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Today is my 4 year LJ anniversary. 4 years. It doesn't feel like that. Technically another month until my anniversary on this particular journal because I created it and then deleted it and created it again when I first started, so I chose the month before the listed creation date as my actual celebratory date *is a dork*
4 years since livejournal lurking stole my life, which makes it over 6 since I got into fandom (ahhh those deluded innocent Het days). Took me 6 months whilst reading my first fanfiction (Harry Potter and the Psychic Serpent, and related universe) to realise just how much of the stuff was actually out there. That first fic was my first and only Het fic before the discovery of slash, it developed my love of Draco as actual character, but when I ran into this:
When Harry and Draco first met in Madam Malkin's robe shop, neither ``of them could have anticipated how much loathing and mistrust would follow. But ``one day in their fifth year something happens which forces Harry and Draco to ``reconsider exactly what such abhorrence is founded on. Little by little, each ``of them is overwhelmed by Unthinkable Thoughts, and they begin the voyage that ``takes them from their safe harbours of deep suspicion well out into uncharted ``waters. And the more they discover, the more the realise that things can never ``be the same again! (Unthinkable Thoughts by Aiden Lynch)
I was still perplexed. After about a week of putting it off I thought I'd read and see if the summary was really talking about what I thought it was. I couldn't put it down (so to speak) and whan I got to the actual slash stuff I thought I was being so naughty, at this stage I had no idea the extent to which slash permeates every fandom in existence. And that was that. My 13 year old self corrupted forever. After that it was scanning Fiction Alley for more Harry/Draco fics, then fanfiction.net (yes I know, shut up). Then just googling the pairing constantly to find other archive sites. I thought R rated was the highest there was, the first time read NC-17 I was slightly scandilised, but wanted to read more. After probably a year or more of just trolling archives and random google links I realised that more than a few were leading to this livejournal place... I didn't immediately create a profile for myself, didn't really think I had to, I was just reading communites and jotting down the names of any authors I liked in a notebook, then I realised the benifits of signing up friending, joining communities, commenting, etc.
( Rambling continues... )
And then... Supernatural ate my life. Without going into all of it, this fandom took me hard, makes me read things that I used to squirm at in HP even if I secretly like them and feel absolutely no shame in doing so. My flatmates all despair at my squealing love of the J's and Supernatural, and I despair at their apparent blindness and lack of taste in TV shows.
So thats where I am 4 years after joining LJ, so very deeply entrenched in what is possibly the wankiest, bitchiest fandom in existence, and loving every minute of it. I can't see myself going back to HP, but I am constantly thankful for finding it, without it I may have never discovered fandom at large.
It makes me wonder where I'll be 4 years from now, SPN will be over. Will people still be writing it? Will I still be shipping the J's regardless? Will they have announced their engagement by then? Will I even still be involved in fandom then?
So I just wanted to say thank you to LJ (with a few notable exceptions but that is a different story) and collective fandom, for making the last 4 years of my fandom life a very happy one.
( Some bonus RL talk... )
Note: Because I haven't had a chance to properly squeee about this yet, cohabitation, are they serious!?!?! *loves*
4 years since livejournal lurking stole my life, which makes it over 6 since I got into fandom (ahhh those deluded innocent Het days). Took me 6 months whilst reading my first fanfiction (Harry Potter and the Psychic Serpent, and related universe) to realise just how much of the stuff was actually out there. That first fic was my first and only Het fic before the discovery of slash, it developed my love of Draco as actual character, but when I ran into this:
When Harry and Draco first met in Madam Malkin's robe shop, neither ``of them could have anticipated how much loathing and mistrust would follow. But ``one day in their fifth year something happens which forces Harry and Draco to ``reconsider exactly what such abhorrence is founded on. Little by little, each ``of them is overwhelmed by Unthinkable Thoughts, and they begin the voyage that ``takes them from their safe harbours of deep suspicion well out into uncharted ``waters. And the more they discover, the more the realise that things can never ``be the same again! (Unthinkable Thoughts by Aiden Lynch)
I was still perplexed. After about a week of putting it off I thought I'd read and see if the summary was really talking about what I thought it was. I couldn't put it down (so to speak) and whan I got to the actual slash stuff I thought I was being so naughty, at this stage I had no idea the extent to which slash permeates every fandom in existence. And that was that. My 13 year old self corrupted forever. After that it was scanning Fiction Alley for more Harry/Draco fics, then fanfiction.net (yes I know, shut up). Then just googling the pairing constantly to find other archive sites. I thought R rated was the highest there was, the first time read NC-17 I was slightly scandilised, but wanted to read more. After probably a year or more of just trolling archives and random google links I realised that more than a few were leading to this livejournal place... I didn't immediately create a profile for myself, didn't really think I had to, I was just reading communites and jotting down the names of any authors I liked in a notebook, then I realised the benifits of signing up friending, joining communities, commenting, etc.
( Rambling continues... )
And then... Supernatural ate my life. Without going into all of it, this fandom took me hard, makes me read things that I used to squirm at in HP even if I secretly like them and feel absolutely no shame in doing so. My flatmates all despair at my squealing love of the J's and Supernatural, and I despair at their apparent blindness and lack of taste in TV shows.
So thats where I am 4 years after joining LJ, so very deeply entrenched in what is possibly the wankiest, bitchiest fandom in existence, and loving every minute of it. I can't see myself going back to HP, but I am constantly thankful for finding it, without it I may have never discovered fandom at large.
It makes me wonder where I'll be 4 years from now, SPN will be over. Will people still be writing it? Will I still be shipping the J's regardless? Will they have announced their engagement by then? Will I even still be involved in fandom then?
So I just wanted to say thank you to LJ (with a few notable exceptions but that is a different story) and collective fandom, for making the last 4 years of my fandom life a very happy one.
( Some bonus RL talk... )
Note: Because I haven't had a chance to properly squeee about this yet, cohabitation, are they serious!?!?! *loves*
