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.