Here’s to the collectors. The comic readers. The gamers. The con-goers in rare fits. The ones who know the reference before anyone explains it. They’re not chasing trends, and they don’t wear basic merch.

You can call it nostalgia, obsession, or another graphic tee. About the only thing you can’t do is fake it. Because they remember the arcs and keep the culture alive.

And while some see fandom as childish, we see identity. Because the people who still collect, rewatch, wear the worlds that raised them, are the ones that make culture last.