How timely as I reflect on a year of fangirling, having joined LJ on this date last year.
How did I find A/R fandom? Before I finished watching the series, I knew I needed MORE A/R than the show was giving me. I found Survival Instinct and You Made Me Believe (and fortunately read almost all the fic on the latter right before it disappeared). Many months then passed before I found my way to LJ, I believe via bsgroxmysox's SI profile. I was delighted to find that stories I followed on SI, like the Adamsverse, were more quickly available on LJ.
This is the first fandom I've actively participated in. I read some Harry Potter fanfic for a while but haven't read anything in that fandom since finding BSG. Fanfic.net I don't really use except to read some (mostly bad) Closer fic, occasionally. I have started archiving my fic st AO3 in case LJ dies, though.
I have a twitter account but don't use it much. I look at tumblr sometimes but don't have an account myself. It doesn't seem very fanfic-focused, and fanfic is the thing I enjoy most about fandom. Tumblr just sucks me into looking at more pictures of Mary McDonnell than is probably appropriate for a straight woman.
I've found this fandom a somewhat difficult thing to navigate as a relative newcomer, and have pretty much felt like a total noob until quite recently, but enjoy writing anyway.
I think I found youmademebelieve first too. Read all of CQ's stuff before somehow that lead me to LJ.
(Shall ignore comment about AV considering of late there hasn't been anything posted quickly. *sigh*)
In case LJ dies! Don't say that! I delete all my google docs once I've posted these days!
I think you have to lurk for a while in the fandom on LJ. Read a few things, check out a few comms etc, before you find where you want to be. The one good thing about LJ is that you can see what comms other people are a member of. And the search engine is pretty good if the comm has been set up correctly. The search engine in tumblr... *shudder*
How did I find A/R fandom? Before I finished watching the series, I knew I needed MORE A/R than the show was giving me. I found Survival Instinct and You Made Me Believe (and fortunately read almost all the fic on the latter right before it disappeared). Many months then passed before I found my way to LJ, I believe via bsgroxmysox's SI profile. I was delighted to find that stories I followed on SI, like the Adamsverse, were more quickly available on LJ.
This is the first fandom I've actively participated in. I read some Harry Potter fanfic for a while but haven't read anything in that fandom since finding BSG.
Fanfic.net I don't really use except to read some (mostly bad) Closer fic, occasionally. I have started archiving my fic st AO3 in case LJ dies, though.
I have a twitter account but don't use it much. I look at tumblr sometimes but don't have an account myself. It doesn't seem very fanfic-focused, and fanfic is the thing I enjoy most about fandom. Tumblr just sucks me into looking at more pictures of Mary McDonnell than is probably appropriate for a straight woman.
I've found this fandom a somewhat difficult thing to navigate as a relative newcomer, and have pretty much felt like a total noob until quite recently, but enjoy writing anyway.
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Aint that true!!! BaWAHahaha
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Bahahaa! omg that is so true.. cannot tell you how often I have to tell myself that.
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(Shall ignore comment about AV considering of late there hasn't been anything posted quickly. *sigh*)
In case LJ dies! Don't say that! I delete all my google docs once I've posted these days!
I think you have to lurk for a while in the fandom on LJ. Read a few things, check out a few comms etc, before you find where you want to be. The one good thing about LJ is that you can see what comms other people are a member of. And the search engine is pretty good if the comm has been set up correctly. The search engine in tumblr... *shudder*
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