Fandom dissertation time!

[lassarina]

Courtesy of muggy_mountain, because it looked interesting.

Detail your fannish history as far back as you are able. Include fandoms you don't participate in anymore (or perhaps never participated in). Feel free to pimp hard and talk in length about your Mulder/Skinner OTP or unabashed love for the epic piece of cinema that is the Home Alone series. Bring us all

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*Celebration!*

[ovo_lexa]

Roar is on DVD now. \o/

Re: *Celebration!*

[lassarina]

*makes the purring noise*

Mmmmmmm. Bad Irish accents, leather pants, and heinous historical inaccuracies. But I still love it.

[owlmoose]

Don't talk. Talking makes you die.

I don't know why I think that's awesome, but I really, really do. :D

Also, Melanie Rawn! I liked the Dragon Prince quite a lot, although I haven't gotten around to reading the rest of the series. Have you read the Exiles books? A friend who almost never reads fantasy recced them to me, and I thought it was excellent, one of the best fantasy series I've ever read. Unfortunately it's a stalled triology -- only two books written and the third is postponed indefinitely. But it's still very worth reading, if you haven't.

[lassarina]

The rest of the pair of trilogies is not half as good as Dragon Prince alone.

I have read Exiles, and I think I would appreciate it more now than I did then; at the time, I vastly preferred Dragon Prince.

[owlmoose]

Isn't it funny how we sometimes come to these things at the wrong times? I tried to read the Hobbit in 4th grade, and it was way too soon; I couldn't get through it. Then I picked it up again in college, and I did read the whole series, but I found it heavy going (I think The Two Towers may be one of the most depressing books ever written), and I wonder if it's not that I hadn't read too many Tolkein imitators that were fluffier and easier to read. So I started too early and came back to it too late to ever really be a "fan".

[lassarina]

I'm the same way; I have never been able to bend my brain properly around Tolkien. Let me just watch the movies and wallow in the hotness of Legolas and Aragorn. Prrrrrr.