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April 4, 2015
4. What was your first episode of Supernatural?

Croatoan 2x09 was my first episode. I had heard about the show and seen commercials, but it was on a night I was usually busy and hadn't thought much of it or bothered to tape it. I happened to catch Croatoan one of the nights I wasn't busy and instantly fell for the show.

I love dark shows and movies, anything about monsters or aliens or serial killers or just plain dark characters. So yeah, it wasn't hard to fall in love with the show.

I caught up pretty quickly and haven't stopped since. Of course the fact that pretty much everybody on the show was hot did have some influence. Meg #1, John, Dean, and Sam were all among the really fuckin' hot characters that I looked forward to watching each week.

I started writing a Supernatural fanfic shortly after Nightshifter 2x12 aired. It begins directly following the episode. It has sat on my hard drive for years, being added to every once in a while, and it's currently at around 100,000 words. Once of these days I'll post it. I named it Dreamweaver just recently, and I'm pretty sure it's done, I just need to do a final edit.

Something that really pulled me in was the music. Not just what Dean liked, but what played during intense scenes. I remember watching Folsom Prison Blues 2x19 and I almost forgot to breathe when Rooster by Alice in Chains played. I think I drooled.

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April 1, 2015
2. First ever fandom/fic/pairing?

Years ago I was curious about the world of Stargate, so I went online to see if there were others who liked it and stumbled upon fanfiction at an SG1 forum. There was this guy who wrote amazing SG1 fanfic (I can't remember his name and he wrote long, plotty, gen fics), but because of a thread there where people were bashing slash fic (which this guy didn't write, but didn't bash and ended up defending), I became curious about what slash fic was. I hadn't read a ton of gen fic yet, but enough to realize I loved fanfic.

Anyway, searching for slash fic opened up a whole world to me because what I'd been doing with characters in my head for years, other people were doing the same and posting it! I read A LOT of SG1 slash fic and as much femmeslash as I could get my hands on. My favorite pairing was Jack/Daniel, but I really liked Janet paired with OFCs or Sam. I'm not a huge Sam fan, but it was worth it when she was paired with Janet. There were a few Daniel/Janet fics I really liked too.

From there I started branching out to see if other shows were involved in this wonderful world of fanfic. I believe my next fandom was either X-Files or Star Trek, but I focused a little more on X-Files, both of which I still read.

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April 1, 2015: Day One
1. What are your all-time favorite fandoms?

There are a lot of shows I’ve liked watching over the years, but when it comes to fandoms that I’m active in, that includes Angel the Series/Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dark Angel, Sentinel, Sherlock, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate Atlantis, Supernatural, and X-Files.

Supernatural is the bulk of what I read and write these days, but I also read quite a bit of AtS/BtVS, Stargate Atlantis, and X-Files. Tomorrow I’ll be writing about how I got into fandom and fanfiction, but suffice to say I also read quite a bit of Stargate SG1 at first.

I really like fusions and crossovers, my favorites being Sentinel, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, and Highlander, though I don’t read a lot of those original ‘verses.

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