Snowflake Challenge Day 11

Share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This is a tough one, if only because people have different definitions of what they consider life-changing, and there's been so many things I've enjoyed. I will make an attempt, though!

Book

One would most definitely be the collection of Grimm's Fairy Tales we had in the house when I was a kid. Mom used to read to us from it before we could easily read it ourselves, and from it I learned to love fairy tales and folklore and just make a guess and move on if I didn't quite understand a word (the book used some old-fashioned language kid!me hadn't learned yet). From there it was natural that I'd move on to mythologies, fairy tales, and folklore from all over the world, and the '90's~early 2000's boom of fairly tale novelizations was a gift. To this day, fairy tale motifs are a way to ensure my interest in a story.

The books of Tamora Pierce were a big part of my late adolescence and early adulthood that I still enjoy reading--I needed to see girl characters being awesome and going after their dreams/making their own paths in life. Still do today.