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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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I was mostly into music fandoms (Blur/Oasis) as a teenager and started my online fangirling in various Oasis forums. Because while I liked alot of tv shows I never got more involved than just watch them religiously. The first tv fandom I got very involved in was Buffy when I was 18.
2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)?
Me and a friend first stumbled upon it while looking for spoilers. I didn't get really obsessed until I was googling of Spike and Angel and got a few Spangel pictures thrown in the mix and was very intrigued by what I saw. And the rest, as they say, is history.
3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved?
Livejournal was my first home (apart from Oasis forums that is).
4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? If you can, list them.
Ummm... if I count from Buffy/Angel I've dabbled to various degrees in: Jeeves & Wooster (Jooster), Smallville (Clex), Harry Potter (Harry/Draco), LotRips (VigOrli), Firefly, Veronica Mars (Veronica/Logan), Supernatural/RPS, House (House/Wilson), Torchwood (Janto) and Stargate Atlantis (McShep). I'm probably forgetting something.
5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc.
I'm mostly a commenter and enabler but from time to time I write silly little things.
6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first?
My very first slash pairing was actually Tom Paris/Harry Kim from Star Trek: Voyager but then I didn't know what slash was not did I seek it out in any way. I mostly liked to think of them as a couple while watching the show.
The first slash pairing I got really involved with was Spangel, I was just really intrigued by their interaction and by the possibilities of their past together. Plus they look good together!
And yeah, the first piece of fanfic I read was slash, didn't really read much else the first couple of years.
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:O!