Supernatural
I haven’t been this obsessed with a show in a very long time.
Probably since my early days of QAF. But honestly it is starting to surpass even that a little, and become vaguely reminiscent of my BtVS/AtS days.
Lets just say in my Buffy days I was so obsessed that I scared myself. BtVS was the show that took my fandom and livejournal virginity. I discovered fanfiction, vids, discussion threads and consumed them like oxygen. I would stay up into the wee hours of the morning reading and watching, to the detriment of my sleep and school work. I could relate anything on Earth to BtVS, and did if I thought anyone was listening. If something angsty was going on with my favorite characters I was at times physically ill with emotion. When people asked how I could get so caught up in a fictional television show, I would ask how some people got so caught up in religion. Far-fetched as it might seem to some, my attachment and obsession with BtVS was the closest I’ve come to what I think religion would feel like.
SPN isn’t quite there yet. I honestly never expected anything to really get this close. And this obsession seems to be taking a slightly different form. My bulletproof kink is “siblinghood”, probably due to my over-identifying (much?) with older or oldest sibling characters. Me and my sister are extremely close and I immediatley am drawn to realistic, well-developed sibling characterizations that in certain ways parallel our own. Some of my very favorite Buffy moments are the season 5 arc involving Buffy and Dawn’s emotional struggles. It really was the first time I related on a personal level to Buffy herself.
My entering into the Supernatural fandom is also a little different because for the first time I don’t want to strictly be a lurker, and an occasional commenter. I have a blot-bunny hippity hoping all over my little head, and I want to try my hand at fanfiction. However I’ve never actually written anything of any creative substance, and am worried that I should just leave this job to the professionals that I love reading daily. I guess I’ll never know till I try. Strangely enough I also have a couple vid ideas too, but I truly don’t even know where to begin to tackle something like that. I think when I first entered the BtVS fandom I was simply so awed and inspired by what I found that I never dreamed of doing it myself. But now that I learned the fandom ropes over the last 6 years I guess I’m becoming emboldened to participate.
Probably since my early days of QAF. But honestly it is starting to surpass even that a little, and become vaguely reminiscent of my BtVS/AtS days.
Lets just say in my Buffy days I was so obsessed that I scared myself. BtVS was the show that took my fandom and livejournal virginity. I discovered fanfiction, vids, discussion threads and consumed them like oxygen. I would stay up into the wee hours of the morning reading and watching, to the detriment of my sleep and school work. I could relate anything on Earth to BtVS, and did if I thought anyone was listening. If something angsty was going on with my favorite characters I was at times physically ill with emotion. When people asked how I could get so caught up in a fictional television show, I would ask how some people got so caught up in religion. Far-fetched as it might seem to some, my attachment and obsession with BtVS was the closest I’ve come to what I think religion would feel like.
SPN isn’t quite there yet. I honestly never expected anything to really get this close. And this obsession seems to be taking a slightly different form. My bulletproof kink is “siblinghood”, probably due to my over-identifying (much?) with older or oldest sibling characters. Me and my sister are extremely close and I immediatley am drawn to realistic, well-developed sibling characterizations that in certain ways parallel our own. Some of my very favorite Buffy moments are the season 5 arc involving Buffy and Dawn’s emotional struggles. It really was the first time I related on a personal level to Buffy herself.
My entering into the Supernatural fandom is also a little different because for the first time I don’t want to strictly be a lurker, and an occasional commenter. I have a blot-bunny hippity hoping all over my little head, and I want to try my hand at fanfiction. However I’ve never actually written anything of any creative substance, and am worried that I should just leave this job to the professionals that I love reading daily. I guess I’ll never know till I try. Strangely enough I also have a couple vid ideas too, but I truly don’t even know where to begin to tackle something like that. I think when I first entered the BtVS fandom I was simply so awed and inspired by what I found that I never dreamed of doing it myself. But now that I learned the fandom ropes over the last 6 years I guess I’m becoming emboldened to participate.