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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.
Ahaha, this sounds like a sex questionnaire, woops. (ETA: um, sorry about that coding glitch! Fixed now.) I'll start! Beware the tl;dr.
<b>1. What was your first brush with fandom - TV, movie, book, anime, etc.? How old were you?</b>
<b>2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)?</b>
<b>3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved? </b>
<b>4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? If you can, list them. </b>
<b>5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc.</b>
<b>6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first?</b>
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 foundmistful'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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2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)? I was looking for something, anything about Jackie/Hyde as a couple during s5 of T7S and Googled 'Jackie and Hyde' and I found a fan fiction site. It was downhill from there.
3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved? It wasn't. I started posting fic at fanfiction.net and spent the first four or so months of my fandom life at Forums 4 Fans before I got a code (A CODE OMG!) to join LJ and I've been here ever since.
4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? If you can, list them. OH MAN. Here's a list of fandoms I have either been active within the past or am currently: Lost, The OC, BTVS/ATS, LOTR, LOTR RPS, The Faculty, That 70s Show, One Tree Hill, Harry Potter, Grey's Anatomy, Arrested Development, Bones, Supernatural, CW RPS, X-Men, Entourage, Night Stalker, Firefly, Veronica Mars, Doctor Who, The Inside, Battlestar Galactica, Dexter, Heroes, Jericho, Ugly Betty, Men In Trees, Friday Night Lights, Pushing Daisies, Dirty, Sexy, Money, Stargate: Atlantis, How I Met Your Mother, Torchwood and American Idol RPS.
5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc. Author, beta (not a good one), commenter, enabler.
6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first? The first slash pairing I read was Eric/Hyde from T7S but it wasn't *MY* first slash pairing - that would actually be Seth/Ryan from The O.C.. I didn't find slash until a month or two into my journey in fandom. ;)
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