June Something: Days 4 and 5
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respoftwDay 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!
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!
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Date: 2021-06-06 04:29 pm (UTC)Ahhhh, I get your username now.