Forever Fandom - Snowflake Challenge #9

Picking my forever fandom is easy for me because I only have a couple. I'm not one to jump from fandom to fandom, I tend to get my claws into one thing and hang on for a long time. My oldest fandom is HP, I got into that not long after book one was published, but it's not my forever fandom. That honour goes to Stargate Atlantis.



I'm late to the SGA fandom. I skipped it when it first aired cause life was too busy to get into another show and I was heavily into SG1 so it got put off and put off and forgotten about. It wasn't until a couple of years ago that I sat down and watched it and I was hooked from episode 1. I like so much about it, the premise (I love long lost colony sotries, Voyager was my favourite of the Treks), the big bads (their aesthetic appeals to my inner goth, and seriously, no matter how silly they look the thought of being an alien's food is terrifying), the script is tight and fantastic and the visuals are stunning. But the biggest and most important thing that I love about SGA are the characters. Like SG1, it's easy to love them and follow them from world to world, problem to solution. Especially John (the "I'd do anything for any one of you" military leader, thrust into leadership unexpectedly and walking the line between the military and his own heart) and Rodney (the brilliant but ascerbic scientist, who went from a misogynistic jerk in SG1 to a loveable but flawed grouch in SGA). No one but David Hewlett could have taken that guest character and made him a firm fan favourite.

I like it even more than SG1 and I'm gutted I missed out on the early fandom days, but I was thrilled to find out that people still talked about it and made fanworks, even ten years after it's over. Discovering the world of SGA fanfiction was like all my christmasses come at once (especially when I clocked onto the McShep vibes), and discovering people were still writing them was like adding in all my birthdays. I read fics for a couple of hours every day and write bits of my own fics whenever I can. It's the first fandom I've ever posted a fic in, and I can totally see me still doing this an twenty years time.

Wade x