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I started off reading Chandler/Monica fanfiction on fanfiction.net. By the time I’d started writing fanfic, in 2002, I’d moved on to the ‘Charmed’ fandom. My username on ff.net was blackhole116 because that was the sort of thing my fifteen year old self thought sounded cool.

To be honest I don’t remember what exactly I was looking for when I migrated over to Livejournal in 2006, but I think I found it. Community and friendship and weird pocket-universes where my strange tastes could live. I also don’t particularly remember the reasoning behind my ‘swirlsofblue’ username there beyond wanting a name that was non-fandom specific because I enjoyed multiple fandoms. By then I was writing House MD fic, I just went back and checked; it was actually a year and a half before I posted a non-fanfic post, which somehow isn’t surprising.

I didn’t know how to make icons. But I made a Daniel Jackson from Stargate icon, because Daniel Jackson is awesome, which is still my default icon on livejournal to this day.

I think I joined AO3 in 2010 or 2011, and then I just tagged my name onto the end of my LJ username and became SwirlsofblueJay.

I think House MD fandom and then Vampire Diaries fandom were the ones where I did the most stuff: challenges and big bangs and fic exchanges galore! I even created my own comm. for The Originals, called tvd_originals, which ambled by in an okay manner. TVD was also the fandom I created my tumblr account for, username chipmunksallshipklefan; which I still think is the most hilarious joke I’ve ever made up (particularly because it’s a terrible joke and is unforgivingly cheesy and a tad dark, and very me- which is why I haven’t changed it despite no longer really being in that fandom).

Does explaining a terrible joke still make it worse, can it get worse at this point? Thinking on it now, I don’t think it’s even structured enough to be a joke; it’s more of an idea. My sense of humour is weird. Okay so, Klefan is the ship of Stefan and Klaus. Stefan is a vampire who eats animals instead of people, eg chipmunks. Klaus came along and yeeted Stefan off the wagon and he started eating people instead of chipmunks- and that is the reason that the chipmunks all ship Klefan.

About five years ago I joined The RealLJIdol competition on LJ and started writing original fiction. And thus followed it over to dreamwidth, which wouldn’t let me use swirlsofblue, and thus that’s how I, swirlsofpurple, came to be here.

Daniel Jackson

Date: 2019-07-09 07:09 pm (UTC)
oldtoadwoman: Sam Winchester, Supernatural 14x17 (stones)
From: [personal profile] oldtoadwoman
Daniel Jackson is indeed awesome.

Although I have a shameful secret. I think I was really a fan of Daniel Jackson's floppy hair. I was totally in love with the character until he got a haircut and then I was, "Meh, I suppose you're still okay, whatever." I never realized I was that shallow before that moment.

Re: Daniel Jackson

Date: 2019-07-10 07:19 pm (UTC)
oldtoadwoman: Sam Winchester, Supernatural 14x17 (Default)
From: [personal profile] oldtoadwoman
Stargate is like the hundredth thing I need to re-watch. My Dreamwidth is now overflowing with people waxing nostalgic for all the things and it's so fun but I now want to watch EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE, WHY ISN'T IT THE WEEKEND YET?

all the things!

Date: 2019-07-11 01:10 am (UTC)
oldtoadwoman: Sam Winchester, Supernatural 14x17 (beegees)
From: [personal profile] oldtoadwoman
I know! I've even talked myself into re-watching things that I swore I wasn't going to try and push on anyone because the TV series ended on a cliffhanger, but I tracked down the comic adaptation that explained the ending and now I'm like… I want to re-watch the thing now! But… I have too many other things!

Date: 2019-07-09 07:27 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] bleodswean
Nice fandom memory walk, J! Who has your name over here??? And I love that you added Jay to the blue - serendipitous!

We met through TVD/TO, right? We really have known one another quite a long time now, m'dear. I also dabbled in House fic.

Date: 2019-07-09 08:18 pm (UTC)
enemytosleep: [Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist] colored image of a teen boy adjusting his tie, looking serious (Default)
From: [personal profile] enemytosleep
I’ve seen a few mention of RealLJIdol and it must have started after I’d left. Was it a writing competition?

Date: 2019-07-10 06:34 pm (UTC)
enemytosleep: [Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist] colored image of a teen boy adjusting his tie, looking serious (Default)
From: [personal profile] enemytosleep
Hm, good to know!

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