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[astridv]

While I was looking at some pics I found an old post in which I talk about watching Thor. Briefly, because the movie really didn't impress me. It's so funny how falling for a fandom sometimes works... back then I wouldn't have thought in a million years that a year later I'd be reading fic for that movie. So it goes.
(I also said, at one point in the past: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Teen show, and what a stupid name, I'm not watching that!")

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[astridv]

Backreading my journal is far more likely to reveal, "This show is GREAT, I will certainly be fannish about it!" about something that has me going, "Wait, WHAT was that show?"

Falling for a new fandom always hits me completely unexpectedly. Sometimes it takes only five minutes, sometimes four or five episodes, but so far I could never predict it. But the moment I fall, I know it. Awesome feeling. :)

[likeadeuce]

I definitely get that too -- I've had some false positives that are kind of wishful thinking, but I really KNOW when I start writing fic in my head and I know it needs to get down.

FMA is one of my favorite examples, because I got halfway through volume 23 of the manga bopping along going, "Huh, this is pretty cool!" and then in the middle of that book, I had a, "Oh, damn, this is going to be a thing!" moment.