I discovered fandom when a wonderful lady named Fi wandered onto my journal and introduced me to H/D! She then proceeded to squee so loudly about Lumos that I HAD to go, where I met this charming character named Wook....
So very glad that your Mum and Dad are recovering, my dear. I've missed you! *huggles*
Wait, someone is arguing that the Dursleys weren't abusive?? O_o
Glad your parents are getting better!
Technically I found fandom years ago, back in high school when I went looking for everything I could find about the movie Newsies and stumbled onto a wealth of fanfic. Years later, I started off on Fanfiction.net (*shudders*) looking for fic for The Outsiders, and then started reading HP stuff (Remus/Sirius) because there wasn't much good Outsiders fic. Some writers on FF.net had links to their LJ's, and the rest is history.
Yeah. Someone is arguing that the Dursleys are not abusive cause Harry is a special needs kid and Petunia simply didn't know how to cope. Or something. The sad bit is that it isn't just one person, it's at least 3 of them. I don't even know, man.
Thanks muchly! It's been a crazy emotionally stressful time!
Oh man! Newsies AND Outsiders? Do you have any links to any good stuff from there? Oh man *flails*
Newsies AND Outsiders? Do you have any links to any good stuff from there?
Well...as I recall it wasn't so much good as it simply wasn't terrible, if you know what I mean? Plus, during my early days in fandom I generally read a lot of het and gen rather than slash. But let me see what I have bookmarked...
Okay. I have always been a major Darry fangirl, so a lot of the fics I have for The Outsiders feature him in a prominent role.
The Chaperone: It looks like a two-chapter fic, but it's actually two separate vignettes featuring Pony-Darry interaction.
Ten Years Later: Future fic by the same author as the one above. Frankly, I don't remember anything about this one, but I'll just throw it out there. ;-)
Tulsa: Okay, this has a major Mary Sue, aka a sister for the boys, but as I recall it was reasonably well written and enjoyable. Going Home Again is the sequel, set a few decades later. The sequel is angsty if you're a Darry fan
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my god, what the fuck is marionros's problem. take your knee-jerk dumbledore hate elsewhere. it has jack-shit to do with the conversation.
i'm not even touching the main essay. it's too early for me to get angry. all i can say is... i think i remember seeing their batshittery elsewhere. maybe another essay?
fandom! ah, i can still remember. i started out as an anime fan and i had had internet installed only very recently. i would sift through badly-designed geocities, angelfire and tripod fansites (called "shrines" back then, i don't know if that's still used) that i found via some websites that worked as directories (like anipike) and listed a huge number of websites of... varying quality. i would spend all day looking at different yaoi websites and saving images to floppy disks :p i didn't read fanfic back then. i didn't perceive fandom as a community back then, since each website felt like an isolated entity. the only means of communication i had with people were guestbooks and email. at some point later i started reading
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marionros's problem is that Dumbledore didn't love her enough, methinks. Or Snape. Or their astral plane marriage.
This person is the same one that said that Hermione was corrupted and teh ebil. I don't get it. That level of batshit is, err, batshit?
That's so cool! What a very interesting way of finding a fandom community. You're right - all the scattered websites don't help much. That's how the Wolverine/Gambit ship is - there are just all these websites and not too much community that I ever found. The only community I actually found on Yahoo was very uninviting to newcomers.
Yanno - I've never played Zelda :/
As far as SBP - I think angels sang the url to you. ;)
Linked from the terri-testing post...angakkuq_01February 21 2009, 22:06:55 UTC
Don't think too hard about marionros. She seems to hate anyone in the books not named Severus Snape.
But then I got called a "Snape-hater" for saying the man screwed his own life up and that his Occlumency "lessons" came waaaay closer to qualifying as "mind-rape" than Ron Confunding that Muggle examiner.
Re: Linked from the terri-testing post...wook77February 21 2009, 22:16:57 UTC
Yeah... I don't get that, either. Snape perpetuates the abuse that he, arguably, was the victim of.
I'm a bit sensitive about issues of abuse given my history (my dad abused me in multiple forms until I was 14). It's one of the reasons I reacted so strongly to terri_testing's point that Petunia wasn't an abuser (no matter how she clarified later in another post).
I guess I just don't get how people can possibly be so attached to someone/something/some character that they don't see the faults of said object of their devotion. I love Seamus Finnigan but that doesn't mean that I don't see that he's a judgmental douchebag that trusts his mum way too easily. I like Snape but I see him for what he is and that's a bitter old man that holds a grudge for WAY too long.
I agree with you - the Occlumency lessons were definitely more like mind-rape than anything else in the books. But obviously it's all Harry Potter and Dumbledore's fault cause Dumbledore totes made him do those lessons and, also, Dumbledore sneezed. *winks*
I'm impressed you kept that conversation up for so long! My brain would have broke long before.....
