Here I am, at long last

[ahbuggrit]

I've been meaning to set up a dw account for a while, was spurred on with the closing of Imzy, and here I am! Haven't set up too much... or explored much... but the account has been made which is the first step!

Funny that I set up a new account just as my life starts to get busy...

(also, got little to no experience, as I didn't really use LJ when it was around, I just binged fics on ffDOTnet... lol. Hopefully I make a better go of making fandom friends this time around).

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[mandralyne]

I got into message boards because of Canadian Idol. I used the boards on the CI website and then once the competitor I liked got eliminated I lurked on the boards of the heavy metal band he and his brother were in and rejoined when a site dedicated to him was made and I made my first set of fandom friends from there. I still have those lovely women all on Facebook now.

I used to love leaving comments on FFNet and getting shoutouts from the author at the end of the story. I remember one Dramione fic in particular.

[ahbuggrit]

OMG the Canadian Idol thing sounds cute. I can totally see younger me doing that, if I was more savvy, lol.

And same! re: FFNet shoutouts in the comments. Can't recall it for Dramione really (a Harry Potter pairing I'm still low-key in love with) but did for a couple Naruto ones.

[mandralyne]

CTV really advertised the message boards during the show. They'd be like go to our website with a link to the website on TV to chat with other fans of your favourite competitor.

This is the Dramione fic https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2983290/1/The-Quarter-Moon-Gamble. I don't really remember other fics from around 06 except for that one. All I remember is I'd get to stay up late online Friday nights and I'd spend hours on FFN. Otherwise, I just read like 1000/2000 word fics while my parents were out shopping because of a shared family PC on dial-up in the living room. My preferred pairings were Ron/Hermione, Draco/Hermione, Draco/Ginny, and occasionally I'd read a Hermione/Ginny fic or two.

I remember I didn't read my first mslash fic until 2009 and it was Draco/Ron because I was confused as to how they'd be compatible.

[ahbuggrit]

Damn, CTV was ahead of its time. Or maybe of its time, and things are just really slow to adapt here in Ireland =_=

I actually started with mslash, because I was hunting for more Petshop of Horrors stuff and stumbled on a Count D/Leon fic... and read a lot of het and slash from there on, lol.

Haven't read the Quarter Moon Gamble, going to have to put it on my to-read list, thanks!

[mandralyne]

They were ahead of their time. Every CTV original had a message board and a website. Some even had games (The Corner Gas car fueling game was hilarious)

[ahbuggrit]

That is frcking amazing. If there'd been stuff like that available to me, I might have found internet communities sooner.