Snowflake Challenge Day 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.

One thing that I think got me into transformative fandom, that wasn't fandom related at all, was in late 2014 I took a free writing course at my local library, the focus of the course was short original fiction and some memoir writing, but it got my juices flowing and got me back into writing, which I had stopped doing a few years prior.  At the time I was big into Game of Thrones, and I used some of the skills I learned to write my first fanfiction.  I posted it to tumblr, and got some nice feedback, which encouraged me to write more (I remember I got like 28 notes and I was over the moon!).  And, because it was tumblr I soon discovered gif sets and graphics and decided to try my hand at that as well.  Some of my early edits and moodboards are not good, but people in the GoT fandom liked and reblogged them anyways, which inspired me to keep trying.  I know that the GoT fandom, especially in the later seasons, was considered to be quite wanky and unpleasant, but the GoT fandom was quite generous to me as a newbie, and I'll always be grateful for that.