small, small world

[bedlamsbard]

So there's a girl in my school -- band member, sophomore, Creative Writing Club, basically a mini-me -- who, as I just found out, is also in fandom. HP fandom. Well, everyone is in HP at some point, you all know how that goes. We're babbling happily on about fandom, this and that, you know -- we got in about two years apart, but when we were more or less the same age -- and she asks The Question: "Are you into slash?" Wary pause. You know how these things go. "I'm a slasher, yeah." "So am I! My sister's into femslash, but I prefer slash. What's your favorite pairing?"

GUYS. REAL LIFE SLASHER AND FANDOM MEMBER. I told her I was on LJ, but I have as yet refused to give out my username. Not that I've put anything really weird up lately, so I may eventually.

She's Remus/Sirius and Snape/Lupin -- argh, argh -- but when I said I'm James/Sirius OTP, she stopped, thought about it, and went, "Oh, yeah, I get it, that makes sense too." AND she's Harry/Draco hardcore, too.

Small, small world.

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[limmenel.livejournal.com]

On the first day of class in January 2006, I sat next to buffy_lily by SHEER FATE. We were talking before class started, and she gave me her email address so we could compare notes in case one of us missed a class. Her email address had to do with Sirius. We talked about HP, I mentioned LJ, and by the end of the day OUR FATE WAS SEALED (and the fact that we had other classes together that semester totally helped), and now she's one of my best friends.

But, then, I met one of my other best fandom (and RL) friends on a plane to Israel, and we talked about Harry/Snape fic for most of the 14 hour flight.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I've had band with her for over a year already! I don't remember when she first told me that she was in fandom, but it must have been near the end of last year, because she came up to me during marching practice and started talking about how she was blocked on original fic, but had some really good ideas for HP fic. And then we were talking after the parade and before the rodeo, and somehow we got into fandom.

And she's a slasher. I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

(I was just starting to think fandom wasn't as wide spread as I thought previously, then this happens.)

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Fandom is totally everywhere. Like, I suspect that if you stood up in the middle of any of your classes and just said "I'm in fandom", at least one other person would stand up and say "Hey, me too!" But it's something that's not socially acceptable, so people don't talk about it.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I hear you there. There was a girl in my workshop at Brown that was a ficcer too -- she mentioned that she wrote for "Nightmare Before Christmas", of all fandoms, and I had a minor implosion of, "Me too! But not that fandom! I do CSI:NY, and Star Wars, and Pirates of the Caribbean, and Harry Potter..."

Plus, you know, if you're talking to someone else in fandom the slash question will eventually come up, which is always a fun, awkward moment of horror.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Plus, you know, if you're talking to someone else in fandom the slash question will eventually come up, which is always a fun, awkward moment of horror.

Yeah, but I've found that most people who know what fandom is and don't do slash usually have nothing against those who do... I mean, most fandomers are totally not homophobic, from what I've seen. So I've never had that awkward silence, though I'm always hesitant to ask merely because of the social stigma.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, totally. But I've noticed a lot of the time that people just on the edge of fandom are usually the het shippers -- when I first got into fandom, I tried to get one of my friends into it, and she was freaked by Draco/Hermione kissing. So, you know. Can be awkward, especially if you don't know how far in someone else is. At least you know they probably won't know what slash is if they're not relatively far in, because it's not as obvious as saying, oh, I don't know, het.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's totally true. I came in shipping Harry/Hermione (ohgod, my brain, it hurts), but very quickly switched to Harry/Draco.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I got out of D/Hr during the Great Hiatus between GoF and OotP, and into H/D at about the same time.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

I was into D/Hr for about a week. Then I discovered Cassandra Claire and the Draco Trilogy, and started reading the fics her friends wrote, and bam, slash.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I was into D/Hr for a long time. I switched to H/D sometime while DV was putting out chapters, and was bitterly disappointed when it was D/G instead of D/Hr or H/D. I mean, seriously. Come on.

[limmenel.livejournal.com]

Haha, I never got very far into the third story. But yeah, D/G? Really now! :D


So, I'm watching CSI: NY repeats on TV, and it's the episode where Stella's a suspect in that Philly PD investigation... do you think that letting her friend go will ever come back to haunt her?

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

DV was good, but I like to forget the last chapter ever existed, because she built and built and built -- and then I don't think the end worked all that well. But that's just me.

God, I hope so. I was thinking about it the other day, and remembering that basically nobody in fandom noticed when it first aired, and -- god, I hope so. I hope at least a ficcer notices!

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

Isn't it awesome when that happens? : )

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Yes! And also creepy, because there's that distinction between your online persona and your RL persona and what if they meet! The world could end!

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

There's a distinction?

...

uh oh.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, give someone a mask username and you'll see their real face.

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

So apparently both of us work in psychiatry.

Metaphorical or otherwise. ;)

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Heh.

*cough giggle giggle snort*

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Emma

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Re: *cough giggle giggle snort*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. *squeaks* I knew that link was a bad idea.

*waves* Welcome to LJ. We breed the crazy here. It's like high school, only worse.

Feel free to browse around, if you feel so inclined.