"I think I like TV Shows.” This is what Owen, the protagonist of Jane Schoenbrun’s haunting 2024 drama, I Saw The TV Glow, says when he is asked about his sexuality. This quote also accurately describes how many fans view the works that they devote their love—and in some case, lives—to. These works were what got me through the toughest years of my life in graduate school. Among the media that I engaged with during this time, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, specifically the series arc Golden Wind, were the ones that consumed my imagination. Both of these works and their respective fandoms focus heavily on found family, or kinship relationships between those who are not related, and conflicts within genetically-based families. I show using lived experience how fanworks allow for networks of found families to grow in real life and on the internet. Using my personal experiences as a fan doing fandom studies work in academia (acafan) and my time in fandom spaces, this project offers a fresh take on the classic series of JoJo’s and Buffy, discussions of found family and queer kinship bonds, and gives an in-depth look at a side of fandom studies that is often unexplored— that of the acafan both in and out of fan spaces, and of fanworks as a vehicle of personal discovery and healing, especially in the context of grief and trauma.