So.

Still figuring out the formatting here - I do prefer my Diaryland page, but it'll be nice not to have to be anonymous when commenting on the pages of friends with LJ's.

A little bit of a fannish type?

I almost feel guilty being an LJer, as I am not, in the real sense of the word, fannish. I like reading some fanfic, but I'm so painfully picky about it that I rarely find stuff I like (although when it's good, it's really really good) and, worst of all, I...I don't get slash. It doesn't turn me on. It doesn't turn me off, really, but it's not what I seek out. The stuff I read is mostly gen, with a few good het stories thrown in there - this seems to disqualify me from the majority of people interested in fandom! And although I've written a couple of fics (well, one completed one, one half-done) in the Anita Blake fandom, I'm not a real writer of fic. The one Harry Potter I tried my hand at just didn't work out at all, being a rampant Mary Sue that was apparently too cliche-ridden to live (although I will swear that I was using those cliches in a non-cliched way, and just shoot me now, ok?). I have a vague glimmering of a fic in the back of my head, featuring Phineas Nigellus and an original character who is a magical painting restorer (there's the art historian peeking through), but it doesn't have, y'know, a plot or anything. And even if it did, I'm crap at dialogue. Ok at evocative stuff, but dialogue sells a fic, and I just can't do it well. Maybe at some point I'll put my Anita Blake here and get feedback on it, and see if I can fix it. Will think about it. Will probably have to learn how to do cut tags, a LJ thing I have seen but have no idea how to do yet. Ah, the breakin period of a newbie...fun, fun.