tell me a story, game!

[solo_sword]

So with the new kids coming in and showing off their shiny new fandoms, I'm curious.

How'd you get into your canon?

Did you just pick it up one day and found yourself unable to put it down, or did someone (maybe from this game) drag you into it? How long have you been into it? Was there any one thing or character that hooked you on it? This is your chance to wax nostalgic and go on about what made your canon so cool for you. If there's a story behind it, tell us! And if there's not... tell us anyway!

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[glacial_queen]

So, the Black Jewels Trilogy (cause it was a trilogy when I started reading it) was a completely random find. It was right after my birthday or Christmas or some gift-giving holiday because I had a stupid amount of money in Border's gift cards and those things NEVER last when I have them. My favorite part of Christmas is the December 26th trip to the bookstore.

After picking up whatever Mercedes Lackey book that had most recently come out in paperback (and probably the most recent Brian Jacques and Johanna Lindsey), I still had a lot of money left. So I did what any self-respecting, low-willpowered, spendthrifty bibliophile would do. I started buying up any book that caught my eye.

I picked up The Sword, The Ring, and The Chalice, all by Deborah Chester, all three BJT novels, and Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey. I got home and read the Chester trilogy first (meh). A day and a half later, I started on the Bishop novels. I was hooked. I read them through and then went back and read them through AGAIN.

And then went and read Kushiel's Dart which also blew my mind, but that's a story for when I app Favrielle or Hyacinthe.

I'm on my third copy of the trilogy. I read the first to pieces and the second to tatters--though the second copy are now my loaner copies so I don't have to go without when people borrow.

[spiritandsword]

And I thought I was the only one that read the Chester trilogy... and also thought it was meh. :D

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

Okay, this one I blame my sister. She was desperate to get me to watch this new show called The Class (which now makes me lol that I didn't keep watching it for totally other PB-related reasons) and she said that I'd probably like half-hour partner show, How I Met Your Mother because NPH was in it and we all loved him in Harold and Kumar, let's be real.

So I said, fine, it's not like I have a life! And I watched and I loved because HIMYM is just that perfect mix of insane and funny and real life situations that Friends never was IMO. Well, at least the first couple seasons were. And then I was thinking about classes that would be fun to teach at FH while I proctored exams there you go: Barney came to FH.

This was a short story as far as mine go, aww.

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

I for one would like to thank you for getting me and so many others more fully into HIMYM. I had watched and enjoyed it, but my work schedule during the first season meant that I just kept missing it, and then my schedule changed a little and I still kept missing it because I had just gotten out of the habit of watching.

AND THEN YOU RUINED EVERYTHING BY ROCKING BARNEY. So thanks. :D

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

I am a huge dork about all things historical, mythological and mixtures of the two. I am also a huge fan of girls in those situations that can kick ass. I was at the store to buy the director's cut of King Arthur and stopped to browse one of the aisles of other movies. The title Princess of Thieves jumped out at me, and upon reading the back of the DVD, I had to buy it. I loved it. I mean, this was a movie about Robin Hood's daughter! Obviously, I must own it! Yes, it was cheesy as hell, but it was a movie that quickly was added to my list of "cheers me up" movies.

A year or so later, I wanted to app a second character to FH, but I didn't know which of my numerous fandoms to app from. I wanted a character that was so completely different than Phoebe. I considered apping Guinevere or Elizabeth, and then in my historical-type movies section of my DVDs I saw Princess of Thieves. (Yes, my DVDs are arranged by genre. Aren't everyones?)

I decided that it could be incredibly entertaining to play a character like Gwynn in Fandom and so I worked on the app and submitted it. I've been happy about it ever since.

Of course, every time I watch the movie, I have to pause it to laugh hysterically over the fact that Prince Phillip grew up to be Bill Compton. My fandoms, they collided.

[light-a-spark.livejournal.com]

There's been quite a few FMA characters at FH, but I got into the series when Zuko ended up rooming with Alphonse. I adored the character and was so curiosu that I started watching the anime (the real one, not frigging Brotherhood) on youtube of all places. And I loved it. It's one of those series where every single character is made of win and you just end up loving all of them.

