day 15

[asimplechord]

Day 01 → My favorite song
Day 02 → My favorite movie
Day 03 → My favorite television program
Day 04 → My favorite book
Day 05 → My favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes me happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes me sad
Day 09 → A photo that I took
Day 10 → A photo of me, taken at least 10 years ago
Day 11 → A photo of me, taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever strikes my fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book

Day 14 →A fanfic

The first fanfic I ever read (if we're not counting things like Wide Sargasso Sea and Scarlett) was Kalina Lea's The Buried Life. I found it accidentally, when I was searching for something related to Laurie King's Mary Russell series. I put "Russell/Holmes" into google, and got hits for Kalina Lea's fanfic. The Russell/Holmes fanfic didn't interest me, but I was fascinated by the idea of Severus Snape and Hermione Granger as a pairing.

Thus began my trip down the garden path from HP fanfic to SPN to RPS to bandom.

I didn't linger with the Snape/Hermione shippers, but Snape was and still is my very favorite Harry Potter character, in the books and in fanfic. (Although the Weasley twins are a close second.)

Comments

[shutyourface.livejournal.com]

Oh dude. I can't even remember the first fanfic I ever read. I can remember the first bandom fic that I read intentionally but the first ever... jeez, it had to have been some popslash Mary Sue. Man, now I kinda wanna go back and find all those old stories.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

I remember being AMAZED by the world of fanfiction when I found it, because although I vaguely knew that Trek had fandom, I'd never participated, and had no idea what was out there. Up to that point, I'd really only used the internet for email and for work/science-related things.

[shutyourface.livejournal.com]

I was clueless until I stumbled onto fanfic. I don't remember my reaction to it other than finding as much of it as I could get my hands on.