unamaga | tell me your life story!

While recovering from my brush with Joe Flanigan-induced death, I had a thought: most of you I barely know anything about, even fannishly. This thought saddened me. So! Copy and paste if you'd like (it's conveniently coded!), or feel free to go all crazy and build me a time line. Extra points awarded for squiggly fonts.

1. What was your first brush with fandom - TV, movie, book, anime, etc.? How old were you?

2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)?

3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved? 

4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? If you can, list them. 

5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc.

6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first?

Ahaha, this sounds like a sex questionnaire, woops. (ETA: um, sorry about that coding glitch! Fixed now.) I'll start! Beware the tl;dr.

1. What was your first brush with fandom - TV, movie, book, anime, etc.? How old were you? Sailor Moon was my first fandom - shut up, I was, like, eleven.

2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)? It was kind of an accident. I was looking for pictures of Usagi and Mamorou to print out and paste on my notebooks (see: eleven), and I found a site that had a little button on the side. It said "fanfiction". Curiosity has always been a problem for me, so I clicked, and it's been all downhill since then.

3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved? God, this is so embarrassing, but I was on fanfiction.net and yahoo!groups and had a dinky little angelfire website on which I stored horrible drawings and truly terrible fanfic. You really have no idea how bad it was. I was thirteen and writing het sex - let that sink in for a minute.

4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? If you can, list them. This is by no means a complete list, because I had a tendency to drift towards anything that struck my fancy before I hit Harry Potter a few years ago, but - Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing, Digimon, Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Card Captor Sakura, Harry Potter (Harry/Hermione), The Libertines, Lord of the Flies, Interview With a Vampire (ahahaha oh god), Popslash, Lord of the Rings, LotRips, Good Omens, Discworld, Harry Potter (slash), Pirates of the Carribean, CSI: Las Vegas, Supernatural/RPS, Kingdom Hearts, Torchwood, Panic at the Disco, Firefly, Stargate: Atlantis. Do you see now why I lack fannish shame?

5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc. I like to think I'm well-rounded, and by well-rounded I mean on crack. Mostly, though, I write fic and force people to do the same. Oh, and I flirt a lot.

6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first? I can actually trace it back to the exact moment. I was trolling through fiction alley, and I somehow found mistful's stories. It's possible I was on a Hermione/Draco kick at that point, because I found it so hilariously intriguing, and so I read her story Draco Malfoy, The Amazing Bouncing Rat. When I'd finished, I was so enamored of her and her writing style that I instantly clicked over to read the rest of the stories without checking the summaries or anything, and accidentally ended up reading one of the great epic Harry/Draco stories, Underwater Light. Insta-slasher! Oh, I was so wee. Little did I know the messes I'd get into. Awww.

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1. What was your first brush with fandom - TV, movie, book, anime, etc.? How old were you? Pokemon, when I was like 10 years old.

2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)? Through those really old messageboards; not forums, but like one board with a bunch of threads on it that was for a Pokemon fanfiction site.

3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved? Nope. Yahoo!Groups was the main one, since I just lurked on the boards. Mostly it was RP, occasionally writing embarrassingly angsty fic.

4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? If you can, list them. Ohh, Jesus. Let's see. Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Gundam Wing, Card Captor Sakura, Weiss Kreuz, Yami no Matsuei, Final Fantasy VII, Suikoden, Xenogears, Harry Potter, Gravitation, Angel Sanctuary, X/1999, Tokyo Babylon, Prince of Tennis (that was the big one for a while), Clover, Wish, Wraeththu, Farseer Trilogy, Wheel of Time, Zelda, Fruits Basket, Getbackers, DNAngel, Shadows of Destiny, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lord of the Rings, Xenogears, Kingdom Hearts, the Prestige, Firefly, Stargate Atlantis, Supernatural, Torchwood. I mostly lurk a lot, or write and don't post because I am lazy.

5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc. Author sometimes publicly, but mostly I stick to my small circle and do all of the above, minus artist (unless I do stick figures).

6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first? I'm pretty sure it was Duo/Quatre from Gundam Wing. Because I thought it was hot and cute. *shallow* This was after shipping het Pokemon pairings for a while.

BUT QUATRE AND TROWA WERE MEANT TO BE!! Ahem. I might still have issues. Ignore me.

Actually, you know. Thinking about it. Trowa = Ronon, y/n?

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