E-Reader Giveaway Winner!

Congratulations, strongpieces!

I was happy to read your comment about the Stargate: Atlantis fandom, which you made sound wonderfully warm and welcoming, and highlighted everything good about being a fan.

I may not be a full part of it anymore, but the Stargate Atlantis fandom was where I truly realized what fandom meant on a large scale, and what it meant for me. It wasn’t until I fell in love with the show, the SG mythology, the characters, the endless possibilities for back story and expanding the universe and world building, that I began to immerse myself in the fandom. There were hundreds of fangirls just like me, who loved the show for the same reasons, who did cosplay and wrote fic and made fan art and fan videos and connected with other women.

I met a very large part of my current friends through the SGA fandom, and it was during those wonderful five years that I came into my own as a fangirl and a geek. I wasn’t ashamed of loving something so wholly anymore, I went to my first Comic Con and met up with friends I’d only known online, I saw the world I’d stepped into expand across the globe. I increased my online presence doing something I was passionate about. And while I’ve left SGA behind a little bit as I pursue what being a geek means to me and the whole geek girl network I’ve discovered in the past two years, I still look back on the show with the the biggest heart eyes. I’ve fallen in love with other shows and fandoms since, but nothing has come close to the way I was apart of SGA’s fandom, and I doubt anything ever will.

Thanks for entering, everyone – and strongpieces, I hope you enjoy your Literati.