I tried "Rising" when it premiered and didn't really like it. No, fic and vids got me into SGA at the end of season 2 - I have a (possibly weird) habit of test-driving a new show by poking at the available fanworks before I get into actual canon; I don't do it every time, but this was definitely one of those times when I tried the fanworks first and went "ooooo". I have certain specific fan-buttons (snarky, bickery friendships are a big one for me, a la classic Trek, Red Dwarf, Psych, Firefly, etc) and I got a strong sense of "I will like this show". I just didn't realize how much I'd like it; I've been through a ton of fandoms, to greater or lesser levels of involvement, but I've never had a fan-fixation stay this strong for this long. It was just a unique combination, for me, of happening to fixate on the popular characters at the height of the show's popularity, with a ton of fic out there that catered to my particular (h/c) taste. That's never happened to me before; usually I crush on one of the least-popular characters on the show, or it's a little-known show without much of a fandom, or it's long past its fannish height, or there's no gen fandom to speak of. Since I tend to go for quirky, less-known stuff in general, I think it may have been a once-in-a-lifetime fandom experience, and I'm glad that I happened to be in the right time at the right place to get lucky this time; I've made a ton of friends, grown and learned as a writer, and just enjoyed the hell out of the whole thing, and at least right now, I plan to stick around until they turn the lights out on me.
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