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Tell me about your first time...
... Reading fanfic, reading slash.
I remember when I found fanfiction. It was after I read Goblet of Fire and was waiting for OotP to come out. I found a story, I don't remember how, I didn't know what "fanfiction" was, so I thought it was just someone writing how they wished/dreamed/thought the books would continue; a short story inspired by the books. And so read it.
In retrospect, I realise this was a Draco/Hermione story. It was PG (from what I recall) and it was good. I was a bit confused though, because I didn't understand why Draco was being nice all of the sudden, and why Hermione wanted to hang out with him instead of Harry and Ron. I didn't know what "ships" were either! But still, I thought it was a pretty nifty idea.
Went looking for more. Did some more searching and Ta Dah! Slash. Or rather: SLASH
I read my first slash fanfiction. It was Harry/Draco, NC 17 and a PWP to boot! It was pretty much the hottest thing I had read in my life, up to then. It was. . . it was like seeing life in colours, with the celestial illumination and miracle music and all. (For a more accurate illustration of my actual reaction, see here. Yes. That was me all right.)
I was all, "Oh, this is awesome. I wonder if there's more?" (Only, you know, in CAPS LOCKS and with a crazy/obsessed glint in my eyes.)
And thank you, Internet, because, yep, it turned out there was quite a bit more out there. :D
I found websites and slash web-rings. Eventually I made my way to the yahoo groups, which is where the Harry Potter community lived; slash, femslash, het, it all happened through yahoo groups, later on I found fanfiction.net (I still remember when ffnet was cool), and after a couple of years there, it all moved to livejournal. The rest, is history.
But man, what a thrill; finding, discovering! Opening your eyes to something new, falling in love with a fandom, finding people who loved something as much I did and created all these amazing stories and art, being part of something bigger. *happy sigh*
What about you? How did you find fanfiction? How did you find Slash? Was it Harry Potter first or a different fandom?
I remember when I found fanfiction. It was after I read Goblet of Fire and was waiting for OotP to come out. I found a story, I don't remember how, I didn't know what "fanfiction" was, so I thought it was just someone writing how they wished/dreamed/thought the books would continue; a short story inspired by the books. And so read it.
In retrospect, I realise this was a Draco/Hermione story. It was PG (from what I recall) and it was good. I was a bit confused though, because I didn't understand why Draco was being nice all of the sudden, and why Hermione wanted to hang out with him instead of Harry and Ron. I didn't know what "ships" were either! But still, I thought it was a pretty nifty idea.
Went looking for more. Did some more searching and Ta Dah! Slash. Or rather: SLASH
I read my first slash fanfiction. It was Harry/Draco, NC 17 and a PWP to boot! It was pretty much the hottest thing I had read in my life, up to then. It was. . . it was like seeing life in colours, with the celestial illumination and miracle music and all. (For a more accurate illustration of my actual reaction, see here. Yes. That was me all right.)
I was all, "Oh, this is awesome. I wonder if there's more?" (Only, you know, in CAPS LOCKS and with a crazy/obsessed glint in my eyes.)
And thank you, Internet, because, yep, it turned out there was quite a bit more out there. :D
I found websites and slash web-rings. Eventually I made my way to the yahoo groups, which is where the Harry Potter community lived; slash, femslash, het, it all happened through yahoo groups, later on I found fanfiction.net (I still remember when ffnet was cool), and after a couple of years there, it all moved to livejournal. The rest, is history.
But man, what a thrill; finding, discovering! Opening your eyes to something new, falling in love with a fandom, finding people who loved something as much I did and created all these amazing stories and art, being part of something bigger. *happy sigh*
What about you? How did you find fanfiction? How did you find Slash? Was it Harry Potter first or a different fandom?
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It was like a gate opening for me. I had no idea that a thing like that existed, that people did art about HP characters that aren't really together in the books.
I continued to stumble through the site and found first H/D fanfictions (that pairing had instantly caught my interest). All in German but I immediately fell in love.
After I read my first HP book in English, though (with great effort I tell you, I wasn't good at English back then, needed a dicitionary at all times) I noticed that the German fandom couldn't really give me what I needed, that there was something lacking in the fics. For me, German just didn't seem suited to gay fiction. We don't have any graceful words for anything sex related, therefore every sex story always seemed incredibly corny or disgusting to me. So when I finally understood English better I began to appreciate how fiction was written in that language. I would start to read H/D fiction everyday. I was often sitting in school, being all fidgety, because I wanted to go home and continue the story that I had to stop reading the evening before.
My English improved so fast that my teacher actually took me aside and asked me how I'd done it. I lied and said I'd read lots of English books.
Next day she used me as an example in front of class how reading English literature was important. It was embarrassing but she wasn't really lying, was she? :D
The rest is history I guess, I'd never thought I would still read Harry/Draco today. It's a bit weird having one OTP for almost 10 years now, without ever reading anything else :D
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It's the same in my language. I've never searched for fanfiction in Norwegian, and I don't even know if it exists, but I can't imagine it being anything other than embarrasing and horrible.
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But yes, fanfiction sort of takes over your life!
I don't think it's weird having the same OTP so long, all your life, even. :D It's romantic. <3