Hi hi so this is incredibly random but my idiot brain has decided that on this day in freaking 2019 we are going to be Emo About Stereo Kicks, which has led me to looking back at old reblogs and fics and basically... I just wanted to very belatedly thank you for all of your contributions to the stereo kicks fandom! Looking at it retrospectively it's very clear that your blog and your fics are a big part of what made that brief little fandom experience so great (1/2)
(2/2) and probably have a whole lot to do with why I look back on that particular fandom moment with such fond nostalgia that it emotionally incapacitated me on a random Wednesday four bloody years down the line... so yeah basically just a very belated thank you thank you thank you
Awww! Gosh, listen, 2019 is a perfectly fine time to be Emo About Stereo Kicks. It’s been five years! X Factor 2014, babie! CAN YOU BELIEVE?? FIVE YEARS! It does NOT seem like that long ago! BABY CHARLIE IS ALMOST TWENTY! (On the other hand, Charlie is STILL not even twenty. What the fuck. Remember when he sang “Wannabe” to Mel B. and you could see the moment in her eyeballs when she realized that song was like, thrice as old as him? That was hilarious. I still laugh out loud when I think about that moment.) And it’s just about XF Season, so I get it, I always get a pang of the Boy Band Blues around this time of year, too, because those burgeoning fandoms are always so much fun and exciting -- that’s the best part, IMO, when it’s all just new stuff constantly and a tiny group of people being really excited together about a couple of weirdos who no one else really cares about. They feel like they’re Yours and it’s really ~bonding, yk?
And thank you for saying that; I really feel like Stereo Kicks was kind of my Last Big Hurrah as far as super-fandom-explosions go, so I’m really glad that it was a positive contribution for the most part. Like, I love Star Wars and I’ve made a lot of Star Wars graphics and written some fics and meta and stuff, but it’s never been like Stereo Kicks or Union J or even 1D or Hunger Games, and it probably never will be again. And that’s OK! But it definitely warrants getting Emo sometimes. :)