So once I finished the anime, I started mainlining the manga and... It was even more awesome. It made me love every character even more because they became more fleshed out. The anime sucks you in, the manga makes you never want to let them go.

And yes, once I finished, I just had to app Roy because kind of rules them all.

[make-the-shot.livejournal.com]

Hehehehehe. It's interesting that you love the manga, but don't seem to like Brotherhood ;)

But, yes, it's like every character in the series is amazing. Though my favorites are Roy and Riza... (Speaking of, if you haven't seen this (http://bookelfe.livejournal.com/171194.html), I think it might be of interest to you!)

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that Savannah happened because wantstocheer got me into the series. I believe it was one of those times I was having pain and couldn't do much. I wanted something new to read and she loaned me the first four in this series about different female supernaturals.(Oh hai one of my favorite things!) I read them in no time at all and there was this minor character that I just loved. I loved her story and her obstacles and I really loved her attitude about things.

I started playing her a little bit on a game that was going on on GJ and then I wanted to do something different.

I said: "I think I want to app Savannah somewhere."
Helpful Roomie said: "You should app her at FH."
I said: "I'll think about it."
Helpful Roomie: *laughs at me*

I worked on the app before the next app session opened and kept revising it and having people go over it. The next app session open, I submitted her and then I stressed like mad about it. :D

[joan-notjane.livejournal.com]

YOU SAY THIS LIKE I DID A BAD THING

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Oh Stargate. The canon started many, many, many years ago when I was a teenage!Jara and I had never been online. I was watching this fun show with MacGyver and his team (and a hot blonde named Sam Carter). Yeah, I was shipping them before I knew what shipping was.

I wasn't insanely involved in canon, internet was a far away thing for me and by the time I got online, I was getting myself involved in JAG fandom which made me discover fanfic and then I discovered SG fanfic. And fandom and livejournal and soon I was writing lots and lots of Sam/Jack fic. I kept that up for a long time until S7 and S8 became annoying and it started turning me off.

Then TPTB got an idea and they brought in Ben Browder. Which led to me becoming once more involved as I fell HARD for Cameron. I adored the character so much and after a couple of eps, I had an lj and was on another comm. That was about the time that FH was created and my flist was on it and I wanted in. So once they reopened those apps the second time, I was there with Cameron. I would have apped Kara, but somebody else got to her first and I took him instead.

Wow, I feel old.

[death-and-pies.livejournal.com]

If anyone remembers the commercials hyping Pushing Daisies, it was the COLORS that really got me interested. Everything was so incredibly bright and sharp. The yellows, the red, the greens, everything. For the longest time, I just wanted to watch the show because it was filmed so beautifully.

And then the show premiered. And there was Ned and the dog he can't touch. Chuck, the girl who died and came back to life. Olive, the waitress with an unrequited crush on Ned and Emerson, the surly PI. The premise was unlike anything I'd ever seen and every character was quirky, sharp, well developed and well acted.

I found it impossible to resist a show that was written, filmed and acted gorgeously. Throw in some musical numbers, great episodes and some amazing arcs? HOOKED. I legit cried when this show ended.

[make-the-shot.livejournal.com]

Ohmigosh, yes! The colors! It's such a beautiful show!

And it's so well written. I think Ned and Chuck would be too saccharine sweet to take all the time, but then there is bitter, bitter Emerson to offset things. And it's hilarious and sweet and beautiful.

I'm glad they got two seasons. Because, honestly, I always thought it was too quirky and special to make it very long. *hugs it tight*

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

My BFF got me into Vampire Academy so this really is all her fault. We spent a lot of time talking on the phone and bitching about how bad Twilight it, and finally she and her husband came up with a Plan. They were going to read every YA vampire book out there in hopes that some would be better.

Which was a plan I wholly supported obviously as it meant that I got to read the books too. So after a night of hanging out with the BFF, she sent me home (or to work rather) the next morning with like six YA vampire books. I brought Vampire Academy into work with me and read the whole thing during that shift. Maybe I worked too. I don't really know.

