Recently, my country (Russia) started an invasion of a neighboring country (Ukraine), you probably heard about it in the news. Just a week befaore that me and a few other people had opened the first kinkfest in our fandom, which consists of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian fans. Of course, when the war started, we wanted to close the event because it seemed disrespectful (I mean, people die there, how can we think about porn). But we didn't do this, because a huge number of participants wrote to us, begging to keep the fest alive. As an organizer, I sort out mail from this participants every day. And I read how the they ask: is it possible to slightly increase the duration of the fest, I don’t have time to draw art, because there is no light in the bomb shelter? Or they write: tell the author of this text that their fanfic was the only thing that distracted me from the pain while I was in the hospital with a wound after the shelling. Every day someone says "thank you, it's the only thing that keeps me from going crazy". I always knew fandom was a place for escapism, but right now I'm watching hundreds of people survive the apocalypse one porn fanfic at a time. There is no moral here, I just wanted to share an observation with someone who is not directly involved in the events.

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