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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[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.

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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.

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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.