I got into the HP fandom when the shit was flying with Cassandra Claire's Draco Trilogy. I think around the time the second one came out... so that must be around 2000 I think?
The nastiness was an unpleasant intro to fandom but hell I'm still here years later so it obviously didn't put me off too much huh? And yes, D/G is still my OTP. Even though I can't access the holy grail website here. It's banned for lord knows what reason.
You are absolutely right though, fandom has changed so much from what I first knew it. I'm on tons and tons of lj fandom pages - especially now that I've branched out into Mentalist and Avenger fan fic and they are all pretty active.
I do a lot of reading on aol3 and ff.net (shocking huh?!) as well as loads of fan forums as well.
LJ is sadly dying though. It's true and so sad at the same time. :( I'm here till the bitter end though.
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Date: 2012-09-23 07:41 pm (UTC)The nastiness was an unpleasant intro to fandom but hell I'm still here years later so it obviously didn't put me off too much huh? And yes, D/G is still my OTP. Even though I can't access the holy grail website here. It's banned for lord knows what reason.
You are absolutely right though, fandom has changed so much from what I first knew it. I'm on tons and tons of lj fandom pages - especially now that I've branched out into Mentalist and Avenger fan fic and they are all pretty active.
I do a lot of reading on aol3 and ff.net (shocking huh?!) as well as loads of fan forums as well.
LJ is sadly dying though. It's true and so sad at the same time. :( I'm here till the bitter end though.