My dear, sweet fandom,

I love you. Really I do. Even when the ship wars are raging and somebody's head is pasted on yay, you entertain me like nothing else. You've turned the recently-gendered Blaise from a single name into a fascinating character, and even though you keep bringing Sirius back from the dead, you still manage to provide Mad-Eye Moody with a little sympathetic smut.

You've got no respect for authority, but sometimes that can be a really good thing. Just think, if nobody butchered their Latin grammar, I'd never get the chance to make long pompous posts about the historical use of the gerundive. Sure, we have to deal with plagurizing scumbags, perpetual mod wars, and Mary Sues raping canon like there's no tomorrow, but it's that basic anarchy that makes a place for fiendlingto draw bacon chaps on Lucius Malfoy, and, really, what would we do without bacon chaps?

You give me plot bunnies, force me to reason with greater precision than I could have expected, and occasionally turn me into a pile of wibbling mush. You wake up my roommates in the middle of the night when I cannot contain my laughter. You've eaten my free time, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Because I love you so much, I've made an attempt to give back a little of what you gave me. It's not much, but you can be sure it's a labor of love. A little Photoshop here, a little PHP there, and that's my contribution. My fingerpaint masterpiece, if you will.

I hope you like it.

Love,

me