Fandom

I love my fandoms that I partake in. Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vampire Diaries, Twilight, Glee...the whole nerd tweendom gambit. I love how a book or a show can just bring together people of all walks of life and something as simple as the word "Always" translates to so much more.

I am hard core about my fandomness...probably to the embarrassing point when I get older, but for now, I wear my Muggle Shirt with pride. I have the Twilight book covers tattooed on my back. I have the Hunger Games hanging tree tattooed on my arm. My son is named Zander after Buffy.... you get the picture...

I love staying up late and watching marathons of my shows that I can practically quote line for line or re-reading a book that I have read so many times that the pages are all dog-eared from where I once upon a time left off. They are my comfort zones. My security blankets. When all is crazy in my world, I can dive into one of their worlds and have that feeling of familiarity and fall in love all over again.

My favorite series (whether they are visual or literary) have taught me that the hero can be the underdog, that a couple friends who would go to the end of the world and back with you are worth their weight in gold, that the average girl can find her prince charming and that are choices and actions define who we really are. Those are life lessons that I want to pass on to my son. Those are values that actually matter.

So yes, I am a fan. A hard core, nerdy, ridiculous, some what embarrassing fan and I am quite proud of that.