I've had to devote an entire entry to this particular question from this fandom question meme, because I somehow ended up going on an entire journey in my attempt to answer it.

How did you first get into fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote fic for?I got on the Internet around the turn of the millennium, when I was eleven or so. As an ( Read more... )

Here's the third instalment of these fandom questions from trobadora!

A pairing - platonic, romantic or sexual - that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.I'd never thought about Kirigiri/Togami before, but doreyg opened my eyes to the ways in which the characters echo Light and L, and that was all I could think about on my ( Read more... )

For each of my major fandoms, I do a short writeup talking about how it fits into my fandom history. A fandom qualifies as 'major' if I've written five fics for it, or ten thousand words across at least three fics.

It's only just occurred to me that Red Dwarf technically qualifies. It's the only fandom in which I've permanently lost all copies of ( Read more... )

Lately, I've found myself thinking a lot about an online interaction I had about twenty years ago, which really shaped my approach to online interactions in general ( Read more... )

The official Deltarune Spamton Sweepstakes page is absolutely fascinating. It makes me so nostalgic for the Internet around the turn of the millennium, when there were countless maze-like personal websites filled with spinning GIFs and music files and weird little secrets ( Read more... )

Back in the year 2000, twelve-year-old Riona (or Mew, as she called herself at the time), bright-eyed and enthusiastic and fairly new to the Internet, created a genuinely terrible Pokémon website. Every page background was a mosaic of anime screenshots or tiny animated Pokémon GIFs, rendering any text completely illegible. My solution to this was ( Read more... )

A friend of mine expressed confusion over the acronym TFW today, which got me thinking about Internet acronyms and how intuitive they are. This is something that really interests me. TBH ('to be honest') is easy; I suspect that most people manage to work that out from seeing it a couple of times in context. TFW is impossible unless you've already ( Read more... )

Anne McCaffrey may have said some weird things in interviews, and her books may have included some weird implications (we have very different ideas about how much sexual assault a hero can commit before he starts to look rather less heroic), but she was the first woman to win a Hugo or a Nebula or to get a science-fiction book onto the New York ( Read more... )

reipan gave me some Animorphs books for Christmas, and so I recently reread The Invasion, the first book in the series.

I had forgotten that the Animorphs books are the most depressing children's books ever written. In my memory, the Animorphs at least managed to blow up the Yeerk pool in the first book, even if Tobias was a casualty. Upon rereading, I ( Read more... )

Apparently, zarla's Pokémon website, Neglected Pokémon Lovers Unite!, had its tenth anniversary a few days ago!

'What?' you may ask. 'You've never mentioned this website before. Is it important?'

You probably weren't actually asking that, but I am going to tell you anyway. It is important. It is so important ( Read more... )