How about one on romantic relationships that came out of fandom--people who met specifically through fandom and fell in love. Do Nora and Tom count? Or are there any love matches that came out of The Bronze or Cons? You might ask them how sharing an interest like this made their relationship easier--or harder.

I also love the idea of slang definitions.

Robin, IIRC, Allyson has an entire essay based on Kat and Lori.

It is hard to parse "heh" into a compliment. If anyone can do it, though, it is me. Faint praise is my very meat. I am damned to make these few words in the hope that some brief contact will be made before the reader's attention skitters elsewhere.

This is why I choose these few words. They are only a hundred marchers in the long parade of human thought, but they may march up on a "heh" one day and trample it into a compliment. This is my hope.

These are my few words. There are a hundred of them, more or less, each of them heartfelt.

Heh. Heh heh.

Gus has gone meta-Zen!

I am the Very Meta-Zen!

I have no idea what that means, but it sounds cool, so it is mine.

You bet, Deb, and a fab essay it is, too, but Kat & Lori didn't meet each other because of Buffy. I suspect there are folks in love out there who never would have met except for fandom activities and those might make a good essay.

They met because of Ani DiFranco fandom.

(edit: for Robin) Oh, the actual meeting coming through fandom? Right, different thing. Remember Penny B? She and Larry hooked up online; she was a Buffy fan, he wasn't. First meeting, he proved his love by showering her with Buffy-themed stuff.

They've been married six years this coming October. So, yeah, those stories are definitely out there.

True, Allyson, but not in YOUR fandom, if ya know what I mean. If you email "interview" Penny B and Lattu that Deb mentions, and any others you hear about, it could be an interesting piece and you could use other peoples' words to add to your word count. The subject matter may not do it for you, so,you know, only if it it's intriguing to you!

Oh, the actual meeting coming through fandom?

Hec and JZ met through b.org, and IIRC, their wedding cake had the monkeypants dialogue (mostly monologue) written on it in frosting.