I'm so excited to be here this year at the beginning of the fabulous friending party!
My story is like so many others. I first found The Love on youtube in the form of some truly smoking hot b/j vids almost exactly one year ago,and was immediately addicted. Within a few days I had my very own complete series DVDs, which I viewed as quickly and often as possible with two kids hanging around expecting me to like feed them and help them with their homework and stuff like that.
But,I already had an lj account and knew of fandoms & fanfic from my involvement in the bbm fandom. From there it was just a matter of tracking down the qaf communities and joining them.
It took a little longer for me to find ij and at first I lurked around until I felt comfortable enough to start to participate. One of the first things I found was the link to the first friending party which by then was about 6 months old, but I left a comment anyway, figuring it was too late to get any responses, but guess what? Within about 48 hours I was friended by several people and welcomed by many others.
I'm still getting myself up to speed here, but I joined in on my first writing challenge recently and I'm slowly joining in on discussions or just drooling over pix & icons with the group.
This is a truly nice community of fans and I strongly encourage everyone who visits to just take the plunge and join in on the fun already. I especially want to reach out to lurkers (like I was), you can't imagine how much more you will enjoy your obsession when you share it with others!