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[secretsolitaire]

Ugh, I really hate when I start reading a long fic that seems pretty good and sucks me in, and then it starts to go downhill, but I'm too involved with the story to stop reading, even if I think I'm going to vomit if the author uses any more italics, and if the story line gets any more sickeningly saccharine. How many times can these (grown male)

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[janice_lester]

I console myself that getting into HP late meant that I missed out on the worst of that long gap between GOF and OOTP; by the time I read the first four, there was only something like six months' wait for the next book.

Yeah, I started with season 4. As I recall, seasons 2 and 4 were on sale at my local online DVD retailer, and 3 was out of stock. I didn't want to get the first two, love them, and then not be able to get my hands on three. Also, the character who intrigued me in that fic I read didn't seem to appear until season 4, and the blurb for season 4 sounded much more interesting than season 1 anyway (someone gets rescued from Hell? Much cooler than someone getting picked up from university by his brother!). So, I wound up buying and devouring season 4, then ordering the first three and watching those, reporting to ellethill in great excitement over every little discovery. (She, poor thing, had to try to keep focused on what I had watched and not spoil things for me.) By the time that was done I could order season 5 on DVD, so I did (from England, because our NZ release dates are often WAY behind). Then I broke down and started downloading season 6, which was still screening in the US at the time...

I've tried out a few things since with an expectation that I might become fannish about them, but it's never really taken. I'm not moved to read or write fanfiction about QAF (either version), or B5, or New Who (even if some of the first fic I wrote, as a 7-year-old, was for DW), White Collar. I've just started watching Dark Angel and the new Battlestar Gallactica, and we'll see what happens there. I don't know that I NEED more fandoms, exactly, though I'm feeling the loss of so many from Trek of late as enthusiasm for the movie wanes. There's something wonderful about being in a new and popular fandom...

[secretsolitaire]

Sounds like you came to the series right about when I did! I remember borrowing the first book from a British friend who was appalled I hadn't given the series a try. I didn't expect to like it, but I inhaled it and immediately demanded that he lend me the next three at once. :-D

Ah, it makes sense to start with a later season if that's when your character of interest was introduced! Castiel, I assume? (I've read some SPN fic, mostly AU's that can be read as original fic, or filthy stuff that hits my kinks. I love that the kink meme is so active. *g*)

I've tried out a few things since with an expectation that I might become fannish about them, but it's never really taken.

I've had that happen a few times too! Sherlock BBC for one. I know what you mean about the waning Trek fandom. Way, WAY too long between movies. :-( I am hoping that the next film will bring back the love for some of my favorite writers (and, sadly, for me -- at some point in the last month or two I seem to have crossed the line into "former flame" instead of "passionate crush" with that fandom).