{"quotes":[{"text":"She was determined to keep her promise of 'no fandom' to her mother. Trouble was, fandom was more than a hobby, it was a support system. Without it, Liv had no one to talk to when she was lonely. She had nothing to look forward to after school, and no outlet for creativity. Liv found herself spiraling back into melancholy. She got up. She went to classes.She came home... And then did it all over again. Sleep became the escape that fandom had once been.","author":"Danika Stone","tags":["depression","emotions","fandom","life-lessons"],"id":5590,"author_id":"Danika+Stone"},{"text":"A friend tells a story about taking his ten-year-old son to a Jets game. The game was being played during a driving rain on a freezing cold day, and the Jets lost by twenty points to a team they were supposed to beat. As they headed toward the exits, the boy looked up, with tears in his eyes, and asked, 'Dad, why are we Jets fans?","author":"Joe Queenan","tags":["fandom","football","new-york-jets","sports"],"id":18691,"author_id":"Joe+Queenan"},{"text":"We have fangirl shorthand.","author":"Jacquelyn Middleton","tags":["fandom","friendship","online-friendship"],"id":38807,"author_id":"Jacquelyn+Middleton"},{"text":"But I don't want to write my own fiction,' Cath said, as emphatically as she could. 'I don't want to write my own characters or my own worlds -- I don't care about them. . . . I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.","author":"Rainbow Rowell","tags":["creation","fandom","fanfiction","fangirling","nothingness","writing"],"id":40393,"author_id":"Rainbow+Rowell"},{"text":"Some people are born to fandom, others have fandom thrust upon them.","author":"Nenia Campbell","tags":["fandom","fangirl","fans","funny","funny-and-random","funny"],"id":64835,"author_id":"Nenia+Campbell"},{"text":"You can't be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan.","author":"Simon Cheshire","tags":["fandom","music","pop-stars"],"id":68380,"author_id":"Simon+Cheshire"},{"text":"I think of us as a people who inoculate ourselves against a plague of insanity with a powerful anti-idiotic called science fiction. I think sf is a literature which by its very nature requires that you be at least a little sane, that you know at least a little something. You must abdicate the right to be ignorant in order to enjoy science fiction, which most people are unwilling to do; and you must learn, if not actually how to think things through, at least what the trick looks like when it's done. Frequent injections will keep a lot of madness away.","author":"Spider Robinson","tags":["fandom","sanity","science-fiction"],"id":76258,"author_id":"Spider+Robinson"},{"text":"To call the place an anthill would be like calling the Versailles Palace a single-family home. Earthen ramparts rose almost to the tops of the surrounding trees--a hundred feet at least. The circumference could have accommodated a Roman hippodrome. A steady stream of soldiers and drones swarmed in and out of the mound. Some carried fallen trees. One, inexplicably, was dragging a 1967 Chevy Impala.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["1967-chevy-impala","fandom","humor","mermekes","rick-riordan","supernatural","the-hidden-oracle","trials-of-apollo"],"id":112649,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"When people say the word 'convention,' they are usually referring to large gatherings of the employees of companies and corporations who attend a mass assembly, usually in a big hotel somewhere, for the purpose of pretending to learn stuff when they are in fact enjoying a free trip somewhere, time off work, and the opportunity to flirt with strangers, drink, and otherwise indulge themselves. The first major difference between a business convention and a fan-dom convention is that fandom doesn’t bother with the pretenses. They’re just there to have a good time. The second difference is the dress code— the ensembles at a fan convention tend to be considerably more novel.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["fandom","harry-dresden","work"],"id":130224,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"His features made him look striking, and I wondered if that was actually his personality.","author":"Binta Userkaf","tags":["book","fandom","features","itchikan","life","personality","striking"],"id":130882,"author_id":"Binta+Userkaf"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}