HP: ... My sister introduced me to the books just before the release of Goblet, and I was completely sucked in. (I remember tending to the Gallery at which I then worked, and being impatient for the customers to leave so I could go back to reading. Bad Avery!)
I read and reread the books for the next couple of years, and right after OotP came out, I was hungry for as much info as I could get. Rumors, theories, anything. I searched around the net and found Mugglenet about then, and that led to everything else.
I really can't remember how I got into fanfic, though. I do remember visiting a Sirius Black site early on, though I wasn't overly impressed with it. I wish I could remember how I got into this section of fandom. FFN had something to do with it, but it's all very foggy.
As for my favorite word... I think it's synchronicity. Not only does it have nice sibilant rhythm that rolls off the tongue, its meaning is... erm, meaningful. It, like all things, is neither good nor evil, but it can be used to signify either end of the spectrum. The coming together of disparate ideas or actions into a relevant re/action is... is hard to explain. Like life.
Right. That's the rambly, incoherent answer. The more succinct answer is that I like the sound of it and have benefited quite often from bouts of it in my life, thereby giving the word extra meaning to me personally.
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HP: ... My sister introduced me to the books just before the release of Goblet, and I was completely sucked in. (I remember tending to the Gallery at which I then worked, and being impatient for the customers to leave so I could go back to reading. Bad Avery!)
I read and reread the books for the next couple of years, and right after OotP came out, I was hungry for as much info as I could get. Rumors, theories, anything. I searched around the net and found Mugglenet about then, and that led to everything else.
I really can't remember how I got into fanfic, though. I do remember visiting a Sirius Black site early on, though I wasn't overly impressed with it. I wish I could remember how I got into this section of fandom. FFN had something to do with it, but it's all very foggy.
As for my favorite word... I think it's synchronicity. Not only does it have nice sibilant rhythm that rolls off the tongue, its meaning is... erm, meaningful. It, like all things, is neither good nor evil, but it can be used to signify either end of the spectrum. The coming together of disparate ideas or actions into a relevant re/action is... is hard to explain. Like life.
Right. That's the rambly, incoherent answer. The more succinct answer is that I like the sound of it and have benefited quite often from bouts of it in my life, thereby giving the word extra meaning to me personally.
=)