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? I didn't have a computer until I was 14. Then I didn't have the internet until I was 15. So my first real fandom experience was I think the day after the net was installed and it was Good News Week (a now cancelled Australian comedy show) and the Doug Anthony Allstars (a now defuncted Australian comedy trio that one member was the future host of GNW). That was 12 years ago.

2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)? How did I find it online? Or what did I think of it? I found it from this IRC chatroom for GNW/DAAS. Practically everyone there was a member or a mod. And I thought it was cool :D

3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved? The GNW/DAAS fandom used to be on this messageboard service at www dot beyondtheweb dot com and now I feel super old. BTW died sadly and I never really liked the new messageboard service it switched to so mostly I lurked towards the end of it.

4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? If you can, list them. 1996-2001 Paul/Tim or Paul/Rich, GNW/DAAS (active, mostly), 1996-2001 H/D, Harry Potter (lurk-mode), 2001-2007 H/D, Harry Potter (active), 1999-2001 S/X, Buffy (lurk-mode), 1999-Ongoing J/D, SG1 (lurk-mode), 2004-2007 J/R, SGA (lurk-mode), Dec 2007-Ongoing J/R, SGA (active) ... 1981-Ongoing, random shiny things, peoples and places that catch my eye for a few weeks or so

5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc. I'll say predominiently 'Author', to keep it simple. Let's just say even back in 1996 I was putting words together and calling them fic. They were not. I think back and cringe but I like to believe I've gotten better. Everyone has to start somewhere right?

6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first? Paul/Tim (DAAS), Paul/Richard (DAAS). And yeah, found slash first (almost unavoidable for a comedy trio of three guys ... but not impossible). Never really been into het. I've read het and femmeslash but eh, I guess it's just not my thing. Femmeslash has no penises and het is apparently only interesting to me when I'm participating IRL. (Except soulless-Spike/Buffy ... I used to be a fan on that in fic)

Uses her annoying icon to make you not point and laugh at her clearly easily-obsessed mind

Edited because I forgot to list my pairings.

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