#unifier

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34: What do you look for in friendships?

Honestly, the one key commonality I find between all of my friends (not necessarily something I seek out mind) regardless of whatever differences we share, has always been having a shared fandom.

Strange as that is to say, but fandom life has actually been the start for a lot of my greatest, and strongest, relationships.

With my “brought home to holiday meals and would help hide a body no questions asked” bestie out in Oregon, we first became friends through my use of a terrible, terrible pick up line, and our friendship deepened between joining a ghost hunting team and spending every weekend of our final year at university marathoning Supernatural and drinking whisky.

With my heartsister in NYC, we share Hetalia, a mutual grumbling against Harry Potter, support each other when it comes to the fandoms we don’t have in common but are still ridiculously passionate about. I remember too many a night where one of us would be high off the energy involving a particularly silly night, leading to a game of Hide-&-Seek around our dormitories.

With my former girlfriend in London and my one friend in Paris, we started chatting over our shared interests in history, bonded over music, spent hours debating the latest Doctor Who and Supernatural episodes respectively.

With my genderfluid mate down in D.C. (who I think I was technically dating for a while?)- We bonded over Doctor Who, French culture, our separate but equally chaotic adventures in Paris, and obscure silent films that no one else on campus seemed to hear about.

For my longest standing friends, one of them I still regularly swap anime recommendations with, another was Harry Potter fanfictions, and the other is Fall Out Boy and photography ideas.

Even with my family- My sister and nephews all watch Supernatural now (she and I also have a Barbie dialogue routine that makes her boyfriend judge us hardcore), my younger brother will constantly quote obscure vines and anime parodies that no one else in our family will even touch, and even my mother, bless her heart, will drop references to Monty Python or Stargate or even freakin’ Gilmore Girls out of nowhere.

That’s not even including how many of you I consider friends, all based on our shared love of the same dorky fictional characters.

Kindness, patience, independence, compassion, loyalty- These are all the keys to a long lasting friendship.

But fandom? Fandom has been the spark that ignited each and every one of them.

All of Wip

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