Name: Em The best place(s) to find you: LJ! I only use IJ for dd and rarely check DW, but you can find me as kiertorata on all of them. I feel a bit excluded from modern fandom because I'm so unenthusiastic about Tumblr! I miss when LJ fandom was active (even though I was a sad lurker back then!). What you do in HP fandom and/or how long you've been here: I started reading fic in 2003! (16 years!) It turned into an obsession and I loved the golden years of HP fandom in 2004-2006 when there was a lot of plotty fic trying to resolve the story. Wish I could timetravel back and copy all the good stuff to my hard drive :---D I started writing around 2007, but I've always been infamously slow at writing and bad at finishing things. Still, it's really picked up in the recent years and I've started to feel more confident signing up to fests and challenges. ^_^ I see myself as primarily a femslash creator. I sometimes do art, but I don't really enjoy it because my graphics tablet is a pain in the ass and I'm so out of practice that I spend too much time looking for reference models. I'm trying to fall in love with art again by giving up being realistic and learning to be more comic-styled about it instead. I feel like I'm a decent beta-reader, so if you ever need one (especially for femslash), hit me up! I'm also one of the mods for femmefest (on LJ, DW & Tumblr)! Favorite HP characters or pairings: Pansy! Others I love are Ginny, Hermione, Fleur, Percy, Harry, Draco, Snape, and Padma. But there isn't a single character I wouldn't like if they're written well. I like reading slightly caricatured, humorous versions of characters, like they were in the original books. Femslash is my life and I'll read almost anything, but I'll gush over Ginny/Pansy, Hermione/Fleur, and Parvati/Lavender. My slash favorites are Percy/Oliver and Blaise/Neville, but I'll cry over some Marauders fic as well when I’m after a heartbreak. I used to read a lot of Drarry back in the day, but *insert unpopular opinion* these days I find myself a bit irritated with how Drarry takes up so much space in the fandom??? Like, hasn't every Drarry fic ever been written? What about rare pairs? And femslash??? :DDD (Not trying to pick a fight :D) Kinks, themes, and tropes that you eat up with a spoon: I enjoy a wide variety of kink IRL but I've never been a huge consumer of smut fic and I sometimes even skip over the smut scenes in fics. (Sorry! :'D) I do love it however when the dynamic between characters is juicy and there's tons of sexual tension and snark and flirting, and I enjoy bratty d/s dynamics. I love kinky art! Kinks, themes, and tropes that you could really do without: I'm sure there's plenty, but I can't really think of any. To each their own! I guess in general I could do with less of an imbalance in pairing and character representations, but that's just me. I'm excited that femslash february brought with it lots of femslash smut. Other fandoms or fannish things you enjoy: I analyze random things related to HP with my best friend daily. :D No other fandom has really stuck with me for a long time, but I do tend to obsess over books and TV shows for a short while after I've finished them. Recent ones I loved were Everything sucks and A Series of Unfortunate Events (like, how could they do such a PERFECT job in making it??). What you do in real life, other hobbies and interests you have, or anything else you think we might find interesting about you: I live in Finland, if someone finds that interesting. (Or if you need a beta-reader for a scene that takes place in Finland.) I love winter and cold weather. I'm a huge nerd: I currently work as a programmer, used to study physics, love gaming, etc.! :------D I'm bisexual/pansexual *waves flag*. I'm currently involved in climate activism and very passionate about it, and nature is my one true love (after my cats <3). We should friend you if: You love to send your friends funny HP memes??? :D Or if you love femslash, feel like non-male characters are under-represented in the HP fandom, enjoy reading/creating for rare pairings! Or if you miss the old internet days when people would rant about their life online in long, rambly journal posts <3
The best place(s) to find you: LJ! I only use IJ for dd and rarely check DW, but you can find me as kiertorata on all of them. I feel a bit excluded from modern fandom because I'm so unenthusiastic about Tumblr! I miss when LJ fandom was active (even though I was a sad lurker back then!).
What you do in HP fandom and/or how long you've been here: I started reading fic in 2003! (16 years!) It turned into an obsession and I loved the golden years of HP fandom in 2004-2006 when there was a lot of plotty fic trying to resolve the story. Wish I could timetravel back and copy all the good stuff to my hard drive :---D
I started writing around 2007, but I've always been infamously slow at writing and bad at finishing things. Still, it's really picked up in the recent years and I've started to feel more confident signing up to fests and challenges. ^_^ I see myself as primarily a femslash creator. I sometimes do art, but I don't really enjoy it because my graphics tablet is a pain in the ass and I'm so out of practice that I spend too much time looking for reference models. I'm trying to fall in love with art again by giving up being realistic and learning to be more comic-styled about it instead.
I feel like I'm a decent beta-reader, so if you ever need one (especially for femslash), hit me up!
I'm also one of the mods for femmefest (on LJ, DW & Tumblr)!
Favorite HP characters or pairings: Pansy! Others I love are Ginny, Hermione, Fleur, Percy, Harry, Draco, Snape, and Padma. But there isn't a single character I wouldn't like if they're written well. I like reading slightly caricatured, humorous versions of characters, like they were in the original books. Femslash is my life and I'll read almost anything, but I'll gush over Ginny/Pansy, Hermione/Fleur, and Parvati/Lavender. My slash favorites are Percy/Oliver and Blaise/Neville, but I'll cry over some Marauders fic as well when I’m after a heartbreak. I used to read a lot of Drarry back in the day, but *insert unpopular opinion* these days I find myself a bit irritated with how Drarry takes up so much space in the fandom??? Like, hasn't every Drarry fic ever been written? What about rare pairs? And femslash??? :DDD (Not trying to pick a fight :D)
Kinks, themes, and tropes that you eat up with a spoon: I enjoy a wide variety of kink IRL but I've never been a huge consumer of smut fic and I sometimes even skip over the smut scenes in fics. (Sorry! :'D) I do love it however when the dynamic between characters is juicy and there's tons of sexual tension and snark and flirting, and I enjoy bratty d/s dynamics. I love kinky art!
Kinks, themes, and tropes that you could really do without: I'm sure there's plenty, but I can't really think of any. To each their own! I guess in general I could do with less of an imbalance in pairing and character representations, but that's just me. I'm excited that femslash february brought with it lots of femslash smut.
Other fandoms or fannish things you enjoy: I analyze random things related to HP with my best friend daily. :D No other fandom has really stuck with me for a long time, but I do tend to obsess over books and TV shows for a short while after I've finished them. Recent ones I loved were Everything sucks and A Series of Unfortunate Events (like, how could they do such a PERFECT job in making it??).
What you do in real life, other hobbies and interests you have, or anything else you think we might find interesting about you: I live in Finland, if someone finds that interesting. (Or if you need a beta-reader for a scene that takes place in Finland.) I love winter and cold weather. I'm a huge nerd: I currently work as a programmer, used to study physics, love gaming, etc.! :------D I'm bisexual/pansexual *waves flag*. I'm currently involved in climate activism and very passionate about it, and nature is my one true love (after my cats <3).
We should friend you if: You love to send your friends funny HP memes??? :D Or if you love femslash, feel like non-male characters are under-represented in the HP fandom, enjoy reading/creating for rare pairings! Or if you miss the old internet days when people would rant about their life online in long, rambly journal posts <3