And then I was hooked and pissed that it was a Sunday night so I couldn't go directly to the bookstore to pick up Frostbite and Shadow Kiss. But Monday came soon enough, and I procured copies of both (and then was foiled by busyness at work so it took me longer to read those).

But the moment I remember the most is coming to the end of Shadow Kiss and not having ANYONE to talk to about it. The BFF hadn't read beyond VA, and so I attacked weetinyreese on AIM and asked permission then spoiled her so I could flail.

But yes -like guardian_god said - these books are what I wish Twilight was closer to. (Though since Richelle was asked if she wanted to write vampire books BECAUSE of Twilight, I remain thankful to the behomoth) They're action-filled, yes, but they're also full of emotion and I absolutely adore the premium placed on friendship and duty (two of my story kinks). And if the next 11 days doesn't kill me, the wait until December is going to. Just saying.

[guardian-god.livejournal.com]

ELEVEN DAYS.

I MIGHT BE FREAKING OUT A LITTLE.

JUST A LITTLE.




...and I might still hate you for doing this to me, fyi.

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

I have a soft spot for Disney Channel programming {especially original movies} and I knew of Selena Gomez from her stint on Hannah Montana, so when promos for Wizards of Waverly Place started, I decided to check it out.

I immediately fell in love with the show, as silly as it could be. I love anything having to do with magic, so a show about three wizards-in-training was right up my alley. The fact that they did a two {or three} part storyline to pay homage to Harry Potter made me love it even more.

Alex quickly became my favorite character since a) she was the only girl of the three kids and b) she was a bit of a rebel {and sometimes I wished I could be more like her, DON'T LAUGH}.

I love all its crazy, silly, cracked out goodness and it keeps topping itself -- vampires, mummies, werewolves, fairies, zombies, etc. -- clearly Alex was destined for Fandom on that alone. ;) Plus, I wanted a character who wasn't a fighter (hi Tori and Adam) or a do-gooder by nature but would help when the going got tough (research, ho!), hence my apping Alex.

[spiritandsword]

This is one of those fandoms that I just sort of fell into by accident.

I was hanging out a Books A Million while waiting for someone (I think) and I was wandering in the sci-fi/fantasy section. There was this book that had a yellow spine and the words "ROGUE ANGEL" on it. So, of course, I had to pick it up to peruse just for the title alone. I read a few pages and I was hooked. I mean you had this redheaded history buff who was an archaeologist and working for a cheesy cable TV show so she had money to do the things she wanted and go on archaeological digs? Of course I was going to love this series!

Then you add in the Sword belonging to Joan of Arc, Roux and Garin and you have one of my top five favorite book series ever! The books are full of supernatural stuff, the mythological/historical case of the moment (Solomon's Jar of demons!), and fun interactions with Annja and the guys. I could not stop reading these books (and even got wantstocheer to read the first couple, too.) 23 books later and I am still in love with the series and looking forward to the next books that come out. (I think the newest Rogue Angel book comes out in May...)

The fact that stylin_wizard and bigbrothersean are as much into the series as I am only helps. No really!

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

♥!

I am anxiously awaiting the next title. I have maybe four(?) to read before then but I want more, please!

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

I was a geeky little bookworm from a young age as were many of you. My love for Tortall stems from that. I remember exactly where I was when I read the first Alanna book - curled up in the corner of the itty bitty Waldenbooks that used to be on the corner of Kercheval and Notre Dame in Grosse Pointe, MI. I finished the first book while my mom and grandma were shopping across the street in Jacobson's and then begged to be able to buy all four. I was 8, yeah.

So I read and reread the whole quartet over and over until I was 14, but then we moved and somehow the books got lost in the move, and I remembered the Alanna books fondly but never realised there were more than the Lioness Quartet.

Right up until I joined LJ and a costuming friend (yes, that's how I got into LJ, IDEK) and I started gushing about YA books and Tamora Pierce and she enlightened me about the fact that there were more. Which sent me to the bookstore to pick them up - including Trickster's Choice, the first Aly book - which led me to waiting impatiently for the second to be published. And the rest, as they say, is history. Especially the part where I realised FH had an Alanna who might need her brain shattered by a daughter. :D

[glacial_queen]

...I didn't find out about Tamora Pierce until college.

