Snagged from sireesanwar.
1. Do you remember your first ever thing you were fannish about as a wee one?
2. What fandom was your first (fan fic) reading fandom?
3. Are you very monofannish or a fickle fannish butterfly?
4. Did you ever feel really fannish and obsessed about a tv show/movie/book, etc. but without having the desire to write/read fan fic?
5. Did you ever have a fandom that was totally ruined for you by canon and/or fandom politics?
6. Where were you fannishly in 2003?
7. Where were you fannishly in 2005?
1. I don't remember it, but I was obsessed with Mary Poppins when I was two. We have a cassette tape somewhere where I'm talking about not being able to slide down my toy slide because it was her turn to use it. She was my imaginary friend. Later, I was obsessed with the Ninja Turtles, Willy Wonka, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Ghostwriter and Power Rangers. This spanned kindergarten through like... third grade. I've been a fangirl my whole life.
2. The Pretender, circa June 1999.
3. I've had a lot of fandoms, but I find I usually have one, maybe two, primary fan fic reading fandoms at once. Longest running consistently active fan fic reading fandom? Harry Potter, specifically Snape/Hermione shippy fic, going on 6 years this July.
4. In my more recent fandoms (Joan of Arcadia, House, PotC, Dexter), I just dabble in fic reading and I've had no desire at all to write for them. Generally, I don't get to full blown obsession level until I have a ship and fic to read for it. I came dangerously close to that point with Pirates. House, I'm pretty satisfied with what's on screen and Dexter, well... There's almost no fic for my ship in Dexter. Which sucks. Alias was one fandom I had almost no interest reading fic for whatsoever.
5. I have a fandom that could have been ruined by canon, but surpisingly wasn't (HP). CSI, now that I think about it, probably comes closest here, on both counts. It holds the unfortunate distinction of being the only one of my obsessions to die. All my others have a tendency to wax and wane, but never truly go away.
6. I was making the transition from Hannibal Lecter (and Anthony Hopkins) to Harry Potter (and Alan Rickman), with CSI running strong in the background. It was a pretty epic year in all consuming fangirling.
7. Recovering from the attempted murder of my HP fannishness* and beginning the downward spiral out of CSI obsession. 2006, however, was the Year of New Obsessions, with PotC, House and Alton Brown all in one summer.
*Which I rebounded from to an amazing degree. I'm more active in my little corner of HP fandom than I ever was. Quite a feat, considering the fate of my favorite character in canon. Some of my favorite SSHG fics (Where Your Treasure Is, Solace, Even Stopper Death, In Time) were written and set post-DH.
2. What fandom was your first (fan fic) reading fandom?
3. Are you very monofannish or a fickle fannish butterfly?
4. Did you ever feel really fannish and obsessed about a tv show/movie/book, etc. but without having the desire to write/read fan fic?
5. Did you ever have a fandom that was totally ruined for you by canon and/or fandom politics?
6. Where were you fannishly in 2003?
7. Where were you fannishly in 2005?
1. I don't remember it, but I was obsessed with Mary Poppins when I was two. We have a cassette tape somewhere where I'm talking about not being able to slide down my toy slide because it was her turn to use it. She was my imaginary friend. Later, I was obsessed with the Ninja Turtles, Willy Wonka, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Ghostwriter and Power Rangers. This spanned kindergarten through like... third grade. I've been a fangirl my whole life.
2. The Pretender, circa June 1999.
3. I've had a lot of fandoms, but I find I usually have one, maybe two, primary fan fic reading fandoms at once. Longest running consistently active fan fic reading fandom? Harry Potter, specifically Snape/Hermione shippy fic, going on 6 years this July.
4. In my more recent fandoms (Joan of Arcadia, House, PotC, Dexter), I just dabble in fic reading and I've had no desire at all to write for them. Generally, I don't get to full blown obsession level until I have a ship and fic to read for it. I came dangerously close to that point with Pirates. House, I'm pretty satisfied with what's on screen and Dexter, well... There's almost no fic for my ship in Dexter. Which sucks. Alias was one fandom I had almost no interest reading fic for whatsoever.
5. I have a fandom that could have been ruined by canon, but surpisingly wasn't (HP). CSI, now that I think about it, probably comes closest here, on both counts. It holds the unfortunate distinction of being the only one of my obsessions to die. All my others have a tendency to wax and wane, but never truly go away.
6. I was making the transition from Hannibal Lecter (and Anthony Hopkins) to Harry Potter (and Alan Rickman), with CSI running strong in the background. It was a pretty epic year in all consuming fangirling.
7. Recovering from the attempted murder of my HP fannishness* and beginning the downward spiral out of CSI obsession. 2006, however, was the Year of New Obsessions, with PotC, House and Alton Brown all in one summer.
*Which I rebounded from to an amazing degree. I'm more active in my little corner of HP fandom than I ever was. Quite a feat, considering the fate of my favorite character in canon. Some of my favorite SSHG fics (Where Your Treasure Is, Solace, Even Stopper Death, In Time) were written and set post-DH.