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youngwizards_dwSide-stepping the obvious choices (I have Nita's version of the Oath pinned on this journal, and for good reason - apart from being a good reminder for myself in general, it's also a shorthand canon review), I'd like to highlight one of my favorite character descriptions from DD's Middle Kingdoms/Tale of the Five series:
[Sunspark was a oneness. Not a tangle of warring motivations, not divided against itself…but one. A single, driving, driven force, an eternal constant, a being, an IS!
And a tightly encapsulated one it had been, wound around and through itself, dwelling within itself completely, needing none other. Of course its kind had no need for love or companionship in any form. They were themselves, gloriously self-contained, solitary as stars. When they finally grew tired of themselves—to that extent the great Death could affect them—they found another in the same state and conjoined, united in an ecstasy of renewal, were lost in it forever and both reborn as new identities, a blend of parts of the two that formed them.
But Sunspark—
Sunspark had become unique.
Sunspark was changing. Daring to change. Trying to change.]
The essence of relationships is change; for the other person as well as yourself. I'm- truth be told I'm reminded more than a little of my own development, in regards to participating in fandom. Before high school, fandom was something I observed but didn't think I could - was allowed to contribute to. The Young Wizards fandom played a huge part in that changing for me, not just providing opportunities and open askboxes, but encouraging me to make my own changes, that my own ideas were valid and worth sharing.
And that means a lot to me.
[Sunspark was a oneness. Not a tangle of warring motivations, not divided against itself…but one. A single, driving, driven force, an eternal constant, a being, an IS!
And a tightly encapsulated one it had been, wound around and through itself, dwelling within itself completely, needing none other. Of course its kind had no need for love or companionship in any form. They were themselves, gloriously self-contained, solitary as stars. When they finally grew tired of themselves—to that extent the great Death could affect them—they found another in the same state and conjoined, united in an ecstasy of renewal, were lost in it forever and both reborn as new identities, a blend of parts of the two that formed them.
But Sunspark—
Sunspark had become unique.
Sunspark was changing. Daring to change. Trying to change.]
The essence of relationships is change; for the other person as well as yourself. I'm- truth be told I'm reminded more than a little of my own development, in regards to participating in fandom. Before high school, fandom was something I observed but didn't think I could - was allowed to contribute to. The Young Wizards fandom played a huge part in that changing for me, not just providing opportunities and open askboxes, but encouraging me to make my own changes, that my own ideas were valid and worth sharing.
And that means a lot to me.
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Date: 2019-03-04 06:32 pm (UTC)