BrittanaCon Debrief OR How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fandom
So, I’m sitting here on Tuesday afternoon, after BrittanaCon, and I’m just trying to organize my thoughts into a post that’s good enough for people to want to read.
I don’t want to recap the Con. There are other people doing that far better than I can, and because there wasn’t much to say. Not to say that the panels weren’t AMAZING, and the schedule wasn’t JAM PACKED with AWESOME activities, because it totally was. All Friday afternoon and Saturday (I left before the festivities began on Sunday, unfortunately), were fun, entertaining, and comprehensive. I felt inundated (in the BEST way) with information, feels and just generally had a great time. I cannot complain for one second because it was the most fun I’ve had pretty much all year long.
But beyond that, I have to explain the connections that I made this weekend. Let me preface this bit by saying that I was pretty nervous to go to the Con. Don’t get me wrong, I was excited, super excited, but I didn’t really know anyone, and it was really far away in a city that I’d never been in, and all in all, I was a bit worried. Maybe worried that I wouldn’t connect with anyone, maybe worried that I wouldn’t fit in, maybe worried that I would get there and look around, and not have anyone to talk to, or feel comfortable with.
I couldn’t have been more wrong.
From day one, minute one, I was absolutely floored by this fandom. Yes, Brittana are so important, and yes, we love our ladies so much. We can squee and fangirl with the best of them. We love our ladies, they’re sweet, and gorgeous, and funny (and WIVES!), and ours. But, this Con was about us celebrating them through US. It was about coming together as a fandom, and supporting each other. And I can tell you without a doubt that I felt supported and gave support in ways that I haven’t done in a long time.
I felt something akin to love the very first day. Love for all of you people; people in this fandom. People who hugged me, and made me feel welcome. People that squealed with me and danced with me, and sang with me. People who didn’t hesitate to take my hand, and go with me into the vast fields of wildflowers that is Brittana. That feeling bloomed, and today I’m not afraid to say it. To EVERYONE that attended in body and/or spirit. I LOVE YOU. You have made me feel happiness and acceptance in ways that I haven’t even been able to verbalize, and for me, that means so much. I already miss you more than words can say, and I love you than is probably appropriate for people that I met three days ago, but I’m not even mad.
Please, please please don’t think I will ever let you get out of my heart, and out of my life. I am in love with all of you, and won’t ever let you go.
God Bless the Brittana Fandom
