30 Days of Fanfic Meme - Day 1

Day 1: How did you first get into writing fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote for? What do you think it was about that fandom that pulled you in?

Short answer? Since I have been old enough to hold a pen/pencil I've been cobbling words together anyway I can. Other kids my age were colouring in and drawing, not me, I was painting pictures with words. Monochromatic, boring pictures at the time but still pictures. Writing was a by product of my other first love. Reading. From preschool age I drove my mother nuts. She would lose me in the supermarket and would always find me sitting on the floor in the cereal aisle reading the back of the boxes. So it was practically preordained that it wasn't going to be long before I started making new stories for the stuff I was soaking up from the tv.

First fandom I wrote for? Probably the Hardy Boys (remember the version with Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson) but I think I was writing Three for the Road (Leif Garrett, Vince Van Patten and Alex Roccos) and original Battlestar Galactica (You know the one where Starbuck is a hot guy and not a chick) fic at about the same time.

Hell, I remember at around the same time, seeing the original Battlestar Movie on the same day as the Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band movie (you know the really cheesy one with all the satin, Peter Frampton, the BeeGees and Alice Cooper?) and going home and writing missing scenes that I thought should have been in both movies.

First fic I seriously wrote and posted on the internet was The Young Riders.

Actually, does anyone remember the old Battle of the Network Stars they used to have once a year or so in the late 70's, early 80's? They really should do them again, whats not entertaining about watching that?

Oh, by the way, I tend to ramble and rarely give a short or coherent answer, just ask alassenya.

30 Days of Fanfic Meme - Day 1

Day 1: How did you first get into writing fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote for? What do you think it was about that fandom that pulled you in?

Short answer? Since I have been old enough to hold a pen/pencil I've been cobbling words together anyway I can. Other kids my age were colouring in and drawing, not me, I was painting pictures with words. Monochromatic, boring pictures at the time but still pictures. Writing was a by product of my other first love. Reading. From preschool age I drove my mother nuts. She would lose me in the supermarket and would always find me sitting on the floor in the cereal aisle reading the back of the boxes. So it was practically preordained that it wasn't going to be long before I started making new stories for the stuff I was soaking up from the tv.

First fandom I wrote for? Probably the Hardy Boys (remember the version with Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson) but I think I was writing Three for the Road (Leif Garrett, Vince Van Patten and Alex Roccos) and original Battlestar Galactica (You know the one where Starbuck is a hot guy and not a chick) fic at about the same time.

Hell, I remember at around the same time, seeing the original Battlestar Movie on the same day as the Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band movie (you know the really cheesy one with all the satin, Peter Frampton, the BeeGees and Alice Cooper?) and going home and writing missing scenes that I thought should have been in both movies.

First fic I seriously wrote and posted on the internet was The Young Riders.

Actually, does anyone remember the old Battle of the Network Stars they used to have once a year or so in the late 70's, early 80's? They really should do them again, whats not entertaining about watching that?

Oh, by the way, I tend to ramble and rarely give a short or coherent answer, just ask alassenya.

Time is a traveller

I have a sneaking suspicion that Australia may be getting H50 back as soon as we can after the US premiere.

From this Friday we're getting double episodes on Friday nights. We're not starting at the first ep however, we're starting at Ne Me'e Laua Na Paio and Ma Ke Kahakai, that would imply that we will have Ho'opa'i and Ho'ohuli Na'au on September 9 and Ua Hiki Mai Kapalena Pau along with Oia'i'o on the 16th.

Given that Oia'i'o is the finale and it will be refreshed in our collective aussie memories, and the premiere is on September 19 and Channel 10 has slotted anything permanently (the last three weeks there have been movies filling the spot) into the Sunday 8.30pm slot that was the H50 home, we might actually get lucky and get Ha'i'ole on September 24 and not have to wait until January like we did this year.

Well we can keep our fingers crossed anyway.

Time is a traveller

I have a sneaking suspicion that Australia may be getting H50 back as soon as we can after the US premiere.

From this Friday we're getting double episodes on Friday nights. We're not starting at the first ep however, we're starting at Ne Me'e Laua Na Paio and Ma Ke Kahakai, that would imply that we will have Ho'opa'i and Ho'ohuli Na'au on September 9 and Ua Hiki Mai Kapalena Pau along with Oia'i'o on the 16th.

Given that Oia'i'o is the finale and it will be refreshed in our collective aussie memories, and the premiere is on September 19 and Channel 10 has slotted anything permanently (the last three weeks there have been movies filling the spot) into the Sunday 8.30pm slot that was the H50 home, we might actually get lucky and get Ha'i'ole on September 24 and not have to wait until January like we did this year.

Well we can keep our fingers crossed anyway.