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[redbrunja]

scorpoid1 asked me:

talk about your fandom evolution? like, what fandoms did you start out in, how have your tastes changed and grown since then, what is different now than when you first started off in fandom and what hasn't changed? Idk I am just curious I am always fascinated when people talk about this kind of stuff.



Oh, wow, fandom flashback.

My first fandom was Buffy, shortly followed by Harry Potter.

Things that haven’t changed since then: I’ve always been about the ladies. Slash still leaves me cold.

What’s changed: oh my god, I used to be SO ZEN about ships. Seriously. I wasn’t super attached to any particular pairing, I wasn’t invested in my OTP becoming canon. Harry Potter was really the peak of my mulit-shipping period. I was so chill back then.

And I was reading SO MUCH. The harry potter ships I read a significant amount of:

Hermione/Ron
Hermione/Harry
Hermione/Draco
Harry/Ginny
Ginny/Draco
Lupin/Tonks
Anything non-slash that involved Bill Weasly (note: I’d stopped reading HP fanfic by the time Fleur and Bill hooked up, so less of that ship actually. I read a notable amount of Bill with OCs.)

Something interesting to note: redbrunja is actually my first online handle. I was getting into fandom at the same time I was learning how computers worked, I didn’t figure out how to, say, post fanfics or comment until I’d been in fandom at least a year, during which time I’d been reading several LJs that talked about fandom etiquette, so by the time I started commenting, had some manners. Plus, I’d written my terribly OOC first fanfics before I figured out how to post, so THANK MERCIFUL ATHENA the internet was spared those.

Comments

[anat-astarte.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong of me to say that every time I see your username I think "Red Sonia" with a Valkyrie motif? XD

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

If that's wrong, I don't want to be right.

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

lol, can I ask in what way your HP ship opinions have become LESS zen then? ;D

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Like, I wasn't really invested in anything becoming canon? I was 99% sure Hermione/Ron would be, and that made me happy, and I was 99% sure Harry/Ginny would be canon and that made me unhappy, but it didn't stop me from reading Harry/Ginny (or Tom/Ginny) fic, and I would read shipper manifestos for ships and be like, 'oh, that makes sense, hmm'.

I feel like, if Rowling had finished the series and then went, 'oops, maybe Ron/Hermione shouldn't have been canon' I would have been like, 'oh, okay' whereas now, I'm like, 'YOU BITCH. LET ME EXPLAIN HOW WRONG YOU ARE.'

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

lol, to this day I remain baffled as to the existence of Harry/Ginny. I maintain it came out of motherfucking nowhere.

And R M E @ Rowling's persistent need to editorialise her own canon. What is her personal damage.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

lol, to this day I remain baffled as to the existence of Harry/Ginny. I maintain it came out of motherfucking nowhere.

Yes and no. Yes in the sense that it was a terribly written romance, no in the sense that when someone first mentioned it to me as endgame I literally shrieked with despair because it made implacable sense. Of course Harry had to marry into that family.

And R M E @ Rowling's persistent need to editorialise her own canon. What is her personal damage.

They books were published, that's it, it's too late to try and change things now.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

How did you pick your username, back when you started out in fandom?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Well, I first came across the word ‘bruja’ before I knew that in Spanish ‘j’ was pronounced with an ‘h’ sound, and because of the way my mind works, I kind of mentally added in an ‘n’ to the word so it sounded better in my head. So it’s my unique way of saying ‘red witch’.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool, I thought it might be related to "bruja."