I would have done a little dance but that's frowned upon at work.

I know what I'm doing for spnraritiesfest! I spent most of the morning mentally turning the assignment over and around and shaking it but I think I have something workable now. Oh thank God.

Let's try this: Thirty Days of Fanfiction: Day One

1 – How did you first get into writing fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote for? What do you think it was about that fandom that pulled you in?

We first got internet when I was a senior in high school (WebTV, hand to God), and because my sister and I are X-Men geeks one of the first things we did was search Gambit. That found us the Gambit Fan Club, an email list which we immediately joined, and in addition to comics squee and ranting the list also had people posting fanfic. The first fic I actually encountered was called "Gambit's Cat-astrophe" which I didn't read but involved him turning into a cat (I laughed so hard when I saw that trope pop up all over SPN fic. What's old is new again). The first one I actually read was a Gambit/Rogue AU La Femme Nikita-esque fic which was good enough that I went looking for more. That found me Lori's archive, Shifting Sands and CFAN and there was no looking back from there.)

I wrote X-Men fic but never posted it anywhere - the first story I ever actually finished was a subtexty Gambit/Storm friendship story (Gambit/Rogue was my bullet-proof OTP until that all went wrong, but I did and still do ship Remy/Ororo pretty hard) set during Gambit's brooding on the roof in the rain period. I miss the old X-Men fandom a lot; it was a great formative fandom, a mix of old fans, new fans, super-high standards and just incredibly talented people.

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