My Fannish History - Snowflake Challenge #2

My first ever fandoms were Harry Potter and The X Files. I had a near-obsession with Snape and Scully. I think they were the first fictional characters I ever related to, and I hit puberty a little early so...this was my desktop background for  years.


I mean, what's not to love? I had "the Scully" haircut for a lot of my teens, red and blowdried in a flip. It suited me actually. :) My first username was FallenDeathEater, a nod to my interest in Snape.

HP stuck with me, the X Files got relegated to a storage box in my happy place. I've had fleeting interests in various things throughout the years, but nothing I read fanfiction of until a couple of years ago when I discovered Stargate Atlantis for the first time. I adored SG1, but when Atlantis came out there were some big life changes so I didn't make time or space for it and I skipped it completely. I couldn't tell you why I sat down and watched episode one, but I did, and episode one turned into season one, then suddenly I'd watched the whole damn show through and went back to the beginning again. I was hooked.


I clocked onto the McShep vibes pretty quickly and shipped them hard. All those little moments between them drew me back to fanfiction for the first time in over a decade and what a big ship it must have been back in the day, over 12000 fics pairing Rodney and John on AO3, (compare that with 5700ish for Jackson and O'Neill, or 4300ish for O'Neill and Carter). It still ranks 34 in AO3's ship stats of 2019, and for a show that ended 12 years ago that's all kinds of impressive.

I soon discovered that the fandom was still active, a group of the nicest, most supportve fans you could ever meet, and, after much deliberation, started posting fics on AO3 for people to read. I'm in the UK so a lot of days I wake up to comments from people elsewhere in the world and it's such an amazing feeling to create something that other people enjoy.

Wade x