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Day 5: In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story. How did you come to fandom, why did you choose your fannish name, do you have more than one secret identity?

First, I don't have a 'fannish' alias. My alias, rayvyn2k, has been my internet identity ever since I bought my first computer in 1999. Wait, first it was rayvyn^^, but when I tried to use the '^^' for email or signing up on websites, I usually got the 'can't use special characters' error message, so changed the wings to '2k'.

90% of the time, if you see 'rayvyn2k' somewhere, it's probably me. :)

My very first fandom was The Partridge Family, and I wrote some very bad, very Mary Sue-ish fan fic when I was in 6th and 7th grade. My best friend at the time loved Bobby Sherman, but I was a David Cassidy fan all the way. (OMG The Partridge Family was one of my favorite shows, I recorded all the episodes when it first came on Nickelodeon in the early 90s, and those tapes are still in my possession.) David's hot bod, which my 12 year old self drooled (not to mention masturbated) over, and his long, shaggy hair sealed the deal for me. And he could sing. Whew. I still love long hair on men, and I trace it back to my David Cassidy crush.

Anyway, our stories were always self-insert, usually contained some sort of magic to get us together with David and Bobby (Cinderella isn't my favorite fairy tale for nothing, you know. Fairy Godmothers are quite handy to a lonely tween girl with a huge imagination), and the hottest thing that happened was kisses. I still have part of one of those stories squirreled away with my teen journals.

Oh, I've also been a Sherlock Holmes fan for years--although my friends and I didn't write anything, we acted out the original Conan Doyle stories for hours during the summers when I was around 10-ish years old.

Shit, I'm going to have to put this next bit behind an LJ cut. It got rather long.

( Star Trek: TOS )

And then there is ( Harry Potter. )

(I also love Star Wars (only 4-6 so far), Dr. Who, Monty Python, Red Dwarf, Black Adder and the Marvel Cinematic Universe among others, but I've only written stories in those fandoms mentioned above.)