Snowflake Challenge - Day #1 & #2

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Hello, hello!

Challenge #1

In your own space, introduce yourself!

I've got little posts on different journals all over, but here's a good summary of who I am and what I'm into:

In short, I'm Maxime! I'm 21 and I live on the East Coast. I'm really into punk music and metal music and cute stories where characters cuddle.

As far as fandoms go, I'm currently into The Penumbra Podcast, Lost, Firefly, Star Wars, the Dragon Prince, Image Comics (Snotgirl, Unnatural), DC Comics (Titans 2016, Deathstroke 2016, Batfam, ALL the Robins), and all sorts of sci-fi! I flit in and out of anime fandoms like Dangan Ronpa and Beastars.

Come say hi! I'm really quite nice!

Challenge #2

In your own space, talk about your fannish history.

I discovered fandom back in middle school when a friend introduced me to Twilight fanfiction, and I've been hooked ever since. I've always held a distinction between the members of a fandom and the content of a fandom. I was bad at participating. As my fannish interest pushed me towards Tumblr (which was pretty popular in 2013-ish, when I really started exploring), a lot of the negative content, fighting, callouts, shaming, and bashing made me do a QUICK one-eighty out of that world. I learned to enjoy content from afar. I would like posts, but I would never reblog/share or comment. In short, I've been socialized to be terrified of being even mildly controversial in my fannish postings, so I stuck to being as PG as possible and never giving my opinion too much.

• Twilight and middle school cartoon fandoms (2011)
• Early anime fandoms, Black Butler,  - 8th/9th grade (2012/2013)
• Second wave anime fandoms Attack on Titan, Haikyuu, Kuroko no Basket (2014-2017)
• Dangan Ronpa (2013 - now-ish)
• Fandoms featuring people with real faces, starting with Shameless (2016 - now)

I's wild; I didn't get out of my anime interests and into shows/movies in a fannish until college! Up until then, I always thought that enjoying shows real people/faces was a little weird, haha!

Now, I want to be active as I can! I want to be over this silly fear! If it means cowering behind screenames since the persistent fear of social shaming and public humiliation has yet to go away, so be it!

I discovered RP Dreamwidth accidentally while looking for icons, and I've really enjoyed my time here! During my time in the world of fandom, I've been much more into roleplays than I have fic posting simply because I love the interactivity that comes with writing with someone else. I've been a part of a few roleplay communities here on DW, but I had to leave them once school and work became more taxing and writing wasn't as much of an priority. I'd love to return some day~