TITLE: A Real Life Fairytale
AUTHOR: Jessi, princessjessia (Disclaimer)
FANDOM: Labyrinth/Heroes [parabolical]
CHARACTERS: Sarah & Peter Petrelli
SUMMARY: The best stories always hold elements of reality.
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 2260+
NOTES: for dyaniera on her birthday, with much ♥

( I thought that I would be alone // you caught my eye and I was home // and I realized that this was love // I see the world through different eyes // I look at you by my side // no matter where, you're always there )

PROMPT: None, it's a thank-you fic
AUTHOR: Jessi, princessjessia (Disclaimer)
FANDOM: Labyrinth/Heroes [parabolical]
CHARACTERS: Sarah, Peter
SUMMARY: Luck is a matter of perspective.
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 825
NOTES: for dyaniera, with much ♥

( Now there's no place else // I could be // but here in your arms )

Dani and I watched Labyrinth together (by together I mean syncing up our DVDs multiple states away, heh) tonight for various reasons and I was pointing out all the geekily specific details she'd not noticed when watching it before.

princessjessia: ALSO DAVID BOWIE in the picture
dani_forever: WHAT? I missed that!
princessjessia: in the picture with her mom XD
princessjessia: you can look later
princessjessia: she is such a little bitch omg
dani_forever: SHE IS!
dani_forever: WHINE MOAR
dani_forever: The bitch and the stalker

We mercilessly mocked them the whole time, but with love. :D All in all, HIGHLY ENJOYABLE.

55.

I admit it, I squeed, then proceeded to rec the DQ Labyrinth fic section all over because a lot of my favourite authors are archived there. Labyrinth was the fandom that drew me in to online fandom. I wasn't a total internet novice but I never had reason to come close to the fringes of "fandom" until one bored night I was looking for photos for something for a message board (sharing our favourite movies or something?). That was how I found Labyrinth fic archives. Before that I had never really thought much about if people would or would not actually post the stories like I jotted down in notebooks, let alone in the mass quantities that I found.

Labyrinth was my induction into spending hours and hours reading novel-length fanfic in front of the computer, just as lost in them as I ever was in any book. It was the fandom of my first posted fanfic and it was the gateway drug to fandom as a concept beyond just one movie or book or series. Even if it's not a hundredth as active by far as HP fandom, I still love it dearly and always will. I've had a few fic ideas kicking around for my 100 fics table, but haven't finished anything yet. But, back to the secret.

At one point while reading the comments at Fandom!Secrets, I was so baffled about people not knowing there could be tons of very smutty fic out there about Labyrinth. It's got the classic fandom favourite, a young girl and an older, "villainous" man! And it's David Bowie! In tights! How could you watch this as an adult and not see all kinds of disturbingly deviant or even downright fluffy fic ideas?

But then I had to stop and realize it was through Labyrinth, in a way, that I discovered HP fandom when, to be honest, I never even considered the permutations of smut I know and even enjoy now. I read HP "offline", sure, and pondered about characters and more, but I definitely didn't immediately start shipping a favourite character with every other character possible, not until I jumped head first into HP fandom. Le gasp, I was once a total fandom noob. It was because of a Labyrinth author's LJ comm that I picked up a journal at LJ (I had 'blogged' before, but only for personal reasons on a basic HTML "journal" website of mine, not with any journal service) and almost immediately jumped in to RPG from there. But there was a time when I would have been the one going "smut of ______? are you serious?" about quite a few things.

So, anyhow, all of this made me remember what that beginning was like, which I think is a good thing, as despite myself I was becoming very ANGRY LAWN CAT about fandom things of late. Not intentionally, I don't think, but I've definitely been set in my ways and preferences to the point a lot makes me go "grr" (and not even at "noobs", just at stuff I don't like), so beyond the squee of seeing my quiet fandom on Fandom!Secrets, it was a nice trip down memory lane and a good refresher in the idea that not everyone out there sees what I see, nor do I see what they see, so I should keep a good humor about it.

Or try, at least.