What are you doing right now?

[EndOfTheEarth]

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

[nathan_p]

21 July, a week before my birthday. Apologies for silence. My family's running around trying to fix up my brother's room with furniture again after it was painted.

[Kayte]

O.O Convenient...

Ha, don't worry about it ^.^

[nathan_p]

I was a a twelve-year-old fangirl who suddenly couldn't wait another week to turn thirteen and register for ff.net, fictionpress, and the MR forums. My original U/N for all three was Griffon's Flight. Oh, to be young and stupid. You could all be calling me Griffie right now if I hadn't wised up *shudder*

It's a madhouse around here... *meant to be in bed half an hour ago*

[Kayte]

*wants to call you Griffie *dies of lol*

I know, all of these people on, it's crazy!

[nathan_p]

I spent a while in "training" on some forums on ff.net. It is now over-the-top hilarious to read my young, fangirly musings.

Yes, younger self. There is no Santa Claus, but Jeb really is that gay...

No, I mean, in my house <.>

[Kayte]

Ha, I learned a little from lurking around the original MR forums, but mostly I was lucky enough to be a fast learner on MX. I chose good people to learn from (Like you!) Of course I was a fan way back...

Oh, well >.> It's crazy here too...

[nathan_p]

My youthful dorkiness suited me quite well with MR. I showed up a little too young to get into shipping for a while (I didn't really start with the shipping until after book three), hung around for the biopunk and science aspects, and quickly gravitated to my brother/sister snarkers.

And that's when I started becoming the mad-science loving boogeyman that haunts the MR fandom today >:D

Yeah....

[Kayte]

XD, I was stunned by logic, and also secretly stalked the Antis because I thought they were just so cool. The rest is history.

[nathan_p]

Hah, I'm so old I was around before there were Antis. The cool folks were... people I didn't know and was far, far too shy to associate with. Possibly this is when I started wanting to be a BNF, because it looked so fun.

I repeat for the fiftieth time: I really regret that desire.

[Kayte]

XD, you Old woman, you!

[nathan_p]

Sometimes I'm shocked when I remember I'm only sixteen.

I've been in the fandom... eh... three years, four months next week, I think. In fandom years, that is a very long time.

[Kayte]

Yeah, when people consider me an oldy and I've been around for less than a third of the time you have. It's hard to believe it's been so little time, it feels like forever.