Where were you, like, in your life when you first started reading fanfic?

I was a preteen when I stumbled upon fanfiction.net.

Like, they were talking early 2000s here.

You know, that whole contraption where, like, the family desktop is, like, in that room, and, you know, and I'm like looking over my shoulder.

But it was kind of convenient that my parents are both older,

so they had no idea what I was doing or reading.

So I was also a fanfiction.net guy.

A little later than Ashley, I think I came to it when I was like 12, 13.

I started reading and writing fanfiction on fanfiction.net and did that for about four years.

And I was very into the Hunger Games fandom.

And then I branched into other fandoms as well, Glee, when that started.

And House MD as well, which I got into in my later teens.

So, Eli, you are a fandom hopper.

Very much so, yeah.

I'm not loyal at all.

So one thing about me is that I'm nosy.

If something is going on that people are talking about, that they feel passionate about,

I don't want to be on the outside of it.

And one thing that started showing up on my radar a few years ago was fan fiction.

Fanfiction has been around a long time.

Centuries, actually.

So it's not like I hadn't heard of it before.

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