User:Awils1
| Name/s: | Amy (or) awils1. |
| Fandom/s: | NCIS, Top Gear UK, Law & Order: TOS, House, M.D., WWE, Deadliest Catch, The Office, Reaper and Batman (Nolanverse, in particular). |
| You can find me at: | LJ/Archive Of Our Own/StumbleUpon. |
| On Fanlore: | My contributions / Related pages |
Me, as a fan.
I’m rather rubbish at these sort of things; so I’ll just give the facts, mmkay? I dived head first into fandom while on an online wandering in 2002 of Harry Potter fansites. I had discovered a fic called Snape Summer or something thereof. Of course, while waiting eagerly for the fifth book, I was hooked on the idea of ‘expanding a source material’, as the academics among us put it.
Then, a few million clicks later (but that was still a relatively short time in RL), I found LJ, in all its glory. Fic, fanart, icons, pics (no vids, of course—I was on dial-up), and friendly community. I dove into anything and everything, but magically found an OTP within a few months: Draco/Ginny.
It wasn’t to last, though.
In hindsight, HP was too big for this fan. There was just so much to read, to look at, that I burnt out. I was lucky I could drop out, too. I used a pseudonym, so it was relatively easy, but I felt incredibly guilty about abandoning my f-list.
I wandered the Web looking for a home for about a year. I tried SlashDot, Usenet, but was still feeling adrift in a sea of data. From a post on SlashDot, I was informed of StumbleUpon, and rapidly joined and fell in love. So much so that I have stayed with it for 3 years as of this April (2009). Blogging there has helped me in writing better feedback and also has introduced me to the wonder that is the Web as a separate entity from fandom.
A House, M.D. marathon with a friend clawed me back in (this time as a slasher—House/Wilson), but only as a lurker. I read rather secretly, gawked to myself, and squeed to nobody, and still stubbornly refused to join LJ again. Fandom had become my secret hobby.
Clicking the Stumble! button lead me to the OTW, and my interest was most definitely piqued. I had always thought fandom needed some weight behind it. I joined as a voting member, and started volunteering; first in the Content Policy for the Archive of Our Own, then in beta testing this wiki, and finally in beta testing the Archive. My most recent volunteer work was transcribing minutes for the Systems and ADT committees, and as of today, I’m still going with that.
I did eventually join LJ again in the April of 2008, as a result of some well-intentioned pressuring from a non-fannish blogger whom I followed by RSS. However, I refused to hide under a pseud, and have linked my StumbleUpon from my LJ with a notice that I will not blog on my LJ, wishing to contribute to communities and other individual’s blogs only.
