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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

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

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

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

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