Snowflake Challenge #2
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potentiality_26Challenge #2
In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story.
I definitely came up in the "on the internet no one knows you're a dog" school of thought, so the idea of Dating Myself in this fashion is a little scary, but you know what? Let's do this, it'll be fun.
So it all started when I went to boarding school at fourteen. Before that the internet was both a wild confusing place and a boring slog because of dial-up -- but at school I had my own laptop, a class on how to use it, and fast internet. Now I don't remember how I ended up there, but my first fannish activities were those personality quizzes -- like, "Which [fandom] character are you?" but also "Which pairing are you?" Initially these were Harry Potter Quizilla quizzes, but I also remember a Les Miserables website with them that I spent a huge amount of time on. Anyway, I didn't know fanfiction was a thing until one of the quizzes had the question, "Where do you read fanfiction?" And I was like, "???" and ended up on good ol' Fanfiction.net where I read and eventually wrote some stories for -- this will shock you -- Harry Potter and Les Miz.
After a while I didn't use it much anymore, and also I was hiding from an HP chapterfic I had started posting but was never gonna finish (equally shocking, I'm sure), so I let it lapse for a couple of years and I don't connect myself with the FF.net account anymore. (In the extremely unlikely circumstance that you can find said account based on this information, no you can't).
I was in college and the throes of a Stargate obsession when I started my livejournal, and I still use the same default icon I opened that account with to this day. I made it in about ten minutes and it shows, but I can't seem to part with it. That is My Face on the Internet.
In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story.
I definitely came up in the "on the internet no one knows you're a dog" school of thought, so the idea of Dating Myself in this fashion is a little scary, but you know what? Let's do this, it'll be fun.
So it all started when I went to boarding school at fourteen. Before that the internet was both a wild confusing place and a boring slog because of dial-up -- but at school I had my own laptop, a class on how to use it, and fast internet. Now I don't remember how I ended up there, but my first fannish activities were those personality quizzes -- like, "Which [fandom] character are you?" but also "Which pairing are you?" Initially these were Harry Potter Quizilla quizzes, but I also remember a Les Miserables website with them that I spent a huge amount of time on. Anyway, I didn't know fanfiction was a thing until one of the quizzes had the question, "Where do you read fanfiction?" And I was like, "???" and ended up on good ol' Fanfiction.net where I read and eventually wrote some stories for -- this will shock you -- Harry Potter and Les Miz.
After a while I didn't use it much anymore, and also I was hiding from an HP chapterfic I had started posting but was never gonna finish (equally shocking, I'm sure), so I let it lapse for a couple of years and I don't connect myself with the FF.net account anymore. (In the extremely unlikely circumstance that you can find said account based on this information, no you can't).
I was in college and the throes of a Stargate obsession when I started my livejournal, and I still use the same default icon I opened that account with to this day. I made it in about ten minutes and it shows, but I can't seem to part with it. That is My Face on the Internet.
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Date: 2025-01-03 08:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-01-03 08:41 pm (UTC)Thoughts
Date: 2025-01-03 11:32 pm (UTC)Among my more amusing memories are times when I brought someone a book to sign that was from the beginning of their career and/or something totally different in subject than the current event. Probably the funnest was handing Authentic Thaumaturgy (which is a gaming manual) to Isaac Bonewits at the Pagan Summit. He grabbed it to show to his friends because most of them had never seen that one, only his Pagan books including the famous Real Magic. <3
>>I was in college and the throes of a Stargate obsession when I started my livejournal, and I still use the same default icon I opened that account with to this day. I made it in about ten minutes and it shows, but I can't seem to part with it. That is My Face on the Internet.<<
Yeah, I've had my default icon for years too. People do get attached to such things. :D
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Date: 2025-01-03 11:54 pm (UTC)Fascinating!
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Date: 2025-01-04 01:50 am (UTC)I, too, have an icon i associate with myself, but it's not even a character or work that I'm particularly attached to, which amuses me somewhat. but it's one that other people have recognized me by across sites.
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Date: 2025-01-05 11:46 pm (UTC)Yeah, you've gotta get brand recognition.
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Date: 2025-01-04 07:30 pm (UTC)Stargate obsession is legit! I saw my first episode when I was maybe 15 or 16 and Daniel was the reason I stayed!
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Date: 2025-01-05 11:51 pm (UTC)He pulls you in!
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Date: 2025-04-20 07:10 am (UTC)Also, Daniel from Stargate is an excellent face to pick for the Internet 😁 I have so many shiny icons, but I try to stick with my dear cat most of the time, 'cause changing around one's "Internet face" can be so confusing 😅
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Date: 2025-04-20 02:13 pm (UTC)Changing around one's "Internet face" can be so confusing - I feel that way too.
Your cat icon is very cute!
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Date: 2025-04-21 08:57 am (UTC)Thank you 💖 It's a picture of my dear old cat Sebastian, mid-yawn. He's no longer with us, but he was the bestest of cats, and seeing his little floofy face cheers me up still 💗
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Date: 2025-04-21 04:55 pm (UTC)