More Fannish things

We went shopping today, picked up a couple dead cheap shirts at Macy's and a curtain rod, command hooks and a curtain for that door back in my apt. I hate the new door's big window. Provided my whole place hasn't floated away by now which seems likely.


Went to our favorite Mexican restaurant. Mom, after realizing that the restaurant charged 5$ for a little bowl of guac pushes it to me with the chips. Eat every last penny of this.

Thanks mom




In your own space, talk about your fannish history.

Let's give you the short version.

1977 I saw Star Wars: A New Hope for my 10th birthday. I had been introduced to writing that year by a grade school teacher whose name was lost to time until just two days ago when I was telling Mom I don't remember...OMG Mr. Murray. So he had started us writing. I took that and my instant love of Han, Luke and Leia and started writing 'novels' (probably novellas or long short stories) about Crystal Diamond, Luke's cousin and Han's girlfriend (yes it was horrible Mary Sue self-insert stuff but I was 10...).

I never stopped writing. 42 years later I'm still a geek doing geek things.

My first 'real' fandom though wasn't Star Wars or even Star Trek (though I did noodle about with the latter as well). It was Elfquest. This would have been five years later and for the young 'uns on my list, this was a paper zine fandom where every story got art (I miss that) and everything got mailed to people in the group. (Yes we had our actual addresses right there for strangers to see). You'd write someone who interested you from the group, be it their stories, their art, you wanted to pen pal with someone from Timbuktu, whatever. I belonged to dozens of 'holts' (the term for the groups) and had probably a hundred elf characters (because you couldn't use canon ones).

From there I spun into Pern fandom which was set up the same except it was Weyrs and you used original characters (which is so weird to me these days when people loathe them some times). McCaffrey put the kibosh on fandom in her world in the 90s.

So from the 80s-mid-90s EQ and Pern were it and I had gotten back into roleplay in the Star Trek universe but this was all paper zine stuff but the internet was beginning and fandom shifted.

My first fandom in the sense that fandom exists today online was evil_little_dog pushing me to give Buffy the Vampire Slayer another try. By now I'd been injured and wasn't so busy so I tried it again and this time fell in love. I headed to fanfiction.net and all the forums and from there to LJ/DW (and at one point deadjournal that was unfortunately purged without warning). And now of course I'm on AO3 (not tumblr or discord, at least not yet)

So the early Oughts was all Buffyverse and Fullmetal Alchemist. I've always loved anime/manga and this one is still one of the best. I've written in a lot of other anime/manga realms, Saiyuki, Ghost Hunt, Fruits Basket.

In the last decade my fannish spirit has been flagging. For one I am writing professionally now which takes a lot of my time. My shows got old too. Buffyverse is still out there and getting a bit of a reboot now. Fullmetal is still slightly active. I dabbled in The X-Files and Supernatural. I really tried to be active in Lucifer but as much as I love the show, it doesn't breed bunnies, just small motes.

I missed fandom and then this fall I saw Prodigal Son and by episode three I was hooked. I haven't been this in love with a show and this bunnied since the early Buffy days. From October-December I wrote 20 stories and most of them are over 1K. I'm actually not shippy in this fandom (though I think Malcolm/Dani is sweet). I'm excited for the first time in a long time and I can't wait to see where this takes me (crosses fingers its return on the 20th isn't going to make me scream from stupid)

And speaking of fannish things, let me rec a few things right now as they are starting up.

One is chocolateboxcomm which I debated writing or not as I CAN NOT do as much fanfic as I did last year (especially since I have a contract waiting for me to get off my ass and do something) but I decided this does not have to be a long fic.

Another is fandomtrumpshate which raises money via fandom auctions to counteract some of the current administrations more hateful agendas. So the money all goes to a good cause. I'm debating on this one too. I want to help but.... if I do it would be Buffyverse and Prodigal Son offers only. (keep it short Com, keep it short)

Both of these are Dreamwidth only I believe.