A poll + free swag. Best post ever!

[pauraque_bk]

I've noticed a tendency for people to assume that when there's a poll, the creator of the poll must consider its subject Deeply Meaningful. That's weird. And not true.

Anyway, here's something I was wonderin' about.

[Poll #652946]


Additionally and unrelatedly, I have in my posession a Gryffindor scarf. I don't remember buying it, but here it is. It's about four feet long, has the old-style stripe pattern (ie, first two movies) and a Hogwarts crest near one end (Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus). It also has a Warner Bros tag, so it is Official Swag.

Who wants? Free to first asker.

Comments

[hilarita.livejournal.com]

I shall skew your poll a little ;) I started writing fanfiction at age 4 1/2, when requested to write my first compositions in primary school. They featured Bilbo, usually doing something OOC with flowers. I had no knowledge of fandom or copyright. I branched into original fiction aged 7 or 8, with a carload of people with some bodies on the roofrack, and blood running down the rear windscreen. There was also a burial, which word I was completely unable to spell.
There were offically sanctioned forays into fanfic at school, where one was meant to write 'missing scenes' for things like Shakespeare, Sebastian Faulkes, etc. Again, I didn't know about fandom. ;)