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.

Comments

[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.