So glad you parents are both doing okay. *hugs*
Ah, fandom. I lurked around this one X-Files fanfic archive back in college, and I think I was on some Yahoo! discussion group. Not that I contributed much. Or at all. :p But I think Leaky was the first HP site I found, and then I stumbled on ff.net, and then I followed this one author to Checkmated, and followed another the LJ, where I really discovered slash, and ta-da! Here I am. :)
The brain is definitely broken. I couldn't help thinking "bitch, are you for real?!" when the one brought up the autistic children being smothered by mattresses or the "sexual mutilation" of the tail. That's when I decided that this has to be a social experiment journal. All of them. No one can be that fucking insane and still be functional.
<3 Thanks!
I love the path that fandom findings takes.
Also - I totally just stumbled over the directions to that bakery/coffee shop we met at. It made me grin liekwhoa.
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So very glad that your Mum and Dad are recovering, my dear. I've missed you! *huggles*
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<3<3<3 I'm glad you're doing better, too! Someday, everyone will be cool and all right all at the same time and then the world will implode :/
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Glad your parents are getting better!
Technically I found fandom years ago, back in high school when I went looking for everything I could find about the movie Newsies and stumbled onto a wealth of fanfic. Years later, I started off on Fanfiction.net (*shudders*) looking for fic for The Outsiders, and then started reading HP stuff (Remus/Sirius) because there wasn't much good Outsiders fic. Some writers on FF.net had links to their LJ's, and the rest is history.
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Thanks muchly! It's been a crazy emotionally stressful time!
Oh man! Newsies AND Outsiders? Do you have any links to any good stuff from there? Oh man *flails*
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Well...as I recall it wasn't so much good as it simply wasn't terrible, if you know what I mean? Plus, during my early days in fandom I generally read a lot of het and gen rather than slash. But let me see what I have bookmarked...
Okay. I have always been a major Darry fangirl, so a lot of the fics I have for The Outsiders feature him in a prominent role.
The Chaperone: It looks like a two-chapter fic, but it's actually two separate vignettes featuring Pony-Darry interaction.
Ten Years Later: Future fic by the same author as the one above. Frankly, I don't remember anything about this one, but I'll just throw it out there. ;-)
Tulsa: Okay, this has a major Mary Sue, aka a sister for the boys, but as I recall it was reasonably well written and enjoyable. Going Home Again is the sequel, set a few decades later. The sequel is angsty if you're a Darry fan ( ... )
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I saw that terri_testing link before and my god wtf... :O
Props for putting up with the batshit. As you can see I gave up after two posts.
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i'm not even touching the main essay. it's too early for me to get angry. all i can say is... i think i remember seeing their batshittery elsewhere. maybe another essay?
fandom! ah, i can still remember. i started out as an anime fan and i had had internet installed only very recently. i would sift through badly-designed geocities, angelfire and tripod fansites (called "shrines" back then, i don't know if that's still used) that i found via some websites that worked as directories (like anipike) and listed a huge number of websites of... varying quality. i would spend all day looking at different yaoi websites and saving images to floppy disks :p i didn't read fanfic back then. i didn't perceive fandom as a community back then, since each website felt like an isolated entity. the only means of communication i had with people were guestbooks and email. at some point later i started reading ( ... )
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This person is the same one that said that Hermione was corrupted and teh ebil. I don't get it. That level of batshit is, err, batshit?
That's so cool! What a very interesting way of finding a fandom community. You're right - all the scattered websites don't help much. That's how the Wolverine/Gambit ship is - there are just all these websites and not too much community that I ever found. The only community I actually found on Yahoo was very uninviting to newcomers.
Yanno - I've never played Zelda :/
As far as SBP - I think angels sang the url to you. ;)
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But then I got called a "Snape-hater" for saying the man screwed his own life up and that his Occlumency "lessons" came waaaay closer to qualifying as "mind-rape" than Ron Confunding that Muggle examiner.
Go figure.
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I'm a bit sensitive about issues of abuse given my history (my dad abused me in multiple forms until I was 14). It's one of the reasons I reacted so strongly to terri_testing's point that Petunia wasn't an abuser (no matter how she clarified later in another post).
I guess I just don't get how people can possibly be so attached to someone/something/some character that they don't see the faults of said object of their devotion. I love Seamus Finnigan but that doesn't mean that I don't see that he's a judgmental douchebag that trusts his mum way too easily. I like Snape but I see him for what he is and that's a bitter old man that holds a grudge for WAY too long.
I agree with you - the Occlumency lessons were definitely more like mind-rape than anything else in the books. But obviously it's all Harry Potter and Dumbledore's fault cause Dumbledore totes made him do those lessons and, also, Dumbledore sneezed. *winks*
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So glad you parents are both doing okay. *hugs*
Ah, fandom. I lurked around this one X-Files fanfic archive back in college, and I think I was on some Yahoo! discussion group. Not that I contributed much. Or at all. :p But I think Leaky was the first HP site I found, and then I stumbled on ff.net, and then I followed this one author to Checkmated, and followed another the LJ, where I really discovered slash, and ta-da! Here I am. :)
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<3 Thanks!
I love the path that fandom findings takes.
Also - I totally just stumbled over the directions to that bakery/coffee shop we met at. It made me grin liekwhoa.
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