User:Gloriana

Name/s:	Gloriana, Gloriana Reginata
Fandom/s:	StarWars The Phantom Menace (1999 onwards); OTP = Q/O Harry Potter (2000 onwards); OTP = Harry/Snape Sentinel (circa 2002 onwards); OTP = Jim/Blair Die Hard 4 (2007 onwards) OTP = John/Matt Due South (2008 onwards); OTP = Fraser/Kowalski, OT3 = Fraser swinging both Rays
You can find me at:	Gloriana's lj Gloriana's fiction lj The FlashSlash community lj
On Fanlore:	My contributions / email me

Hi, I'm Gloriana.

For all the fact that my summary box opposite makes it look like I'm a little fannish baby, I hate to admit it but I'm a hardened old soul, whose first slash fandom was Blake's 7 (way back in 1980!); and who teethed on Spock (and I don't mean Dr Spock, either). With a cheekiness that now astounds me, I started the first Blake's 7 society at my university, and we even got Paul Darrow/Avon and Michael Keating/Vila to come speak to us. It was rather a shock to the entire six members of the society when some 200 people turned up to listen to them.

I filled in the years between 1980 and 1999 with involvement in science fiction and fantasy fandom in the UK, everything from books to movies to con-going to costuming. But I wasn't particularly slashy or obsessive - okay, that's a bitty lie - until I hit The Phantom Menace in 1999, went onto the net to look for the good stuff, and fell headfirst into the Master/Apprentice fan community. Since then I've been a dedicated slasher, fairly regularly active on mailing lists and then lj, and attending cons in the UK and the US, where I now live. You'll see me at Escapade and Con*Strict every year - I'm usually on at least one panel - and occasionally I venture to the East Coast.

Slashy fandoms and what I do in them

I've written at least a little in all the fandoms opposite except for Sentinel, but my main writing has been in TPM. Most of my completed TPM stuff over Ficlet length is on the the Master/Apprentice archive, here; I post unfinished things occasionally to my fiction lj. If you want the story that defines me, it would probably be Compay Segundo: basically, sex and characters, and who gives a damn about plot. I co-published the TPM slash zine Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, in keeping with the TPM tradition of pretty zines, and I also have a little artwork online in my lj.

For the last few years, I've moderated a Flashfic community on lj called FlashSlash, with weekly prompts where the writers produce a Ficlet in 8 minutes, incorporating the four words of the prompt into any fandom of their choosing (slash optional, despite the community's name). An incomplete list of everything that's been posted to the community is at the FlashSlash delicious page: 58 fandoms with entries so far.

I used to do meta. But I got over it.