Here's my final instalment of questions from this fandom question meme!

Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.

Being a weird fandom person, I tend to get along well with other weird fandom people, so Charlie Bradbury of Supernatural or an older Futaba Sakura of Persona 5 would probably fit comfortably into my social circle ( Read more... )

On 3 August 2003, at the age of fifteen, I created a Livejournal under the name rionaleonhart.

I moved to Dreamwidth along the way, but I imported all my entries, so my Dreamwidth is functionally the same journal, and I still keep the lights on at Livejournal in case any old friends come by. So I've been keeping the same blog for two decades, from my teenage ( Read more... )

I've identified a pattern in my shipping habits, and it's 'creepy person who hovers between ally and antagonist'/'determined protagonist who has an intense relationship with aforementioned creepy person and doesn't know how to feel about that'.

It's not a dynamic that's guaranteed to captivate me; if it were, I'd have spent my intense Lost period ( 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.

I'll be honest: technically, The Quarry doesn't qualify. My three fics for it add up to 9,830 words. But that's so close to ten ( Read more... )

Now that I've finished Lost and no longer have to fear spoilers, I thought I'd poke around the fandom. It turns out it's tragically difficult to explore Lost fandom without running into people talking about how much they hate my favourite character ( Read more... )

I just checked my e-mail drafts and found this in an otherwise empty missive, with no subject and no recipient. I don't know why I wrote this.

Admittedly, Ross didn't have a spotless track record with marriages, but he felt pretty good about this fourth one. He'd figured out the one common factor in all his failed relationships, and this one was ( Read more... )

One too many threads on fandomsecrets has caused me to snap and write a lengthy, rambling entry on Why It's Okay To Like Blaine Of Glee (But It's Totally Cool If You Don't), it appears. Whoops!

( Why It's Okay To Like Blaine Of Glee (But It's Totally Cool If You Don't). )

Oh, wow, it's so strange to write fanfiction for Glee after two years of nothing but tiny fandoms. I haven't received this much feedback since writing for Supernatural in 2008. It's lovely, but it does make me worry that I may have trouble motivating myself to return to smaller fandoms afterwards. (Also, I'm trying to reply to all the reviews, but ( Read more... )

Further to my previous entry on Waterloo Road (saaski_moql, incidentally, informs me that the video clip in that entry is available outside the UK, so if you are interested in sexually confused schoolboys you may wish to check it out): here is a scene from the previous episode (it begins around 5.45; the link should take you straight there), which ends with ( Read more... )