Two Years On...

[heidi]

Today marks the second anniversary of this LJ, although I'd actually been on LJ six months before that, through the fictionalley journal, which we don't really use anymore, as we use fiction_alley instead. I feel like I should do some Take on the Fandom thingy, although I'm afraid I don't have the time to right now, but I'll try and do it later on today.

Tomorrow, in honour of my second year's completion, I'm going to visit blogbinders and get both years bound in a readable format, and see just what the heck I was thinking X months, weeks, days ago. Great service, great people (and look for some fascinating partnering FA's going to be doing with them later this spring!).

So lieu of a bigcomprehensivepostaboutstuff, I'm going to post the fandom survey that I've been thinking about recently. PLEASE pimp it around, as I'd love to get a range of responses.



Before you begin, two notes -
#1. The "I'm Flourish, Penny or Rabican is supposed to be what those in fandom for more than 42 months should click. I suck at subtlety. Sorry!

#2.

This might save a few people a minute or two (thanks to jiggery_pokery

How long have you been in the fandom?	When did you join the fandom?
One Month	after 11th Jan 2004
1-3 months	11th Nov 2003 to 11th Jan 2004
3-6 months	11th Aug to 11th Nov 2003
6-8 months	11th June to 11th Aug 2003
8 months - 1 year	11th Feb to 11th June 2003
1 - 1½ years	11th Aug 2002 - 11th Feb 2003
1½ - 2 years	11th Feb 2002 - 11th Aug 2003
24-30 months	11th Aug 2001 - 11th Feb 2002
30-36 months	11th Feb 2001 - 11th Aug 2001
36-42 months	11th Aug 2000 - 11th Feb 2001
Oldbie (aka I'm Flourish, Penny or Rabican)	before 11th Aug 2000

[Poll #247229]
ETA: If you need more space to add what you SHIP put it in the last block or here in comments. And I am sorry for misspelling interpretation; it's chronic.

One last thing... thanks to amazing work by the artistic team at FA, we've added a tonne of new calendars and new ships to the toob top sh0ppe at FA (proceeds go to support the site) - you can find ...theirloveisso... stuff, as well as gear for Remus/Sirius "Wolfstar", H.M.S. Artist's Flame, HMS Thorn and Buck (Lily/James), < a href="http://www.cafepress.com/fashoppe/234518">The Government Stole My Toad!, H.M.S Red Moon "Ron/Luna" and H.M.S. Honks "Tonks/Harry.

Comments

[hermionemalfoy.livejournal.com]

Like Simon, I lied (!) and claimed to be Flourish as well, having been in it for more than four years. What is this 3.5 years business? There is no category for the likes of me! Angst and w03. I don't even think I've been around that long--Gypsy has me whipped by at least a year or six months...

...Is four years really that long? Weep.

Am very amused that someone's answer to joining the fandom was delurking on FA, because there WAS no FA for at least a year while I was around. I remember dayafternext saying, "Yay for Schnoogle!" and me replying, "What's that?" She then said, "It's this new site--it's not running yet or anything, blahblah..." I think she'd seen some post on HP4GU about it. Hee.

Ahh, fandom history.

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[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, the "I'm..." bit was designed for people who've been in fandom more than 42 months. I suck at subtlety. Sorry :(

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[hermionemalfoy.livejournal.com]

Ahah, no worries--I got the idea. Besides, claiming to be Flourish was good fun. I can't believe I was in fandom before you. o___o