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It's day 2 and I'm doing the next two questions from the questionnaire below.

3. A pairing you wish you shipped, but just can't.

This one's making me think! I'll elaborate a bit on this answer. One of my fave DS9 characters is Quark. I've made plenty of fanart, and read a lot of fics. My issue is... I don't ship Quark/Odo anymore, and it's, of course, the main pairing for Quark. Of course they always had a wonderful dynamic, always bickering and being obsessed with each other. But I ended up really disliking where Odo went as a character, and that affected how I felt about this ship, too. What I didn't like was how he acted during the Dominion's occupation of DS9 and his romantic relationship with Kira. Admittedly, these might be weird reasons not to ship them anymore, but I just can't help it. I'll read anything else with Quark: Quark/Brunt, Quark/Julian, Quark/Worf, Quark/Sisko, Quark/Natima, Quark/Grilka, Quark/Pel... But I really don't read Quark/Odo, and I wish I shipped them enough to do so because those are most of the fics for Quark.

Other ships could come to mind if I kept thinking, but I feel like my answers would always be ships that have a very active fandom, or one that seems fun to be a part of.

4. What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom?

The earliest things I can find online right now are a Spanish language Johnlock fic and this post with Audrey Hepburn icons, both from 2011. Before that I was into the Beatles and posted some Photoshop edits, but that was on an old Spanish site that no longer exists, so you'll have to trust me.

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>> 4. What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom? <<

Gosh, it was so long ago, I have no idea. Probably the oldest still floating around somewhere would be several pieces of demifiction I wrote for Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar fandom. They were originally published by a fan press on paper, but someone later uploaded them because they were useful. Off the top of my head, there was one about games and one about disguises.

Thanks for leaving a comment! I haven't heard the term demifiction before, can you explain it?

Demifiction is nonfiction type writing set in a fictional place (or fictionalized version of a real place). Newspaper articles, encyclopedia excerpts, descriptions of plants or animals, language references, and so on. Demi- as in half or partial, something that is between fiction and nonfiction. Here are a couple of examples:

Demifiction: "Anti-Soup Agitators Open the Sealed Evil in a Can"

Demifiction: "Maldivian Geography: Island Treasure Hunt"

Ohh, I see! I'm pretty sure I've seen examples before, but I didn't know this type of writing had a name. It's so cool though, I should try writing some one day. Thank you!

Go for it! You should give it a try. Demifiction is fun to write.

both from 2011. Before that I was into the Beatles and posted some Photoshop edits, but that was on an old Spanish site that no longer exists, so you'll have to trust me.

Heee, lol, the good ol' times! I'm kind of glad that my page went under with geocities (although you can probably find remnants on the wayback archive). *G*

Haha, I know what you mean! Sometimes I feel for people whose entire internet experience is still very much online, if they started very young.

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