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I know I don't post on here a lot anymore, but I thought I had to make a post today.
Exactly 20 years ago today I posted my very first fanfic on the old Fanfiction.net.
20 years ago I took the step from lurker, took the name Oneiriad, because I had to call myself something, right? And joined fandom.
Oh, I'd consumed fandom before then - read and watched, as far as the circumstances allowed, when you grew up in Denmark in the 90s and internet didn't happen to you until you were 15 and in gymnasium, and tv was always at least one and often two-three seeasons behind (if it even bothered to pick up the shows at all).
20 years ago the itch of a story pushed through into something I actually posted. Oh, there'd been false starts - half-written fic that I never quite fell good enough to dare. But twenty years ago, I clicked post on the first chapter of my sadly never to be finished PotC fic "Falling Into Heaven, Falling Into Hell".
Since that, there's been 156 fics written across about 74 canons (as AO3 counts) (the latest today: A Hard Day's Night WoH/MDZS, posted today, because I'd be damned if I didn't post a fic today); 3 major fandoms and a smattering of smaller ones in between; 15 Yuletides and sundry other exchanges; etc.
20 years of study and then jobs, of four different homes, of travelling; of at long last a cat to embrace my inner crazy cat lady with, of figuring out my sexuality (or rather lack thereof - 90s Denmark can't be blamed for having had, well, any amount of ressources on asexuality).
And there's been people. So many people floating in and out of my internet life, starting with Raphe1, who left me my very first comment and encouraged me to join Livejournal back when LJ was the place to be, before that Russian invasion - and who knows where they are today. So many people, some I've even had the great pleasure of meeting in real life, hell, some helped me along the way that led to my current job. And others have faded out - lost to moves between platforms or shifts to other fandoms or just, well - fandom is a transient, fickle beast.
So yeah, I thought I should make a post today.
Because honestly? Ups and downs, sure, but it's been 20 years of fandom that I would not have wanted to go without. Here's to twenty more, y/y?
Exactly 20 years ago today I posted my very first fanfic on the old Fanfiction.net.
20 years ago I took the step from lurker, took the name Oneiriad, because I had to call myself something, right? And joined fandom.
Oh, I'd consumed fandom before then - read and watched, as far as the circumstances allowed, when you grew up in Denmark in the 90s and internet didn't happen to you until you were 15 and in gymnasium, and tv was always at least one and often two-three seeasons behind (if it even bothered to pick up the shows at all).
20 years ago the itch of a story pushed through into something I actually posted. Oh, there'd been false starts - half-written fic that I never quite fell good enough to dare. But twenty years ago, I clicked post on the first chapter of my sadly never to be finished PotC fic "Falling Into Heaven, Falling Into Hell".
Since that, there's been 156 fics written across about 74 canons (as AO3 counts) (the latest today: A Hard Day's Night WoH/MDZS, posted today, because I'd be damned if I didn't post a fic today); 3 major fandoms and a smattering of smaller ones in between; 15 Yuletides and sundry other exchanges; etc.
20 years of study and then jobs, of four different homes, of travelling; of at long last a cat to embrace my inner crazy cat lady with, of figuring out my sexuality (or rather lack thereof - 90s Denmark can't be blamed for having had, well, any amount of ressources on asexuality).
And there's been people. So many people floating in and out of my internet life, starting with Raphe1, who left me my very first comment and encouraged me to join Livejournal back when LJ was the place to be, before that Russian invasion - and who knows where they are today. So many people, some I've even had the great pleasure of meeting in real life, hell, some helped me along the way that led to my current job. And others have faded out - lost to moves between platforms or shifts to other fandoms or just, well - fandom is a transient, fickle beast.
So yeah, I thought I should make a post today.
Because honestly? Ups and downs, sure, but it's been 20 years of fandom that I would not have wanted to go without. Here's to twenty more, y/y?
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