Hey listeners, I'm here to tell you about an exciting event that's happening on Sunday, May 4th.

It is called Stack the Shelves, and it is a special pop-up bookshop that the Stacks is hosting,

dedicated to supporting individuals and families impacted by the recent Los Angeles wildfires.

We're going to have books, author signings, a kid's corner, food, music, lawn games, special guests,

and more. And so now here's the part where I turn to you, the amazing stacks community,

and ask you for help. In order to make this day a smashing success, we need volunteers,

local to Los Angeles. We need your donations, which will be tax deductible

thanks to our partners at L.A. Room and Board, a fantastic nonprofit. 100% of your donations

will go directly to families, including gift cards to Octavia's bookshelf so they can continue

to build their libraries. And we need your help spreading the word. Head to the stackspodcast.com slash shelves to get all

the details. Again, that is the stackspodcast.com slash shelves. I always kind of thought of my thing with

fandom as being a way of me dealing with loneliness. I did go through very lonely

years where I felt very isolated and I could find some kind of solace and connection in K-pop

fandom. And I know that I do have an obsessive personality. Like, I think that's part of my ADD.

I'll just like fixate on something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's an obsessive personality. Like, I think that's part of my ADD. I'll just, like, fixate on something.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So that's definitely part of it.

Like, I can hook on something and, like, do a really deep dive.

And I think for a lot of people, or for at least some parts of fandom, it does come from this desire to, like, know, you know, obviously in quotes, like, what does it

really mean to know a celebrity?

But this idea that you can have a relationship, even though it's a fake relationship.

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