Snowflake Challenge #4

[firecat]

Challenge #4: IceBreaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself.

15 or so mostly-fandom-adjacent facts about me

• On the day I was born a gallon of gas in the US cost approximately 31 cents.
  
• My first fannish memory is watching Amok Time on its original air date in 1967.
  
• Another one was 8 years later, watching Leonard Nimoy play Sherlock Holmes on stage and crossing over my two favorite characters by throwing in a line about how something wasn’t “logical”.
  
• My dad read Lord of the Rings to me twice
  
• In high school I played bass in a terrible cliche of a rock band. My friends and I also wrote rock band fic and thought we were the only ones
  
• In college I had a punk rock radio show.
  
• I owned an original 128K Macintosh.
  
• I’ve lived in the SF Bay Area for 36 years.
  
• I went to my first SF convention (Baycon) in 1991
  
• I was active on Usenet before spam was a thing. And after.
  
• My first Wiscon SF convention was #19, 1995
  
• I watched Babylon 5 during its original run (it’s one of my favorite shows)
  
• My first publicly shared fanfic was a Star Trek:AOS/Babylon 5 crossover that I’ve never finished. It was written for the first A Ficathon Goes Into a Bar in 2010. (A Ficathon Goes Into a Bar is still running)
  The Covid pandemic kickstarted me into writing fanfic in earnest.

I will happily babble away about pretty much anything on the Interests list of my DW profile.

Fannish interests include: Lucifer, Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek, Babylon 5, the Loki-centric portions of MCU. My fanfic is at firecat — viewer discretion advised.

Comments

[greghousesgf]

I have a lot of the same fandoms and I live in the bay area too, we should hang out.

[firecat]

Yes I know, I follow your journal when I manage to look at my reading page! I’m in Redwood City and mostly don’t leave my house, but if you’re ever in my neck of the woods, let me know

[kore]

Aw that's all really neat!

I also saw B5 as it first aired and JMS once replied to me on Usenet, my claim to fame! Lol

[firecat]

Woo! I enjoyed that newsgroupI once saw him speak at a con in SF (some kind of offshoot of Comic-Con, I think?) and later that day I was walking near the expo center and I realized he was walking in front of me heading back to his hotel but I was too chicken to greet him. So no fame for me!

[elainegrey]

Usenet REPRESENT!!

[firecat]

*fist pump*

[bibliofile]

A cool list.

So your dad read to you a lot, or just LotR?

Do you still keep up with punk? I like it but I don't keep up with any music beyond listening to radio shows online.

A rock band? Awesome!

[firecat]

Thanks! He read me other things when I was younger. I remember him doing the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland!

[firecat]

I don’t make an effort to keep up with any particular kind of music any more, beyond checking out Spotify’s “best of the year” playlists once a year. I discover new music mainly by hearing it on media I watch.

[bibliofile]

A cool list.

So your dad read to you a lot, or just LotR?

Do you still keep up with punk? I like it but I don't keep up with any music beyond listening to radio shows online.

A rock band? Awesome! Do you still play any music yourself?

[firecat]

My music performances now happen on a karaoke app. I haven’t posted anything public in a while because my voice has changed from taking T and I’m not used to my new range yet. A strangled chicken noise usually makes its way into any recording I make lol.

[alexcat]

Did not know you're a B5 fan. I did not see it on it's first run. A friend I met online sent it to me on VHS tapes she'd copied from somewhere.

[firecat]

I was also introduced via VHS tapes but I picked up watching it live before the end of the first season.