Snowflake challenge 2020 2
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shadowhiveChallenge #2
In your own space, talk about your fannish history. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I’ve always been a fan of stuff in one way or another, though I didn’t get involved in fannish things until the internet. In 04 I got a livejournal and that led to a few things. I got involved in comms and started to write fic, which I’ve done on and off every since.
When I first started writing it was for Brit boy bands. First with Blue, Busted and Mcfly. (Even winning an award once for a Mcfly fic.) Later I ended up involved in My Chemical Romance and other related bands like Panic! at The Disco. I also have a fondness for Bullet For My Valentine, The Blackout, Funeral For A Friend and Lostprophets, who we’re Welsh bands who, sadly, hardly have a fandom now.
As time went on, after MCR ended, LJ started to get abandoned. The fannish people I knew seemed to fade away, vanishing into the ether. While I kept writing, it was only for the few that stayed and eventually become more and more niche to the point where, by the time I moved here, I was pretty much just doing Welsh stuff and Finnish stuff for the one friend that was still active.
At the end of 2017 I started posting on ao3 encouraged by new people, but alas a few months later they stabbed me in the back. Soon after the aforementioned friend abandoned me too so for most of 2018 I was pretty... bereft.
It was only toward the end of year that things started to improve and I started to write again.
The past year things went pretty well. Through The Umbrella Academy series I met a lot of awesome people and made a load of fic. It also led to me writing more MCR fic and starting my own discord for it, and with them returning I expect me to be doing more for them.
So yeah that’s a brief ficwise things.
I’m into more things than what I write about. I love Star Trek, Star Wars and Doctor Who but don’t really read fic related to them. Though I have been to conventions because of all three of them.
In your own space, talk about your fannish history. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I’ve always been a fan of stuff in one way or another, though I didn’t get involved in fannish things until the internet. In 04 I got a livejournal and that led to a few things. I got involved in comms and started to write fic, which I’ve done on and off every since.
When I first started writing it was for Brit boy bands. First with Blue, Busted and Mcfly. (Even winning an award once for a Mcfly fic.) Later I ended up involved in My Chemical Romance and other related bands like Panic! at The Disco. I also have a fondness for Bullet For My Valentine, The Blackout, Funeral For A Friend and Lostprophets, who we’re Welsh bands who, sadly, hardly have a fandom now.
As time went on, after MCR ended, LJ started to get abandoned. The fannish people I knew seemed to fade away, vanishing into the ether. While I kept writing, it was only for the few that stayed and eventually become more and more niche to the point where, by the time I moved here, I was pretty much just doing Welsh stuff and Finnish stuff for the one friend that was still active.
At the end of 2017 I started posting on ao3 encouraged by new people, but alas a few months later they stabbed me in the back. Soon after the aforementioned friend abandoned me too so for most of 2018 I was pretty... bereft.
It was only toward the end of year that things started to improve and I started to write again.
The past year things went pretty well. Through The Umbrella Academy series I met a lot of awesome people and made a load of fic. It also led to me writing more MCR fic and starting my own discord for it, and with them returning I expect me to be doing more for them.
So yeah that’s a brief ficwise things.
I’m into more things than what I write about. I love Star Trek, Star Wars and Doctor Who but don’t really read fic related to them. Though I have been to conventions because of all three of them.
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