kadollan | What brings you here?

A friend of mine,

ishbu_alv, asked her flist what had originally brought them to LJ.

For me the answer is two-part and simple.

cybermathwitch and fandom. I started my LJ way back forever ago in December of 2002 (clickenzie here for a blast from my nerdy past). She drug me along into fandom, starting with Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I think I might still technically be a member of the Yahoo Groups - remember Yahoo Groups? - "Willfics" community, though I long since stopped receiving the emails in my inbox.)

After Buffy came Harry Potter, my true Fandom love. Other fandoms may come or go, but Harry is mine forever. (In a completely not creepy way, of course.)

I've always been an irregular poster, in any blog or journal I've ever kept, and it is no different here. After more of my friends joined LJ, I started using it for other-than-fandom purposes, but really this was all about the fanfiction, the squee, the links to fan-news, the embedded fan videos and trailers... it was about having a community of people who love the same things I love, with the same intense and wacky passion.

Now, every so often (usually every summer, actually since that's when the movies come out) I see something that reawakens that fandom love and I come back here to see what's become of the place. Star Trek, Narnia, and now, of course, Avengers.

So... what brought you to LJ?