell, it was those women who introduced me to LiveJournal in the first place. Because of LoTR, I made lifelong friends, traveled, formed an online presence, became a writer and an artist again, spent embarrassing amounts of money, collected autographs that I still proudly display in my living room today, and found out what it feels like to stand in front of a microphone with the object of my affections just a few feet away on a stage looking right at me (I could barely get the words out).
I dreaded life after the third movie came out on DVD, because that would officially be the end of it. None of us knew what we would do with all of our passion once our hobbits and men and elves moved on to other projects, and even the news that Peter Jackson would also make movies about The Hobbit didn't quite spark the same excitement. We could only keep immersing ourselves in the brilliant works of our fellow fans, and feel waves of somewhat dimmed passion mixed with nostalgia and a bit of sadness, and I really thought I'd go back to being a "normal," boring person after that.
And then a friend, one of those same LoTR friends, showed up at our last moot with a DVD set she wanted to share, about these two brothers who hunt monsters. I wasn't interested -- I so much as look at the cover for a Stephen King book, and I lose sleep. Who wants to watch a show where every episode is like a well done mini horror flick? But I humored her, and I sat down to watch ... and by the time Sam said, "When I told Dad I was scared of the thing in my closet, he gave me a .45," I was fucking hooked!
It's never over. Not because there's necessarily another fandom out there that will grab you the way SPN did, but because you're a fangirl, and there's too much passion in you for fascinating creative works for you to never find anything else that brings you joy. This fandom, much like the LoTR fandom, will continue to churn out brilliant fanworks to keep us all entertained and immersed in the community. The actors will continue to Tweet us pictures of their families, likely continue working, and maybe even continue attending conventions. And when all else fails, the episodes themselves will live on, both in syndication and on your collection. Yes, the fans may drift apart as we get involved in other fandoms, but I still have LoTR friends that I talk to because our friendship grew beyond the fandom, and I know you've made SPN friends like that, too. And eventually, even if it's not the same, even though you'll always miss the Winchesters, you will find something else that makes you happy. I'm sure of it.
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Date: 2019-03-24 02:32 pm (UTC)You know why I believe this? I once had a fandom like that, based around the Lord of the Rings movies. Boy, I've been a fangirl for years, but nothing ever hit me like that, to the point where I was not only attending conventions, but also little moots of fangirls who came from all over the world just to sit and talk in person about the phenomenon. We wrote and shared fics face to face (something I'd never even considered doing before), exchanged addresses and phone numbers -- hell, it was those women who introduced me to LiveJournal in the first place. Because of LoTR, I made lifelong friends, traveled, formed an online presence, became a writer and an artist again, spent embarrassing amounts of money, collected autographs that I still proudly display in my living room today, and found out what it feels like to stand in front of a microphone with the object of my affections just a few feet away on a stage looking right at me (I could barely get the words out).
I dreaded life after the third movie came out on DVD, because that would officially be the end of it. None of us knew what we would do with all of our passion once our hobbits and men and elves moved on to other projects, and even the news that Peter Jackson would also make movies about The Hobbit didn't quite spark the same excitement. We could only keep immersing ourselves in the brilliant works of our fellow fans, and feel waves of somewhat dimmed passion mixed with nostalgia and a bit of sadness, and I really thought I'd go back to being a "normal," boring person after that.
And then a friend, one of those same LoTR friends, showed up at our last moot with a DVD set she wanted to share, about these two brothers who hunt monsters. I wasn't interested -- I so much as look at the cover for a Stephen King book, and I lose sleep. Who wants to watch a show where every episode is like a well done mini horror flick? But I humored her, and I sat down to watch ... and by the time Sam said, "When I told Dad I was scared of the thing in my closet, he gave me a .45," I was fucking hooked!
It's never over. Not because there's necessarily another fandom out there that will grab you the way SPN did, but because you're a fangirl, and there's too much passion in you for fascinating creative works for you to never find anything else that brings you joy. This fandom, much like the LoTR fandom, will continue to churn out brilliant fanworks to keep us all entertained and immersed in the community. The actors will continue to Tweet us pictures of their families, likely continue working, and maybe even continue attending conventions. And when all else fails, the episodes themselves will live on, both in syndication and on your collection. Yes, the fans may drift apart as we get involved in other fandoms, but I still have LoTR friends that I talk to because our friendship grew beyond the fandom, and I know you've made SPN friends like that, too. And eventually, even if it's not the same, even though you'll always miss the Winchesters, you will find something else that makes you happy. I'm sure of it.
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