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burntcopperWell, that's been...mmm... the last five years of my life.
I think I got into it by a crossover, or someone having fic on their site, because I started in Comics and Professionals fandom. My fandom involvement's always pretty much lived or died by the fic. (except for comics, where I was a message board whore for a few years). Then read tons of fic, read the backstory, viewed the piccies, and waited on tenterhooks for it to come onto BBC, having only got Sky recently.
It was what got me into making websites, started purely because I wanted to have somewhere to park my fic. Then I learnt a bit more, wrote a load of fic, got a domain, *then* I was pouting that there seemed to be no real site or writers guild on Giles/Ethan (the old Tev Ye guild, not the organised one of now).![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
soulstar decided to tempt me into making one. Then came the Wes/Angel guild site Dangerous Habits which was horribly defaced and destroyed after I gave it away to someone who has what seems to have no idea of how html works. Learned my lesson there. More sites came and went, html grew, the whole 'site must be pretty' made sure I learned how to use photoshop. I wouldn't have the first clue about digital manipulation if it wasn't for Buffy, because previously I had bugger all interest in manipping my photos.
Buffy also made me a lot of friends - I'd had friends in comics fandom, but these were people who were just as insane and geeky as comics people, and over a tv show. They're also the ones that got me meeting up with people over the net and going to conventions. First meeting was going to a party atsoulstar's, who I'd originally got talking with about Sex, Chips and Rock 'n' Roll after I feedbacked on a fic of hers. Kind of spiralled from there.
Nowadays I'm much more of an Angel girl - have been since it aired, because Buffy went down the angst trail (And the Marti Noxon trail). I enjoyed it, I loved the characters, just stopped liking Buffy herself and her angstings so much and enjoyed Angel more, so much more. It's darker and funnier and more mature. Never quite got Buffy's stance of 'they're human, they're absolved of wrongdoing' and 'all demons bad! Kill!' I sold my Buffy vids when I was strapped for cash back in uni. Didn't sell my Angel ones. Might buy the DVDs when I have enough money but for now I can live without 'em. Except possibly S3, because, well, Faith & Wes.
Stuck with it faithfully through the last few seasons, then went kind of 'eh' in the last season because it went so much downhill since the SiTs were introed and I ceased to care if I'd missed ten minutes. So fare thee well, Buffy, going with a bit of a whimper. It's not going to be heartbreaking because I was gradually cutting the ties a few years ago. I'll go to all the cons and keep reading the fic because I love the cons for themselves with their guests and con regulars and parties, and the fic because, well, you're talking to someone who has a habit of getting into the fic of a show just when it's finishing or has been finished for a while. Just think it'll slow down some.
I think I got into it by a crossover, or someone having fic on their site, because I started in Comics and Professionals fandom. My fandom involvement's always pretty much lived or died by the fic. (except for comics, where I was a message board whore for a few years). Then read tons of fic, read the backstory, viewed the piccies, and waited on tenterhooks for it to come onto BBC, having only got Sky recently.
It was what got me into making websites, started purely because I wanted to have somewhere to park my fic. Then I learnt a bit more, wrote a load of fic, got a domain, *then* I was pouting that there seemed to be no real site or writers guild on Giles/Ethan (the old Tev Ye guild, not the organised one of now).
soulstar decided to tempt me into making one. Then came the Wes/Angel guild site Dangerous Habits which was horribly defaced and destroyed after I gave it away to someone who has what seems to have no idea of how html works. Learned my lesson there. More sites came and went, html grew, the whole 'site must be pretty' made sure I learned how to use photoshop. I wouldn't have the first clue about digital manipulation if it wasn't for Buffy, because previously I had bugger all interest in manipping my photos.Buffy also made me a lot of friends - I'd had friends in comics fandom, but these were people who were just as insane and geeky as comics people, and over a tv show. They're also the ones that got me meeting up with people over the net and going to conventions. First meeting was going to a party at
soulstar's, who I'd originally got talking with about Sex, Chips and Rock 'n' Roll after I feedbacked on a fic of hers. Kind of spiralled from there.Nowadays I'm much more of an Angel girl - have been since it aired, because Buffy went down the angst trail (And the Marti Noxon trail). I enjoyed it, I loved the characters, just stopped liking Buffy herself and her angstings so much and enjoyed Angel more, so much more. It's darker and funnier and more mature. Never quite got Buffy's stance of 'they're human, they're absolved of wrongdoing' and 'all demons bad! Kill!' I sold my Buffy vids when I was strapped for cash back in uni. Didn't sell my Angel ones. Might buy the DVDs when I have enough money but for now I can live without 'em. Except possibly S3, because, well, Faith & Wes.
Stuck with it faithfully through the last few seasons, then went kind of 'eh' in the last season because it went so much downhill since the SiTs were introed and I ceased to care if I'd missed ten minutes. So fare thee well, Buffy, going with a bit of a whimper. It's not going to be heartbreaking because I was gradually cutting the ties a few years ago. I'll go to all the cons and keep reading the fic because I love the cons for themselves with their guests and con regulars and parties, and the fic because, well, you're talking to someone who has a habit of getting into the fic of a show just when it's finishing or has been finished for a while. Just think it'll slow down some.
