A brief history of time

[caranfindel]

In light of* yesterday's life-affirming announcement that S14 is a go, I notice a lot of people are posting their fandom origin stories. So here's mine.

(*Yesterday I saw two instances of people writing in lieu of when they clearly meant in light of. One was on the internet and one was a novel. Weird.)

I became obsessed with BBC Sherlock in the summer of 2012, after its second season, which is how I discovered Tumblr. That, of course, led to SuperWhoLock, which was the fashion at the time, and I thought "all these Sherlock fans can't be wrong; those other shows must be good too." So I watched the Supernatural pilot. And I didn't like it. I didn't even finish it.


I know.

So I switched to Doctor Who and watched as much of that as I cared for (loved Nine, liked Ten, gave up on Eleven), and then I decided to give Supernatural another try, and I guess the broken part of my brain that had kept me from appreciating it was repaired (or maybe I had broken enough to appreciate it, hmmm) because I fell head over heels. It was the winter of 2012-13 by this point; Supernatural was in its 8th season. I burned through all seven seasons available on Netflix in weeks. At some point I set my DVR to record the back half of the season, but by the time the show returned after the hellatus, I was still making my way through the previous seven seasons. During the time I saw a post on Tumblr that referred to the show ending soon, and I was annoyed that I'd found it just as it was going away, but thought I could at least catch up and watch the final episode live.

(Season eight. That was season eight. They weren't even in double digits yet.)

Then I set off in search of the first half of S8. I scoured the internet, finding what I could online. (I had to buy Southern Comfort from iTunes, and I watched it in the school parking lot as I waited for my kid to finish an after-school activity.) I read the forums on Television Without Pity, which was so much fun after-the-fact when you could see that the show's writers and/or runners were obviously trolling there. I read the reviews on that site too, until the reviewer stopped liking the show. And it was either through TWOP or the Supernatural wiki that I found LiveJournal. Specifically, the ohsam community, and more specifically, this particular fic by brosedshield. And I thought, wow. There are talented people in this fandom. I like it here.

I watched episode 8.23, Sacrifice, two weeks after it aired live. I created my own LJ account a month later, in June of 2013. I started posting crappy fanfic that summer. When season 9 began, I started reviewing episodes. (I don't know when I started completely recapping every episode. I don't know why I started completely recapping every episode. It was a bad decision.)

I can't believe I've been here almost five years. I still like it here. Thank you, Show, for giving me another year.

Comments

[brosedshield.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, your mention here made me blush and, like, made it a wonderful day. Thank you for reading, for loving. I love that that story still resonates so strongly (and, seriously, it would have made so much SENSE for that to be how Sam and Dean's damage fit together at that time). Thank you, and so glad you found a happy place in this crazy and wonderful fandom. Your story made me laugh, and reminded me of my early days in SPN <3

(Yeah, totally mainlined the first four and a half seasons the last semester of college...good times. WONDERFUL times).

[caranfindel.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks for coming by! I never did comment on that wonderful fic, because I didn't even have an account when I read it, but obviously it had a huge impact on me. So thanks for being a big part of sucking me into the world of LJ. :)