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YES!!!
This is partly to show off my new broom, but also partly to say thank you. The amount of support people have shown me in this ridiculous sport has been amazing.
From my parents, who laughed when I first told them what I was doing but were genuinely interested once they realized I wasn’t joking, and who actually came to the World Cup both days. And who have seen firsthand how much fun it is and how happy it makes me and hundreds of others. (And who must obviously now support it because they just got me an official quidditch broom!) And from extended family members, who (after seeing the videos online) also now realize I’m no longer joking. Especially for the excited email I received from my two well-read younger cousins on the other coast whom I don’t get to see that often.
From friends, online and in real life. For quickly going through the “wait, what?” reactions to making posters telling me and my team to kick ass. I know both my online and in-person ramblings have switched mostly to quidditch, but it’s time-consuming (in a good way) and awesome and probably not going to change anytime soon.
From the people I’ve met through quidditch. Seriously knocking each other around on the pitch and then hugging it out afterwards is an amazing feeling. A few months ago I had no idea this world existed, and now I am so incredibly happy to be a part of it.
From complete strangers: Whether they just like the fact that we’re playing quidditch in the park, or that we’re a New York home team, or they just like the name (It’s very hard not to like a great portmanteau like Badassilisks), all I’ve seen is excitement and fascination, no derision. I’ve really only been openly laughed at once while carrying a broom around and I just brushed that dirt off my shoulder (with said broom).
So thank you! And I am very, very excited (and now well-prepared) for next year!
