Haha, I love your gif -- quite explanatory! Fun idea with this post!
I actually came into fandom through reading the Mortal Instruments, which is a bit embarassing because I've come to understand that Cassandra Clare is some kind of persona non grata in fandom (even if I don't really know the story there). I read the books a few years ago because I like reading YA-fiction every now and then and I got them recommended. Then early last year I saw mentioned somewhere that she had started out writing Harry Potter fan fiction and was intrigued because I've really really loved Harry Potter ever since I first started reading them at age 11. I'd never really heard much about fanfiction before that.
So I tried searching the internet for the Draco Triolgy (which turned out to be difficult because they'd mostly been taken down), and on the way I discovered ffnet and started reading there randomly. I read both HP and MI fanfiction in the beginning and it was actually through MI I discovered slash. There were a lot of Alec/Magnus fics which wasn't so strange since they're gay in the books and after a while I came over some rather smutty ones and found out that it was surprisingly hot. And then one of the authors I'd read A/M fics from had written some Drarry-fics as well. I just went with it and loved it. (I think this (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4135153/1/BloodBound) was my first one I think, a rather smutty vampire!fic. I haven't read it since the start, so I can't guarantee the quality of it...)
So I started searching up fics with Draco and Harry because I found out I liked them best and they were much more engaging than A/M. (I read a lot of Dramione at first as well, but I tired of them quickly.) Somewhere along the way I stumbled upon Cheryl Dyson's fics there (which I loved to bits!!!) and she'd linked to LJ on her profile so I started lurking here instead and never looked back. In the end I figured I should pull myself together and join in and here I am :D
(I actually never finished the last installment of the Draco Triology because the characters and their lack of communication started grating on my nerves...)
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I actually came into fandom through reading the Mortal Instruments, which is a bit embarassing because I've come to understand that Cassandra Clare is some kind of persona non grata in fandom (even if I don't really know the story there). I read the books a few years ago because I like reading YA-fiction every now and then and I got them recommended. Then early last year I saw mentioned somewhere that she had started out writing Harry Potter fan fiction and was intrigued because I've really really loved Harry Potter ever since I first started reading them at age 11. I'd never really heard much about fanfiction before that.
So I tried searching the internet for the Draco Triolgy (which turned out to be difficult because they'd mostly been taken down), and on the way I discovered ffnet and started reading there randomly. I read both HP and MI fanfiction in the beginning and it was actually through MI I discovered slash. There were a lot of Alec/Magnus fics which wasn't so strange since they're gay in the books and after a while I came over some rather smutty ones and found out that it was surprisingly hot. And then one of the authors I'd read A/M fics from had written some Drarry-fics as well. I just went with it and loved it. (I think this (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4135153/1/BloodBound) was my first one I think, a rather smutty vampire!fic. I haven't read it since the start, so I can't guarantee the quality of it...)
So I started searching up fics with Draco and Harry because I found out I liked them best and they were much more engaging than A/M. (I read a lot of Dramione at first as well, but I tired of them quickly.) Somewhere along the way I stumbled upon Cheryl Dyson's fics there (which I loved to bits!!!) and she'd linked to LJ on her profile so I started lurking here instead and never looked back. In the end I figured I should pull myself together and join in and here I am :D
(I actually never finished the last installment of the Draco Triology because the characters and their lack of communication started grating on my nerves...)