Not. Even. Fair.

[icecoldfrost]

I got into Marvel/X-Men because my best friend's dad had an entire archive of comics. He'd get the boxes down for us, and we'd spend hours pouring over them, reading all the classic stuff time and time again.

My mother actually had outlawed them in my house, as 'trash reading' that would give me distorted body-image issues. It wasn't until high school that I found the newer stuff, and started buying Generation X at the comic shop up the street from my high school, and hiding them in my room. That's where I fell in love with Emma Frost, and I have not looked back.

[steel-not-glass.livejournal.com]

I was about to give credit to my best friend for introducing me to Fables when I remembered that he didn't actually do it. I was in college (a magical time for discovery, it turns out) and another friend of ours had bought the first few single issues of Fables. The first six are a whodunnit, where Snow White and Bigby are searching for the murderer of Snow's sister, Rose Red.

(Also, there's a cameo of Cindy, fencing with Bluebeard, her ex-husband and a suspect. Yay, Cindy!)

It was a good read, fun and interesting, and I liked the conceit of all the Fables living in NYC. But it was college and something new grabbed my attention and I forgot about it.

Until several years later when my BFF shows up at me door, his arms full of trades and informs me, "These are awesome comics. You love fairy tales, you love intrigue, you love Veritgo. Shut up and read these and talk to me when you're done."

He was right so I did and they're awesome. And now I'm slowly infecting the rest of you. Bwaha.

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

I was about to give credit to my best friend for introducing me to Fables when I remembered that he didn't actually do it.

:O

You gave him credit for it when I talked to you about it this morning!

And yes, my stack of the trades is rapidly growing . . . although my coworker currently has the first two. It's my revenge for her mocking me yesterday about going to buy comics. :D (Yes, I told you this. I feel the need to share with everyone at large.)

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of a big reader, and I was a lot worse as a kid. Animorphs was one of the random books I just grabbed off a shelf in the library because it looked cool and started reading. I remember the first book was actually the fifth one in the series - aka the one where Marco found out his mother was still alive. I fell in love with that storyline and the characters and then just kept going through all the books in the library. And all the ones in my school library. And all the ones in the Stanford library. (My parents were fairly used to dragging me out of libraries by then.) I had purchased the last two books through the book orders they had in class (anyone else remember those?) and finished reading them during lunch and then history class. And then cried in history class.

~~~~

The first Alanna book I picked up was actually the second. It was the fourth grade and the librarian recommended. I hated it with a passion.

Then, in seventh grade, a friend told me to hold her copy of Daja's book, and being the good little bookworm, I read it. (I gave it back to her two classes later.) She then told me there were more books by the author and I backed up and read the Alanna books. And then I read them again. And again. And then my mom took away my copy of the fourth book because it was falling apart.

~~~
Keeper Chronicles are my Fandom High fandom. Someone mentioned in passing the Blood books and I stumbled across the fact that the bastard son of Henry VIII was a vampire in the series and being the Tudor geek I am, went looking for more information. For some reason, this ended with me watching the two seasons of the show. Possible in one week.

I thought it was a very good show and thought little of it until March of that year. Every year in March, I go on a reading binge. After I finished re-reading all the Dresden Files, I remembered that there were those vampire books. So I read them all in a week.

I then started reading the Keeper Chronicles and Thursday Next at the same time and that was a Bad Idea. They were slightly too similar in the beginning and got smushed together in my head and I never got very far.

About half a year after that, I finally got through the Keeper Chronicles Books 1 and 2 in one sitting. I only got interrupted in Book 3 because I had something going on that was pulling me away from my laptop.

[bigdamnprincipal]

I don't even really remember how I got into Firefly, just that I loved it and then it was gooooone. I was a huge Buffy fan right up through the end, so when Joss Whedon made another show, I was right there and ready. (I have to admit though, I still haven't seen a single episode of Dollhouse. Oops.) I'm not really fannishly involved in Firefly - by that, I mean I don't typically read fanfic for it because I'm quite happy with the series the way it is - but I love it anyway.

[weetuskenraider]

(I have to admit though, I still haven't seen a single episode of Dollhouse. Oops.)

