User:Kittycesario

Name/s:
Fandom/s:	A Song of Ice and Fire, Skulduggery Pleasant, Harry Potter, Independence Day, Gotham, Our Flag Means Death
You can find me at:	Tumblr Ko-Fi
On Fanlore:	My contributions / email me

I've been active in fandom related spaces since 2009/2010 I would say, first starting on websites like Gaia Online and Fanfiction.net before migrating to places like Tumblr and AO3. I was a lurker in many other places like dreamwidth, livejournal and various individual fan websites. I am a fic writer and that's where most of my fan content related experience is, admittedly. The first fandom I wrote for was Cirque du Freak back in 2010.

You can find me mostly on Tumblr or Discord these days for fandom related things - if there's anything from any of the fandoms that I'm into that you'd like to add or talk about then just send me a message! As work and outside fandom life has increased, I'm around in less places online. What areas of the wider fandoms I'm in have become much more niche - like I rarely stray outside the Sprizzy section of the OFMD fandom, or the Area 51 Husbands section for the Independence Day one!

Fandoms

I started out roleplaying on Gaia Online and reading on fanfiction.net back in 2009, mostly being in the Skulduggery Pleasant, Cirque du Freak, Demonata and Harry Potter areas. From there I started looking for more fan content and discussion boards and slowly found old works, abandoned fandoms (some of which revived, others remain dead) and communities that had started pre or early-days-of-the-internet. Now my main fandoms are what's listed above and I jump between others / specific areas of fandoms. I call myself the "Server Grandpa" for an Izzy Hands specific server - essentially admin / mod, but it's funnier if I say it that way - and it's taught me so much about different fandoms and areas within a fandom that I hadn't seen before.

Interest in Fanlore

I have an interest in preserving fandom history and documenting what happened/ what fandom was like for people, especially in fandoms where so much has changed in a short space of time. I'm not a fandom old by any means, but I have been around the early days of the Skulduggery Pleasant fandom and became an active member in others which aren't as popular and would love to preserve their histories too.

I'm mostly interested in creating pages for lesser known fandoms and character pages. The mentality behind that is if it exists already people are more likely to edit and contribute their perspective of the fandom, rather than having to create the page from scratch. This goes for editing stubs too - I've been working on the Alexei/Murray Bauman page for this year's (2023) Fanlore Bingo trying to get a blackout from just that page (+talk and user pages), taking this from a stub to something much more fleshed out!

I want to encourage people in fandoms to share details of major events, challenges, and other things that when we look back in 10 years would be considered an important part to that fandom's history. I was working on the Cirque du Freak Fanlore page (redirect from The Saga of Darren Shan now created! ) and would love help with the edits there - if you know anything at all please feel free to contact me here, on Tumblr or make edits yourself! I've stepped back from this area of the fandom in the last year but would love for the documenting of the fandom to continue!

I also didn't expect to get back into writing fic but with Get Your Words Out, the Izzy Hands subfandom of Our Flag Means Death and some fandom friends, I've ended up hitting 22% of my yearly goal by mid February. It's been incredible to see the fandoms grow, and instead of just spending time documenting it, actually writing and being a part of it.

See FanloreProject:Buffyverse for more details

Fanlore Bingo

2020 was the first Fanlore challenge I took part in, and first I completed. I'm really glad that I gave it a go. I learned more about editing articles, what my particular interests are and how much time you can spend looking up tiny details about some TV shows. And I continued that in 2021:

2021

2022

My goal for the 2022 Bingo was to go as far as I could with one page for the beginner bingo - challenging myself to make edits to a single page and make it more comprehensive:

2023

2024

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Stub September

2024

Other Challenges

2024

Fandom Friendships Challenge

To-Do List

• Edit Izzy Hands page - add more detail about OFMD fandom related things, about Izzy Hands in other media and fan reactions to these portrayals
• Update and maintain Cobra Kai
• Keep going with the edits to the Alexei/Murray Bauman ship page
• Edit the Eli Vanto page to include fan history, fan art and more about fandom tropes
• Project for Awesome - make the page
• Death (Discworld) - the sub series?

Done

• Created the Cirque du Freak page
  • Cirque du Freak edits made for fan works and fanart
• Created the Harvey Bullock page
• Created the Sandor Clegane page
• Created the Skulduggery Pleasant page
• Updated the Dominick Carisi page
• Created the Big Eden page
• Created Murray Bauman page
• Created the Saw (franchise) Page
• Created the Thranto page
• Created the Chainshipping and Lawrence Gordon ship page and character pages
• Created a Fallout TV page, have redirect set up, also make shipping page for VaultGhoul
• Created the Joe Miller page