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Thing the first
So. Labor Day weekend just passed. I sort of consider that to be my anniversary in fandom. In late 1996/early 1997 I started getting involved in online fandom. I'd been to a few creation cons before but was never really a part of the community. But when I started college I joined a few mailing lists. They were gen lists for shows like Profiler and The Pretender. I was pretty active in them, but there wasn't much talk of fanfic (some shipping in the Profiler list, but not much fanfic). I knew fanfic existed and read a lot of X-Files gen and het. Then a friend from college sent me a link to a Star Trek Voyager slash archive. Well, needless to say I was fascinated. I went looking for more. I found the KS Nicholas fanfic site on a Yahoo! search and found slash for a number of other shows I was into. Even from the KS Nicholas site (which if you've never heard of it was pretty much just a giant links page categorized by slash and gen and organized by fandom), I could see that this thing called "The Sentinel" was a pretty big deal. But I'd seen ads for the show and didn't think much of it, and I really didn't want to get involved in another mailing list, so I left those links alone. But then we got an influx of people on the Profiler list, and these people wrote fanfic. One of them wrote a Profiler/Sentinel crossover (gen) and it was interesting, and gave a pretty good overview of The Sentinel. So I figured, "I can read the fic without watching the show". Well, that didn't last long. At some point while I was reading through the Sentinel archives it dawned on me that all of these different people who were writing these stories were actually talking to each other somewhere. I was determined to find out where. Well, I found SENAD, joined and started posting. Shortly thereafter I wrote my first Sentinel fanfic which was fairly well received, and I've been in fandom ever since. How does this fit into Labor Day weekend, you ask? Well, The summer of 1997 was The Bash at the Loft a sentinel slash con. I had no money and a crappy car, but I was determined to go. I still don't know how I got my parents to give me the money and agree to let me to drive to Maryland with someone I met on the internet, but I did. It was the most wonderful experience of my life. It was like coming home. At last, I had found my people. I shared a hotel room with six other people (all female), among them,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sorka42 who remains one of my dearest friends to this day. So many other people I met for the first time, like slashmommy, tayawulf, and I'm pretty sure lanning was there. Oh yeah, and that person I met on the internet who gave me a ride: naominovik. So yeah. This Labor Day was my 10th anniversary in fandom. It's been a wonderful ride and I wouldn't change one second of it.
Thing the second
The other day at work I was in the dining room at breakfast time. We play music during meal times and I usually only half listen. Well, I was half-listening that day and something made me stop because I couldn't quite believe what I was half-hearing. So I stopped what I was doing and walked closer to the speakers and sure enough, my worst fears were realized. I was in fact hearing an orchestral rendition of 'Penny Lane'. Turns out it was from a whole cd or orchestral tributes to The Beatles. Istole borrowed the cd because, really it has to be heard to be believed. I've not yet worked up the courage to listen to the orchestral version of 'Hey Jude'.
So I've been tagged for the seven quirks meme by bothgblvr and natlyn
Thing the third
List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself:
1. Whenever there's an article of clothing to be put on that has a left and a right, I always put the left one on first. If there's something like a shoe or a glove that has a specific left and right and I pick up the right one first by accident, I'll put it down and pick up the left. I also do this with my contact lenses.
2. I hate the book Lord of the Rings. I find it wordy, pretentious, boring, and full of unnecessary action. I did enjoy the movies, though if pressed I will admit that Randall's assessment of them in Clerks 2 is pretty dead on. But I would also point out to Randall that they took out more of the boring stuff than they left in.
3. I was traumatized as a child by 'Return to Oz'. No not, because it sucked. It was the disembodied heads that still talked. To this day, talking disembodied heads in movies still freak me the fuck out.
4. I really want to get a tattoo but don't because my mother would disapprove.
5. I'm still trying to get over high school
6. I'm afraid of clowns
7. I spend a lot of time thinking about how I would make myself useful in a post-apocalyptic world. Though I imagine I'm being rather presumptuous to assume that I'd survive said apocalypse in the first place.
Thing the fourth
I've decided to attempt to re-read the Dragonriders of Pern series in publication order. I read them pretty much randomly the first time around. I'm currently on Dragonsinger. I find myself wanting to have deep intellectual discussions about gender and sexuality on Pern. Also, I need to work out some sort of explanation for myself that will account for the discontinuity of the behavior of clutching Fire Lizards from Dragonquest, Dragonsong, and Dragonsdawn.
