hey,
I'm Stycerin and I'll go first with this whole biography thing because Vendetta
is taking advantage of my TV to watch Return of the Jedi. bitch.
ah, when I'm done here HANS SOLO WILL BE MINE!!!!!
*throat clear*
so yeah
My story regrettably begins about the
same as Vendetta's, with a little series called The Lord of the Rings. I was in sixth grade and was attempting to convince
myself that it was NOT heathly, or normal, to wish desperatly for Legolas to begin making out with his elfin kin.
I managed to stifle my desire
for Legolas and any other male elf, but not my urge to read fan written stories at a rapid pace. So I resorted to FanFiction.com
(before it became like NAZI Germany). In my day, fanfiction.com was a place where you could write curse words and smut
and no one tried to censor you, a beatiful place.
I read a lot of fanfiction that year,
all of it hetero stuff, some stories that implied things but never ones that came right out and threw it your face.
Until later that year... I was in the middle of a PG-13 story (rated R in later chapters, gimme a break I was in 6th grade) and
when I went back to surfing the main menu I noticed that little sub-link, the one that said SLASH. Now, me being me and
not knowing all the FanFiction lingo and all that Jazz I clicked on it hopefully, thinking I had discovered a new section
of fanfiction. I had. but not in any way I was expecting.
I read about five words of the summary
of a NC-17 story (I hadn't seen this rating in the regular LOTR pages, and decided this was a wonderful
time to act like a big girl) and clicked it open. The summary had the words Legolas and Aragorn and LEMON in
it, and they being my favorite characters and favorite fruit at the time it was really a no-brainer. So I began reading.
And I read...and read...and read. And then I realized that Aragorn was being very friendly towards Legolas...very friendly.
Well I got right in the middle of a chapter titled
LEMON. I liked lemons, I was eagarly awaiting what I expected to be a chapter including Legolas and Aragorn sitting down
and eating some lemons together or some such thing. Well...as you can imagine my reaction to my first LEMON was "Aragorn?...why
are you touching Legolas like that?!!"
And then it hit me. Like the footstool my sister threw at me that morning... this was what I had been
avioding all year...
I panicked, thinking my parents were going to come down
and see. Later on that day I brought up the courage to Google "slash" online. What I found changed my life forever. There
was a whole world...a whole group of people who thought liked me, were as spastic as me, and liked boys on boys
like me!!! The generally used term, I discovered, was YAOI, and I have devoted a lot of my waking hours to ranting
about it and trying to convert my friends.
thank you,
and here's Vendetta, for your amusment:
Well.
Since Stycerin has decided to gift us with a novel, I'll try to keep this
short(er) and sweet(er). Especially since most of my story is the same as hers.
When I got the internet in 6th grade a whole new world was opened.
*Insert tune of A Whole New World here*
I'd always been a freakishly avid reader. I have the art of walking while
reading a book down. So basically, I found the concept of fanfiction to be genius and I spent many an hour pouring
over my computer when I got home from school. Needless to say this was about the time when I ditched doing homework.
My other obsession, besides fanfiction, was Lord of the Rings, so it was my
chosen form of poison. And it was during one of these many hours when I stumbled across a Legolas/Aragorn SLASH tale. I clicked
on the story, as a (slightly) innocent school girl, and by the time I was done, I was in the stages of becoming what is known
as a Rabid Yaoi Fangirl. Then over time, and many, many fanfictions later, slash became Yaoi and I discovered
my dear friend, Stycerin, was also an underground fangirl. That's pretty much my story in a nutshell, and it's how I got to
be the marvoulous speciemen of fangirl that I am today.
Adulfanfiction.net is my top Yaoi site (even though they do all sorts of
pairings). You should go there and donate to them so I don't have too.
Much Love
<3
Vendetta Red
