Snowflake Challenge 2021: Day 1
Day 1: In your own space, introduce yourself
To this end, I've updated my LJ Profile--here's what it says:
I'm a librarian in a Rocky Mountain state with two kids, two cats, and a husband who suffers my obsessions (and often acts as my beta) with varying degrees of patience.
I'm also a lifelong Fangirl. Every now and then, for inscrutable reasons, I find myself falling in love with something--a book series, an author's or actor's work, a tv show--and then I dive in headfirst trying to learn everything I can about it. My first fictional love was Archie Goodwin, Nero Wolfe's man of action and the narrator of Rex Stout's mystery series. I spent years hunting down copies of those books in used bookstores all over the country and read them over and over again. (This was long before the internet, let alone Amazon, made it almost too easy to find such things!) I have collected, lost, and re-collected the series over the years, though it has been a long time since I re-read one. Once I move on from something, I don't feel like I really leave it behind me or only view it nostalgically. Rather, it becomes a part of me, entangled in my imagination and world view,
Supernatural has my fannish heart, and at this point, I think it may keep it always. (Though I know there will be others--see above.) I started it at the end of library school, eight years ago, and honestly, I wasn't expecting much more than a good time. Quickly, though, the show's look, themes, humor and complex characters hooked me, and by the time I got to "Faith" in Season One, I was in love. I still love it, through all its changes, flaws and triumphs. And now that it's wrapped, I know that the fandom will change--but I still haven't figured out what that means to me.
Other geeky pastimes? Tabletop RPGs. Dungeons and Dragons and GURPS, specifically. My husband introduced me and it is our shared hobby. I even paint miniatures for gaming, and share them on my page from time to time. And I write fic sometimes, for Supernatural, of course. I'm enamored of the gaps between the episode stories, the stretchy nature of its storytelling, and all of the characters who need more stories told about them.I don't know whether another fandom will inspire me in the way this one has in the future, but now that I have a taste for it, who knows?
To this end, I've updated my LJ Profile--here's what it says:
I'm a librarian in a Rocky Mountain state with two kids, two cats, and a husband who suffers my obsessions (and often acts as my beta) with varying degrees of patience.
I'm also a lifelong Fangirl. Every now and then, for inscrutable reasons, I find myself falling in love with something--a book series, an author's or actor's work, a tv show--and then I dive in headfirst trying to learn everything I can about it. My first fictional love was Archie Goodwin, Nero Wolfe's man of action and the narrator of Rex Stout's mystery series. I spent years hunting down copies of those books in used bookstores all over the country and read them over and over again. (This was long before the internet, let alone Amazon, made it almost too easy to find such things!) I have collected, lost, and re-collected the series over the years, though it has been a long time since I re-read one. Once I move on from something, I don't feel like I really leave it behind me or only view it nostalgically. Rather, it becomes a part of me, entangled in my imagination and world view,
Supernatural has my fannish heart, and at this point, I think it may keep it always. (Though I know there will be others--see above.) I started it at the end of library school, eight years ago, and honestly, I wasn't expecting much more than a good time. Quickly, though, the show's look, themes, humor and complex characters hooked me, and by the time I got to "Faith" in Season One, I was in love. I still love it, through all its changes, flaws and triumphs. And now that it's wrapped, I know that the fandom will change--but I still haven't figured out what that means to me.
Other geeky pastimes? Tabletop RPGs. Dungeons and Dragons and GURPS, specifically. My husband introduced me and it is our shared hobby. I even paint miniatures for gaming, and share them on my page from time to time. And I write fic sometimes, for Supernatural, of course. I'm enamored of the gaps between the episode stories, the stretchy nature of its storytelling, and all of the characters who need more stories told about them.I don't know whether another fandom will inspire me in the way this one has in the future, but now that I have a taste for it, who knows?