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The sun is shining, the snow is blindingly refusing to melt, I am wearing the world's fluffiest bathrobe, Yuletide continues amazing, and today I have successfully been in the world for twenty-three years.
My birthday this year is inconsequential, though, because, as near as I can calculate it, today also marks the day in which I have been in fandom for a whole fucking decade. For Christmas 2000, you see, my mother and I got this awesome new computer that could be hooked up to the dial-up modem and access the internet! I had occasionally gone onto the internet using my dad's computer before, and, if memory serves, had mostly waited for long patient minutes for .jpegs of Beanie Babies to load on the official site, or racked up perfect scores on some Harry Potter trivia game on the Scholastic page. Now that I had my own computer, though, I went straight to Google! I typed in 'Harry Potter'! Somewhere in the first page was the link to the Unofficial Harry Potter Fan Club, so off I went, to play games and to look at fanart. And around the 27th, I started reading fanfic.
I didn't start posting fic until early April 2001, but before that, I think I spent most of January writing the fifth Harry Potter book. (It was 87 pages long! Harry and Hermione became Animagi! There was this hilarious Mary Sue who was Dumbledore's granddaughter! And I think I mercifully figured out not to post it and instead started writing MWPP fic. IDK.) Anyway, my point is, I've been cheerfully muddling about here for ten years.
Doctor Who: 149,326 words
due South: 101,956 words
Young Wizards: 34,454 words
Dark is Rising Sequence: 18,999 words
Life on Mars: 14,343 words
Good Omens: 13,991 words
Highlander: 10,677 words
Harry Potter: 10,097 words
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 9727 words
Battlestar Galactica: 9093 words
Slings & Arrows: 8823 words
Narnia: 6016 words
Hard Core Logo: 5710 words
Secret Garden: 5584 words
Stargate Atlantis: 4962 words
Sanctuary: 4233 words
My Life as a Dog: 3572 words
Hot Fuzz: 2859 words
Firefly: 2554 words
Merlin: 1514 words
Dalemark Quartet: 1234 words
397,331 words total. (Crossovers counted twice for each fandom, so the above numbers shouldn't add up to this one.)
These are, of course, all ballpark figures; some of the Good Omens fic I have faithfully recorded here is from as early as 2003, but for the most part, all these numbers come from 2007 or later. I've had ... two fandom phases, I guess, neatly and conveniently divided by 2006, the year I wrote only original things and also graduated high school. Basically, 2001-2005 I was a wee one who was (for the most part) monofannish about Harry Potter and wrote reams of fic that should probably not seen the light of day again; 2007-now is fic I can stand to reread without hiding under rocks, and is obviously of many fandoms.
I still have a lot of the phase one stuff Harry Potter stuff squirreled away on my computer, though, and, god help me, it's possible to still find a lot of it on the internet too, if you know where to look. (It is still on the internet because I have literally forgotten some of the email addresses I used to sign up for fanfiction.net accounts, although oddly enough I still remember the passwords. Let this be a cautionary tale.) In any case, in the interest of not invalidating all the hard work I did when I was fourteen, this is the rough word count for the Harry Potter fic I wrote between 2001 and 2005:
old Harry Potter: 286,242 words
Really. To be fair, 136,507 of those words were one fic, the 250-page epic of Lily and James from the time they were eleven until their deaths, and since I started it in early 2001 and finished it roughly a month before Order of the Phoenix came out, which wiki tells me was mid-2003, I did work on it for two years straight. And this is exactly what I'm talking about when I say "all the hard work I did when I was fourteen." To my mild horror people still email me occasionally asking for it, and I will give it to them, but with the caveat that, Christ, are they sure they want to be reading 136k of the Jossed epic of a fourteen-year-old?
I do kind of hope I won't feel that way about my current stuff in another ten years. I assume we shall see, though, because fandom is kind of my home and I doubt I'll ever permanently wander away.
My birthday this year is inconsequential, though, because, as near as I can calculate it, today also marks the day in which I have been in fandom for a whole fucking decade. For Christmas 2000, you see, my mother and I got this awesome new computer that could be hooked up to the dial-up modem and access the internet! I had occasionally gone onto the internet using my dad's computer before, and, if memory serves, had mostly waited for long patient minutes for .jpegs of Beanie Babies to load on the official site, or racked up perfect scores on some Harry Potter trivia game on the Scholastic page. Now that I had my own computer, though, I went straight to Google! I typed in 'Harry Potter'! Somewhere in the first page was the link to the Unofficial Harry Potter Fan Club, so off I went, to play games and to look at fanart. And around the 27th, I started reading fanfic.
I didn't start posting fic until early April 2001, but before that, I think I spent most of January writing the fifth Harry Potter book. (It was 87 pages long! Harry and Hermione became Animagi! There was this hilarious Mary Sue who was Dumbledore's granddaughter! And I think I mercifully figured out not to post it and instead started writing MWPP fic. IDK.) Anyway, my point is, I've been cheerfully muddling about here for ten years.
Doctor Who: 149,326 words
due South: 101,956 words
Young Wizards: 34,454 words
Dark is Rising Sequence: 18,999 words
Life on Mars: 14,343 words
Good Omens: 13,991 words
Highlander: 10,677 words
Harry Potter: 10,097 words
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 9727 words
Battlestar Galactica: 9093 words
Slings & Arrows: 8823 words
Narnia: 6016 words
Hard Core Logo: 5710 words
Secret Garden: 5584 words
Stargate Atlantis: 4962 words
Sanctuary: 4233 words
My Life as a Dog: 3572 words
Hot Fuzz: 2859 words
Firefly: 2554 words
Merlin: 1514 words
Dalemark Quartet: 1234 words
397,331 words total. (Crossovers counted twice for each fandom, so the above numbers shouldn't add up to this one.)
These are, of course, all ballpark figures; some of the Good Omens fic I have faithfully recorded here is from as early as 2003, but for the most part, all these numbers come from 2007 or later. I've had ... two fandom phases, I guess, neatly and conveniently divided by 2006, the year I wrote only original things and also graduated high school. Basically, 2001-2005 I was a wee one who was (for the most part) monofannish about Harry Potter and wrote reams of fic that should probably not seen the light of day again; 2007-now is fic I can stand to reread without hiding under rocks, and is obviously of many fandoms.
I still have a lot of the phase one stuff Harry Potter stuff squirreled away on my computer, though, and, god help me, it's possible to still find a lot of it on the internet too, if you know where to look. (It is still on the internet because I have literally forgotten some of the email addresses I used to sign up for fanfiction.net accounts, although oddly enough I still remember the passwords. Let this be a cautionary tale.) In any case, in the interest of not invalidating all the hard work I did when I was fourteen, this is the rough word count for the Harry Potter fic I wrote between 2001 and 2005:
old Harry Potter: 286,242 words
Really. To be fair, 136,507 of those words were one fic, the 250-page epic of Lily and James from the time they were eleven until their deaths, and since I started it in early 2001 and finished it roughly a month before Order of the Phoenix came out, which wiki tells me was mid-2003, I did work on it for two years straight. And this is exactly what I'm talking about when I say "all the hard work I did when I was fourteen." To my mild horror people still email me occasionally asking for it, and I will give it to them, but with the caveat that, Christ, are they sure they want to be reading 136k of the Jossed epic of a fourteen-year-old?
I do kind of hope I won't feel that way about my current stuff in another ten years. I assume we shall see, though, because fandom is kind of my home and I doubt I'll ever permanently wander away.
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Well, but I wasn't doing anything else. *g*
*twirls you*