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schemingreader, Writing Fan Fiction: Doing Something or Doing Nothing?: Fandom is weird. It's a great way to meet new people and to reconnect with old friends. There's no better way to meet a lot of goofy intellectual oddballs of the type you want to hang out with all the time. The way you meet them is, you sit in a room by yourself and type while imagining fictional scenarios. Then you sit in a room by yourself and read stories. Then you sit in a room by yourself and type responses and read other people's responses.

Of course, you type "ha ha ha" or "lol" or "I <3 u" a lot.

In essence, it's a way to fall in love with a lot of people who are far away and whom you might meet once or twice if you're really lucky. It's somehow both social and isolating, at the same time.

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...well, given that what I used to do was read stories and not really have anyone to talk with about them, it seems like something of an improvement, at least subjectively....

It's the best kind of improvement there is! Because being in love with all of you beats not being in love at all by a whole bunch - oddly enough, I almost think it's easier to fall in love this way, without all the pressures and immediacy of meatspace.

It might be weird but it really is a great way to meet people. Some of my great friends came from fandom and it's been a crazy ride; more then ten years later, we still keep that connection alive even though the fandom has died and we talk less than we used to.

But then one can meet new people in newly shared interests and see how those relationships can turn out. For me so far, I've found it both rewarding and very intellectual. :-)