Chalcedony Cross: Fanthing Triumphant

What to say, what to say ...

I've been on this planet since May 11th of 1973, and I've become rather fond of it.

I chose the pseud Chalcedony Cross when I first started playing around in Weiß Kreuz fandom in the mid-to-late '90's, but I started going more by the shortened version (Chal) after I created a LiveJournal under that name.  ::laughs::  I'm kind of stuck with it now.  I named the site "The Crossroads" long before Supernatural arrived to take over my life, fannish and otherwise, so that still works.  The list of archives on the right there gives you a decent idea what I fangirl the hardest over, though some of the shows I love the most are just so perfect as is, I can't bring myself to fic them.  Nothing that needs fixing equals nothing than needs ficcing.

Because I came into slashy writing from the YAOI side first (kind of like the dark side, but with more Pocky), some of the conventions of it have stuck with me, including a serious kink for semes or tops who are much taller than their ukes or bottoms.  Is it any wonder wincest blindsided me so damn hard?  I try not to fall into the trap of making one half of a pair the bottom every single time, but I seldom succeed.  Hey, I'm writing porn here: if I'm not wet in the panties over the scene, you probably won't be either.

The first show I remember truly obsessing over in my life was Voltron (I was going to marry Keith, and we were going to have a dozen children, and live in the palace, and the space mice were going to like me ten times better than Allura...), but I think The Thundercats would have to be my first creative fandom.  I was ten or so, and I wrote out this hideous, elaborate, alternate universe, self-insert thing called The Lightningcats.  The main character was named Lionera.  Oh, yeah.  It was that bad.

The internet didn't exist yet, and I didn't even know what fandom was at that point, so that little gem isn't online anywhere... thank God.

I am the flightiest, most forgetful person you know, and I have a very annoying tendency to get really, really excited about some project or other, then lose interest and wander away and never manage to get back to it.  I try not to promise gifts of fic to people anymore, and not to take on any fiction challenges, because I hate that about myself, and I feel awful when I disappoint people.  For much the same reason, I also tend to stick to oneshot fics now.  That way, if I lose interest, it just languishes on my hard drive and nobody is the wiser.

Hobbies include being a shamelessly obsessive fangirl, reading (I'm partial to slash fan fiction and homoerotica, obviously; when I pick up a "real" book, it tends to be horror, or sci-fi/fantasy that's heavy on the humor), writing (I still dream of going professional some day, but the older I get, the less likely it seems I'll ever make it), counted cross-stitch, random runs at other craft-type projects that seldom amount to anything, and (extremely) amateur photography.

I've been married to the most patient man in the world since 1995, and I've been enslaved to four of the most diabolically cute cats in the world for almost as long.