June Something: Days 4 and 5

[respoftw]

Day 4: What are the origins of your penname/username?

Fanfiction bypassed me entirely until 2012 when, a few months short of my 30th birthday, I accidentally clicked a link to a fic about detectives Ryan and Esposito from the TV show Castle while looking for them-centric episodes of the show. I fell down a rabbit hole that I’ve since set up home in and when it came to creating my FFN account (because it took me another few months to find AO3) I picked RespoFTW and it’s kind of stuck.


Day 5: Compare and/or contrast your very first fandom obsession and your very latest fandom obsession.

My first fandom experiences were all off-line. We didn’t have a computer in the house until I was at university so my prime high school fandom years were spent geeking out about things either on my own or with friends.

I struggle to remember what my first ‘fandom’ was. I think probably the first one that grabbed me was BtVS. I would buy the magazines, I had posters, I bought every single tie-in book that was out there and was use generally obsessed. My friends watched it too and when my Mum got rid of our cable TV to save money I used to go around to my friends house on a Friday night to watch it on Sky One (when Angel started they used to air them back to back, it was awesome!)

Even when we had a computer it never occurred to me to look for BtVS content and, to this day, I have never read a single piece of fanfic for the show. I’ve never went back and watched the show with my shipping goggles on but can honestly say that I never shipped any non-canon couples back when I watched it.

So, yeah, that’s changed. My current fandom obsession is Stargate Atlantis which I got into long after the show stopped airing. I was aware of fandom and shipping and knew McShep was a huge ship going into it. I have loved David Hewlett since I saw Cube at the age of 15 so that and the fact that a couple of my tumbler mutuals where McSheppers definitely set me up for the ship. Would I have shipped it if I had watched along as it aired? I honestly don’t know. That 2012 discovery of Fanfiction was really eye opening for me. I would have classed myself as a pure whumper before that but now my shipping goggles are welded on!

Everything is online now, although I do have all the tie-in books and have tracked down cation figures etc on eBay, second hand shops etc... I now just wait patiently for the licenced funko pops to join the custom ones I have!

Comments

[logicgunn]

I remember David Hewlett first appearing on SG1 and I was like "It's David Worth!" Cube is one of my all-time favourite films. (You can imagine how thrilled I was when I *finally* discovered SGA, all of 4 years ago!)

I latched into the McShep vibes straight away, with absolutely no idea that anyone else thought the same. It's interesting and kinda cool that your route to SGA was through the ship. I'm on that kind of route into Due South atm. I watched a couple of episodes when I was young and loved it, but there's a lot of Fraser/Ray (V and K) stuff on my tumblr and I'm like...yeah? Maybe I'm ready for another fandom?

[respoftw]

Due South is another TV show I watched as it aired with no knowledge of shipping. Kinda glad I wasn’t in active fandom at that time though as the Ray wars sound toxic, lol

[nagi_schwarz]

I always wondered where your username came from. I figured maybe it was part of your real name, like Brumeier's maybe? But that's so cool!

I also saw Cube long before I saw SGA, so the first time I saw Rodney McKay I was like...he looks familiar. Why?

Fingers crossed we get some licensed funko pops!

[runpunkrun]

Ahhhh, I get your username now.

[brumeier]

I had no idea your screen name was Castle-related! How cool! Those boys were a def fave of mine when I watched the series. The bromance was strong. ::grins::

BTVS is something I got into after college, and really enjoyed. But then it either moved networks or my satellite package stopped including the network. I ended up getting eps from a guy in Texas, who would tape both Buffy and Angel for me, and later Roswell. Those were the days. LOL!

Funko Pops! That is also what I'm anxiously waiting for, now that the franchise is under new management. I need McShep on my bookshelf!

[popkin16]

I discovered BtVS after I had been in fandom for a while, but during a period of time where I had no internet access. I used to LIVE for the reruns they'd show on television. I remember watching season 2, and then I went to my grandparent's cabin for the weekend and they were showing an episode a couple seasons ahead and I was like ??????

I've dipped my toes in the fandom ~a very tiny amount~ but it's never been a big thing from me.

I love learning where people's usernames come from :D