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Challenge #2
In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story. My fannish origin story, in 1000 words, so to speak...or rather, as much as I could fit in to ~1100 x 4500 pixels.
As it turns out ~1100 x 4500 pixels gets me to about 2005. (N.B. Minor liberties have been taken with the timeline in the interest of making things fit and/or visual appeal.)
これで以上です。
In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story. My fannish origin story, in 1000 words, so to speak...or rather, as much as I could fit in to ~1100 x 4500 pixels.
As it turns out ~1100 x 4500 pixels gets me to about 2005. (N.B. Minor liberties have been taken with the timeline in the interest of making things fit and/or visual appeal.)
これで以上です。
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Are gifsets one of the things you create frequently?
Thank you for participating!
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Which fandoms, if I can ask?
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LOTR of course, and I reread The Mists of Avalon until I had practically memorized it.
Firefly and The Princess Bride are also favorites.
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LotR and MoA were—and still are—such foundational books for me, as well as being titles that pushed my reading skills forward tremendously. I still have vivid memories of learning specific words from them.
And Firefly and Princess Bride are both delightful, no matter how many times I revisit them.
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(I think LotR and HP would be the only ones shared between ours -- I consider myself fannish about several other things, but not in a foundational way.)
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I've cast a pretty wide net for what to include and why. I've only done one LoTR fanwork, and that was for an elementary school assignment, pre-Internet. And while I've done multiple HP fanoworks, they were motivated by dissatisfaction with canon. 😂 The common factor is that these are all canons that have eaten my brain at one point or another, independently of whether I've created or consumed fanworks about them.
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And OH YES. XF fandom is where I cut my fandom teeth. I started out on the official message boards, then discovered the existence of alt.x-files.creative and the MKRA yahoo ML and the rest was history. I wrote some extremely bad fanfic and then some slightly better fanfic, all of which is still out there on Ao3 if you know what usernames to look for. I periodically toy with the idea of revisiting and revising them now, just to see how far I've come since those early days. But I am also terrified of peeking and seeing how bad they really were. 🤣
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I love the graphic format! If I had the patience I would totally try to make one!
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IME patience isn't required, as long as you're willing to roll with mistakes as they happen. XD
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patience isn't required, as long as you're willing to roll with mistakes as they happen
Definitely attempting to improve in this area lol!
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