The title of this post is basically the law of my life, just now. It’s taken a while for me to realise it (no surprise there), but there it is. My best decisions are ones that I make over and over and over again, after hours of thought. I prod and adjust and flounce away and flounce back and think things over until I’m sick of them. Then I make a decision, and keep on prodding at it to see if it holds up.
My decision to write fanfiction has held up for the last two or three years. It still holds.
My decision to build a personal archive has held up for the last year or eight :D. It still holds (and, if you’re not put off by works in progress, you can take a peep here to see how it’s holding).
My decision to write in the A Surreal Tale universe— for it is a universe now— has held up for the last two years. It still holds.
You’ve heard about those decisions a lot over the last year, if you’ve followed me on LJ or kept track of my changing profile at FF.net. One decision you haven’t heard much about, though, is my decision to be in HP fandom.
( You see, I thought I didn't have to make that decision. )
So, my decision to be part of HP fandom has held up since I picked up the first book, and got lost. It’s been closely questioned, ignored, avoided, prodded with sharp sticks, and slowly backed away from. It still holds.
And writing the AST universe as part of the larger HP universe…it’s consciously rearing up its head for the first time. It’s an old, half-made decision. But I hope it holds.
As always, this entry is all about how I make sense of things. I don’t doubt that other ways of participating in fandom exist, and agree that there’s more than fifty ways of measuring when you become a fan of something. But I’ll always think the way that matters most for measuring yourself is the one that you use. A broad standard that makes sense for everyone else may not makes sense for you, so. | 
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