ETA:
Did you ever notice that even when you buy V-8 in the plastic bottle, it still tastes vaguely metallic? Or is that just me?
So. Labor Day weekend just passed. I sort of consider that to be my anniversary in fandom. In late 1996/early 1997 I started getting involved in online fandom. I'd been to a few creation cons before but was never really a part of the community. But when I started college I joined a few mailing lists. They were gen lists for shows like Profiler and The Pretender. I was pretty active in them, but there wasn't much talk of fanfic (some shipping in the Profiler list, but not much fanfic). I knew fanfic existed and read a lot of X-Files gen and het. Then a friend from college sent me a link to a Star Trek Voyager slash archive. Well, needless to say I was fascinated. I went looking for more. I found the KS Nicholas fanfic site on a Yahoo! search and found slash for a number of other shows I was into. Even from the KS Nicholas site (which if you've never heard of it was pretty much just a giant links page categorized by slash and gen and organized by fandom), I could see that this thing called "The Sentinel" was a pretty big deal. But I'd seen ads for the show and didn't think much of it, and I really didn't want to get involved in another mailing list, so I left those links alone. But then we got an influx of people on the Profiler list, and these people wrote fanfic. One of them wrote a Profiler/Sentinel crossover (gen) and it was interesting, and gave a pretty good overview of The Sentinel. So I figured, "I can read the fic without watching the show". Well, that didn't last long. At some point while I was reading through the Sentinel archives it dawned on me that all of these different people who were writing these stories were actually talking to each other somewhere. I was determined to find out where. Well, I found SENAD, joined and started posting. Shortly thereafter I wrote my first Sentinel fanfic which was fairly well received, and I've been in fandom ever since. How does this fit into Labor Day weekend, you ask? Well, The summer of 1997 was The Bash at the Loft a sentinel slash con. I had no money and a crappy car, but I was determined to go. I still don't know how I got my parents to give me the money and agree to let me to drive to Maryland with someone I met on the internet, but I did. It was the most wonderful experience of my life. It was like coming home. At last, I had found my people. I shared a hotel room with six other people (all female), among them,
sorka42 who remains one of my dearest friends to this day. So many other people I met for the first time, like slashmommy, tayawulf, and I'm pretty sure lanning was there. Oh yeah, and that person I met on the internet who gave me a ride: naominovik. So yeah. This Labor Day was my 10th anniversary in fandom. It's been a wonderful ride and I wouldn't change one second of it.Thing the second
The other day at work I was in the dining room at breakfast time. We play music during meal times and I usually only half listen. Well, I was half-listening that day and something made me stop because I couldn't quite believe what I was half-hearing. So I stopped what I was doing and walked closer to the speakers and sure enough, my worst fears were realized. I was in fact hearing an orchestral rendition of 'Penny Lane'. Turns out it was from a whole cd or orchestral tributes to The Beatles. I
So I've been tagged for the seven quirks meme by both
gblvr and natlynThing the third
List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself:
1. Whenever there's an article of clothing to be put on that has a left and a right, I always put the left one on first. If there's something like a shoe or a glove that has a specific left and right and I pick up the right one first by accident, I'll put it down and pick up the left. I also do this with my contact lenses.
2. I hate the book Lord of the Rings. I find it wordy, pretentious, boring, and full of unnecessary action. I did enjoy the movies, though if pressed I will admit that Randall's assessment of them in Clerks 2 is pretty dead on. But I would also point out to Randall that they took out more of the boring stuff than they left in.
3. I was traumatized as a child by 'Return to Oz'. No not, because it sucked. It was the disembodied heads that still talked. To this day, talking disembodied heads in movies still freak me the fuck out.
4. I really want to get a tattoo but don't because my mother would disapprove.
5. I'm still trying to get over high school
6. I'm afraid of clowns
7. I spend a lot of time thinking about how I would make myself useful in a post-apocalyptic world. Though I imagine I'm being rather presumptuous to assume that I'd survive said apocalypse in the first place.
Thing the fourth
I've decided to attempt to re-read the Dragonriders of Pern series in publication order. I read them pretty much randomly the first time around. I'm currently on Dragonsinger. I find myself wanting to have deep intellectual discussions about gender and sexuality on Pern. Also, I need to work out some sort of explanation for myself that will account for the discontinuity of the behavior of clutching Fire Lizards from Dragonquest, Dragonsong, and Dragonsdawn.
ETA:
Did you ever notice that even when you buy V-8 in the plastic bottle, it still tastes vaguely metallic? Or is that just me?
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