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? Ha. I was NINE. I was given one of the Redwall books - the ones with the anthropomorphic animals fighting wars, with vaguely racist undertones - and thought it was the best thing ever. I devoured them all. Then I discovered Tamora Pierce, which is slightly more respectable, and Harry Potter.

2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)? About the third Redwall book I got said on the inside cover something like 'Visit the author's thoroughly marvelous website!' OOH, I said, with glazed eyes. WEBSITE. And on his website, the guy even listed his favourite fansites. Some of which contained the mythical beast known as fanfiction. Tamora Pierce's website also figures in here somewhere, but to a crazed by-now-probably-ten-year-old it wasn't quite so exciting.

3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved? Fanfiction.net! Oh dear. Even then, I felt that there was something missing from much of what I was reading. (Here is where a joke is made about ffn's lack of grammar, punctuation, etc.) I'm pretty sure I wrote fanfic? Redwall, Tamora Pierce, The Dark Is Rising - things like that. Then I hung out at theonering.com, until in a blinding flash I realised that I wasn't really that into Lord of the Rings and had no real business hanging out with people who really, really were. I stumbled across slash on ffn, spent a while being utterly baffled and then increasingly intrigued, and then went looking for more. It didn't bother me what fandom - I read my way through the entire Speranza and Resonant Due South back catalogue before I ever watched an entire episode of the actual show.

4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? I feel like this list is going to be a bit arbitrary, because I'm not particularly in fandom, but anyway, in approximate order: Redwall *cries*, Tamora Pierce, The Dark is Rising, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Buffy, Angel, Due South, Good Omens, Queer As Folk (UK version!), Sherlock Holmes, Green Wing, Firefly, Veronica Mars, Supernatural, CW RPS, Life on Mars, Heroes,The Mighty Boosh, Stargate Atlantis, Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain RPS. (which one of these is not like the others, hmm?)

5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc. Mostly? I lurk. I guilt myself over never leaving feedback. Oh, once or twice

immoralilly asked my opinion on something she was writing! Sometimes I talk about things that happen on TV shows! Occasionally I write fanfic in tiny tiny fandoms, waving the flag particularly for ukulele players who are in love. Ukulele players should be free to love anyone they choose! Including other ukulele players!

6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first? My first slash pairing was Will/Bran, from The Dark is Rising, which I read on fanfiction.net because it had the intriguing summary of "Will falls in love with someone - and it's not Jane [the only female character in the book remotely his age]!" The subtext of this went completely over my head. I was actually surprised. The first slash pairing where I said to myself, "Ohhh, I get it now!" was probably something in Buffy or Angel - Spike/Xander? Wes/Gunn? Something like that.

WILL/BRAN! *friends you IMMEDIATELY* I think that was my first slash pairing - oh, no, wait, it was Caspian/Edmund. Also, Redwall! Tamora Pierce!

Ah, Will/Bran. Those heady days of reading my way through the entire Dark is Rising slash archive, befuddlement gradually changing to understanding. I swear, 90% of my anger at the film was a kind of "how can they do this to one-half of my first slash pairing??!?!' thing.

Also, Redwall! Tamora Pierce! I thought those books were so amazing.

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