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Snowflake Challenge 2018 - Day 11
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Day 11: Share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.
Only this week I saw reports about the first openly gay figure skater taking part in the Olympics, Adam Rippon. Of course years ago I knew another openly gay figure skater who did it all before: Roman Wild. He was one of the two main characters of my first fandom "Alles Was Zählt". Check out my tag on DW or AO3 if you're interested.
For my Day 9 of the Snowflake-Challenge I uploaded a AWZ / Doctor Who crossover photo-comic to AO3.
What I loved about this fandom was mostly the international community, first on YouTube (where the EKP (Eskimo Kiss Project) cut the best scenes from every episode and subtitled them so that non-German speaking folk could enjoy them as well), then on InsaneJournal. I feel still close to a lot of the people who were involved, even though we've moved in different fandom-directions. But we still share the same humour that made being an AWZ-fan so great. Unfortunately the TV-company didn't like their show to be shared on YT (long story) any more, so all the fanvids that my fandom-friends made were disabled, too. I found some, but what I really loved about the fandom, the humour, loving-mockery and non-too-sappy enjoyment is gone.
This fandom changed me from pure lurker to participant, gave me insight into social networking in so many ways and made me enjoy crack and smut. Often at the same time.
I will link to a couple of videos, even though they were made long after the "real EKP-fandom" was gone (The first two definitely).
1) this did make me smile and feel a bit sad because I miss this happiness. And yes, they did kiss a lot (and still not enough)
2) The second video was supposed to prove that the show WAS about figure-skaters, because in the first video that was coming a bit short. But - well, have more kissing and a slightly too sappy song. But... the kissing...
3) ICE-SKATING!!!!
Oh memories!