1. What was your first brush with fandom - TV, movie, book, anime, etc.? How old were you? I was about twelve or thirteen years old, in an all girls Catholic convent school, in an IT lesson. I typed in Mulder/Krycek because I thought I'd get information about Mulder or Krycek.
Blimey.
I've been a completely irredeemable slasher ever since.
2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)? See above. I found the MKRA (Mulder/Krycek Romantics Association) and was instantly hooked; and naive enough to think for a while that it was unique, that this was the only evidence of fandom available. Then I learned to use search engines a little better. *grins*
3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved? I got into livejournal through the SSFQF - the Severus Snape Fuh-Q-Fest. Before that I was on a few yahoo mailing lists - one for the X-Files, one for Due South and the SSFQF group. I also had a few stories up on RatB, the M/K archive, but I'm not going to admit to the name I wrote under. Pretty sure they're still there. :D
4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? If you can, list them. Um... I've read in a lot of fandoms, but I think my main ones have been X-Files, Due South, Harry Potter, Sports Night, milliways_bar, Good Omens and Stargate: Atlantis.
5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc. I write (a very little and badly), beta (for spelling and grammar, mostly) and flail in comments. Oh and I pimp, of course - I pimp mercilessly.
6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first? Again, see above. Man, I still remember the shockwave in fandom when Krycek kissed Mulder on the cheek...
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I was about twelve or thirteen years old, in an all girls Catholic convent school, in an IT lesson. I typed in Mulder/Krycek because I thought I'd get information about Mulder or Krycek.
Blimey.
I've been a completely irredeemable slasher ever since.
2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)?
See above. I found the MKRA (Mulder/Krycek Romantics Association) and was instantly hooked; and naive enough to think for a while that it was unique, that this was the only evidence of fandom available. Then I learned to use search engines a little better. *grins*
3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved?
I got into livejournal through the SSFQF - the Severus Snape Fuh-Q-Fest. Before that I was on a few yahoo mailing lists - one for the X-Files, one for Due South and the SSFQF group. I also had a few stories up on RatB, the M/K archive, but I'm not going to admit to the name I wrote under. Pretty sure they're still there. :D
4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? If you can, list them.
Um... I've read in a lot of fandoms, but I think my main ones have been X-Files, Due South, Harry Potter, Sports Night,
5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc.
I write (a very little and badly), beta (for spelling and grammar, mostly) and flail in comments. Oh and I pimp, of course - I pimp mercilessly.
6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first?
Again, see above. Man, I still remember the shockwave in fandom when Krycek kissed Mulder on the cheek...