If you are in this fandom and you don’t yet know that Kirsty is awesome I’m worried you’re beyond saving, but below I’m gonna try and help you out:
(1) Echofades was the very first blog I followed when I got into this fandom because you go into the tag and are assaulted by so many beautiful gif sets! It’s like, “This is the most important blog in this fandom that I obviously must follow.” (Tbh the fact that someone who was this untouchable fandom celebrity to me a year ago just asked me to do this meme is making me emo actually. 🥺) Aaaaanyway, the quality of her gifs is amazing, and she’s had so many iconic compilations - gifs of the month is something that I know everyone always looked forward to and perfectly distilled the best moments every time. *prayer circle for its return in the future* Being a gif maker in a fandom that has this much content is truly a labor of love, and we are deeply lucky to have such a dedicated and talented person showing up for us everyday!
(2) Kirsty is soooooooooo smart about Emmerdale and Vanity and because she has actually been watching the show for a long time (her whole life? I don’t know, lol!), she brings a lot of important context to her comments. You get to see this brilliance even more on Twitter because it’s more amenable to real-time show commentary, so this is the part where I plug her Twitter and tell everyone to follow her. Even if Twitter scares you, it’s worth joining and just following her account (@flawedyou). You can ignore everyone else! (I’m not joking; it’s worth it just to see her tweets). Also, she’s super funny.
(3) She is so measured and realistic and not reactionary in what she says and does in fandom spaces, and having that even-keeled energy both here and on Twitter is so helpful to me (and I’m certain many others).
(4) She is incredibly kind and generous. She helped me deal with getting nasty anons for the first time and figuring out when/whether to respond to them. And she talked me through some Vanity/Emmerdale issues that were relevant to responding and generously let me use some of her much smarter ideas so I did not sound like an idiot in my reply. #hero
(5) She has a super pretty apartment that she’s decorated impeccably! (another thing you could learn if you followed her on Twitter). 😉
