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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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My turn!
1. What was your first brush with fandom - TV, movie, book, anime, etc.? How old were you? Hmmm. It's a little foggy, because my drift into fandom was all tangled up with my participation in various online gaming sites where I was one of the only girls and had a blast. But I'm pretty sure my first real fandom (in that I had involvement beyond just watching on TV) was X-Files. That was the summer after my sophomore year in high school, I believe, so I was about 15. I read tons and tons of Mulder/Scully fic on the Gossamer web archive, sigh. I still love them unreasonable amounts.
WAIT! Rewind! I'm totally lying. My first fannish experience was being a member of a Neopets guild (omg STOP LAUGHING) devoted to the Dragonriders of Pern book series by Anne McCaffrey! We roleplayed dragon riders and their dragons, and had hatchings and firelizards and all kinds of soap opera-y relationship dramas! It was GREAT. I still miss Logan, sigh.
2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)? The Neopets thing doesn't really count, because it wasn't connected with fandom at large and it wasn't really fanfic. I think Gossamer was really it. I don't remember how I found it though.
3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved? Neopets was really my home for a few years. I loved that place. I still miss Logan, sigh. I think before I found LJ I just kind of bummed around in the fannish community, clicking and reading and drooling but not really flailing WITH anyone, sadly. This is evidenced by my first LJ post ever being a bunch of links to fannish type sites for HP, Buffy, and Lost. Which I totally didn't realize. So apparently LJ came kind of late in my fangirl game! (Jan 2005, for the record)
4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? If you can, list them. Oh god. A lot? This is only going to be vaguely chronological. The X-Files, Buffy, Lost, Harry Potter (Harry/Hermione and Remus/Sirius, baby), Queer as Folk, Ewan McGregor, Star Wars (Ani/Obi and Ewan/Hayden RPS), Firefly, Veronica Mars, Boondock Saints, Angel, Supernatural (including RPS, obvs!), Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Atlantis, Heroes, Friday Night Lights, Torchwood, Ocean's 11, aaaand BANDOM! \o/
5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc. Well, I comment extensively, and I am a very very good enabler, as you yourself can attest! I am told that my enthusiasm is contagious :) I have betaed in the past, and I make icons from time to time, and I also write once in a blue moon. Mostly I enthuse, though :D
6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first? Remus/Sirius. 100%, all the way. I was already in love with them when I started my LJ, as my earliest entries prove! I was reading Shoebox and pretty much flat on my face with adoration. They're still one of my favorite couples of all time. Slash wasn't first though, no. As I said, Mulder/Scully had my heart for a good long while :)
Well, that was an interesting walk down memory lane! Sorry to have rambled so much, darlink.
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