My first brush with fandom, so to speak, was a Rebecca St. James (no, you’ve probably never heard of her, and if you have, yes, I really mean her) IRC chatroom. It was 1998 and I was 14. The first time I went in, I naively used my real name. I was admonished lightly for this, and the next time I ventured in I made up a screenname based on a few of ( Read more... )

1. I'm headed to Southern Ontario/The GTA next week for a family wedding, and I'll be there for like 9 days so I WILL have spare time. If anyone wants to hang out, let me know ( Read more... )

What do I think about the Deathly Hallows movie and the new Torchwood series ( Read more... )

So in honor of the Deathly Hallows Pt 2 movie release, I thought it appropriate that we take a trip through memory lane to illustrate how much of an impact those books (and, let's be real, the fandom around them) impacted my life ( Read more... )

Fans of Kris Allen are trying to raise $26,000 to go towards Direct Relief for his 26th birthday.

I haven't seen any sort of dollar/fic drive done yet for this... How many people would be interested if I were to try and host one this week?

(and if you're too lazy for that, go sign this petition. The people behind this site are donating a dollar ( Read more... )

So in the past eight days or so I have watched every single episode of Fringe, from the premiere all the way up to last friday's episode. I love the world, I love the characters, and I love (most of) the plot arcs. I'm a bit meh on the canon ships, but I love some of the subtext, so I'm sure fandom will help me out. Does anyone want to take my ( Read more... )

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None of you will post comments/posts on my journal to facebook, right?

I don't have to go into a long explanation about the way I've carefully segmented the different parts of my life for the last ten years in a way that would make Miles Vorkosigan proud?

We're good then?

The fact that I already ranted about this on twitter just tell you what I ( Read more... )

So I'm woefully behind on that 30 Day HP Meme, which I kind of thought might happen...

I'm also still not done my Big Bang fic.

Yes, I fail.

I just sort of wanted to make this post to say that this has been one of those weeks where I'm reminded of just how crazy fandom can be. Some of this hasn't been the good kind of crazy. Other parts have ( Read more... )

Does anyone else here have the following LJ security settings"Minimize my journal's inclusion in search engine results ( Read more... )