FandomWiki.com: A love story

Hi, my name is Bentley and I’m one of the owners of FandomWiki.com! First, I’d like to thank you for coming to our page, and hopefully you find not only what you’re looking for in terms of information but also a community with people who share what you love.

I’d like to share how and why FandomWiki.com came into existence as I feel it’s important that you know why it’s here, and what we’re trying to create.

Towards the end of last year (2024) my mother’s cancer came back for the 3rd time. I ended up having to go live with her out of state for months, leaving my family and farm trying to get her back into remission. I was isolated and just in survival mode. During this time it became clear she was going to need care for much longer than anticipated so she finally agreed to move back home with me. I brought her back to my farm with the intention of buying her a house to put on our property and having her live out her life with us. Unfortunately, soon after the move her health went downhill, and she passed in November of 2024.

I was lost. She was my best friend. So I retreated into myself, and found my “comfort blanket” in the show The Magicians. I watched that on repeat while trying to continue to be there for my family and animals, and in hindsight probably not doing a very good job of it. For some reason, The Magicians comforted me in a way that nothing else would and gave me encouragement to get myself moving.

I approached my husband about this, and told him I felt like I was on a precipice with three options. 1) I could fall backwards which would mean just grinding with work and the farm, but felt like I would lose a lot of myself and my family would lose a lot of me because I would just be trying to survive. 2) I could fall off the edge and hope that I landed somewhere not horrible, or 3) I could leap towards something. My amazing, wonderful, supportive husband didn’t miss a beat and said “Well the answer is obvious, you leap!”. I said “Ok! That’s awesome!! Sooooooo…….. what am I leaping towards?”.

My hubby stated that I had clearly found a lot of comfort in The Magicians, and maybe getting into that fandom would be helpful for me. Ok, that sounds reasonable, so I started looking around. I found the big fandom website (which I won’t name for legal purposes lol), however was so inundated with ads and it was so hard to navigate I couldn’t really find what I was looking for on there. I couldn’t find a community. I talked to my hubby about the days of old, remembering there used to be a website called fandomwiki.com where there were really cool discussion boards and people made lifelong friends but it seemed that fandom had become so commercialized I just couldn’t find anything that compared to it.

Now, the love story part……….

My hubby found fandomwiki.com was for sale. He decided if I couldn’t find the community I was looking for, he would create it. He bought the website (it was really expensive!!!), and designed it based on what I needed in order to use it for healing. He also started writing the Fillory and Further books for me.

My hubby did this because fandom helped me through a really hard time, and he was determined to do everything in his power to give me what I needed to feel better. As of writing this, we’re planning on launching on Feb. 14, 2025 which is Valentine’s Day, and my birthday. While that date has passed because, well, life, it finally is now coming to life. That plus with his support we're not only launching this, I've made some amazing new friends, am working for causes I care about, and we're starting an exotic animal rescue on our farm. My hubby even let me get a Cameo from Margo :). This website truly is an act of love.

Having said all of this, I hope that as my hubby was able to give this to me, I can in turn give it to all of you. Let it become what you need, when you need it. No commercialization, no click through ads, just people creating and finding communities that help them feel whole. I am hoping that at some point it will make enough to at least pay for itself, but if it doesn’t, oh well. It’s his gift to me, and in turn my gift to you.

Oh yeah……. And without the wank! We actually bought another website (fandom.wtf hahahahaha) that we hope to launch at some point soon. You can get out all your wank there.

I understand that not everyone really gets the power fandom can have for people, and that’s ok. This is a place for people who get it. So, have fun, make friends, build your communities. And I hope that everything my hubby is giving to me will also be what you’re looking for.

As for me, I'm surrounded by people I love, incredible animals and experiences, and still walk around driving my family crazy blasting The Magicians music and singing at the top of my lungs. All because of a leap, and fandom.........

In conclusion, I’d like to share my favorite quote from The Magicians, and the one that kept me moving when I felt really low…… Thanks Margo ;

“I’m a f*@#ing magician”

Bentley

Our Vision...

Our vision for this page is simple, but complicated to implement. We want people to be able to start a Wiki in any category, and when that wiki is created it automatically creates a discussion board and a fanfic/fan art page to go with it. We have started the coding for that but it's not perfect yet! We want people to get involved, be moderators for their favorite spots, and let this be mostly a community run website with as little moderation as possible.

With that, we would love anyone who wants to get involved in making this page exactly what people are looking for in fandom! Please feel free to go to our Get Involved page, message us, and hopefully together we can make this site exactly what we all want. Our Fandom community. :)