Fandom Snowflake 2020 - Day 1

[elrhiarhodan]

In your own space, introduce yourself! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I am Elrhiarhodan. Or Elr. Sometime El, but rarely.

Some fannish folk may consider me as old a Methuselah (I am over 50, after all), and there are too many days of late that I feel like I'm just that old. But I've only been involved in fandom for a decade, so on the other hand, I am a veritable youngster.

My fannish interests have always been particularly narrow - I tend to focus on one fandom at a time, the first was White Collar (and I still miss that show and the fandom that was so amazing), the second (for a brief time) was The Flash. Now, I am in The Kingsman fandom (an ever-shrinking one that I hope will revive soon with the new movie coming out). I have a few tangential fannish interests, mostly the Morse'Verse, which I've written for a few times over the past decade. I've also dipped a toe into A Discovery of Witches, but mostly for reading, not creating.

I am a shipper and my ship preferences focus on a younger/older slash pairing - Neal/Peter, Barry/Eobard, Eggsy/Harry (and Eggsy/Merlin), but once I get the feel of a fandom, I can ship almost anyone with anyone (provided I like the character). Hell, I've written Mozzie/Clinton and Elizabeth/Reese and I may be the only person who's done so.

Writing has given me a tremendous amount of pleasure over the years - both the act of creation and the fandom friends I've made through my writing. While I think that AO3 is amazing, I do miss the days of journal-based fandom where you could more easily connect with people. (I make this same comment almost every year on the FSC, and vow to do better in keeping up with my DW journal, but by mid-year, I mostly default back to endless scrolling through Tumblr for stupid cat gifs.)

I have other interests outside of fandom - I make jewelry. I like weaving tiny little beads the size of a grain of sand into great big pieces using needle and thread barely thicker than a strand of hair. If you want to see a few examples of my work, you can find them here (link to a Dropbox folder).

That's pretty much about it for me - I tend not to share a lot in spaces like this, but if you want to get to know me a bit more, reach out here or on my journal's Welcome Post and we can get to know each other a bit better.

One more thing.

I was just about to hit the Post button when I realized that I probably should explain the "Obscene Circus Ponies" bit on my Journal header. Way back when, in my earliest days in the White Collar fandom, when I wrote A LOT of porn, I had this expression, "they fucked like a pair of obscene circus ponies". I have no idea where that came from, but either someone pointed it out or I realized that I used it in three or four (or more) stories, so it kind of became my tag line. I eventually retired it with this story, Out to Pasture.

Comments

[elrhiarhodan]

Thank you! It was my first icon when I hopped onto LJ a decade ago and I'd resisted going with something more fannish for a default. She's followed me to AO3 and Tumblr, too. I've had other default icons over the years, but when I fully migrated over to DW and made my site a lot more fandom neutral, I decided that she's still my best reflection.

It's a sad thing but there have been times when enough people thought that it was a selfie (oh, I wish!) that I would do a double take when someone actually recognized it for what it is!

Happy New Year!

[scripsi]

Happy New Year!

I'm a fan of both Sargent and fashion history, so not so difficult for me. :)