1. What was your first brush with fandom - TV, movie, book, anime, etc.? How old were you? The Jackson Five. (Yeah I'm old) It was the 70s. I was 6. Collected the music, watched the cartoon, had some posters.
2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)? In 2002, someone sent me The Very Secret Diaries by Cassandra Claire. I went looking for more and I fell down the rabbit hole into Lord of the Rings fandom, and later LOTRPS.
3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved? I read archived stuff and LJ stuff and was a lurker until the end of 2006.
4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? If you can, list them. I'm defining fandom as being part of some kind of community that adores a thing, with or without the internet involved, so Jackson Five, Shaun Cassidy (yep, old), Star Wars, Beatles, Duran Duran, Rocky Horror Picture Show (cast and crew for several years), Xanth, Discworld, Lord of the Rings, LOTRPS, SGA, Sandman, Torchwood, Dr. Who
5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc. Lately, lots of writing, but it used to be art too, and during Rocky Horror, costume making.
6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first? I was slashing Burt and Ernie from the cradle. Seriously--I thought they lived together and loved each other the same as Gordon and Susan and Mommy and Daddy.
The first slash pairing I wrote was Dom/Viggo. Now I write a lot of McShep with bonus other SGA characters thrown in from time to time and am working on an epic Torchwood for tardis_bigbang.
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2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)? In 2002, someone sent me The Very Secret Diaries by Cassandra Claire. I went looking for more and I fell down the rabbit hole into Lord of the Rings fandom, and later LOTRPS.
3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved? I read archived stuff and LJ stuff and was a lurker until the end of 2006.
4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? If you can, list them. I'm defining fandom as being part of some kind of community that adores a thing, with or without the internet involved, so Jackson Five, Shaun Cassidy (yep, old), Star Wars, Beatles, Duran Duran, Rocky Horror Picture Show (cast and crew for several years), Xanth, Discworld, Lord of the Rings, LOTRPS, SGA, Sandman, Torchwood, Dr. Who
5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc. Lately, lots of writing, but it used to be art too, and during Rocky Horror, costume making.
6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first? I was slashing Burt and Ernie from the cradle. Seriously--I thought they lived together and loved each other the same as Gordon and Susan and Mommy and Daddy.
The first slash pairing I wrote was Dom/Viggo. Now I write a lot of McShep with bonus other SGA characters thrown in from time to time and am working on an epic Torchwood for