Steve Mackan
Greasy Wilder
- Joined
- Apr 9, 2016
- Messages
- 985
- Reaction score
- 3,590
Okay, so I am posting to plug our fanzine's season ticket. From today you can subscribe to EVERY fanzine in 2020 by following this link. I hope I am right in saying that (pretty much) everyone who subscribed for 2019 feels like they got their money's worth (the final edition of the year coming next week).
But I also want to thank everyone on the forum for enabling us to produce a fanzine in the first place. DEM Blades is coupled to the existence of S24SU. I posted my first blog on here after our first game back in the championship. I'd lurked on the forum for years without posting, but something compelled me to write a blog and stick it on here. That I ever did, is a testament to the community on here.
Being free to write what I want in that first blog, and having people that I know-but-don't-know telling me what was good or bad or funny or terrible was a very healthy thing — a tonic to the unchecked hype-machine of social media. I ended up writing weekly blogs which involved a character, Steve, talking about anything other than Sheffield United while attending the game. It was strange stuff.
But I ended up writing this blog after near enough every game. When I started, posting I was in a job I absolutely loathed. Now, I work as a writer. Cheesy as it will sound cringe alarm I don't think I'd be doing what I do now without posting that first blog - it gave me a a lot of confidence to 'have a go'. Certainly, there would be no fanzine without the myriad of brilliant Blades on here who contributed to the first and subsequent editions - and hopefully in the future.
SO...thanks again to all who have commented on my blogs, bought a fanzine, subscribed, or just been good people on here, it is meant sincerely!
Ta Sam