It's good to have fannish friends because...

1.) ... you can send them fan fiction about characters they have never read about and they will at least check the fics out, and maybe even read one or two, instead of deleting the mail like a RL friend might do. They may even become interested in the characters.

2.) ... if you tell them that something terrible will befall a character that you like and that they have never actually read about except in some fan fiction that you sent them, some of them will actually be shocked, instead of shrugging it off like a RL friend might do.

3.) Also, some of them will comfort you with phrases like 'Figwit lives. Haldir lives. (XY) lives.' *g*

Just felt a perfectly random need to state my gratefulness for fannish friends today. ;-)