1. What was your first brush with fandom - TV, movie, book, anime, etc.? How old were you?Harry Potter. Various Snape fansites. I was 17.
2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)? I was bored, had access to a computer and googled "Severus Snape". I got a bazillion hits, some of them leading to pages with fanfiction. The first story I read was a Snape/Fleur romance, the second one was Snape/Hermione smut, and the third one was a Fred/Snape/George threesome extravaganza.
3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved? I was a member of Hpana, a soul-less Harry Potter forum where I discussed the relative hotness of Snape and Alan Rickman with a bunch of equally damaged fangirls. I also had a FF.net account, but all I posted there was a piece of A Goofy Movie fanfiction.
4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? If you can, list them. Harry Potter ->Due South and Smallville ->House ->Jeeves and Wooster and Hugh Laurie/Stephen Fry RPS -> SGA
5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc. I'm a commenter (man oh man, do I comment), sometimes-enabler, and infrequent author.
6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first? Hmm, I read slash in the HP fandom, but I didn't really have an OTP. I seem to remember that a lot of it were Harry/Lupin. It wasn't until I found DS, and cesperanza fics, that I became a slasher. Eight Sessions changed the way I read fics. After that, I couldn't go back to trawling FF.net or AFF.net anymore.
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2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)? I was bored, had access to a computer and googled "Severus Snape". I got a bazillion hits, some of them leading to pages with fanfiction. The first story I read was a Snape/Fleur romance, the second one was Snape/Hermione smut, and the third one was a Fred/Snape/George threesome extravaganza.
3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved? I was a member of Hpana, a soul-less Harry Potter forum where I discussed the relative hotness of Snape and Alan Rickman with a bunch of equally damaged fangirls. I also had a FF.net account, but all I posted there was a piece of A Goofy Movie fanfiction.
4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? If you can, list them. Harry Potter ->Due South and Smallville ->House ->Jeeves and Wooster and Hugh Laurie/Stephen Fry RPS -> SGA
5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc.
I'm a commenter (man oh man, do I comment), sometimes-enabler, and infrequent author.
6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first? Hmm, I read slash in the HP fandom, but I didn't really have an OTP. I seem to remember that a lot of it were Harry/Lupin. It wasn't until I found DS, and