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Rookie’s slideshow of teenaged bedroom shrines is blowing my mind. 

This is my shrine (or Fryine) in honor of comedian, writer, presenter, documentarian, and British national treasure Stephen Fry. He has also championed gay rights, mental health, and intellectual enlightenment. Man is brilliant. I basically took pictures from shows he has written or starred in, stuck them to the inside of my cupboard door with sticky tape, put a few beads up using thumbtacks and mounted a little box which holds a candle nicely. (Though I am no longer allowed to light the candle, as my mother informs me we have no insurance to cover shrines.) The ticket stub is from his talk at the Sydney Opera House. My greatest desire is that I might meet him before either of us dies. –Maddie, 17

I would not be surprised, actually, if you told me the above photo was taken somewhere in my apartment and that, indeed, my husband has managed to hide some elaborate Stephen Fry tribute somewhere in the back of his own closet.