{"id":135,"date":"2014-01-06T12:15:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T18:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/?p=135"},"modified":"2023-06-28T17:21:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T22:21:26","slug":"fandom-snowflake-challenge-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Fandom Snowflake Challenge Day 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snowflake-challenge.dreamwidth.org\/5376.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fandom Snowflake Challenge banner\" src=\"http:\/\/akamine.100webspace.net\/Snowflake\/cartoon.png\" width=\"250\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day 6&#8217;s challenge is to\u00c2&nbsp;share a book\/song\/movie\/tv show\/fanwork\/etc that changed your life.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to pick just one influence, being a Fancrone with forty-plus years of experience. But I think if I had to pick just one that had the biggest influence, it would be Douglas Adams.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I first read <em>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em> (and its sequels) in high school, encouraged by my best friend (it was her copies of the books). I distinctly remember her giving me the first book in French class. I can barely read\/speak French anymore, but Mr. Adams has stayed with me to this day.<\/p>\n<p>I had never read anything like it before. It was so funny and brilliant. And from those stories, I was inspired to write down my very first fanfiction, a story about Marvin that I started in 9th grade in typing class. And I still have it! Half in type, half in pencil. Still unfinished. Nowhere near as witty and brilliant as Mr. Adams (it&#8217;s pretty terrible, actually), but there it is. My first fanfic!<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Adams was also a champion for another fangirlish cause: a Mac user. He was our shining knight during those &#8220;beleaguered&#8221; days, with his biting criticisms of Windows 95. Sure, y&#8217;all may have had marketshare, but WE had Douglas Adams on our side! Nyah! \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>I remember when I read about his death. It was on As The Apple Turns, an Apple news\/gossip site (that sadly no longer exists). I&#8217;d never really been affected by a celebrity death before, but this one was hard because he was more than just a celebrity I liked. He had really changed my life with his stories and inspired me to write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 6&#8217;s challenge is to\u00c2&nbsp;share a book\/song\/movie\/tv show\/fanwork\/etc that changed your life. It&#8217;s hard to pick just one influence, being a Fancrone with forty-plus years of experience. But I think if I had to pick just one that had the biggest influence, it would be Douglas Adams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranel-took.fancrone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}