It's okay. Neither have I. Oops?

[awakestheghosts]

Okay, so I was told that Kelley Armstrong was coming out with a new YA series about supernatural kids. Only, they weren't all aware that they were supernaturals and they all get stuck in this group home for "troubled" kids.

Well, sign me right up to read that! After all, she wrote the series Savannah was from and I loved it.

*sighs*

Yeah. I got sucked in immediately when reading about Chloe and what she was going through. She had this one belief about her life, only to get everything all turned upside down in the most traumatic way possible. I loved her after the first book but managed to wait until I read the second book to app her.

She was a completely different character for me to play. She had very low confidence, couldn't fight at all, had a power that she hated, and was a writer.

[awesomebigsis.livejournal.com]

I started to watch Chuck because I was looking for something to replace The OC. Both Chuck and Gossip Girl were candidates because they were also created by Josh Shwartz. Gossip Girl did not grab me right away and I stopped watching after the second episode (though went back and got caught up later). Chuck had a more OCish vibe than GG did, oddly. It was the pretty setting and the music type that was used on the show I guess.

Anyway, I got hooked completely. The main character as so geeky and charming, Sarah is so badass, and Casey is awesome. But it was Chuck and Ellie's relationship that really interested me. I am a fan of family stuff on tv shows, and this one was fascinating what with their abandonment issues and all. Josh Schwartz has even said their relationship is the soul of the show. The spy stuff is pretty cool, too.

Unlike other Josh shows, this one is actually still pretty good in season three. I have no problem saying this is my favoite show on tv at the moment.

[bitten_notshy]

Second summer session of 2007, I got assigned Abigail Irene Garrett as Tyler's teaching buddy. I had heard precisely nothing about the book or the author, but the things Danii mentioned about it seemed interesting, so I put it on my list of books to maybe possibly someday read. (Note: This list is about 30 single-spaced pages long.) And it probably would have ended there, except that, about a week later, I was at the library and New Amsterdam was on one of the new books displays.

"Huh," I said, picked it up, checked it out ... and read it to cover to cover that night.

I think the first thing that made me love the book was, and I'll own this, I have A Thing about vampire stories. I like young angry ones and old sad ones and all the kinds in between. And Sebastien is about the oldest and saddest vampire of them all. And then there's Jack, who's so young and wounded and covering for it so well, and -- I don't know how to explain it beyond saying it spoke to me. And of course there's Abigail Irene herself, who is just a unique kind of character -- a Victorian woman who is so much her own master.

The plot isn't really the book's strength, and the ending can only be called cruel, but when New Amsterdam just puts characters in a room and makes them talk they say and do extraordinary things. I loved that.

And then he had to wait a year because I cannot play Jack and Romeo on the same day without my wee brain getting confuzzled. I think it was worth it, I just wish I'd said "screw canon" and made Jack a year younger. *is keeping him forever for reals*

[life_inshadow]

I was lame and didn't seriously start watching Buffy until S5. Part of that was that I was in college and didn't have my own TV a lot of the time before then, and the odd episodes I saw didn't really do all that much for me.

Then I saw "Crush", fell for Spike HARD (hey, I already owned my vampire fetish, I'll own the Spike thing too) and kept watching. Then "The Body" aired two weeks later and it was like -- if a show can do this kind of angst, and hot smutty vampire stuff, and comedy, I'm in for realz. I spent most of the next year trying to watch every episode up to that point, which was harder back before DVDs.

Also, liking Buffy lead me to the Buffy boards on Table Talk. Those went to buffistas.org after Table Talk went paid, buffistas.org lead me to LJ, LJ lead me to fanfic writing, fanfic writing lead me, ultimately, here. Not a bad place to get to from thinking James Marsters is hot.

[glacial_queen]

If you're lame and didn't watch Buffy tile S5, what does it mean that I didn't start watching it till summer of last year?

[eager-platypus.livejournal.com]

I got into NCIS because of Supernatural, actually. Misha Collins (the guy who plays Castiel) has been on pretty much every procedural law and order show on TV, including NCIS, and the first episode I saw was the one he was in. Now, I don't watch a lot of these types of shows because it really doesn't take much for me to figure out who committed the given crime, and I am totally oblivious when it comes to most mysteries, so if I can figure out who the killer is before the people on the TV, that's a bad sign on the intelligence of those characters.

