InsaneJournal

Current mood:

chipper

Spamming you all, probably!
I just remembered something that 'happened' to me about four and a half years ago. Having just entered the HP fandom on LJ, I felt a bit overwhelmed by all the talented and lovely people around - perhaps I didn't know how to begin communicating with them online - and that's why I loved posting memes and questionnaires to my journal. Somehow it felt comfortable typing up answers to personal questions because they helped me express my feelings and how I thought about my life at that time.

Anyway, there were lots of HP memes floating around but not so many of those focused on shippiness or OTP's, I noticed. That's essentially why I wrote my own 'OTP meme' (how original!), answered the questions and posted it to my own LJ. I thought I had created it only for personal use because I just wanted to list my canon and fanon ships in a clear way. I never expected it to snowball as much as it did. In the next few weeks the meme had reached many shippy communities, het shippers and slash people alike and even a lot of BNF's and well-known fic authors. It mus've been because of seeing my own meme on other people's journals all over fandom that I gained more confidence in talking to them and I eventually made a bunch of new friends and my flist grew exponentially as a result. This silly little meme in fact had given me the much-needed boost to really dive into this wonderful fandom headfirst. <3

Ahh, the nostalgia.

THIS IS SUCH SPAM, I KNOW!