(G is also for Emma and F is also for Annemari.)

F: What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom
I can’t say I’ve kept good track of that. I mostly read in Harry Potter for a few years—maybe four or five? I still have relapses where I just binge on Harry/Draco fic for a while and move on, but it’s not the abandoning type of moving on, because it’s Harry Potter and I think anyone who considers themselves a Harry Potter fan knows it’s going to stay with them probably for life, and I say this as someone who’s never been as obsessed with it as most people—I haven’t even seen the last two movies yet, or reread any books, or even read the second book (had to skip it and never went back to it).

As for being active in a fandom, I think maybe American Idol RPF, if you take it to encompass the time between when I first got into S8 to maybe the last Cook/Carrie fic I wrote. That was maybe three years, but by the end of it/by now the only person I stuck with and still love is David Cook.

Ah, it’s just hard to tell because I’m so multifannish and my fandoms overlap so much and sometimes I’ll keep on watching a show I don’t care about (How I Met Your Mother, been watching “live” [aka the morning after] since mid S3), or have one-night-a-year fandoms (Wild Child since 2009), or fandoms I technically got into fairly long ago but which I was never that fannish or active in (Leverage since S1 started airing over here, was already watching live when Tara showed up).

G: Do you remember your first OTP, if so who was it
I’m not sure which show I watched first, Charmed or Buffy/Angel, but I was really into Angel/Buffy for a little while, and Willow/Tara (I still have only seen like, three seasons of Buffy—s4-6—and half the first season of Angel), and I loved Phoebe/Cole on Charmed until Phoebe ruined her hair and the whole thing just stopped being interesting and then I lost interest and stopped watching.

R: A pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships
Oh my god, can we talk about how flabbergasted I was to get kudos and comments when I wrote Alexis/Beckett? Because I was. I was also surprised to not feel alone when I wrote Spencer/Melissa, or Britta/Slater. Sometimes someone will go through my Britta/Slater fics on ao3 and leave kudos on all of them and it’s kind of nice, reading along with them. I think that’s the pairing that’s given me the most, or second most after Quinn/Rachel, little streams of kudos from someone bingeing on my fic. It’s pretty nice. The other week someone on my flist asked for Steve/Pepper recommendations. It’s hard to feel all alone in fandom.

But to answer the question—I think there’s always someone out there who ships what I ship! I wish those people were easier to find, but, yes. Maybe they won’t be as invested or fannish about it as I am, or produce fanworks (rude), but they’ll ship it along with me. I guess one pairing that I feel like no one cares about as much as I do is, uh, Alaric/Bonnie. Because I really do ship them and—I love Alaric/Elena, too, and this season has been wonderful for them but at the end of the day I’m still more interested in Alaric/Bonnie. (And Elena/Vicki, kinda, we’ll see.) There’s Cary/Alicia, which I don’t think I’m alone in shipping, or in loving their relationship, but I still feel weird for caring about it as much as I do and wanting shippy fic about them so much. NO ONE UNDERSTANDS MY PAIN etc. Same goes for Emma/Mary Margaret, which I genuinely ship SO HARD it even surprises me sometimes.

S: Show us an example of your personal headcanon
I don’t really headcanon that much! I think I do have headcanon, it’s just not… original, things-that-happened type headcanon. It’s more like I maybe interpret things and give meaning to character actions that I later realize wasn’t explicitly there in the real canon. I do that a lot with Pretty Little Liars and Spencer and Melissa’s relationship, and sometimes Hanna/Caleb, if the posts I’ve made about the show recently are anything to go by. With most fandoms I just hardcore compartmentalize—I’ll come up with this or that piece of backstory that could have happened, easy, but I only believe it happened in the context of the fic it appeared in. I actually feel odd about repeating those things, probably because I don’t trust myself enough as a writer/creator, ha.