30 Days of Fandom Meme

escritoireazul is doing this 30 days of fandom meme, and it looks like fun, so I nabbed it.

( Questions behind the cut )

1 – How did you first get into writing fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote for? What do you think it was about that fandom that pulled you in?

The first fandom I wrote fic for was West Wing; I wrote one of my high school friends a Josh/Donna fic where aliens or possibly robots invade the White House and naturally it leads to Josh and Donna admitting their love for each other (although not in an Aliens Made Them Do It kind of way).

But the first fandom I actually posted fic for and made fandom friends in was Torchwood, in my freshman year of college. I mostly wrote Owen/Ianto fic about their totally dysfunctional relationship, although there was also a Jack/Ianto fic about how their relationship was totally dysfunctional, which was a less popular interpretation of their relationship than it was for Owen/Ianto. I think one of the things that drew me to Owen/Ianto, actually, was that even the fans thought it would be a trainwreck, and I do love fics about relationship trainwrecks.

I also liked the fact that the setting was such that anything could happen - one of my stories involved the team acquiring some pet brontosauruses, because why not - and the canon was, how shall I put this, unintimidating. I actually watched the show because I'd read some of the fic; if it had been the other way around, I doubt I would have gone looking for fic afterward.