I probably would have made a separate journal, had I not been in my mid-teens and giddy about fandom when I first made this one. XD

that's what this whole "fandom" thing is about: geeks coming together in numbers, doing what they love and having a group to do it in, a group they don't take for granted because they haven't always had it.
I agree! But sometimes fandom can be so like other 'normal' social groups with the backbiting and bitching... sigh.

I'm like you in that I never cared about what others thought of me. At first, in the instinctual teen-rebel way, then later on, with the "it's my life, I don't owe you anything" mentality.