[ SECRET POST #6352 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6352 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I hear that. I remember fandom being an adult space, where some corners were more kid friendly than others. I also remember meeting safe adults who encouraged me-- who made me feel good about my creative efforts at times, or who made me feel good about WHO I WAS, as a young person who was so often out of step with my peers. When I was an older teen, college age but only just, I met up with an older woman I had met through fandom, because she lived near my grandparents, who I was visiting. She was between my parents' and grandparents' age, and meeting her made me feel better about like... what aging is?

That was many years ago now, but I recall her being KIND, and just being unapologetically herself in a way that I have often looked back on, when I've wanted hope for the future, to know that I get to age and still be myself.

I wouldn't want to meet up with a KID that I met in online fandom, even with their parents' involvement, but I do have a friend who was going into college when he joined the online fan group I co-moderated, who I've gotten to see grow up a lot in those years and like... I hope that I and the other adults in the group are the kind of older adult who make him feel like growing up is okay, because you get to continue to be passionate about what you love! I hope that when he shares his art, our enthusiasm for it is encouraging the way the feedback I was getting at that age encouraged me to keep pursuing and improving at MY art. I hope I'm the adult now that I was glad to be around when I was younger.