Story Time!
Apr. 26th, 2025 08:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mad_tea_partyLet me tell you guys a story. It's about a single mother, trying her best to raise her disabled daughter, her son, and her adopted son after a second divorce. Things were rough. Let's not make a mistake and think otherwise. The daughter graduated High School in 2000 and ended up not going to college for many years in order ot help her mother raise her youngest brother.
The mom dated a year later, and made some really close friends. But she wouldn't find true happiness until the year 2001. This was the year fandom actually had an impact on her and her family, and it wasn't her but her daughter's.
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring came out on video a few months after it's massive success at the box office. And her daughter, being a huge Harry Potter fan at the time (she'd watched Sorceror's Stone and Chamber of Secrets thousands of time a week) , she brought the video home from her job at Hollywood Video.
Of course, her daughter was skeptical as she'd had such a terrible reaction to trying to read The Hobbit a few times in school. But she fell in love. And her biggest pull was Elijah Wood, who'd seen a fan of since she was a teen. Of course by the end of the film's fourth viewing (she eventually made her Mom buy her a copy), it was Sean Astin and Billy Boyd who kept her watching on repeat. Not to mention the rest of the Fellowship whom she began to view as "family" of sorts.
She would go on to read the trilogy in a huge omnibus. Starting with The Two Towers, wanting to get the next part of the story (She was worried about Pippin and Merry, after all, and *had* to know if they were okay).
Fast forward to a few months before The Two Towers is to be released. Her daughter has now connected with an online group, District of Dark Whispers. This was a fan group of Tolkein's work, and while she still considered herself a novice in his works, she was drawn in, and eventually began to attend meetings. One such meeting, a big one as it happens, she met a man there named Calvin. He was of course way older than she was, but he loved the Renaissance, and anything old timey. He was also a huge Lord of the Rings fan and over time, she began to see him as her best friend.
MOnths later, he finally got introduced to her Mom while she had a rare Wednesday off (Wednesday was the day they'd go out, since it was Cal's day off from work regularly). The two fell in love instantly, and sought the daughter's permission before becoming an official couple.
When they got married a year later, Cal proudly wore The One Ring as his wedding band. It isn't long before the daughter began to call him Daddy, and then years later, it turned into Dad, and changing her last name on her social media to "Durm".
They had their difference as time went on. But for the most part they maintained a very close relationship. He'd even gotten her into watching the History Channel wwhen she wasn't watching her "fou fou" shows.
Well. This week, that wonderfully loving, accepting and fun-loving man was admitted to the hospital and he will not be coming out. Needless to say this is going to be a huge loss for all that knew this man. The daughter is realizing the reason now why he was trying to make things more tolerable for her. He knew his time was running out. His last wish was to see her adopted and or carry his last name, legally, and when she said her final goodbye to him yesterday, she promised him she was going to take his name legally.
Cal, you will be so missed. I hope you understand how much I truly valued your love, guidance, and the way you helped us when we needed it most. I love you, Daddy C. And I always will.
The mom dated a year later, and made some really close friends. But she wouldn't find true happiness until the year 2001. This was the year fandom actually had an impact on her and her family, and it wasn't her but her daughter's.
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring came out on video a few months after it's massive success at the box office. And her daughter, being a huge Harry Potter fan at the time (she'd watched Sorceror's Stone and Chamber of Secrets thousands of time a week) , she brought the video home from her job at Hollywood Video.
Of course, her daughter was skeptical as she'd had such a terrible reaction to trying to read The Hobbit a few times in school. But she fell in love. And her biggest pull was Elijah Wood, who'd seen a fan of since she was a teen. Of course by the end of the film's fourth viewing (she eventually made her Mom buy her a copy), it was Sean Astin and Billy Boyd who kept her watching on repeat. Not to mention the rest of the Fellowship whom she began to view as "family" of sorts.
She would go on to read the trilogy in a huge omnibus. Starting with The Two Towers, wanting to get the next part of the story (She was worried about Pippin and Merry, after all, and *had* to know if they were okay).
Fast forward to a few months before The Two Towers is to be released. Her daughter has now connected with an online group, District of Dark Whispers. This was a fan group of Tolkein's work, and while she still considered herself a novice in his works, she was drawn in, and eventually began to attend meetings. One such meeting, a big one as it happens, she met a man there named Calvin. He was of course way older than she was, but he loved the Renaissance, and anything old timey. He was also a huge Lord of the Rings fan and over time, she began to see him as her best friend.
MOnths later, he finally got introduced to her Mom while she had a rare Wednesday off (Wednesday was the day they'd go out, since it was Cal's day off from work regularly). The two fell in love instantly, and sought the daughter's permission before becoming an official couple.
When they got married a year later, Cal proudly wore The One Ring as his wedding band. It isn't long before the daughter began to call him Daddy, and then years later, it turned into Dad, and changing her last name on her social media to "Durm".
They had their difference as time went on. But for the most part they maintained a very close relationship. He'd even gotten her into watching the History Channel wwhen she wasn't watching her "fou fou" shows.
Well. This week, that wonderfully loving, accepting and fun-loving man was admitted to the hospital and he will not be coming out. Needless to say this is going to be a huge loss for all that knew this man. The daughter is realizing the reason now why he was trying to make things more tolerable for her. He knew his time was running out. His last wish was to see her adopted and or carry his last name, legally, and when she said her final goodbye to him yesterday, she promised him she was going to take his name legally.
Cal, you will be so missed. I hope you understand how much I truly valued your love, guidance, and the way you helped us when we needed it most. I love you, Daddy C. And I always will.
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Date: 2025-04-26 02:20 pm (UTC)