snowy fannish 50: fandom manifesto

Today's snowflake_challenge prompt is In your own space, write a promo, manifesto or primer for your fave character, ship or fandom, which I shall shamelessly steal for purposes of Fannish 50 as well.

Whenever someone says manifesto, my first and only thought is the Prince of Tennis fandom manifesto for Tezuka/Fuji, from the glory days of LJ. It hasn't necessarily aged well, but then again, how are you supposed to age 13-year-old tennis-obsessed boys who can summon dinosaurs and defy the laws of physics?

So I guess I'll speed date what few character/ship/fandoms float to the top of my mind:

( Character - Final Fantasy VII - Tseng )

( Ship - Prince of Tennis: Tezuka/Fuji )

( Fandom - The Culture )

IV. Death by Water

Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
                               A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.
                               Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

-- The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot