I Don't Think We'll Have Enough Place Settings.

[rionaleonhart]

On 3 August 2003, at the age of fifteen, I created a Livejournal under the name rionaleonhart.

I moved to Dreamwidth along the way, but I imported all my entries, so this Dreamwidth is functionally the same journal, and I still keep the lights on at Livejournal in case any old friends come by. So I've been keeping the same blog for two decades, from my teenage years well into adulthood.

It's hard to know what to say for this anniversary, really! This journal's been an important part of my life for so long, and I'm so glad that there's still a place for long-form blogging in a forgotten corner of the changing Internet. I've had a blast rambling about anything and everything over the years, and it's been great to share it with you guys.

I'm glad to know the people who've been here from the beginning; I'm glad to know my new friends; I'm glad to know everyone I've met along the way. I don't know if I have any lurkers, but, if I do, I'm glad you're here as well.

Thank you all for being here. I hope I'll still be here and writing in another twenty years.

(My AO3 account also had its tenth anniversary in January. Something about years ending in 3 makes me want to establish long-lasting fandom presences, apparently.)

If there's anything you've ever wanted to know about my presence on Livejournal or Dreamwidth, or about my fandom life in general, or about my ficwriting, feel free to ask in the comments!

Comments

[newbie1990]

Happy blogiversary! V glad you're still around making blogposts, they're always v interesting to read. My Livejournal is apparently around 16 and a half years old, which is about as old as I was when I made it.

What do you think you'll be writing about in twenty years? (I realise this is... not easy to guess at, but!)

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you; I'm delighted that you enjoy my entries! I'm glad that Scrubs could bring us together.

What do you think you'll be writing about in twenty years? (I realise this is... not easy to guess at, but!)

It's actually pretty easy! Guilt, weird memory issues, isolation, being unsure of what's real. I may flicker rapidly between fandoms, but I revisit the same themes again and again and again, and you'll still find those ones showing up in my fanfiction even if you go all the way back to my teenage years.

[newbie1990]

Am also v glad Scrubs brought us together! (And mildly perplexed that I was in Top Gear fandom with you. The fandom itself had really delightful use of wild tropes and encouraging commenters, but the show? The car show? With Jeremy Clarkson?)

Honestly v cool that you can pinpoint ideas/themes you come back to like that!

[rionaleonhart]

It's very perplexing! I spent over a year writing Top Gear fanfiction (over 90,000 words of it!); I think it's the longest I've been consistently active in any one fandom. I had a blast! But I'm slightly bewildered that the thing that really got its hooks into me, in a way nothing else has ever quite matched, was the car show with Jeremy Clarkson. I can't even drive.

It took me a long time to notice the patterns in my writing, but they've definitely been around for a while! One of the first fics of mine you ever commented on, sixteen years ago, was a Scrubs/Silent Hill crossover that contained all four of those themes.