But NCIS was different - it was genuinely smart and there was a twist that kept all the facts from being laid on the table at the half an hour mark. Also? Cote de Pablo is really really really hot and Ziva was funny and I remembered Abby from when we had one in Fandom and I wanted to see more of them. So, I started downloading at season three since that's where Ziva showed up, and got myself hooked from there. It's actually only in the last few weeks that I finally watched the first two seasons, haha!

[absolutesnark]

My sister is the one who got me into Charmed simply because of a conversation we had back in the summer of 1998. It went something like this:

Sister: There's gonna be a show on the WB about three sisters who are witches staring Shannen Doherty and Alyssa Milano.
Me: So?
Sister: And also Holly Marie Combs.
Me: Oooooh.

Seriously. I had been a fan of hers since Picket Fences and had even watched her Lifetime movies. I was so happy she had gotten a new television series. I was expecting it to suck because it was an Aaron Spelling show. I was pleasantly surprised at how good it as (this was before it went to hell). I loved the sisterly relationships most of all. Like I said before, I enjoy family dynamic stuff on tv shows. Of course, Piper instantly became my favorite character, not just because HMC was playing her. I related to her neurotic shyness and her struggles to be normal. Sometimes it could be annoying, but I thought it was so realistic. Maybe because the acting was pretty damn good and Holly could sell anything.

Even when the show sucked like a sucking thing, there were still moments that made it worth watching. I admit, I have not found a show quite like it since it ended, and I wish I did.

[living_endless]

I was never a comics person. Comics intimidate the crap out of me most of the time. But back in 2003-04, I had this job where this guy Bryan wouldn't shut up about, like, Ex Machina and Y: The Last Man, and I borrowed a few graphic novels from him just out of curiosity. I loved them, and Bryan told me what I really had to do was read Sandman. (I had a vague nodding familiarity with Gaiman -- I'd read Neverwhere years before -- but nothing beyond that.)

I am a sheep, so I went and got the first volume. Didn't get it, didn't get it, didn't get it, was pretty much reading just so I could say I'd finished it ... and then I got to the last issue in the collection. The story where Death tells her brother off for being an idiot, and Dream watches her do her job. There's no drama; it's just a quiet day with two siblings.

And then I got it.

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, yes. I've always kinda wished that Sandman had just been about Death because she's so... well... herself.

But then it wouldn't have worked (sadly). She's still my favorite, and that issue? Still the best.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

So in fall 2005, I was flipping through the fall preview issue of TV Guide, reading the synopses of the new shows, trying to figure out which ones were worth checking out. There was one for a show called Supernatural, which I read and went.... meh. The synopsis didn't thrill me at all, in fact it made me roll my eyes and put it on my "yeah, not watching" list. I can't even remember now what was so bad about it, just that it made it sound boring and contrived and not worth checking out.

But then the pilot ep aired and a good portion of my flist were raving about it so I figured maybe I should check it out after all. I *ahem* acquired the pilot online and watched it and, then watched the second ep when it aired the next week. I decided that yeah, it was pretty good, reminding me a lot of MOTW X-Files ep except with a more supernatural and less alien bent. I was in serious like with the show, and the next week when they used the aliases Agents Ford and Hamill, my geek meta humor loving heart fell for it a bit more.

I think it was about halfway through season one when I realized that not only did I seriously love the show, but that it seemed to be playing to every single one of my story telling kinks. An underlying mytharc, humor mixed with drama, characters who were awesome and cared for each other and, more than that, showed it, even if they were guys and canonically eschewed "chick flick moments". I've called Supernatural the show that was written just for me and it really does feel like that sometimes. (Now if I can only get them to stop killing off all the recurring characters I love....)

[likethegun]

I love how neither one of us were wowed by the synopsis of the show and didn't intend on watching it until we did. :D

[bigbadgunn.livejournal.com]

All my current fandoms are a result of Buffy. That's right. Oh sure, I had my comic book geek days in high school and my obsession with Star Wars when I was a kid but after college I dropped collecting comics and The Phantom Menace was an abomination in my mind so... Yeah. Wasn't much of a Fandom guy at all for the late 90 and early 2000's.

