Snowflake Challenge 2
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Challenge #2
In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story.
Sometime in the early 2000s, I discovered the television "Oz". I didn't have HBO at the time and had to rely on Netflix to send me DVDs. It took a couple of episodes, but when it took hold, it really took hold. I binge watched before binge watching was cool. I read all of the recaps on the late great Television Without Pity and discovered that Oz had a forum where fans would chat. I lurked on the chat boards, rolled my eyes at people's devotion to the episode "Cuts Like a Knife" (which is a good episode, but not the best IMO), and through the forums discovered
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So then I started imagining what other non-canon pairings would be interesting to read about. For some reason, I had a fixation on Ryan O'Reily & Jia Kenmin and I told myself that if I was given the opportunity that I would request that pairing through Oz Magi that year. I joined Livejournal in July 2006 and having several months before Magi decided to try my hand at writing and making some friends who also were as fanatical about Oz as I was. I wrote my first drabble for
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It's been almost two decades, but it all started with a little forum on a now-defunct website.
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