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lyntergalactic) wrote2024-01-07 01:28 pm
lyntergalactic) wrote2024-01-07 01:28 pm
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snowflake challenge #4 - icebreaker
Challenge #4
Ice-Breaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself.
well, okay, if you insist! i'm gonna take a bit of a different tack to it, though, since most of my basic bio is in my sticky post. instead, here, have a brief history of me and my fandom exploits:
hi, i'm lyn! i've gone by many names and handles over my years on the internet, but this is the one that's here to stay, methinks.
i grew up in the suburbs of chicago with a brief detour into the rural midwest. it was a rough few years and i was glad to move back home. i spent a lot of my time in those years on the internet as making friends was... let's call it difficult. that was when i first really got involved in fandom instead of just lurking like i had for the previous handful of years.
my first fandom love was the teen titans cartoon. that was what really introduced me to the concept of fandom. i discovered the teen titans go! forum and that's where i discovered both fanfic and fanart. it was love at first sight. :>
i spent a number of years hopping from forums, to geocities and angelfire sites, to dying yahoo! groups, fanfiction.net and livejournal, consuming all the fic i could find. first it was just teen titans, then i discovered
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scans_daily back when it was on LJ and that got me into comics. i still remember the first comic i ever bought was actually from a jewel-osco. it was nightwing #117 where dick proposed to babs :') i don't still have a copy of this, i think it got smushed because i was not very careful with my things as a teenager, but i remember it vividly.somewhere in all of the comics love there was a detour to the lord of the rings fandom. this is really where i started wanting to write my own fanfic. i'd written a little one-page OC teen titans fic when i was 11, but when i discovered 10th walker fics, it was like a light-bulb went off. i wanted to write my own stories. and i wanted to share them with friends.
i introduced my IRL friends group to fanfiction and we started co-writing together. at first it was me and one friend writing lotr fic where all our friends ended up in middle-earth. we never finished writing the trilogy and instead wrote post-canon fic where we married our favs and had families and adventures because that was what twelve-year-old girls thought they wanted in life at that point. once eighth grade rolled around, i started writing a HP self-insert series with the same friend from before and another.
surprisingly, the HP fic is still online? and it has our full, legal names attached because we were tiny idiots. i'm honestly surprised it hasn't been pulled by one of the other people who wrote it (i don't have access to the accounts anymore and haven't for over a decade) especially because one of them now teaches high school.
anyway.
i bounced around various fandoms after that, mostly lurking. the main ones over the years (outside of the ones already mentioned) were naruto, narnia, one piece, fullmetal alchemist, the dcau, pacific rim, and perhaps most importantly, star trek.
i'd seen a few trek episodes when i was in middle school. one of my fic co-writers and her sister were fans and introduced me to it. i liked it fine but it didn't really grab me. not until the reboot movie came out. i was hooked. and it introduced me to the place i'd spend at least 50% of my fandom time for the next handful of years: LJRP.
i was a part of various LJRP communities for... a decade? maybe? i made some real good friends there, some of whom i still keep in contact with today. it was these friends who were there for me when i went to college and later dropped out. one of them introduced me to the term asexuality for which i will be forever grateful. they were there when i first started experiencing chronic pain and when my life hit some of its darker moments. i'll always love the friends i made through that community and, even if i haven't heard from some of them in years, they're often in my thoughts. ♥
throughout all of this, i still wrote fic here and there. did some fanart. i discovered dragon age and made some of my very best online friends through fanfic there. as my interest in RP waned, my interest in other fandom things increased, but i wasn't really sure what i wanted to do. partly because of my adhd and partly because i could never make up my mind about how i wanted to present who i am and what i do online, i often changed usernames and ditched old social media spaces.
sometime last year i finally decided to just--plop myself down and actually put down metaphorical roots. i realized that doing marketing and design work for a living had invaded my fandom brain. eventually i turned that part off. no more little voice in the back of my head bitching about best practices and branding. this is just... my space. simple as that. it'll be a mish-mash and hodge-podge and that's okay.
these days, i'm mostly writing fic, doing the occasional bit of fanart (though i'm hoping to do more this year) and nerdy crafts. the adhd still means i hyperfocus on one fandom to the exclusion of all else until something shiny catches my eye, but i'm getting better about mitigating some of that. and it's almost always easy for me to slip back into an old fandom love if i want.
currently, the hyperfixation is star wars with a focus on the clone wars.
other fandoms likely to rear their heads for a brief time at any given moment include dc comics, the dcau, anything tolkien, dragon age, mass effect, hades game, guild wars 2, and one piece.
faded loves that'd take some nudging to get me back into but i'm happy to talk about include naruto, star trek, pacrim, narnia, marvel comics, M*A*S*H, the witcher, stranger things, avatar: the last airbender, critical role, dctv, the walking dead, voltron, and teen wolf.
hp and i had a very messy divorce.
i've got a long list of fanfic WIPs that i'm constantly hopping around, a couple fandom knitting patterns i'm working on drafting, and an itch to get back into fanart. i'm always open for ideas and prompts and such, though that's usually easier done over on the tungles (
... i thought maybe i should try and wrap this up neatly but holy shit this post is long i am so sorry and also impressed if anyone reads this behemoth, jesus
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How about if you draw something, just for yourself. It's a new year, go forth and enjoy!
So glad you joined into Snowflake today!
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