Then my wife got fired from her job and got addicted to various TV shows. One of them was unfortunately Jerry Springer but the other was Buffy. We came into the Fandom right at the end of Season Five and thankfully FX was around to show all the damn shows twice a day so we were able to get caught up by the end of the summer for the most part. I was a die hard Xander fan and really could take or leave the rest of the characters. For me, it might as well been called "Xander: The Snarky Scooby".

Then along came Chosen and then end of the series and... Okay I have no idea how anyone could NOT be happy with the way the series ended. I thought it was awesome. My only nitpick is that I wanted something more to wrap up Anya and Xander in a way so I wrote a fic based on Season Five of Angel. And that in turn brought on even more Xander based fic.

Then I posted it all to the Slayer Fan Fic Archive. Then scruffnfeathers brought me into LJ. Then Nate's babbling about FH brought me here and... well, let's see:

* Trying to find a solution to the whole being two places at once in the game got me into MadroX and X-Factor. This in turn got me back into comics in general and then...
* bruiser_in_pink recommended I read Fray and then
* bruiserinpink got me hooked on Runaways but after Joss (AND THE OMG HIATUSES OF DOOM) I stopped reading the comic all together.
* NCIS came about from finally settling down to watch the show because of the Abby Sciuto in our game.
* guardianborn's character made me pick up the book in Wal-Mart of all places and three days later I was pinging Emily with rants like "HOW CAN SHE NOT KNOW HE'S THE FATHER?"
* sith_happened's entire character arc eventually forced me to rent and watch Revenge of the Sith. I have no love for the movie and fell asleep twice on two different occasions trying to watch it. However Fry and other SW characters in the game have to be blamed for me spending hours on Wookiepedia.
* Finally got around to watching Serenity because of bigdamndean and then went back and bought the entire television series so I could watch it again and take better notice of it.
* The whole damn cast of SG-1 that was here during the first year of the game got me watching that show
* southernbender, thebluespirit and sarcasm_guy are all to blame for me mainlining Avatar: The Last Airbender like a maniac.
* SiP? *points at thismaskiwear* Katchoo had a plot and need a Feeb. I got comics to make sure I knew the story I had to work with and just kept reading from there.


And there's sooooo much more.

[thismaskiwear.livejournal.com]

I got comics to make sure I knew the story I had to work with and just kept reading from there.

And I love you for doing the research, and am not at all sorry you enjoyed it in the process. :D

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The way I got into the The OC is kind of amusing. I belonged to a mostly Buffyverse related RPG and I thought it would be funny to play Colleen the SIT there (she was in Xander's dream in "Dirty Girls") because every other SIT was in that game. I looked up who the actress was, finding out she was Rachel Bilson. I had never heard of her, of course. In searching for pics for potential icons, I found out she was going to be on a show called The OC which was going to premiere a week later. I thought that was an amusing coincidence. I also thought, with a name like that, it was going to be so stupid. Of course, I thought the same thing of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ;)

Anyway, I watched and thought Rachel's character Summer was an awful human being, yet I found her amusing. Later, she was given so many more layers and became an awesome and integral part of the show. She was a bitch, but she was also compassionate and fiercely loyal. Falling for the geek on the show just endeared her to me forever. The show was so good, too.

Season One was television gold. It was even critically acclaimed. I stuck with it in S2 even though it kinda started to go down hill. I gave up in S3, only to be sucked back in with the S3 finale (I'm sure many of you know why). Came back in S4 because I had app'd Summer here. That was a really great season and was almost S1 levels of awesome. Then it got canceled, woe. And I did a re-watch of the whole show, including all of S3. It was pretty dreadful, but Summer was so awesome that season. Her snark reached epic levels and she even told off Marissa! So much love.

That character in that RPG didn't last very long. I got bored playing someone with zero background. But I probably would not have gotten into The OC had it not been for that character. So thanks Joss!

That was more babbling about this show than I intended.