More meme answers
This time from syd15
1 - How did you get into fanfiction? As a writter and as a reader.
I'll go chronologically and start wtih as a reader. I was about 14, maybe 15. I happened to walk into the family room when my father was watching the new episode of the West Wing. It was Celestial Navigation (to this day, still my favourite episode). I fell in love with the show. Hard. The dialgoue, the banter, the wit, the rhythm and speed of it all. So I started catching all of the reruns I could. And I saw some of the CJ/Danny scenes ("You're a rabble-rouser, you know that? You rouse rabbles." "The goldfish Danny. The cheese things you serve at parties?" "I have a mental list." "Well, I wrote an actual list." "I can see that.") First ship, pretty much. (Ross and Rachel was earlier, but not the same, not nearly the same.)
I started finding the TWW websites, and the fic archives, and such like. I read CJ/Danny fic voraciously, reread a lot of it too. But I never joined in.
Thus started my lurking. My lurking lasted a long time, and went through several fandoms.
Then I was in the middle of a Master's degree. I had started watching The Mentalist. I fell in love with the show early on. From the pilot, mainly due to Robin Tunney's voice, ngl (she has a fabulous voice). Then in Red Hair and Silver Tape I fell in love with the J/L relationship. Then came Red John's Friends and that last scene. I'd been writing fic in my head for years (and some really bad fic, that my 15 year old self felt the need to write down), I needed a distraction from school. Fic became that thing. I never thought I could write. It was a pleasant surprise to learn that I could. I got hooked.
That was probably more detail than you wanted, but that's the answer.
2 - If your pc/televesion (screen of your choice) got stuck with just ONE show for the rest of eternity and you couldn't watch anything but that one, which one would you like it to be?
Assuming I can't watch my DVD's? Tough, tough call. Maybe TWW actually. TWW or Slings and Arrows. Giving up Slings would be painful, but there's only 18 episodes.
3 - First book you remember reading? (Like, book, book, even if it is a shortened version. I mean... No "three pages book for 3-years-old").
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Assuming you don't mean books read to me first by my parents that I read later when I was learning to read (because then the answer is either Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, or a book of children's fairy tales).
4 - How do you want The Mentalist to end (ideally. In a world made by you playing God)? How do you think it will end?
Honestly, I'm not sure I even know anymore. I royally frustrated with show. I can't see any way around RJ ending up dead. I may go with the old standby of RJ gets hit by a bus, and then we move on to the more interesting question of how Jane reintigrates himself in society, and what happens to his relationship with Lisbon.
I'm certain it won't end like that. I expect Bruno Heller has some stupidly tragic, dramatic ending that I will hate. If Lisbon sacrifices herself, I will throw things. But I wouldn't be surprised if Jane died or ended up in jail. Not surprised at all.
I really don't want to think about it too much at this point, tbh.
5 - Favorite Disney movie, why that one?
Robin Hood. I've always loved it. I used to try and rent it every weekend (why my parents didn't just buy it is a mystery in hindsight). It was my favourite. I always related more to the characters in it than the Disney Princesses. I love Lady Cluck. I love the party in the forest. Love, love, love the jailbreak. IDK. I just love it.
And that, is the end, for me.
1 - How did you get into fanfiction? As a writter and as a reader.
I'll go chronologically and start wtih as a reader. I was about 14, maybe 15. I happened to walk into the family room when my father was watching the new episode of the West Wing. It was Celestial Navigation (to this day, still my favourite episode). I fell in love with the show. Hard. The dialgoue, the banter, the wit, the rhythm and speed of it all. So I started catching all of the reruns I could. And I saw some of the CJ/Danny scenes ("You're a rabble-rouser, you know that? You rouse rabbles." "The goldfish Danny. The cheese things you serve at parties?" "I have a mental list." "Well, I wrote an actual list." "I can see that.") First ship, pretty much. (Ross and Rachel was earlier, but not the same, not nearly the same.)
I started finding the TWW websites, and the fic archives, and such like. I read CJ/Danny fic voraciously, reread a lot of it too. But I never joined in.
Thus started my lurking. My lurking lasted a long time, and went through several fandoms.
Then I was in the middle of a Master's degree. I had started watching The Mentalist. I fell in love with the show early on. From the pilot, mainly due to Robin Tunney's voice, ngl (she has a fabulous voice). Then in Red Hair and Silver Tape I fell in love with the J/L relationship. Then came Red John's Friends and that last scene. I'd been writing fic in my head for years (and some really bad fic, that my 15 year old self felt the need to write down), I needed a distraction from school. Fic became that thing. I never thought I could write. It was a pleasant surprise to learn that I could. I got hooked.
That was probably more detail than you wanted, but that's the answer.
2 - If your pc/televesion (screen of your choice) got stuck with just ONE show for the rest of eternity and you couldn't watch anything but that one, which one would you like it to be?
Assuming I can't watch my DVD's? Tough, tough call. Maybe TWW actually. TWW or Slings and Arrows. Giving up Slings would be painful, but there's only 18 episodes.
3 - First book you remember reading? (Like, book, book, even if it is a shortened version. I mean... No "three pages book for 3-years-old").
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Assuming you don't mean books read to me first by my parents that I read later when I was learning to read (because then the answer is either Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, or a book of children's fairy tales).
4 - How do you want The Mentalist to end (ideally. In a world made by you playing God)? How do you think it will end?
Honestly, I'm not sure I even know anymore. I royally frustrated with show. I can't see any way around RJ ending up dead. I may go with the old standby of RJ gets hit by a bus, and then we move on to the more interesting question of how Jane reintigrates himself in society, and what happens to his relationship with Lisbon.
I'm certain it won't end like that. I expect Bruno Heller has some stupidly tragic, dramatic ending that I will hate. If Lisbon sacrifices herself, I will throw things. But I wouldn't be surprised if Jane died or ended up in jail. Not surprised at all.
I really don't want to think about it too much at this point, tbh.
5 - Favorite Disney movie, why that one?
Robin Hood. I've always loved it. I used to try and rent it every weekend (why my parents didn't just buy it is a mystery in hindsight). It was my favourite. I always related more to the characters in it than the Disney Princesses. I love Lady Cluck. I love the party in the forest. Love, love, love the jailbreak. IDK. I just love it.
And that, is the end, for me.