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[bedlamsbard]

...you know what's freaky? Finding out that one of those authors whose LJ you lurk on is the same author that wrote a story you really, really liked years ago.

*is still in shock* No, seriously, how did I never know this? How?

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I find that if you lurk in different fandoms for long enough, sooner or later you'll run across writers you read years ago who've started writing for other fandoms. Sometimes it just takes a moment to put the pieces together.

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One of these I am going to make a chart of the connections between the people on whose LJs I lurk. I mean, it's seriously weird, because here I am cheerfully buzzing along and then bam! Person from a completely different fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

My pet theory is that the six degrees of separation phenomenon is rife in fandom. I found Stellaluna's site first when I started reading CSI:NY fic. Through her LJ I discovered your work. Later I noticed that you're friends with Minisoo, whose work I came across when I was reading X-Men movieverse fic. I've got other examples, too. I suspect the HP fandom is largely to blame. :P

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But see, I didn't find Min from HP, I found her from X-Men. And using her journal, found seperis, who wrote with rageprufrock, who's friends with astolat and monanotlisa and auburnnothenna, who I was originally linked to from synecdochic's journal. And I later found monanotlisa on fanmix, which was linked from driving_music, where researchgrrrl posted her fanmixes, who later friended trollprincess, who wrote an X-Men fic that minisinoo commented on, and was also linked to me by the same person that linked traveller. And minisinoo was also friends with cupiscent, who linked me to imadra_blue's journal, where monanotlisa once commented. Or was it quigonejinn's journal? Anyway, they're all connected. And researchgrrrl once wrote an H:tLJ fic with ltlj, who is also friends with rageprufrock. And astolat linked to a comic on scans_daily, which was originally linked by dracunculus, who linked to abundantlyclear, who was linked by dessert_first. I was also linked to scans_daily by stellaluna_, who was linked to me by mentalhygiene, but stellaluna_ was later read by geekwriter143 and iscaris, who I got into from HP fandom and was at some point friends with mistful and epicyclical. And then we get into the people I was linked to from FictionAlley back in the day and we're off LJ.

BUT. Um, that's even more complex than I thought, and I know I could find more connections if I went through and looked harder. That's...a lot of fandoms. HP, CSI:NY, CSI: Vegas, X-Men, comics in general, SGA, SG-1, Star Wars, Supernatural, Smallville, HtLJ, Buffy/Angel, LotR RPS...

Er. Now I sound like a stalker.