Snowflake Challenge Catch-up!

[owlmoose]

I had been looking at the snowflake_challenge prompts for the year so far and thinking they were mostly the same as last year's... and then checked back at my posts from 2019 to see that no, so far they're largely quite different. So, let's proceed, and I'll try to get back on the stick.

Challenge #1: In your own space, introduce yourself!

So, it's interesting. Because while I have a sticky post linking to my various online accounts, and there's some stuff in my DW profile, and I have a bio on ladybusiness, none of that is really an "introduction".

So: me! Hello! My name is KJ, and I'm a writer, a reader, a gamer, a 40-something fangirl. And a librarian by temperament and training, if not currently by job title. I live in San Francisco, one of my favorite places in the world, with my husband, T, and our cat, Tori. (No husband picture; T is fairly reticent about having his face publicly available on the internet, or really much information about him at all, which is why I always refer to him by his first initial.) KJ is also a pseudonym, but not a very deep one -- they're my initials. I used to keep a hard wall between my fandom presence and my wallet name, but that's gotten more permeable over the years; still, if you happen to know my wallet name, I prefer you not use it here or in other fandom spaces. (In person, it's totally fine, although I also answer happily to KJ.) As far as fandom presence goes, DW is my primary online home, but I'm also active on Twitter and post all my fanfiction to A03.

I think most of you have been around awhile, but in case any of this is new to you, now you know. :)

Challenge #2: Talk About Your Fannish History

Over a decade ago, I wrote up my fannish history for a different meme. Nothing in that entry is wrong, and it's worth reading if you're interested in my fannish origin story, but a lot has sure happened since then. When I wrote it, Final Fantasy X/X-2 was the only fandom I'd ever written fic for, and discovering my first truly different fandom -- Dragon Age -- was over five years away. (I was a one-fandom person for a long time.) But discover DA I did, by picking up Dragon Age: Origins in 2011 on a recommendation from a (non-fandom) friend. I fell in love with the game, with the characters, and particularly with the Alistair romance, and suddenly I'd found my second fandom. Dragon Age led me to Tumblr, where the DA fandom was most active at the time, and Tumblr led me to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (the first Avengers movie is what really sucked me in). That's the point at which I became multi-fannish, writing for multiple canons at once. Then another phase of my fandom life began when I joined the editorial team at ladybusiness, which opened up a new world of cons and communities.

So that's the first two! I'll try to catch up on the rest over the next few days.